The novel opens in August of 1941 when the world is at war with Germany and Italy and tensions between the Japanese and Caucasians are rising in their community. As the war overseas escalates, so do the tensions in the San Joaquin...
Japanese Americans
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Author:Lohans, AlisonSummary: -
Author:Miklowitz, Gloria D.Summary:Seventeen-year-old Emiko, brought up in a strict Japanese-American family, is in love with handsome blond Adam, although she realizes her old-fashioned father expects her to find a Japanese husband.
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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:Allende, IsabelSummary:
From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second...
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Author:Uegaki, ChieriSummary:Le jour de la rentrée des classes, Suki veut absolument mettre le kimono que sa grand-mère lui a offert. Elle le porte fièrement malgré les moqueries de ses soeurs et des autres élèves. Que se passera-t-il lorsqu'elle devra, à son tour...
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Author:Salisbury, GrahamSummary:Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat...
- Author:Stratton-Porter, GeneSummary:
A story of friendship between sister and their Japanese American school mate. This book reflect the views about race relations common to the 19th century some readers may find passages offensive.
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Author:Dobson, Joanne, Myers, Beverle GravesSummary:December 1941: America reels from the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. Both patriotism and paranoia grip New York as the city frantically mobilizes for war. Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged when the FBI, in a midnight sweep of prominent...
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Author:Salisbury, GrahamSummary:Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
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Author:Lee, Chang-raeSummary:Now in his seventies and retired, Doc Hata still resides in his large home of thirty years in Bedley Run, New York. A polite and unassuming man, he harbors secrets of his past as a medic in the Japanese Army during World War II.
