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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...
Author
Series
Detective Galileo mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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...
5) 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
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
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.