#hardcover #fiction #japanese #thriller #yafiction 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

"In Japan, a teenage boy with narcolepsy is able to steal the thoughts of supernatural beings in his sleep, and uses this ability to defeat a mountain demon that's causing a string of suicides at his school"--

The Monster on the Road Is Me

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#hardcover #fiction #historicalfiction #historical #worldwar2 #japanese #romance #ww2 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

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. The Japanese Lover is a tender story that explores issues of race and identity, abandonment and reconciliation, and centers on two women: elderly, enigmatic Alma and her caretaker, the younger, devoted Irina, who is hiding a dark past. With an intricate, gripping plot that takes readers inside the US internment camps where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during the war, the novel captures both the horrifying acts and the beautiful deeds of which mankind is capable. Here is Isabel Allende at her masterful best.

The Japanese Lover

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#hardcover #DragonsAtTheGate #MadeIntoAMovie #CIA #GovernmentUnderworlds #Japanese #Betrayal #Vintage #Adventure #DoubleCross #Blackmail box 53 There is a $7.50 purchase minimum when buying from my shop. There is a platform fee, packaging, travel costs and of course my time. My prices are extremely low, and so please if you don’t need another book, please buy one for a friend. Thanks for understanding. 😊I'm on Instagram as karrisbookstore. https://www.instagram.com/invites/contact/?i=1en2bac5na0c2&utm_content=oevzh6i

Texas

Please read the description

Dragons at the gate

#movie #DVD #fiction #Japanese #japaneseculture #memoirsofageisha 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Memoirs of a Geisha

#paperback #multicultural #travel #relationships #Greek #Japan #Japanese #AfricanAmerican 

Oregon

A Novel

From Monique Truong, winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, comes "a sublime, many-voiced novel of voyage and reinvention" (Anthony Marra)

"[Truong] imagines the extraordinary lives of three women who loved an extraordinary man [and] creates distinct, engaging voices for these women" (Kirkus Reviews)

A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky plantation, makes her way to Cincinnati after the Civil War to work as a boarding house cook, where in 1872 she meets and marries an up-and-coming newspaper reporter. In Matsue, Japan, in 1891, a former samurai's daughter is introduced to a newly arrived English teacher, and becomes the mother of his four children and his unsung literary collaborator.

The lives of writers can often best be understood through the eyes of those who nurtured them and made their work possible. In The Sweetest Fruits, these three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. In their own unorthodox ways, these women are also intrepid travelers and explorers. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time. Each is a gifted storyteller with her own precise reason for sharing her story, and together their voices offer a revealing, often contradictory portrait of Hearn. With brilliant sensitivity and an unstinting eye, Truong illuminates the women's tenacity and their struggles in a novel that circumnavigates the globe in the search for love, family, home, and belonging.

The Sweetest Fruits

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#hardcover #fiction #ya #contemporary #middlegrade #kirakira #japanese #cynthiakadohata #translated #life

California

Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem glittering and shining. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering in the future.

Kira-Kira

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Massachusetts

#hardcover #debut #fiction #japanese #novella #translated 

An underground world. A murder. An international phenomenon. Snakes and Earrings. . . . Describing a world as amoral and fascinating as the landscapes of Less Than Zeroand Trainspotting, this novel about a young woman living in the violent world of Japan’s underground youth culture is both shocking and strangely beautiful.Enchanted by the snake-like tongue of a stranger called Ama, nineteen-year-old Lui takes a walk into another side of life. On the Tokyo streets, she finds a world where pain bleeds into pleasure. Where day fades into night. And where right turns into wrong. An international bestseller. Winner of the Akutagawa Prize. Translated by David James Karashima. “A powerful portrait of the post-bubble generation.” —The New York Times "Snakes and Earringswon't get you arrested, but as you flip these pages, don't be surprised if you're looking over your shoulder.... Hitomi Kanehara fearlessly takes us into a world as inexplicable as Narnia and conveys us with graceful tenacity into the labyrinthine realm that makes up renegade Japanese youth culture." --J. T. Leroy

Snakes and Earrings

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#paperback #Kanji #Japanese #practice #katakana

Illinois

World Languages

Campus Japanese Kanji Practice Notebook 

#paperback #fiction #historicalfiction #japanese #chinese #history #japan #ww2 #history #historical 

Florida

Shortly before World War II, a Chinese man, sent to Japan to recover from tuberculosis, meets a lovely Japanese girl and four older residents, in a story of passion and sacrifice

The Samurai's Garden

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#Europa #HongKong #WWII #Japanese #InternmentCamp #Fiction 

Michigan

Second in the Old Filth trilogy. "An astute, subtle depiction of marriage . . . absolutely wonderful" (The Washington Post).

Acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, Old Filth is a lyrical novel that recalls the fully lived life of Sir Edward Feathers. The Man in the Wooden Hat is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself.
They met in Hong Kong after the war. Betty had spent the duration in a Japanese internment camp. Filth was already a successful barrister, handsome, fast becoming rich, in need of a wife but unaccustomed to romance. A perfect English couple of the late 1940s.
As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the fifty-year union of two remarkable people, The Man in the Wooden Hat is a triumph. Fiction of a very high order from a great novelist working at the pinnacle of her considerable power, it will be read and loved and recommended by all the many thousands of readers who found its predecessor, Old Filth, so compelling and thoroughly satisfying.

"Funny and affecting . . . It's remarkable."--The New York Times Book Review

"The latest occasion to celebrate Gardam . . . [a] superb novel."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR

"Told with quintessentially British humor . . . Gardam's prose is witty and precise."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"It's magnificent. . . . Funny, intelligent and immensely moving."--Kirkus Reviews

The Man in the Wooden Hat

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#fiction #suspensethrillers #suspense #thriller #paperback #japanese

New Mexico

A Novel of Suspense

Shinju

#paperback #fiction #largeprint #japan #tokyo #japanese #lovestory #aapi 
Large Print edition 


SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

"What is the cost of a mother's desire?...Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy." -- New York Times Book Review

"The perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami." -- Kathy Wang, author of Impostor Syndrome

Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children, and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband and hanging up laundry.

Then, one rainy night, she meets Kiyoshi, a successful restaurateur. In him, she rediscovers freedom, friendship, and the neon, electric pulse of the city she has always loved. But the further she falls into their relationship, the clearer it becomes that she is living two lives--and in the end, we can choose only one.

Funny, provocative, and startlingly honest, Fault Lines is for anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and asked, who am I and how did I get here? A bittersweet love story and a piercing portrait of female identity, it introduces Emily Itami as a debut novelist with astounding resonance and wit.

Fault Lines (Large Print)

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487. #hardcover #Japanese #relocation #women #California

Idaho

In her 38th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel creates a powerful, moving portrayal of families divided, lives shattered and a nation torn apart by prejudice during a shameful episode in recent American history.
A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient traditions. It was the early 1920s and Masao had dreams for the future--and a fascination with the politics and opportunities of a world that was changing every day. Twenty years later, his eighteen-year-old daughter Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions and her father's wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Maru to come to California for an education and to make her father proud. It was August 1941.
From the ship, she went directly to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. To Hiroko, California was a different world--a world of barbeques, station wagons and college. Her cousins in California had become more American than Japanese. And much to Hiroko's surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle's assistant at Stanford, became an unexpected link between her old world and her new. But in spite of him, and all her promises to her father, Hiroko longs to go home. At college in Berkeley, her world is rapidly and unexpectedly filled with prejudice and fear.
On December 7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Within hours, war is declared and suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land. Terrified, begging to go home, she is nonetheless ordered by her father to stay. He is positive she will be safer in California than at home, and for a brief time she is--until her entire world cavesin.
On February 19, Executive Order 9066 is signed by President Roosevelt, giving the military the power to remove the Japanese from their communities at will. Takeo and his family are given ten days to sell their home, give up their jobs, and report to a relocation center, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese Americans, to face their destinies there. Families are divided, people are forced to abandon their homes, their businesses, their freedom, and their lives. Hiroko and her uncle's family go first to Tanforan, and from there to the detention center at Tule Lake. This extraordinary novel tells what happened to them there, creating a portrait of human tragedy and strength, divided loyalties and love. It tells of Americans who were treated as foreigners in their own land. And it tells Hiroko's story, and that of her American family, as they fight to stay alive amid the drama of life and death in the camp at Tule Lake.
With clear, powerful prose, Danielle Steel portrays not only the human cost of that terrible time in history, but also the remarkable courage of a people whose honor and dignity transcended the chaos that surrounded them. Set against a vivid backdrop of war and change, her thirty-eighth bestselling novel is both living history and outstanding fiction, revealing the stark truth about the betrayal of Americans by their own government...and the triumph of a woman caught between cultures and determined to survive.

Silent Honor

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#paperback #thirdorfourthgrade #classic #japanese #fiction #middlegrade

Minnesota

Sadako, hospitalized with leukemia, races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes in an attempt to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

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Has one mark on the side and slight jacket curling at the top. Otherwise excellent. Some other books in the series are available, DM if interested in a bundle!

 #hardcover #adventure #fantasy #japan #japanese #samurai #youngadult #historicalfiction #historicalfantasy #fiction

Colorado

Tales of the Otori Book Two

Adopted by an Otori Lord, orphan Takeo rises to become a closely held member of the Tribe and finds his love for Maruyama heir Shirakawa Kaede challenged by dissembling clans and fractured allegiances.

