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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Bayou is a unique place to live and it provides a grit and passion to any who hail from it, including Cain Lemaire, an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. Cain had the dream job he had always wanted, protecting the President, until a single night resulted in a scandal that lost him his post. Needing a new direction for his life and with help from his sister who works in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very...
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
6) Pacific burn
Author
Series
Jim Brodie thriller volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Japanese antiques dealer and PI Jim Brodie goes up against the CIA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security and a killer operating on both sides of the Pacific. --Provided by publisher.
7) Tokyo girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Frank Ryan stumbles into a world of crime and danger while he's in Tokyo. His seemingly mundane days teaching Japanese housewives piano are disrupted by mysterious events that are the result of both his actions and his lack of understanding of Japanese culture.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence--until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako's life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant uncle Satoru. An unusual man who has always...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the Nakano Thrift Shop, the young woman who works the register falls for her reserved co-worker and asks her employers sister for advice in attracting him and soon comes to realize that love requires acceptance of idiosyncrasies and secrets.
10) Moshi moshi
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In Moshi Moshi, Yoshie's much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimo-kitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly residents that they can finally start to put their painful past behind them. However, despite their attempts to move forward, Yoshie is haunted by nightmares in which her father is looking for the phone he left...
11) December 6
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Harry Niles, a disreputable American nightclub owner with a mysterious agenda, seeks to abandon his life in Tokyo while desperately trying to flee to the west on the last flight out before the Pearl Harbor attack.
13) After dark
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, the novel features two sisters--Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny's toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims they've met before, a burly female "love hotel" manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"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
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether it would be more fun...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength...
17) Malice
Author
Series
Kyoichiro Kaga volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid alibis. Or so it seems. At the crime scene, Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga recognizes Hidaka's best friend, Osamu Nonoguchi. Years ago when they were both...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the beach. Tucked inside is the diary of a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl named Nao Yasutani. Ruth—a writer who finds the lunchbox—suspects that it is debris from Japan’s 2011 tsunami. Once she begins to read the diary, Ruth quickly finds herself ddrawn into the mystery of Nao’s fate. Meanwhile in Tokyo, Nao, uprooted from her home in the U.S., bullied at school,...
Author
Series
Kyoichiro Kaga volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo an unusual statue of a Japanese mythic beast - a kirin - stands guard over the district from the classic Nihonbashi bridge. In the evening, a man who appears to be very drunk staggers onto the bridge and collapses right under the statue of the winged beast. The patrolman who sees this scene unfold, goes to rouse the man, only to discover that the man was not passed out, he was dead; that he was not drunk, he was...
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