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30 produkter
We Are Here
30 Inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States
Av Naomi Hirahara, Smithsonian Institute
Inbunden, 2022
187 kr
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A stunning anthology licensed in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, We Are Here celebrates 30 of the most inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history. There are more than 23 million people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent living in the United …
1001 Cranes
E-bok, 2008
104 kr
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WHEN 12-YEAR-OLD ANGELA Kato arrives in L.A., the last thing she wants to do is spend the entire summer with her grandparents. But in the Kato family, one is never permitted to complain. Grandma Michi and Aunt Janet put Angela to work in their flower shop, folding origami and creating 1001 crane …
Gasa-Gasa Girl
Häftad, 2005
156 kr
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From the time she was a child, Mas Arai’s daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa–never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. …
A Child's Introduction to Asian American and Pacific Islander History
The Heroes, the Stories, and the Cultures that Helped to Build America
Inbunden, 2024
235 kr
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The perfect primer for kids ages 8-12, A Child's Introduction to Asian American and Pacific Islander History is packed with remarkable stories, groundbreaking events, and inspirational people, that have made a lasting impact on the history and culture of the United States.The latest entry in the …
Murder on Bamboo Lane
E-bok, 2014
126 kr
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Trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle… Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it’s still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate. At the behest of …
Grave on Grand Avenue
E-bok, 2015
123 kr
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LAPD bicycle cop—and aspiring homicide detective—Ellie Rush is back on patrol in the newest mystery from the award-winning author of Murder on Bamboo Lane . Ellie stops for a friendly chat with gardener Eduardo Fuentes while patrolling one of Los Angeles’s premier concert halls. A few minutes later …
Silent Scars of Healing Hands: Oral Histories of Japanese American Doctors in World War II Detention Camps
Av Naomi Hirahara, Gwen M. Jensen
Häftad, 2026
312 kr
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Distinguished Asian American Business Leaders
Inbunden, 2003
1063 kr
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Although there are other reference books about Asian Americans, no other book focuses solely on businesspeople. This collection of engagingly written biographies gives the details on the lives of 96 Asian men and women who have had successful business careers, giving information on their education, …
Evergreen
Inbunden, 2023
272 kr
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A Japanese American nurse's aide navigates the dangers of post-WWII and post-Manzanar life as she attempts to find justice for a broken family in this follow-up to the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning Clark and Division . Los Angeles, 1946: It’s been two years since Aki Ito and her family were …
Clark and Division
Häftad, 2022
127 kr
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A New York Times Best Mystery Novel of 2021 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 …
Evergreen
Häftad, 2024
127 kr
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It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California - but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is …
Crown City
Inbunden, 2026
329 kr
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In turn-of-the-century California, two Japanese amateur detectives uncover the dark underbelly of their multicultural city—from the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author of Clark and Division . Pasadena, 1903: Eighteen-year-old Ryunosuke “Ryui” Wada staggers off the boat from Yokohama, Japan, …
Eternal Lei
A Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery
Häftad, 2022
197 kr
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It's the middle of the pandemic and Hawaii has been virtually closed to tourists.So when Leilani Santiago and her young sisters save a mysterious woman wearing an unusual lei from drowning in Waimea Bay in Kaua‘i, questions abound. Who is she and where did she come from? Leilani suddenly finds …
Eternal Lei
A Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery
Inbunden, 2022
281 kr
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It's the middle of the pandemic and Hawaii has been virtually closed to tourists.So when Leilani Santiago and her young sisters save a mysterious woman wearing an unusual lei from drowning in Waimea Bay in Kaua‘i, questions abound. Who is she and where did she come from? Leilani suddenly finds …
Eternal Lei
A Leilani Santiago Hawai''i Mystery
E-bok, 2022
236 kr
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It''s the middle of the pandemic and Hawaii has been virtually closed to tourists. So when Leilani Santiago and her young sisters save a mysterious woman wearing an unusual lei from drowning in Waimea Bay in Kaua‘i, questions abound. Who is she and where did she come from? Leilani suddenly finds …
Sayonara Slam
A Mas Arai Mystery
Inbunden, 2021
357 kr
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Hirahara has a keen eye for the telling detail and an assured sense of character.”Los Angeles TimesAt Dodger Stadium it’s Japan vs. Korea in the World Baseball Classic, but before the first pitch is thrown, Mas Arai finds himself in the middle of a murder. Mysteries layer atop mysteries in this …
Sayonara Slam
A Mas Arai Mystery
Häftad, 2016
185 kr
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“Hirahara has a keen eye for the telling detail and an assured sense of character.” —Los Angeles Times At Dodger Stadium it’s Japan vs. Korea in the World Baseball Classic, but before the first pitch is thrown, Mas Arai finds himself in the middle of a murder. Mysteries layer atop mysteries in this …
Iced in Paradise
A Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery
Häftad, 2019
185 kr
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A Hawaiian Library Hot Pick Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was being coached by her estranged father. As …
Iced in Paradise
A Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery
Inbunden, 2019
311 kr
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Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was being coached by her estranged father. As her father soon becomes the …
Clark & Division
Roman
E-bok, 2022
204 kr
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Ein erschütternder Kriminalroman vor dem historischen Hintergrund derMassenverhaftungen japanischer US-Bürger nach Pearl Harbor1944: Die 22-jährige Aki Ito und ihre Eltern werden aus dem kalifornischenInternierungslager Manzanar entlassen, wo sie wie viele Tausendandere japanisch-amerikanische …
Life after Manzanar
Av Naomi Hirahara, Heather C. Lindquist
Inbunden, 2018
239 kr
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From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement."Life After Manzanar explores the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly …
