Browsing: Japan

Glorious Boy is a tale of war and devotion, longing and loss, and the power of love to prevail.Set in India’s…

A 2020 Good Morning America Book Club Pick that heralds the arrival of “a talented new author” (Kristin Hannah): This riveting historical novel follows the sweeping story of Nori, a half-Black girl born into a noble Japanese family during World War II. “I inhaled Fifty Words for Rain in one day. I had no choice” (The New York Times Book Review).

They wanted to live on their own terms. Moving halfway across the world would challenge every inch of their beliefs.…

After a series of disturbances, Jane unearths a long-buried secret — and must confront her family’s painful past. “Part love story, part supernatural ghost tale, part family history… with nothing less than the Japanese internment in America during World War II… coursing through its haunted, beating heart” (New York Times bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman).

Michel Paradis’s Last Mission to Tokyo, a “superb” (The Wall Street Journal) and “engrossing…richly researched” (The New York Times Book…

After his childhood sweetheart, Chidori, is sent to an internment camp during World War II, Hayden joins the Air Force in hopes of ending the war and reuniting with her. Can they find their way back to each other? “A powerful story of wartime love and devotion” (USA Today bestselling author Glynis Peters).

When lawyer Anna Carlson agrees to assist in a murder investigation, she meets 99-year-old Suk-bo Yi — and is drawn into a sweeping story of love, prejudice, and war dating back decades…

“Gorgeous” (Kate Quinn): In 1937, Lian joins a convoy of student refugees headed across China to escape the war with Japan. Entrusted with a priceless collection of ancient folklore, they embark on a perilous and life-changing journey. “Spellbinding… Will charm readers from the very first page” (Publishers Weekly).

Keiko’s men are dead, slaughtered by peasants in a desperate attempt to obtain food for their starving families. She is…

From a USA Today bestselling author whose “richly detailed and evocative writing transports the reader” (Chanel Cleeton): After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lana takes in two German girls and a Japanese man and his son. And as they’re forced into hiding, they must band together in the face of danger…