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  • Illumination Night: A Novel


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    • ASIN: B00N5E57X8
    • ASIN: B00N5E57X8
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

  • Never Let Me Go

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss.   As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is modern cla... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 1400078776
    • ASIN: 1400078776
    • ISBN: 9781400078776
    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel


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    • ASIN: B001NLL5AO
    • ASIN: B001NLL5AO
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

  • The Remains of the Day


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    • ASIN: 0679731725
    • ASIN: 0679731725
    • ISBN: 0679731725
    • Brand: Vintage International
    • Manufacturer: Vintage International

  • Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

    The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman.Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai--without really knowing what it meant--he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive and brings life in his own village to a standstill--until he is captured by a weaponless Zen monk.The lovely Otsu, seeing in Musashi her ideal of manliness, frees him from his tortuous punishment, but he is recaptured and imprisoned. During three years of solitary confinement, he delves into the classics of Japan ... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 156836427X
    • ASIN: 156836427X
    • ISBN: 9781568364278
    • Brand: Brand: Kodansha USA
    • Manufacturer: Kodansha International

  • Kafka on the Shore (Vintage International)


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    • ASIN: B000FC2ROU
    • ASIN: B000FC2ROU
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Family Trust: A Novel

    Some of us are more equal than others....Meet Stanley Huang: father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable tastes and temper, aficionado of all-inclusive vacations and bargain luxury goods, newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. For years, Stanley has claimed that he’s worth a small fortune. But the time is now coming when the details of his estate will finally be revealed, and Stanley’s family is nervous.For his son Fred, the inheritance Stanley has long alluded to would soothe the pain caused by years of professional disappointment. By now, the Harvard Business School graduate had expected to be a financial tech god – not a minor investor at a middling corporate firm, where he isn’t even allowed to fly business class. Stanley’s daughter, Kate, is a middle manager with one ... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: B077M9R84W
    • ASIN: B077M9R84W
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • Cryptonomicon


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    • ASIN: B000FC11A6
    • ASIN: B000FC11A6
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • When the Emperor Was Divine

    The debut novel from the PEN/Faulkner Award Winning Author of The Buddha in the Attic On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty internment camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. When the Emper... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 0385721811
    • ASIN: 0385721811
    • ISBN: 0385721811
    • Brand: Anchor Books
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Memoirs of a Geisha (Vintage Contemporaries)


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    • ASIN: B000FCKMEM
    • ASIN: B000FCKMEM
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques : A Contemporary Guide to the Ancient Investment Techniques of the Far East, Second Edition

    In this contemporary guide to the ancient investment techniques of the Far East, the author provides an in-depth explanation of candlestick plotting and
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    A form of technical analysis, Japanese candlestick charts are a versatile tool that can be fused with any other technical tool, and will help improve any technician's market analysis. They can be used for speculation and hedging, for futures, equities or anywhere technical analysis is applied. Seasoned technicians will discover how joining Japanese candlesticks with other technical tools can create a powerful synergy of techniques; amateurs will find out how effective candlestick charts are as a stand-alone charting method. In easy-to-understand language, this title delivers to the reader the author's years of study, research and practical experience in this increasingly

    • UPC: 1530850
    • Rating: 4.5

  • Shogun : The Epic Novel of Japan

    9781982537524
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    After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne's loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that

    • UPC: 942042433
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle : Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation

    Updated and expanded edition of Susan Napier's cult classic, in-depth, sophisticated look at Japanese
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    This new edition of the groundbreaking popular book is a must-have for both seasoned and new fans of anime. Japanese animation is more popular than ever following the 2002 Academy Award given to Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. It confirmed that anime is more than just children's cartoons, often portraying important social and cultural themes. With new chapters on Spirited Away and other recent releases, including Howl's Moving Castle--Miyazaki's latest hit film, already breaking records in Japan--this edition will be the authoritative source on anime for an exploding market of viewers who want to know

    • UPC: 3902678
    • Rating: 4.333

  • The Japanese Mind : Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

    Offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture
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    In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture.Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored: aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others' benevolence), amakudari (the nation's descent from heaven), chinmoku (silence in communication), gambari (perseverance), giri (social obligation), haragei (literally, "belly art"; implicit, unspoken communication), kenkyo (the appearance of modesty), sempai-kohai (seniority), wabi-sabi (simplicity and elegance), and zoto (gift giving), as well as discussions of child-rearing, personal space, and the roles of women in Japanese society. It

    • UPC: 1750632

  • Drawing on Tradition : Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan

    Manga and Anime exert tremendous influence on contemporary Japanese culture and are increasingly consumed abroad. This book examines these two related genres of popular culture from the perspective of religion, utilizing historical and ethnographic methods. The author approaches his subject in three ways 1) as vehicles for religious imagery, 2) as texts that can inspire new religious practices, and 3) as stimuli for novel religious movements. He argues not only that content found in manga and anime can be characterized as religious but also that some practices of rendition and reception of these popular cultural forms can be similarly
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    Manga and anime (illustrated serial novels and animated films) are highly influential Japanese entertainment media that boast tremendous domestic consumption as well as worldwide distribution and an international audience. Drawing on Tradition examines religious aspects of the culture of manga and anime production and consumption through a methodological synthesis of narrative and visual analysis, history, and ethnography. Rather than merely describing the incidence of religions such as Buddhism or Shinto in these media, Jolyon Baraka Thomas shows that authors and audiences create and re-create "religious frames of mind" through their imaginative and ritualized interactions with illustrated worlds. Manga and anime

    • UPC: 20861443

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    13 Great Modern Gothic Novels | Horror Novels List | Blue Magik

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