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The great fire
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Shirley Hazzard |
In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn from their past, to dream again. Some will ful… |
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Wabi Sabi
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Mark Reibstein |
Wabi Sabi, a little cat in Kyoto , Japan , had never thought much about her name until friends visiting from another land asked her owner what it meant. At last, the master Says, "That's hard to exp… |
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Blame!
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Tsutomu Nihei |
Killy is a man of few words who packs one very powerful gun. He wanders an endless labyrinth of cyberdungeons filled with concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other bizarre silicate creatures. |
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Angelic Layer
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Clamp |
Misaki faces the vengeful younger Fujisaki sister, Arisu, on a battlefield of ice in the Angelic Layer tournament. |
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Uzumaki
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Junji Itō |
Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but b… |
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If you follow me
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Malena Watrous |
Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can n… |
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Yuki and the one thousand carriers
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Gloria Whelan |
In Japan, as a provincial governor, his wife, and daughter Yuki, followed by 1,000 attendants, travel the historic Tokaido Road to the Shogun's palace in Edo, Yuki keeps up with her lessons by writin… |
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Book girl and the suicidal mime
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Mizuki Nomura |
While attending their book club meetings, Japanese high schoolers, Konoha and Tohko, who is actually a literature-eating goblin in disguise, uncover a mystery surrounding the death of a former studen… |
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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David Mitchell |
The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the W… |
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Moshi moshi
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Jonathan London |
A young boy reluctantly accompanies his older brother to Japan, but after spending the summer visiting his pen pal and learning about that country's customs, he is glad that he went. |
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Afro Samurai
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Takashi Okazaki |
Wounded in his battle against the master swordsman Kuma, Afro awakens to find himself in the care of a village of people who have embraced the teachings of "the One" and found peace. |
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My girlfriend's a geek
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Pentabu |
A college student falls in love with a "fangirl"--an obsessive comic and cartoon fan--who introduces him to her cult-like interests, which he reports on his blog. |
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Blood ninja II
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Nick Lake |
In sixteenth-century Japan, Taro, a vampire like all ninja warriors, tries to protect his mother and defeat the power-hungry Lord Oda, who he believed was dead. |
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Gekiga Hyouryuu, Vol. 1
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Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary stories about the private lives of everyday people… |
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Exit A
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Anthony Swofford |
Harboring a secret love for a general's precocious daughter while coming of age at an Air Force base in 1989 Japan, young Severin Boxx is swept up in the motherless girl's subversive infatuation with… |
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The boy in the garden
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Allen Say |
While his father visits Mr. Ozu to convey traditional New Year greetings, Jiro wanders out to the garden drawn to a life-like statue of a tall bird which reminds him of the "Grateful Crane" story tha… |
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Spirit's princess
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Esther M. Friesner |
In ancient Japan, Himiko, the privileged daughter of her clan's leader, fights the constraints and expectations imposed on young women and finds her own path, which includes secret shaman lessons. |
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The Ronin's mistress
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Laura Joh Rowland |
"A brilliant new twist on the fabled tale of the 47 Ronin, from an author with "a painter's eye for the minutiae of court life [and] a politican's ear for intrigue." --The New York Times Book Review … |
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Flowers of Edo
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Michael Dana Kennedy |
"In the climactic closing months of World War II, Allied Intelligence officers are summoned to the Malcañan Palace in Manila to be briefed by General MacArthur's Intelligence Staff on the optimal con… |
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Yuko-chan and the Daruma doll
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Sunny Seki |
After the 1783 eruption of Japan's Mount Asama destroys crops in nearby villages, a orphaned blind girl who lives at the Daruma Temple in Takasaki invents a doll representing a famed Buddhist monk an… |
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