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21) Tokyo dreaming
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Tokyo ever after volume 2
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English
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When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
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2016.
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English
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Yoshio delights in the everyday sounds of Tokyo, but when a musician tells him that her favorite sound is ma, the Japanese word for silence, Yoshio sets out to hear this sound for himself among the hustle and bustle of the city. Includes information on the Japanese concept of ma.
23) Tea with milk
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English
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After growing up near San Francisco, a young Japanese woman returns with her parents to their native Japan, but she feels foreign and out of place.
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English
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Kimi Nakamura loves a good fashion statement. She's obsessed with transforming everyday ephemera into Kimi Originals: bold outfits that make her and her friends feel like the Ultimate versions of themselves. But her mother disapproves, and when they get into an explosive fight, Kimi's entire future seems on the verge of falling apart. So when a surprise letter comes in the mail from Kimi's estranged grandparents, inviting her to Kyoto for spring break,...
27) Seventeen
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2018.
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English
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Seventeen years after an air disaster of unprecedented scale occured near his newspaper office, reporter Kazumasa Yuuki makes good on a promise he made during that supercharged week and solves a mystery.
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2012.
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中文(繁體)
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Traditional Chinese edition of Tsuri Harusu, the 22nd Ito sei Literary Award prize winner (6/2011). Grandfathers family record is mysterious, and grandmother travels back to a homecoming she did not anticipate. Heartwarming tale of three generations of a Chinese restaurant owning family.
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iREAD volume 62
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
中文(繁體)
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Traditional Chinese edition of Higashino Keigo's [Masquerade Hotel]. A series of murders occur in the five star Tokyo hotel of Cortesia. The police set up a trap to catch the murderer before the next event, but will they be able to?
30) Newcomer
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Kyoichiro Kaga mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Newly transferred to a precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, Detective Kyochiro Kaga, while investigating the puzzling murder of a woman, soon discovers that nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi are suspects.
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Molly Moon volume 6
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English
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Molly has developed even more amazing powers in the sixth and final hypnotic installment of the bestselling Molly Moon series.
35) Hong se shou zhi
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Dongye Guiwu zuo pin ji volume 27
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
中文(繁體)
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Traditional Chinese edition of Akai yubi (The red finger). This mystery is set in a house where the crime took place. The truth is hidden in this house and only if they reveal themselves. "Higashino Keigo, a mystery detective writer, is a Naoki award winner. His works have been translated into many languages including English. His most recent English translation is "The Devotion of Suspect X".
37) Tokyo ever after
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Tokyo ever after volume 1
Language
English
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After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
38) Black belt
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2000.
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English
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After hiding in a karate school to escape a bully, Bushi wakes up in another time and learns from a karate master that intelligence can be more powerful than mere strength.
40) While I was away
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[2021]
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"When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she can't understand basic Japanese, they make the drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her strict grandmother. Forced to say goodbye to her friends and what would have been her summer vacation, Waka is plucked from her straight-A student life in rural Kansas and flown across the globe, where she faces the culture shock of a lifetime."--Provided by publisher.
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