After a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in 2011, Rei Shimura's beloved mentor Yasushi Ishida sends an S.O.S.. Rei immediately takes off from her historic cottage in Hawaii to find him. The search, however, is complicated by...
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Auteur:Bush, Harold K.Sommaire:The allure of literary letters and rare first editions captures the imaginations of three professors of English literature and leads to tragedy in the wake of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995.
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Auteur:Kang, YounghillSommaire:Autobiographical novel of a scholar’s son’s coming of age in small village during the Japanese occupation, though that is felt with some distance. Kang focuses on classical education in that era, traditions for holidays and ceremonies,...
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Junya’s grandfather is a billionaire who keeps the secret to his success hidden in a heavily guarded safe.His mother is a martial artist who wields a razor-sharp katana—and seems to read his mind. And a mysterious girl in a Japanese...
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Alternate worlds. Venomous lizard-men. Japanese schoolgirl-warriors. Family expectations. Being a teenager with a destiny is hard work.It’s been months since sixteen-year-old Junya survived his savage battle with the Evil Ones, but now...
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Auteur:Flanagan, AndySommaire:Near the end of October 1941, a few hundred soldiers from New Brunswick were among the 1,975 Canadian troops who set sail from Vancouver to reinforce the British Colony of Hong Kong. Within two short months, after a hard-fought but...
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Auteur:Murakami, HarukiSommaire:A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives a couple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world. Murakami is a cult figure throughout...
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Auteur:Mori, KyokoSommaire:In 1990 author Kyoko Mori returned to her native Japan to visit the "landscape of my childhood." There - looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once water, and retracing childhood train trips...
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Auteur:Zaremba, EveSommaire:The fifth book in a highly successful series, The Butterfly Effect takes detective Helen Keremos to Japan. There she becomes involved in a complex series of crimes that have ramifications from the Far East to Europe and North America....
- Auteur:Farago, LadislasSommaire:
concise history of the post WWI American intelligence and its early victories with Japanese code breaking. Fargo offers an engrossing tale of how we intercepted, broke, and disseminated intelligence from the Red, Purple, naval, and...
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Auteur:Miralles, Francesc, Garcia, HectorSommaire:Learn to make every moment a once-in-a-lifetime experience with this definitive guide to the Japanese art of ichigo ichie (pronounced itchy-GO itchy-A), from the bestselling authors of Ikigai. When we dwell on the past or focus on the...
- Auteur:Maclear, KyoSommaire:
You'll walk down the street / Your aunties sounding like clip-clopping horses / geta-geta-geta / in their wooden sandals / Until you arrive... / At the bath house / The big bath house. In this celebration of Japanese culture and family...
- Auteur:Onda, RikuSommaire:
Selected by NYT as one of Most Notable Books of 2020. On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17 people die from cyanide in their drinks...
- Auteur:Shreve, CraigSommaire:
Set in late 16th-century Africa, India, Portugal, and Japan, The African Samurai is a powerful historical novel based on the true story of Yasuke, Japan's first foreign-born samurai and the only samurai of African descent-for...
- Auteur:Pagnamenta, Peter, Williams, MomokoSommaire:
Arthur Hart-Synnot, a third-generation British officer, was sent to Japan in 1904 to learn the language of Britain's newest ally. Masa Suzuki, a beautiful Japanese woman scorned because of an early divorce, worked at the Tokyo Officers...
- Auteur:Nothomb, AmélieSommaire:
« Monsieur Haneda était le supérieur de monsieur Omochi, qui était le supérieur de monsieur Saito, qui était le supérieur de mademoiselle Mori, qui était ma supérieure. Et moi, je n'étais la supérieure de personne. On...
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Auteur:Umezawa, Rui, Fujita, MikikoSommaire:A bitterly jealous brother, a samurai who makes the ultimate sacrifice, a cold-hearted husband, a monk who mistakes desire for piety, a fraudulent merchant who meets his match in a supernatural river otter — the motives underlying these...
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Auteur:Murakami, HarukiSommaire: -
Auteur:Clavell, JamesSommaire:A bold English adventurer; an invincible Japanese warlord; a beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love--all brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition,...
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Auteur:Miyabe, MiyukiSommaire:Police investigating the murder of a middle-aged office worker discover e-mail correspondence on the victim's computer that indicates he had been a regular participant in an Internet chat room, as the "father" in a fantasy "family."...
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