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Having worked his way up from a lower class son of a samurai to the level of daimyo, the Japanese civil war has ruined everything for Daimyo Kawahara. Accused for crimes he did not commit, he has lost his province, family, wealth, and status. Luckily he was able to escape Japan with his life. As an outlaw without a plan, who speaks no English, disgraced Daimyo Kawahara accidentally ends up in Jasper City, a lawless upstart town on the west coast of America. Should he use his samurai skills for monetary gain? Or should he use restraint, and adhere to the idealistic moral code of a samurai that he has always known? To survive in Jasper City, he might not have a choice. CHECK OUT THE ENTIRE SIX SAMURAI OF THE WEST SERIESBook 1: The Demise of the Wilkes Gang (prelude)Book 2: Renegade: The Legend of Keith Cody (prelude)Book 3: Broken: A Ninja Versus Samurai Story (prelude) Book 4: The Six Samurai of the WestBook 5: Kawahara LivesBook 6: The Geisha Returns

The feudal era has ended. New reforms and modernization have swept through Japan. The massive change has made the long established daimyo, the wealthy families, and yakuza gangs compete with one another for position and influence in the fledgling government. Unrevealed to the participants, subversive elements are at work to reverse the new reforms. Will the old ways overcome the new?CHECK OUT THE ENTIRE SIX SAMURAI OF THE WEST SERIESBook 1: The Demise of the Wilkes Gang (prelude)Book 2: Renegade: The Legend of Keith Cody (prelude)Book 3: Broken: A Ninja Versus Samurai Story (prelude) Book 4: The Six Samurai of the WestBook 5: Kawahara LivesBook 6: The Geisha Returns

When they declared independence in Philadelphia in 1776, they changed the course of Western history. But the patriots—landowners, merchants, and professional men who hailed from towns, cities, and plantations scattered along the eastern seaboard—had private lives too, quite apart from the public deeds we know so well. In this breathtaking volume, historian Hugh Howard and photographer Roger Straus examine the everyday lives of the Founding Fathers. Houses of the Founding Fathers takes us on an eye-opening tour of forty stately eighteenth-century houses. We see the mansions of such legendary figures as Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and Hamilton, along with the homes of many other signers of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. At sites from Maine to Georgia, with stops in each of the thirteen colonies, the grand story of the Revolution emerges from unique and individual domestic perspectives. Houses overlooking the sea, in busy townscapes, or atop mountains reveal these patriots’ tastes in architecture, furniture, and horticulture. There are tales of friends and enemies, murderous relatives, reluctant revolutionaries, adoring wives, and runaway servants. The founding families are brought to life in the rituals of birth and death, the food they ate, the archaic medical practices they endured, their household arrangements, and the way their slaves lived. Houses of the Founding Fathers offers a penetrating look at the private lives of the men whose ideas ignited an insurrection against England—and who helped create the modern world.

A knit-and-read book: 13 farm-centric projects for the perfect homespun toys, with a bonus story. A mother hen and her chicks (and their adorable knitted eggshells), three little piglets, and a black lamb full of good intentions are just some of the appealing projects in Spud and Chloë at the Farm, the latest innovative work from author and world-class knitter Susan B.Anderson. The projects in this book follow Spud, a feisty pet sheep, and Chloë, his perky owner, as they travel to a farm and meet the inhabitants of the barnyard, including a brown cow, some mice, a dog, and a barn cat. To continue the theme, and set the stage for loads of interactive play, the book also offers instructions for making an assortment of farm props, such as a picket fence, bales of hay, dainty baskets, and even a three-sided foldable barn.Meanwhile, witty full-color cartoons (presented one per spread throughout the text of the book) tell the story of Spud and Chloë’s visit to the farm, which starts with an invitation from Spud’s cousin Little Lamb. Featuring charming full-color photographs of the knitted toys, this book is a must-have for knitters and their loved ones.