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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder's The Devil of Nanking, takes the reader on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins to deep inside the secret history of one of the twentieth century's most brutal events: the Nanking Massacre.A young Englishwoman obsessed with an indecipherable past, Grey comes to Tokyo seeking a lost piece of film footage...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An affecting portrait of interracial love in post-war Japan Pearl S. Buck's The Hidden Flower centers on the relationship between a Japanese student and an American soldier stationed in post-war Japan. The Japanese student's father worked in the United States as a doctor, but had to flee to Kyoto to avoid imprisonment in an internment camp. The American soldier has inherited his family's estate in Virginia, where interracial marriage is forbidden....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This new standalone thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author follows ex-Secret Service agent, Cain Lemaire, as he uncovers the dark secrets hidden beneath the Tokyo streets. The Bayou is a unique place to live and it provides a grit and passion to any who hail from it, including Cain Lemaire, an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. Cain had the dream job he had always wanted, protecting the President, until a single night resulted in a...
4) Rain fall
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
306p. 25cm.
Language
English
5) December 6
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
587 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
6) Newcomer
Author
Series
Detective Kyochiro Kaga volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Newly transferred to a precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, Detective Kyochiro Kaga, while investigating the puzzling murder of a woman, soon discovers that nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi are suspects.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
As five-year-old Keiko and her eighty-five year old Obi, or grandmother, excitedly prepare to celebrate the Star Festival, Tanabata Matsuri, Obi tells the story of Tanabata. Includes information about the festival and how it is celebrated.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Hearing rumors of a formidable Japanese battleship capable of adversely shifting power in World War II, Lieutenant Commander Gar Hammond is charged with leading the first American submarine into the Inland Sea to stop the seemingly invincible ship.
13) Fire and ice
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
393 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jilly Lovitz finds herself a pawn in a deadly tangle of assassination attempts, kidnappings, and prisoner swaps with Reno, the Committee's most unpredictable agent.
14) The sword thief
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Orphans Amy and Dan Cahill, continuing their worldwide quest to track down the thirty-nine clues that will reveal the secret of the Cahill family's power, follow a link to one of the planet's strongest fighters, and have a run-in with the unreliable Alistair.
16) Hard rain
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Trying to end his career as a hired assassin, Japanese American John Rain goes underground, only to be approached by Japanese FBI agent Tatsu to eliminate a sociopathic killer who could tip the balance of power in Japan toward the mafia.
Author
Series
Dragonbreath volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Suki the salamander--the new foreign exchange student--is being stalked by ninja frogs, Danny, Wendell the iguana, and Suki travel to Great-grandfather Dragonbreath's home in mythical Japan to find a solution for the problem.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
96 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Flat Stanley mails himself to Japan to visit his hero, martial arts movie star Oda Nobu, and becomes his personal ninja.
19) Shadow child
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
341 p.
Language
English
Description
"A haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women, the dangerous ties of family and identity, and the long shadow our histories can cast"--