Browsing: Japan

“Hilarious, enlightening, and insightful” (Publishers Weekly): When Tim Anderson decided to move from North Carolina to Japan, his immersion into a new way of life would prove to be full of comical missteps and misunderstandings. “A laugh-out-loud look at the East/West culture clash” (Kirkus Reviews).

“Reminiscent of Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train… and Lisa Wingate’s Before We Were Yours” (Library Journal): During World War II, Korean diver Hana is captured and forced to become a comfort woman. Decades later, her sister Emi faces the past. “Captivating and heartbreaking” (Booklist).

A New York Times bestseller: When a blizzard comes to Brooklyn, an accident sparks an unlikely friendship between a professor and an undocumented immigrant who needs his help… “If Allende’s life depended on her narrative gifts, she’d not only survive, but reign” (Los Angeles Times).

Dive into the true story of a World War II fighter pilot as Captain Jerry Yellin relates his experiences in the harrowing final days of battle against Japan. This work of military nonfiction is not to be missed.

As World War II raged on, the US fought tooth and nail to take Guadalcanal from Japan — an effort that would prove successful and turn the tide of the Pacific War. “Thoroughly satisfying” (Kirkus Reviews).

During the atomic, earthshaking first 120 days of Harry Truman’s unlikely presidency, an unprepared, small-town man had to take on…

From “an acknowledged master of Pacific War history” (New York Times bestselling author Stephen Harding) comes this narrative account of a World War II naval squadron. “A stirring story of the generation that went to war to save mankind” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Bruce Henderson).

A World War II romance from a USA Today bestselling author: Miko Nishimura arrives at her grandparents’ abandoned farm and discovers a dying soldier, Captain Rock Laroux, at the door. As she nurses him back to health, can love blossom between them in the midst of war?

Billy Battles is definitely not in Kansas anymore.   As Book 2 of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy opens, Billy…

In this National Book Award finalist and moving saga, generations of a Korean family fight to create a new destiny for themselves in 20th-century Japan. “A powerful meditation on what immigrants sacrifice to achieve a home in the world” (Pulitzer Prize–winning author Junot Díaz).