Books Set in China and Japan

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  • Paper Wife: A Novel

    • ASIN: B07CGWQMHT
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

    From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus comes a heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world.Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband’s first wife—a paper wife.On the perilous voyage, Mei ... [Read More]

  • The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

    • ASIN: B01MQVT9TG
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    “[A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining.”—Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times “A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company   Heroes are often defined as ordinary c... [Read More]

  • Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

    • ASIN: 1455563927
    • ISBN: 9781455563920
    • Brand: Grand Central Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSH... [Read More]

  • Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

    • ASIN: B000FBJCJ4
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • A Boy No More (Aladdin Historical Fiction)

    • ASIN: 1416914048
    • ISBN: 1416914048
    • Brand: Mazer, Harry
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

    "WHAT ABOUT WHAT THEY DID TO MY FATHER?... THE JAPS KILLED HIM!" Adam Pelko witnessed something horrible: the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor -- with his father aboard. Since then, Adam and his mother and sister have moved to California, where they are trying to rebuild their lives. But no matter where Adam goes, h... [Read More]

  • The Best Bad Thing (Aladdin Historical Fiction)

    • ASIN: 0689717458
    • ISBN: 0689717458
    • Manufacturer: Aladdin

    At first dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, Rinko discovers there are pleasant surprises for her, but then bad things start to happen. Sequel to "A Jar of Dreams."

  • The Island of Sea Women: A Novel

    • ASIN: B07GNV4F4S
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the... [Read More]

  • Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive

    • ASIN: 0385742525
    • ISBN: 0385742525
    • Brand: WaterBrook Press
    • Manufacturer: Ember

    In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian's courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history's most thrilling surviva... [Read More]

  • Along the Broken Bay

    • ASIN: B07JW54QCW
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

    From the bestselling author of A Pledge of Silence comes a story of resistance, intrigue, and risking it all in the WWII Philippines.December 1941. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Za... [Read More]

  • Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 3

    • ASIN: 1138858927
    • ISBN: 9781138858923
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

    Clouds above the Hill, a long-time best-selling novel in Japan, is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Acclaimed author Shiba Ryōtarō devoted an entire decade of his life to... [Read More]

  • No Woman's Land: a Holocaust novel

    • ASIN: B07PFLZB3C

    “It was very dangerous for him, and he knew it. But his love for me was stronger than fear.” - Ilse SteinThis novel is based on the inspiring and moving love story of Ilse Stein, a German Jew, and Willy Schultz, a Luftwaffe Captain in the Minsk ghetto, who risked his life to save the one he loved the most.When the last of the Jews’ rights are... [Read More]

  • The Reckoning: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0385544154
    • ISBN: 9780385544153
    • Manufacturer: Doubleday

    #1 bestselling author John Grisham’s The Reckoning is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet.  “A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga…The Reckoning is Grisham's argument that he's not just a boilerplate thriller writer. Most jurors will think the counselor has made his case.”—USA Today   October 19... [Read More]

  • Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

    • ASIN: B01IAS9FZY
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR | SHORT-LISTED FOR THE 2018 LIONEL GELBER PRIZE | NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES (LONDON) * AMAZON  “Allison is one of the keenest observers of international affairs around.”— JOE BIDEN, former vice president of the United States   China and the United States are head... [Read More]

  • The Moon Princess / Kaguyahime (Kodansha's Children's Classics) (English and Japanese Edition)

    • ASIN: 4770020996
    • ISBN: 4770020996
    • Brand: Kodansha International
    • Manufacturer: Kodansha International

    An old bamboo cutter finds a tiny child in the hollow of a bamboo stalk. Thus begins the beloved story of the Moon Princess, whose unearthly beauty brings her fame and would-be husbands from throughout the land, but whose destiny shines far off in the sky. The delicate color and detail of Kancho Oda's illustrations, painted over half a century ago,... [Read More]

  • Mystery at Manzanar: A WWII Internment Camp Story (Historical Fiction)

    • ASIN: 143420751X
    • ISBN: 143420751X
    • Brand: Brand: Stone Arch Books
    • Manufacturer: Stone Arch Books

    During World War II, 15-year-old Tommy Yamamoto and his family are forced into the Manzanar internment camp for Japanese Americans. While there, an elderly internee is attacked, and one of the camp's guards is charged with the crime. Tommy sets out to solve the crime and discovers some unlikely suspects.

  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

    • ASIN: B0176M1A44
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this instant and tenacious bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic,... [Read More]

  • The Craft of the Japanese Sword

    • ASIN: 087011798X
    • ISBN: 087011798X
    • Brand: Yoshido Yoshihara
    • Manufacturer: Kodansha USA

    Well over a thousand years old, the tradition of swordmaking in Japan is one of the most highly regarded metal crafts in the world. When all sword manufacture was prohibited in Japan for seven years after World War II, the age-old techniques were in danger of being lost forever. Today, in the hands of a new generation of practitioners, the craft is... [Read More]

  • China Dolls: A Novel

    • ASIN: B00H6JFJKE
    • ISBN: 0679644164
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese American woman in the 1930s and ’40s.”—The New York Times Book Review “Superb . . . This emotional, informative and brilliant page-turner resonates with resilience and humanity.”—The Washington Post (One of the Best Books of the Year)  San Francisco, 1938... [Read More]

  • Peach Boy And Other Japanese Children's Favorite Stories

    • ASIN: 4805309962
    • ISBN: 4805309962
    • Brand: Florence Sakade
    • Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing

    This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents several Japanese fairy tales and other folk stories—providing insight into a rich oral culture. Welcome to a fantastic world populated by magical teakettles, long-nosed goblins, brave warriors, and a host of other beloved characters who have lived on for centuries in the tradition... [Read More]

  • Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-Garde

    • ASIN: 0824838939
    • ISBN: 0824838939
    • Brand: University of Hawaii Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press

    Recasting Red Culture turns a critical eye on the influential proletarian cultural movement that flourished in 1920s and 1930s Japan. This was a diverse, cosmopolitan, and highly contested moment in Japanese history when notions of political egalitarianism were being translated into cultural practices specific to the Japanese experience. Both a pol... [Read More]

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