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A place where sunflowers grow =
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Amy Lee-Tai |
While she and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Center during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to gr… |
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Toward the sunrise
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Judith Pella |
In the summer of 1942, on three different continents, the daughters of newspaper tycoon Keagan Hayes are caught in chaos within and without. Though all have come to a personal faith, they are thrown … |
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Bridge of scarlet leaves
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Kristina McMorris |
Violinist Maddie elopes with Lane Moritomo, the ambitious son of Japanese immigrants, but after Pearl Harbor is bombed, Lane is seen as the enemy and she must sacrifice her Juilliard ambitions when h… |
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The Buddha in the Attic
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Julie Otsuka |
The story of young Japanese women coming to the United States for a better life and their experiences in America. |
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China Dolls
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Lisa See |
"The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story … |
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A girl like you
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Maureen Lindley |
After her dad's killed fighting at Pearl Harbor, Satomi and her mother are sent to a Japanese internment camp where--despite the harsh conditions and complete lack of privacy--she finds a community f… |
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Sophie and the rising sun
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Augusta Trobaugh |
A radiant novel that gets the rhythms and cadences of small-town life exactly right. An unforgettable story of a time when the world lost its innocence--and of a town that finds its redemption in an … |
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Ink & ashes
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Valynne E. Maetani |
"When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone"-- |
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Silent honor
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Danielle Steel |
The drama of a young Japanese woman, Hiroko, who comes to the U.S. to attend college and falls in love with a white American, Peter. Their romance is shattered by Pearl Harbor. He goes off to war, sh… |
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Letters to memory
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Karen Tei Yamashita |
Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters represen… |
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Four-four-two
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Dean Hughes |
Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regi… |
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The sun gods
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Jay Rubin |
In 1939, a widowed minister with a young son falls in love with and marries a woman who is a recent immigrant from Japan. In the wake of Pearl Harbor, the family is soon torn apart by the impacts of … |
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Harmless like you
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Rowan Hisayo Buchanan |
'"This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration."--Lorrie Moore. Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Berlin, and Connectic… |
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The Age of Dreaming
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Nina Revoyr |
Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood, but by 1964, he finds himself living in complete obscurity—until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. … |
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Mismatch
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Lensey Namioka |
Their families clash when a Japanese-American teenaged boy starts dating a Chinese-American teenaged girl. |
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Akiko in the Sprubly Islands (Akiko)
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Mark Crilley |
In this companion novel to Akiko on the Planet Smoo, fourth-grade earthling Akiko and her odd team are on a journey to save the kidnapped Prince Froptoppit from the evil Alia Rellapor. Unfortunately,… |
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Hard rain
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Barry Eisler |
"In Hard Rain, Eisler's second novel, the lethal assassin John Rain is back. Half Japanese, half American, raised in both countries but at home in neither, Rain is trying to leave his life as a freel… |
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Hiroshima Dreams
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Kelly Easton |
Lin can't explain the knowledge she has of the future, of what people will say or what will happen. It's a gift she shares with Obaasan, her grandmother, who has recently come from Japan to live with… |
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Flags
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Maxine Trottier |
I will take care of your garden, Mr. hiroshi," I offered.
He smiled. "That would give me great comfort, Mary," he said. "The koi are greedy, you know. Do not let them get fat."
We watched the bus d… |
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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David Guterson |
On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, home to salmon fishermen and strawberry farmers, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with murder. The year is 19… |
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