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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Japanese-American chef Mike and Black daycare teacher Benson begin reevaluating their stale relationship after Mike departs for Japan to visit his dying father and Benson is suddenly stuck with his visiting mother-in-law, who becomes an unconventional roommate.
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Kensington Books
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English
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Maddie Kern elopes with her brother's best friend, Lane, a Japanese American, the day before the Pearl Harbor bombing, and now her family considers Lane not just an outsider, but an enemy. Maddie sacrifices her Juilliard education to follow Lane to a war relocation camp, and as she strives for the acceptance of her new family, Lane risks everything to prove his allegiance to America.
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John Rain novels volume 5
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English
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When John Rain, the Japanese/American "contract killer with a conscience" (Entertainment Weekly), learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even for redemption.
4) Hard rain
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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English
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"Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been "interned" by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the...
6) Rain storm
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
8) Killing rain
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kindergartner Yoko not only learns to write her letters and numbers in English, she shows her teacher and fellow students how to write their names using Japanese calligraphy.
11) The Kizuna coast
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Series
Publisher
The Ikat Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Rei Shimura and her husband Michael rush to Japan in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami -- she, to find her mentor Yasushi Ishida and his missing apprentice Mayumi, he, to battle the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
12) The pearl diver
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Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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In Washington State, the trial of Kabuo Miyomoto, a Japanese-American fisherman accused of murdering another fisherman, Carl Heine. The prosecution charges the murder was committed as revenge for the Heine family taking Miyomoto's land at the outbreak of World War II and the novel traces the different reaction of the white and yellow communities. By the author of The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind.
18) Gasa-gasa girl
Author
Series
Mas Arai mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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English
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1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. It didn't matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered...
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