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San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries--memories...

Japanese American Donnie, whose playmates insist he be the bad guy in their war games, calls on his reluctant father and uncle to help him get away from that role.

Even though Lila's cousins do some things differently, Lila loves when they come to visit.

Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been 'interned' by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the...

Return to Tokyo for a royal wedding in Emiko Jean's Tokyo Dreaming, the sequel to the Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Tokyo Ever After When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a princess overnight. Now, she's overcome conniving cousins, salacious press, and an imperial scandal to finally find a place she belongs. She has a perfect bodyguard turned boyfriend. Her...

When Yoko brings sushi to school for lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats, until one of them tries it for himself.

Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

"John Rain kills people. For a living. His specialty: making it seem like death by natural causes. He is exclusive and his hits are principle players. And he'll never murder a woman. John Rain may not be a good man, but he's good at what he does. Reliabily discreet, coldy efficient, Rain is the best hit man money can buy. Until he falls for the beautiful daughter of his last kill." -- adapted from the cover.

The students in Mrs. Jenkins's class explore the careers they would like to have when they grow up, including Yoko, who wants to be a Japanese teacher.

After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.