Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. However, when she was six, everything changed: her father was jailed, and the family fell into debt. Bullied by her classmates because...
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Author:Sledge, E. B.Summary:A personal account of the vitality and bravery of the U.S. Marines at the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa.
- Author:Roscoe, BruceSummary:
Windows on Japan is a deeply insightful commentary that alternates chapters of physical travel with travel through perception about Japan, and challenges the logic of much Western thought about the country that perplexes as much as it...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels-Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973-that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors...
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Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:This rich and revelatory memoir offers a cornucopia of memories and insights about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on the author's life as he prepares for the 2005 New York City Marathon.
- Author:Dunic, LeanneSummary:
In To Love the Coming End, a disillusioned author obsessed with natural disasters and 'the curse of 11' reflects on their own personal earthquake: the loss of a loved one. A lyric travelogue that moves between Singapore, Canada, and...
- Author:Bird, SarahSummary:
Having grown up at the Yokota Air Base in Japan, and having moved six times in the last eight years, Bernadette "Bernie" Root and her five siblings are quintessential military brats. It's 1968, and eighteen-year-old...
- Author:Steinman, LouiseSummary:
Among her late parents' belongings, Steinman discovers a rusty ammo box holding almost five hundred letters written by her father during his service in World War II. It also contains a silk Japanese flag inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu...
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Author:Matsumoto, DiannaSummary:Where can we go from God's presence? He is everywhere; He knows everything. His fingerprints are throughout the universe—each galaxy, each planet, and each individual are all designed by Him with uniqueness and purpose. In His written...
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Author:Honda, TetsuyaSummary:When a body is discovered near a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, Lieutenant Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. Reiko makes a discovery that leads the police to uncover eleven other bodies. But while Reiko is hunting the killer, the...
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Author:Higashida, NaokiSummary:Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us...
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Author:Massey, SujataSummary: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...
- Author:Bush, Harold K.Summary:
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.
- Author:Fladmark, C.R.Summary:
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...
- Author:Fladmark, C.R.Summary:
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...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
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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Author:Mori, KyokoSummary: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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Author:Zaremba, EveSummary: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....
- Author:Farago, LadislasSummary:
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...
- Author:Pagnamenta, PeterSummary:
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...
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