The J.A.P. Chronicles
Title | The J.A.P. Chronicles PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel Rose |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2006-05-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0767918371 |
Reunited with her former bunkmates at the centennial of Willow Lake Camp, Ali Cohen, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker--and former camp outcast--plans to make a documentary about her former teenage tormentors at the Jewish girls' camp, but the reunion stirs up old regrets and long-stifled urges. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Title | The Travelling Cat Chronicles PDF eBook |
Author | Hiro Arikawa |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2018-10-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0451491343 |
A book that “speak[s] volumes about our need for connection—human, feline or otherwise” (The San Francisco Chronicle), The Travelling Cat Chronicles is a life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice that shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy—the perfect gift for cat lovers and travellers! We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old acquaintances and to make new friends. But the most important journey is the one that shows us how to follow our hearts... An instant international bestseller and indie bestseller, The Travelling Cat Chronicles has charmed readers around the world. With simple yet descriptive prose, this novel gives voice to Nana the cat and his owner, Satoru, as they take to the road on a journey with no other purpose than to visit three of Satoru's longtime friends. Or so Nana is led to believe... With his crooked tail—a sign of good fortune—and adventurous spirit, Nana is the perfect companion for the man who took him in as a stray. And as they travel in a silver van across Japan, with its ever-changing scenery and seasons, they will learn the true meaning of courage and gratitude, of loyalty and love. On New York Post's Required Reading List
Jim and Jap Crow
Title | Jim and Jap Crow PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew M. Briones |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2013-12-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691161933 |
Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans and sent them to internment camps. One of those internees was Charles Kikuchi. In thousands of diary pages, he documented his experiences in the camps, his resettlement in Chicago and drafting into the Army on the eve of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his postwar life as a social worker in New York City. Kikuchi's diaries bear witness to a watershed era in American race relations, and expose both the promise and the hypocrisy of American democracy. Jim and Jap Crow follows Kikuchi's personal odyssey among fellow Japanese American intellectuals, immigrant activists, Chicago School social scientists, everyday people on Chicago's South Side, and psychologically scarred veterans in the hospitals of New York. The book chronicles a remarkable moment in America's history in which interracial alliances challenged the limits of the elusive democratic ideal, and in which the nation was forced to choose between civil liberty and the fearful politics of racial hysteria. It was an era of world war and the atomic bomb, desegregation in the military but Jim and Jap Crow elsewhere in America, and a hopeful progressivism that gave way to Cold War paranoia. Jim and Jap Crow looks at Kikuchi's life and diaries as a lens through which to observe the possibilities, failures, and key conversations in a dynamic multiracial America.
Embracing Defeat
Title | Embracing Defeat PDF eBook |
Author | John W Dower |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 692 |
Release | 2000-07-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393320275 |
This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well as how the nation as a whole reacted to defeat and the end of a suicidal nationalism.
Japan and the Japanese
Title | Japan and the Japanese PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Hildreth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | Japan |
ISBN |
Oriental Series: Japan, its history, arts, and literature
Title | Oriental Series: Japan, its history, arts, and literature PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Brinkley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Art, Chinese |
ISBN |
Theatre World 2005-2006: The Most Complete Record of the American Theatre
Title | Theatre World 2005-2006: The Most Complete Record of the American Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | John Willis |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 2008-07-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781557837080 |
Now in its 62nd year, 'Theatre World' provides a complete statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway theatre season. Each entry includes complete cast lists, producers and directors, authors and composers, opening dates, plot synopses, and biographical information.