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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
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This book tells how mixed martial arts evolved, introduces some of the greatest Mixed Martial Arts stars of this generation and the past, and presents some of the behind-the-scenes details about MMA's dramatic moments.
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Martial arts can improve more than just physical fitness. It can make practitioners think about their body, movements, and mental reactions in entirely new ways. This book explores karate, kung fu, and tae kwon do. Readers will learn about flexibility, balance, and how to get back on their feet after taking a hit. Learning to fall gracefully is half the battle. This guidebook also explores the emphasis that the martial arts place on resolving conflicts...
6) Tough love
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Ultimate novels (Lori Foster) volume 3
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Vanity Baker knows the best way to keep the famously commitment-phobic Stack "The Wolf" Hannigan around is to keep things casual between them. But when Stack's troublemaking family arrives on the scene, threatening everything he cares about, Stack realizes they are much more than friends with benefits.
7) No limits
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Ultimate novels (Lori Foster) volume 1
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"Cannon Colter is quintessential hero material: chiseled jawline, shredded body--the works. He's also the guy who rescued Yvette Sweeny from kidnappers, only to put an end to her romantic dreams. These days, she's older, smarter, determined to face whatever life throws her way. Even the prospect of sharing a house and business with Cannon. Cannon knew Yvette wanted him three years ago. But she was young--and some things are worth waiting for. Thrown...
8) Take me on
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Pushing the limits volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Abandoning kickboxing after a tragedy in the ring, champion fighter Haley is forced to train an attractive mixed martial arts student who secretly fights on Haley's behalf to redeem his troubled past.
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The Book of Five Rings (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645. Many translations have been made, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than other martial artists and people across East Asia. For instance, some foreign business leaders find its discussion of conflict and taking the advantage to be relevant to their work in a business context....
10) After she falls
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"After an abusive relationship derails her plans, Adri Rivera struggles to regain her independence and achieve her dream of becoming an MMA fighter. She gets a second chance, but the man who offers it to her is Max Lyons-her former training partner, whom she left heartbroken years before. As she fights for her future, will Adri be able to confront her past?"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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The ninja animals try to outsmart him, but the Ninjabread Man is one tough cookie!
"Try, try, as best as you can,you can't beat me,I'm the Ninjabread Man!"In this fun spinoff of the classic "Gingerbread Man" story, Sensei makes an age-old recipe for ninjabread. But the cookie escapes from the oven and runs loose!Can the Ninjabread Man trick Ninja Bear, Ninja Snake, Ninja Mouse, and Ninja Fox? In the end, the clever Ninja Fox outsmarts the Ninjabread...
12) Jack B. Ninja
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Inspired by the classic nursery rhyme, Jack employs his marital arts training to complete a secret mission that ends with a surpise.
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There is more to martial arts than kicking, blocking, and striking. Each style has a tradition and history of its own. Compare the differences between karate, kung fu, capoeira, kendo, and sumo to find out what it takes to be a true master. Along the way, compare numbers like a math master! This nonfiction math reader builds literacy skills and math content knowledge, combining informational text, problem-solving, and real-world connections to help...
15) Path of the Assassin Volume 1: Serving In the Dark: Path of the Assassin Vol. 1: Serving In the Dark
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Path of the Assassin, called Hanzo no Mon in Japan, is the story of Hattori Hanzo, the fabled master ninja whose duty it was to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu was the shogun who would unite Japan into one great nation. But before he could do that, he had to grow up and learn how to love the ladies! As the secret caretaker of such an influential future leader, not only does Hanzo use vast and varied ninja talents, but in living closely with Ieyasu,...
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It's not easy being Hattori Hanzo. If he's not teaching Leyasu, the young, future shogun, how to love, then he's behind the scenes, teaching Leyasu how not to die in case of a momentary lapse of protection. If you thought you had a tough job, try taking a pudgy, protected youngster, and making him into the leader who will unite Japan under his single rule. From the creators of Lone Wolf & Cub comes a series about two young men bound to a nation's...
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Tantric Strip fighter Trina fights an evil space federation…by taking off one piece at a time! Young Trina Devi's home world Rama was destroyed by mercenaries under government orders. Now the last of her kind, Trina is skilled in Rama's native art of strip fighting: a tantalizing fusion of Shaolin martial arts and Tantric sensuality.
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As Samurai Executioner continues moving into its own world of crime and punishment, honor and bushido, we are beginning to learn more about the characters and situations involved in Edo-era justice. We're learning about Kubikiri Asa, the Shögun's decapitator, and his stoic life. This man's joyless existence is backed by stories of his past as a child, and how they reflect on his current day. But we also learn more about the peace officers of the...
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Koike and Kojima's tale of how the ninja Hattori Hanzo helped Tokugawa Ieyasu become the shogun who united Japan is in its fifteenth and final volume. All of the action, suspense, political intrigue, and love will come to an end. But before Ieyasu can claim his position, there will be much misery, murder, and tragedy on this already blood-soaked road. The path to the shogunate is a long and arduous journey, made easier by such a vassal as Hattori...
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The world of samurai and ninja is not just killing, politics, intrigue and action. It's also about family, spirit, love and sex. If there were ever an issue of Path of the Assassin that could be entitled "the sex issue," this would probably be it. Not just the act of sex, but the feelings, doubts, methods, results and politics of sex. The results can mean a son or daughter fated to the politics of advantage and danger. The doubts can lead to an unfocused...
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