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1) Real world
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within them as well as from the world around them. Psychologically intricate...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
""A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo....
6) Chong sheng
Author
Series
Riben chang xiao xiao shuo volume 51
Publisher
Mai tian chu ban
Pub. Date
2009
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
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.
9) The thief
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn't even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections. But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his sister's death and his mother's breakdown, Eiji Miyake, a young dreamer from remote rural Japan, journeys to Tokyo to find his long-lost father and comes face to face with the dark underworld of the great city.
Author
Series
Inspector Iwata novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Newly reinstated Tokyo Homicide Division Police Inspector Iwata works with reluctant colleagues to investigate the brutal murder of an entire family and other deaths that are identified as the work of the same killer.
Author
Series
Chun ri wen ku volume 82
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Series
Jim Brodie thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the third book in what will likely be a long and successful series ("San Francisco Magazine"), 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.
Author
Series
Wen xue ren sheng volume LH110
Publisher
Yuan jian tian xia wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
20) San si lang
Author
Series
Publisher
Mai tian chu ban
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Twenty-three-year-old Sanshiro leaves his countryside home for the first time to experience the vastly different world of Tokyo, its women and university.
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