Grass for His Pillow

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#hardcover #childrens #childrensbook #fiction #ghoststory #intranslation #japan #japanese 

Indiana

Winner of the 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award

A July/August 2021 Kids' Indie Next Pick

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

From renowned Japanese children's author Sachiko Kashiwaba, Temple Alley Summer is a fantastical and mysterious adventure filled with the living dead, a magical pearl, and a suspiciously nosy black cat named Kiriko featuring beautiful illustrations from Miho Satake.

Kazu knows something odd is going on when he sees a girl in a white kimono sneak out of his house in the middle of the night--was he dreaming? Did he see a ghost? Things get even stranger when he shows up to school the next day to see the very same figure sitting in his classroom. No one else thinks it's weird, and, even though Kazu doesn't remember ever seeing her before, they all seem convinced that the ghost-girl Akari has been their friend for years!

When Kazu's summer project to learn about Kimyo Temple draws the meddling attention of his mysterious neighbor Ms. Minakami and his secretive new classmate Akari, Kazu soon learns that not everything is as it seems in his hometown. Kazu discovers that Kimyo Temple is linked to a long forgotten legend about bringing the dead to life, which could explain Akari's sudden appearance--is she a zombie or a ghost? Kazu and Akari join forces to find and protect the source of the temple's power. An unfinished story in a magazine from Akari's youth might just hold the key to keeping Akari in the world of the living, and it's up to them to find the story's ending and solve the mystery as the adults around them conspire to stop them from finding the truth.

Temple Alley Summer

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Pages are yellowing a bit, else book is clean, tight and is in very good condition.#fiction #fiction #paperback #historicalfiction #japanese #seattle 

Washington

Shortly before World War II, Etsuko returns to Japan with her infant nephew to dwell in the foreboding samurai home of her estranged mother, where she struggles to find inner peace as the world descends into war. A first novel. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.

The Strangeness of Beauty

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#paperback #fiction #chinese #historicalfiction #history #japan #japanese #ww2 

18th printing, 1990; has light wear to cover/edges, else book is clean/tight. It is in excellent condition. #paperback #japanese #
Childrens 

A collection of stories with a Japanese flavor which will delight any child in any country, and at the same time, arouse a sympathetic understanding to the culture and ways of another land.

Urashima Taro and Other Japanese Children's Stories

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#hardcover #fiction #historicalfiction #historical #worldwar2 #japanese #romance #ww2 #isabelallende

Kentucky

#historical #ya #historicalfiction #hotelonthecornerofbitterandsweet  #romeoandjuliet #nytbestseller #Japanese #Chinese #WWII #internmentcamps  Young adult book but adults will enjoy as well.

Maryland

When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered in Seattle, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

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#paperback  #multi-cultural #middle-grades #japan #japanese #family #relationships 

Virginia

NY Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
 
A young American girl grapples with her Japanese heritage in this "quiet, beautifully moving portrayal of a multicultural family" for middle grade readers (School Library Journal)
 
American-born Skye is a good student and a star soccer player who never really gives any thought to the fact that her father is Japanese. Her cousin, Hiroshi, lives in Japan, and never really gives a thought to his uncle's family living in the United States.
 
Skye and Hiroshi's lives are thrown together when Hiroshi's family, with his grandfather (who is also his best friend), suddenly moves to the U.S. Now Skye doesn't know who she is anymore: at school she's suddenly too Japanese, but at home she's not Japanese enough. Hiroshi has a hard time adjusting to life in a new culture, and resents Skye's intrusions on his time with Grandfather. Through all of this is woven Hiroshi's expertise, and Skye's growing interest in, kite making and competitive rokkaku kite flying.

Flying the Dragon

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#nonfiction #memoir #hardcover #biography #nobu #japanese #translated 

J. P. Romney

The Monster on the Road Is Me

Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

Robert L. Duncan

Dragons at the gate

Movie

Memoirs of a Geisha

Monique Truong

The Sweetest Fruits

Cynthia Kadohata

Kira-Kira

Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

Hitomi Kanehara; David Karashima (Translator)

Snakes and Earrings

Campus

Campus Japanese Kanji Practice Notebook

Gail Tsukiyama

The Samurai's Garden

Jane Gardam

The Man in the Wooden Hat

Laura John Rowland

Shinju

Emily Itami

Fault Lines (Large Print)

Danielle Steel

Silent Honor

Eleanor Coerr (Editor-In-Chief); Ronald Himler

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Lian Hearn

Grass for His Pillow

Sachiko Kashiwaba; Avery Fischer Udagawa (Translator); Miho Satake (Illustrator)

Temple Alley Summer

Lydia Yuri Minatoya

The Strangeness of Beauty

Gail Tsukiyama

The Samurai's Garden

Florence Sakade (Editor)

Urashima Taro and Other Japanese Children's Stories

Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

Jamie Ford

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Natalie Dias Lorenzi

Flying the Dragon

Nobuyuki Matsuhisa

Nobu