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3) Kira-kira
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are...
Author
Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages;21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"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 World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press, Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In December 1941, patriotism and paranoia grip New York as the city mobilizes for war. Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged when the FBI arrests Masako Fumi, an avant-garde artist and newcomer to the city. Then Masako's art dealer is found dead in the gallery where he'd been closing down her show and Masako's troubles multiply. Louise hires a radical lawyer and enlists the help of her journalist roommate. Louise and homicide detective Michael McKenna...
Author
Series
Akiko novels volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Akiko and her friends reach the final stage of their mission to rescue Prince Froptoppit from the castle of Alia Rellapor.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
Author
Series
Derby daredevils volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When they get lost in a strange city during roller derby camp, the Daredevils lose their confidence and their ability to work as a team, but shy Tomoko's wilderness skills and navigational know-how help them escape the urban jungle.
Author
Series
Jasmine Toguchi volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jasmine has looked forward to spending Girls Day with her family and best friend, Linnie, but first her sister says she will not participate, and then Jasmine upsets Linnie.
Author
Series
Mas Arai mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
viii, 287 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In modern L.A., a Japanese American who survived the horrors of Hiroshima is forced to relive the nightmare when a stranger shows up looking for him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Japanese American Mika is the newest member of the Lotus Lane Girls, with her very own new diary, but she is still troubled by tensions between her different friends, and worried about her project for the school newspaper.
14) Tokyo ever after
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
Author
Series
Jasmine Toguchi volume 4
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jasmine makes a wish for a pet flamingo on the special daruma doll her grandmother sent from Japan, then sets out to prove herself responsibile enough for a pet.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II"--
17) The deep sky
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : iillustration, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind -- except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation...
18) Yoko
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Yoko brings sushi to school for lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats--until one of them tries it for himself.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"If Rika's life seems like the beginning of a familiar fairy tale--being an orphan with two bossy cousins and working away in her aunts' business--she would be the first to reject that foolish notion. After all, she loves her family (even if her cousins were named after Disney characters), and with her biracial background, amazing judo skills and red-hot temper, she doesn't quite fit the princess mold. All that changes the instant she locks eyes with...
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