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Pachinko

Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine)  The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she rea...

1Q84

Hollywood icon Laura Dern breathes new life into Louisa May Alcott’s classic coming-of-age tale that follows the lives of four sisters against a backdrop of the American Civil War. This autobiographical novel takes place in and around the girls’ New ...

Little Women

In 1955, an American farming couple saw a film about the thousands of Korean children orphaned by the Korean War. Through a special act of Congress, they were authorized to adopt eight of these children - which marked the advent of international adop...

Given Away

Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king. It's the highest honor they could hope for...and the most demeaning. This year, there's a ninth. And instead of paper, she's made of fire.  In this richly developed fantasy...

Girls of Paper and Fire

Mariko Oshiro is not your average Tokyo cop. As the only female detective in the city’s most elite police unit, she has to fight for every ounce of respect, especially from her new boss. While she wants to track down a rumored cocaine shipment, he gi...

Daughter of the Sword

From the New York Times best-selling author of Leave the World Behind comes an evocative short story about love, self-perception, and a family in transition.  Alice Comstock has always been a dutiful wife and an attentive mother, a perfectionist pres...

There Are Flowers in Ohio

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.  A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realises, a parallel existence, which she calls...

Japan, 1857. For centuries, Japan has been on its own; isolated by choice from the rest of the world. But the Western powers are now at its shores, demanding to be let in; the government is crumbling, and revolution is building. The age of the samura...

Blossoms and Shadows

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age. Tsukiko, 38, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Se...

Strange Weather in Tokyo

A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower.  Through the stories of three generations of women in her family, Karoline Kan, a former New York Times...

Under Red Skies

Set in 1944 Chicago, Edgar Award-winner Naomi Hirahara’s eye-opening and poignant new mystery, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese-American family re...

Clark and Division

Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro has been promoted to Japan's elite Narcotics unit - and with this promotion comes a new partner, a new case, and new danger. The underboss of a powerful yakuza crime syndicate has put a price on her head, and he'll li...

Year of the Demon

Yeongdo, Korea - 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a 15-year-old girl. The couple have one child: their beloved daughter, Sunja.  When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the ...

Lethal justice When Tokyo falls victim to a deadly terrorist attack, Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro knows who is responsible, even if she doesn't have proof. She urges her commanding officers to arrest the perpetrator - an insane zealot who was jus...

Disciple of the Wind

The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha.  In the 11th century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji, the mos...

The Tale of Murasaki

New York Times best-selling author Natasha Ngan delivers a stunningly beautiful, heartbreaking finale to the epic Girls of Paper and Fire series.  "Don't struggle, Lei-zhi. It's time to take you back to the Hidden Palace. You're going home."  The fin...

Girls of Fate and Fury

Based on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud listen that follows a fictitious group of eight 20- and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays, summer house rentals, dates, brunches, brea...

Hey Ladies!

New from Monica Hesse, the New York Times best-selling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat - an "[I]mportant" (New York Times Book Review), "[E]xtraordinary" (Booklist, starred review) novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal. "A m...

The War Outside

Take a journey through time and genres to discover stories where queer teens live, love, and shape the world around them.     Seventeen young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written div...

All Out

Award-winning novelist Minae Mizumura demystifies the notion of the selfless Japanese mother and the adult daughter honor-bound to care for her.  Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-50s, is a French-language instructor at a private universit...

Inheritance from Mother

Two sisters become unwitting rivals in a war to claim the title of emperor in this richly imagined, Asian-inspired fantasy for fans of Renée Ahdieh and Sabaa Tahir.  Sisters Lu and Min have always known their places as the princesses of the Empire of...

The Girl King

From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their check-ins ...

Nuclear Family

Forced to betray her lord, a disgraced samurai fights to regain her honor In the fabled land of Naipon, there is no warrior more feared, no samurai more respected than the legendary Tomoe Gozen. Her twin blades can change the course of any battle. Af...

The Disfavored Hero

This lyrical biography explores the life and art of Yoko Ono, from her childhood haiku to her avant-garde visual art and experimental music. An outcast throughout most of her life, and misunderstood by every group she was supposed to belong to, Yoko ...

Yoko Ono

This anthology explores disability in fictional tales told from the viewpoint of disabled characters, written by disabled creators. With stories in various genres about first loves, friendship, war, travel, and more, Unbroken will offer today's teen ...

Unbroken

For the sake of an enchanted sword, Tomoe revolts against her father. In all of Naipon, there is no samurai more famous than Tomoe Gozen. Her skill with the blade is legendary, her honor unquestioned, and evil men everywhere fear her name. No challen...

The Golden Naginata

Tomoe turns to religion to escape her past, but destiny is not through with her yet. The young girl crashes through the underbrush, desperate to escape the cackling soldiers at her back. After catching her in a tryst with a local farmboy, they intend...

Thousand Shrine Warrior

In this dramatic and pause-resisting narrative history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after their World War II incarceration, Susan H. Kamei weaves the voices of more than 130 individuals who lived through this tragic episode, most of them...

When Can We Go Back to America?

Discover the untold story of Hak Ja Han Moon, the North Korean village girl who is now known to millions as the Mother of Peace. Her heart-wrenching story reveals details of a war-torn childhood and trials of faith as she and her late husband, Rev. S...

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