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Rissman, Rebecca

Summary: In "narrative nonfiction format, this ... book follows a selection of people who experienced the 2011 Japan Tsunami"--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.34 RIS

Hillenbrand, Laura

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian s courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history s most thrilling survival epics.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2017

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Suzuki, Nobuo

Summary: This insightful book by a leading expert on the subject explores the ways in which luck-encouraging and misfortune-repelling rituals - long woven into the fabric of Japanese life--are used in tandem with diligence and a positive attitude to engender a healthy optimism that helps people survive all of life's many twists, turns and bad patches. It explores how customs and beliefs play a vital...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2023

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Figal, Gerald A.

Summary: "Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In Civilization and Monsters Gerald Figal asserts that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 FIG

Miura, Shion

Summary: A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-winning Japanese author Shion Miura's novel is a reminder that a life dedicated to passion is a life well lived.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIU

Arikawa, Hiro

Summary: Daisuke Sorai, a 29-year-old fighter pilot who was exempted from P due to an unexpected accident, was transferred to the Public Relations Office of the Air Staff Office of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Ministry of Defense. Awaiting you are Sagisaka (also known as fraudster Sagisaka), the director of Miha, Yuki, a red-spotted beauty who scratches his ass, and Hiromi Maki, Sagisaka Fan Club...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gentōsha 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC ARI

Tsuge, Yoshiharu

Summary: "Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs--used-camera salesman,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2019

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TSU

Yamada, Murasaki

Summary: "Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981-84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two daughters as they mature and assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant."--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 YAM

MacCarald, Clara

Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Japanese immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, and additional resources for further study.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 MAC

Natsume, Sōseki

Summary: "Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or 'beauty, ' is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAT

Thomas, Evan

Summary: "This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atomic bomb; Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in Europe and the Pacific, who was in charge of actually dropping the bombs; and Shigenori Tōgō, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 THO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 THO

Yomtov, Nel

Summary: "On February 23, 1945, an American flag was raised atop Mount Suribachi on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. The moment-captured in one of the most famous photographs of all time-didn't just boost the morale of the U.S. soldiers fighting on the island. It also lifted the spirits of the American people back home who had grown weary of World War II. How did this remarkable moment come to pass and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

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Eisler, Barry

Summary: Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, delivering cash to corrupt elements of the Japanese government. But when a delivery goes violently wrong, Rain finds himself in the crosshairs of Japan's most powerful yakuza clan. To survive, Rain strikes a desperate deal with his handler: take out a high-profile target in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EIS

Inagaki, Riichiro

Summary: "Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim, until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science!......

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2020

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Nakamura, Fuminori

Summary: "Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential Johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organization she's working for, and is perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, as long as it means she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAK

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