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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade and Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Japanese Heike Wars
Date
1100's
Topic
Culture and Traditions | Japanese | Military and Wars
Geographic Region
Asia | Japan
Format
Book | Ebook

Unsheathed Swords (Hollow Reed #2)

Author: Parker, I.J.Part of a Series: Hollow Reed

Screen Shot 2016-05-20 at 10.08.48 AMToshiko’s and Sadahira’s transgression has dire consequences, for Oba no Hiramoto is furious and seeks revenge. After Toshiko’s mother dies, and Hachiro, who has become a swordfighter, kills Toshiko’s brother in a dues, her father vows to kill all the Yamadas. Sadahira and his young family seek refuge in his father’s stronghold in the south, but there is a price to pay. Sadahira must resume his samurai standing and seek an alliance with Minamoto Yoritomo, overlord of the east and enemy of the Taira.

Forced into military service with Kiso Yoshinaka, Sadahira is unable to return to his family. In her loneliness Toshiko turns to Hachiro, but he leaves her to search for his father. The news of Sadahira’s death in the first battle of the Heike wars reaches Toshiko shortly before her father’s army attacks and forces her and her children to flee for their lives into poverty.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade and Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Japanese Heike Wars | Middle Ages
Date
1100's
Topic
Culture and Traditions | Japanese | Swords/Sword Fighting
Geographic Region
Asia | Japan
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book | Ebook

Sword Master

Author: Parker, I.J.

The Sword Master transports you to Japan, into the perilous world of the Heike Wars, and lays bare the troubled life of a sword master.

Trying to survive in the streets of twelfth-century Kyoto, a homeless child is brutalized and left to die. Even the selfless physician who saves him cannot soften the boy’s hardened spirit. Angry with the world and desiring vengeance against those who caused his parents’ suicides, Hachiro feels rejection almost everywhere and reacts in kind. This anger he forges into an amazing skill with a sword. He becomes the most famous swordsman in the city. Many deaths are due to Hachiro’s reputation, until he seeks solitude and redemption by leaving the capital.

The love of women proves even less kind than the cut of a sword. His obsession with a forbidden passion forces Hachiro to join the war between two powerful clans where he finds another dangerous woman and treachery.

When at last he returns home, he finds Kyoto in ruin and his beloved master dead. In the midst of the tragedy of this ravaged city, he discovers his redemption, something he had given up hoping for. But first he must face the danger of losing all when a secret enemy sets his trap.

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