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Harpercollins. 09/01/1999. 295 pgs. Moving through time, from the 1920's to the 1990's, and told from four different points of view, this novel tells the story of three generations of a Japanese-American family. Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/1996. 445 pgs. At the close of World War II, William Fujita is in frigid Massachusetts, recently released from an internment camp in his native California. Margaret Kelly, a widow, made a special request to camp officials that they send Fujita, a horticulturist, to revitalize the barren farmland that she owns. Fujita, Margaret, another widow named Livvie, and Livvie's son Garvin grow together in an impromptu family. Fujita and Garvin in particular forge a relationship that sustains them both as they gather together the shards of their shattered lives. Originally published at $24.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/2004. Reprint. 304 pgs. In her sixth outing, antiques dealer/amateur detective Rei Shimura heads to her childhood home of San Francisco to spend Christmas with the family. She soon gets tangled up in a murder investigation (with her beau, lawyer Hugh Glendinning), as well as some very nasty World War II history. Originally published at $12.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 03/01/1995. In this, her first novel, author Shigekuni alternates the honest voices of four Japanese American women from four different generations who share a large house in San Francisco. United by the obligations of family, tradition, and love, each of the characters contributes to the family portrait. Originally published at $18.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Workman Pub Co. 04/01/1996. 228 pgs. Spencer Fuji, a second-generation Japanese American, returns to his home on the island of Maui to visit his mother, who lives on 'Japanese row.' Having worked all their lives on a sugarcane plantation, and because the hard labor was so consuming, she and Spencer's father never assimilated to American society. Two wrenching events from childhood continue to haunt Spencer: his father forced his mother to give up Spencer's younger brother at birth; and Spencer himself provoked his older brother into an accident at a reservoir from which the boy died. On his final visit home, Spencer must confront his family and its history. Originally published at $18.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library. 06/28/2005. Reprint. 375 pgs. This is the third thriller to feature John Rain, a Japanese-American professional killer who is skilled at making his victims appear to have died of natural causes. After more than 25 years as a hired assassin, Rain would have liked to leave that career behind him for a while. Unfortunately, the CIA requires him for yet another job. As Rain pursues his target, a French-Algerian arms dealer named Achille Belghazi, through various Asian hotspots, he realizes that he's not the only player in this game. He must contend with another hitman who's also been assigned to kill Belghazi, an assassin who is after Rain himself, and Belghazi's beautiful, mysterious companion Delilah. Originally published at $7.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 03/22/2005. 287 pgs. In this sequel to SUMMER OF THE BIG BACHI, Japanese-American gardener/amateur sleuth Mas Ara travels from his Pasadena home to the Brooklyn basement apartment of his estranged daughter, the eternally "gasa-gasa" (i.e., restless) Mari. Her husband Lloyd, also a gardener, needs Masa's assistance in restoring a community garden sponsored by half-Japanese millionaire Kazuhiko "Kazzy" Ouchi. Unfortunately, Mas begins his work on the project by discovering Kazzy's body.... Originally published at $12.00 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/2005. 306 pgs. In her eighth mystery, Japanese-American antiquities expert Rei Shimura celebrates turning 30 with a new profession: spy. Having circumvented the ban that keeps Rei from traveling to Japan, the CIA enlists her to investigate her ex-boyfriend Takeo, the headmaster of a flower-arranging school--and a suspected member of a ring that is smuggling antiquities looted from Iraq. Originally published at $23.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 06/01/2006. 338 pgs. In the fifth book of the Barry Award-winning John Rain series by Barry Eisler, Japanese-American assassin John Rain attempts to extract himself from the killing business when he finds out that he has an infant son. But getting out of the business is not so easy--especially when the mother of his baby is not the same woman as the fellow assassin he is having an intense affair with, and his enemies have already discovered the identity (and location) of Rain’s son. Rain’s priorities may have shifted with this new development in his life, but his universe is as filled with whiskey, weapons, jazz, and suspense as in any of his previous adventures. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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