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  Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

  by Jamie Ford

  "Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices." -- Kirkus Reviews “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, ... (more)
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  Eyes of the Emperor (Readers Circle)

  by Graham Salisbury

  Eddy Okana lies about his age and joins the Army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers. Then the Army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American soldiers on a secret mission to a small island off the coast of Mississippi. Here they are given a special job, one... (more)
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  Under the Blood-Red Sun

  by Graham Salisbury

  Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan, and came to America to escape poverty. World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats. But then Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, and the United States declares war on Japan. Japanese men are rounded up, and Tomi’s father and grandfather are arrested. It’s a... (more)
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  Kira-Kira

  by Cynthia Kadohata

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  Baseball Saved Us

  by Ken Mochizuki

  During World War II, a young Japanese-American boy and his family are sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Despondent in their desolate surroundings, father and son pull the camp together to build a baseball diamond and form a league.
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  Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

  by Dorothea Lange

  Censored by the U.S. Army, Dorothea Lange's unseen photographs are the extraordinary photographic record of the Japanese American internment saga. This indelible work of visual and social history confirms Dorothea Lange's stature as one of the twentieth century's greatest American photographers. Presenting 119 images originally censored by the U.S. Army—the majority of which have never been published— Impounded ... (more)
• Farewell to ManzanarJeanne Wakatsuki(Author) ; Houston, James D.(Joint Author); Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki(Foreword by) Houston

  

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  Farewell to Manzanar

  by Jeanne Wakatsuki(Author) ; Houston, James D.(Joint Author); Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki(Foreword by) Houston

  Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons and a dance band called the Jive Bombers who would play any popular song except the  nation's #1 hit:... (more)
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  The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic America

  by Patricia Klindienst

  Inspired by her own family’s immigrant history, Patricia Klindienst traveled the country, gathering stories of urban, suburban, and rural gardens created by people rarely presented in books about American gardens: Native Americans, immigrants from across Asia and Europe, and ethnic peoples who were here long before our national boundaries were drawn. In The Earth Knows My Name, she writes about the beautiful... (more)
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  Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community

  by David A. Neiwert

  The poignant story of a Japanese American community torn apart by racism and WWII internment S trawberry Days tells the vivid and moving tale of the creation and destruction of a Japanese immigrant community. Before World War II, Bellevue, the now-booming 'edge city' on the outskirts of Seattle, was a prosperous farm town renowned for its strawberries. Many of its farmers were recent Japanese immigrants who,... (more)