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1) Model misfit
Author
Series
Geek girl volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Feeling impossibly awkward and unpopular in spite of her international fame, Harriet decides a summer modeling job in Japan will make the perfect vacation, until her gorgeous model ex-boyfriend Nick shows up.
Author
Language
English
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In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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...
6) Tokyo heist
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
After a high-profile art heist of three van Gogh drawings in her home town of Seattle, sixteen-year-old Violet Rossi finds herself in Japan with her artist father, searching for the related van Gogh painting.
7) Nobody knows
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After moving into a new apartment, Akira's mother abandons her family to live with her boyfriend, leaving Akira and his two younger siblings to fend for themselves and face limited freedom and malnutrition.
9) After dark
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Language
English
Description
At its center are two sistersEri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Dennys toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims theyve met before, a burly female "love hotel" manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These "night people" are haunted by secrets...
10) Ring
Author
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
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.
11) The 47th samurai
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
After reclaiming a lost military sword for a Japanese war veteran, Bob Lee Swagger is forced to postpone his retirement when a self-proclaimed samurai brutally murders the veteran's family, a crime Swagger vows to avenge.
12) Out
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Kirino's searing novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her coworkers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime.
13) Norwegian wood
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Language
English
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The tragic death of their best friend has a profound influence on the passionate relationship between Toro, a serious young college student in Tokyo, and Naoko, an introspective beauty.
14) The incense game
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
When the shogun's carefully regulated court is thrown into chaos by a massive earthquake in 1703 Japan, Sano Ichiro investigates the poisoning murders of a nobleman's daughters to prevent the regime's takeover.
Author
Publisher
Kodansha International
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Mamoru Kusaka, a sensitive and intelligent teen, is troubled by the loss of his parents. Twelve years after his father disappeared following a municipal financial scandal, his mother has died of a stroke. As Mamoru tries to start a new life with relatives in Tokyo, his uncle, taxi driver Taizo Asano, is arrested after running over a young woman.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Yoshio delights in the everyday sounds of Tokyo, but when a musician tells him that her favorite sound is ma, the Japanese word for silence, Yoshio sets out to hear this sound for himself among the hustle and bustle of the city. Includes information on the Japanese concept of ma.
17) Piercing
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife, Yoko, and their baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment, but every night while his wife sleeps Kawashima creeps from his bed and watches over the baby's crib with an ice pick in his hand and an almost visceral desire to use it. One particular night, as this struggle unfolds once more, Kawashima makes a decision to confront...
Author
Publisher
D.R. Godine
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Tojiro, a young seller of rice cakes in the Japanese capital of Edo, later known as Tokyo, is amazed to discover that the grumpy and shabby old man who buys his cakes is a famous artist renowned for his sketches, prints, and paintings of flowers, animals, and landscapes.
Author
Series
[Rei Shimura mystery] volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Rei Shimura is a half-American, half-Japanese antiques dealer who's all sleuth when it comes to crime. At her aunt's bidding, Rei signs up for a course in ikebana, the famous Japanese art of flower arranging. But before she's even finished her first lesson, one of her teachers is brutally murdered. It's up to Rei to catch the killer, even if it means revealing skeletons in her own family's closet. Every rose has a thom in this brilliant novel from...
Author
Language
English
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Description
From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay, comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6.
Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other end of history's prism-a prism held here by an unforgettable rogue and lover, Harry Niles.
In many ways, Niles should be as American as apple pie: raised by missionary...
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