Martial Arts Fiction

Escaping a traumatic childhood, Sasha finds peace, sanctuary, and purpose in a martial arts dojo whose sensei teaches her the ways of the samurai warrior. An accomplished black-belt fighter, she now happily dwells in the dojo, tucked away from the streets of Manhattan, until a midnight call sets her on a path into an underground world. Struggling to pay off a gambling debt, her brother Danilo is severely injured in a no-rules club fight run by unscrupulous Russian mafiosi. To settle the debt, Sasha volunteers to perform in one of these “dark fights”....

Peasprout Chen dreams of becoming a legend of wu liu, the deadly and beautiful art of martial arts figure skating. As the first students from the rural country of Shin to attend Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, Peasprout and her little brother Cricket have some pretty big skates to fill. Tensions rise when the dazzling pearl buildings of the Academy are vandalized and outsider Peasprout is blamed for the attacks by her rivals...and even some friends. Now, she must uncover the true vandal to ensure peace between Shin and Pearl - all while becoming a champion.

In Write On!, Katie can't wait for her favorite author, Nellie Farrow, to come visit her class and tell them all about her new book. But when Katie starts working on a cool new website with Suzanne, she forgets to read the book! Then Katie turns into Nellie, just when she's about to give her presentation! Will Katie be able to turn things from wrong to write?

All work and no play makes Adeline Kendrick a dull girl, so when she heads to a casino resort for a friend's bachelorette weekend, she's ready to have a good time. Until she runs into Brendan Quinn, professional fighter and the one who got away - the one her family drove away - and things take a turn for the interesting. Running into his ex won't shake Brendan. Even if it brings up the old pain of loving her when she was only slumming. Even if she looks really good.

Eines Abends wird die junge Genna von einer Gang überfallen - in letzter Minute kommt ihr ein Fremder zu Hilfe. Ein Zufall? Keineswegs. Denn als sie kurz darauf Opfer einer Entführung wird und ihr wieder der junge Held zur Seite springt, wird klar, dass etwas Mysteriöses vor sich geht. Und die Erklärung ihres Retters Phoenix findet Genna noch verrückter.

In dieser "klingenden Mozart-Biografie" erklärt Peter Härtling anhand von ausgewählten Briefen aus 10 Jahren, wie aus dem Wunderkind ganz allmählich ein berühmter junger Mann wurde. Seine persönlichen Kommentare sowie Anekdoten und Details aus Mozarts Leben zeigen, wie sehr er den großen Komponisten liebt und bewundert.

Am 20. Mai 1927 hatte es der 25 jährige Postflieger Charles Augustus Lindbergh geschafft: In 33 Stunden und 30 Minuten überquerte er im Nonstop-Flug den Atlantik. Der Start war in New York und das Ziel war Paris. Die ganze Welt hielt den Atem an.

V knige rasskazyvaetsya ob imperatrice Ekaterine Velikoy, stoyavshey vo glave Rossiyskogo gosudarstva vo vtoroy polovine XVIII veka. Ekaterina II, zhenshchina umnaya i deyatel'naya, mnogo sdelala dlya procvetaniya strany i naroda. Dlya srednego shkol'nogo vozrasta.

Jackie Chan has been making movies and amazing audiences with his original and comedic stunts for decades. But before he was an international star, Jackie grew up in relative poverty in China, studied martial arts at the grueling China Drama Academy, and worked for years trying to find his way in film. Twist, tumble, and train alongside martial arts hero Jackie Chan in this biography from lauded author Kristen Mai Giang.

Der Tod ist erst der Anfang - der Kampf um deine Seele geht weiter. Genna ist sicher: Endlich ist der Albtraum vorüber. Schließlich hat sie gemeinsam mit Phoenix, ihrem Guardian und Begleiter durch die Jahrhunderte, den Anführer der Inkarnaten, Tanas, auf immer ins Reich des Todes geschickt. Aber dann fallen ihre Eltern einem Unfall zum Opfer und Genna ist überzeugt, dass die Inkarnaten wieder auf der Jagd sind.