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Author
Series
Detective Galileo mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring "Detective Galileo." In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and fans alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling writer in Japan, it was acclaimed as "stunning," "brilliant," and "ingenious." Now physics professor Manabu Yukawa-Detective Galileo-returns in a new case...
2) Yume
Author
Publisher
Rare Machines
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Cybelle teaches English in a small city in Japan. Her contract is up for renewal, her mother is begging her to come back to Canada, and she is not sure where she belongs anymore. She faces ostracism and fear daily, but she loves her job, despite its increasing difficulties. She vows to do her best — even when her sleep, appetite, and life in general start to get weird, and conforming to the rules that once helped her becomes a struggle. Meanwhile,...
3) Botchan
Author
Publisher
Kodansha America
Pub. Date
2006, Ã2005
Language
English
Description
Botchan is a hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school. It is a classic in Japan and has occupied a position of great importance in the canon of Japanese literature, one vaguely analogous to Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye in American culture. The setting is Japan's deep south, where the author himself spent four years teaching English in a middle school. Into this conservative world, with its...
Author
Series
Detective Galileo mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"American twenty-something Max Travers is an English teacher in Japan. He has a beautiful girlfriend, a mysterious and powerful boss, and lives in a city teeming with rich culture and history. But Max wants out. He came to Japan to find a new calling, but has found finds that this new life isn't everything he hoped it would be. His manipulative boss, Yoko, is trying to swindle the unsuspecting parents of his students and is using his golden-boy American...
6) Erika-san
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
After falling in love with Japan as a little girl, Erika becomes a teacher and fulfills her childhood dream by moving to a remote Japanese island.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The narrator is a teacher whose only close friend is Sumire, an aspiring young novelist with chronic writer's block. Sumire is suddenly smitten with a sophisticated businesswoman and accompanies her love object to Europe where, on a tiny Greek island, she disappears "like smoke." The schoolteacher hastens to the island in search of his friend. And there he discovers two documents on her computer, one of which reveals a chilling secret about Sumire's...
Author
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Etta Jones was not a World War II soldier or a war time spy. She was an American school teacher who in 1941 who along with her husband, Foster agreed to teach the Natives on the remote Aleutian island of Attu. They were both sixty-two years old when they left Alaska's mainland for Attu against the advice of friends and family. Etta, and her sister moved to the Territory of Alaska in 1922. She planned to stay only one year as a vacation, but this...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Yayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino. No one understands her aunt's unusual lifestyle. For as long as Yayoi can remember, Yukino has lived alone in an old gloomy single-family home, quietly, almost...
Author
Series
A terrified teacher at ghoul school volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Haruaki Abe is the kind of guy who wouldn't say boo to a goose. But when he starts his teaching career at a high school full of creatures that go bump in the night, he soon discovers that his students have no such qualms, and they'll have him screaming "eeeeeeek"!
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Yuya thinks he is ready for a Turbo Duel with Ren, but he never expected the course to be inside his own memories, and while his alter egos watch the race, Isaac and Eve also look on, hoping to find Reiji's location if he tunes in to see the Duel.
Author
Series
Assassination classroom volume 6
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The 3-E students discover that Koro Sensei's greatest weakness might be a common substance. Will they be able to use it to assassinate him while he helps Meg, formerly of the varsity swim team, with her greatest weakness? The next assassination attempt, implemented by Terasaka, is more elaborate but endangers his fellow students. Can he save them without saving his target? Then, the top class at school, including Principal Asano's son, conspires to...
Author
Series
Negima! volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Misora plays a trick on the student body by impersonating a priest in order to learn their secrets.
Author
Series
Negima! volume 19
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Asuna must survive a dangerous mission on a snow-covered mountain in order to join a school club, but the adventure may prove to be more than she can handle.