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Author
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as...
2) 1Q84
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi drivers enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Tokyo, Ren has met with three other teenagers who have the dragon birthmark, but the public has learned that the dragonborn exist and teams of hunters are searching for them--and not all of Ren's new friends are what they seem to be.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 5
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xix, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is a powerful and unflinching account of the enduring impact of nuclear war, told through the stories of those who survived. On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan's southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured. Published on the seventieth anniversary of...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Cain Lemaire is an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. With help from his sister who's working in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very successful and important CEO. Cain ends up tangling with the yakuza (Japanese mafia) and unraveling a sex slavery ring"--
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...
10) Japan
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 p.) : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides information about Japan and examines its geography, culture, government, holidays, food, and leisure activities. Includes color photographs, a glossary, a craft, a recipe, and sources for additional information.
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations, color map.
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to Japan, providing information about its geography, history, population, foods, popular forms of entertainment, and economy. Includes a quiz, a glossary, and a list of additional resources.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Yasuko Hanaoka thought she had escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day, the situation quickly escalates and Togashi ends up dead. Yasuko's next-door-neighbor Ishigami offers his help, not only disposing of the body, but plotting the cover-up as well.
15) Grenade
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
16) Samurai
Author
Series
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the world of the samurai, weaving together history, culture, geography and politics. This ten-book series explores the martial arts, weaving together history, culture, geography, and politics to give readers a balanced perspective of the world's fighting systems. Author Jim Ollhoff, Ph.D., holds a second-degree black belt in Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Karate, as well as intermediate belts in Korean Tae Kwon Do and Chinese Kung Fu. Series editor...
Author
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
18) Tokyo girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (137 pages).
Language
English
Description
American Frank Ryan, still stumbling his way blindly through Japanese culture, leads a mundane life teaching Japanese housewives to play piano. Those mundane days are disrupted by a series of mysterious events.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 pages) : color illustrations, color map
Language
English
Description
Judo, origami, sushi - with just a few words an immediate landscape is conjured: the country of Japan. In K is for Kabuki: A Japan Alphabet, young readers are invited to travel to faraway Japan and explore its rich history, traditions, and role in today's world. Evocative artwork captures the spirit of each letter topic. O is for Origami A paper frog, a paper tree, a paper sunflower just for me, a paper fox, a paper shrew, a paper tiger just for you....