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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...
5) 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
Before the coffee gets cold volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each...
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) 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...
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