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1) Zen attitude
Author
Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 2
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In Tokyo, American antique dealer and sleuth Rei Shimura becomes a suspect in a murder case and must clear her name. Before proceeding she switches men, abandoning a yacht owner for a more protective judo instructor.
Author
Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 11
Publisher
the Ikat Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Rei Shimura and her husband Michael rush to Japan in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami -- she, to find her mentor Yasushi Ishida and his missing apprentice Mayumi, he, to battle the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength...
4) Amrita
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An actress's mysterious, scandalous death leads her younger sister, a kid brother with mystical powers, and her fiancé on a sorrow-filled journey through grief, redemption, and recovery that takes them to a final confrontation with the spirits of the dead on a remote Pacific island."--Publisher's web site.
5) Real world
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her next door neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within them as well as from the world around them.
6) Silence
Author
Publisher
Taplinger Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1980.
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Portuguese missionary in Japan ministers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ.
The story of a seventeenth-century Portuguese priest in Japan at the height of the persecution of the Christian community.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
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...
8) Fracture
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, an aging survivor of the atom bomb confronts his memories"--Provided by publisher.
10) Yume
Author
Publisher
Rare Machines
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A modern-day fantasy novel about demons, dreams, and a young woman teaching English in Japan. Cybelle, an expat, lives in a small city in the Kansai region of Japan. Life is difficult: her coworkers don't treat her as one of their own and, outside of work, people dislike or even fear her. On top of it all, Cybelle is struggling to conform to the rules that have helped her survive so far. Elsewhere in Kansai, Zaniel navigates the dream realm, bringing...
11) Ring
Author
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
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Description
Journalist Kazayuki Asakawa's investigation into the sudden deaths of four teenagers from heart failure leads to an isolated cabin containing a videotape warning of death in seven days unless certain, now missing, instructions are not followed.
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Trinity, Trinity, Trinity is a novel set in a world in which Japanese senior citizens display symptoms of a mysterious condition known as "Trinity," about a woman who suspects her mother has been drawn into a terrorist attack, and sets out to uncover family secrets, finding unexpected connections between the Olympics and Japan's history of atomic power"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. Each summer, Natsuki counts down the days until her family drives into the mountains of Nagano to visit her grandparents in their wooden house in the forest. One summer, her cousin Yuu confides to...
16) Breasts and eggs
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo....
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence, until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako's life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant uncle Satoru. An unusual man who has always...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. 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 it would be more fun...
Author
Series
John Rain novel volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn't care about why ... Until he gets involved with Midori Kawamura, a beautiful jazz pianist--and the daughter of his latest kill"--Page 4 of cover.
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