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Volume
1
Earliest Publication Date
2021
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY HIRAHARA, N.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY HIRAHARA, N.
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"Chicago, 1944: twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, the California concentration camp where they have been 'interned' by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier as a forerunner of the...
2) Evergreen
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Volume
2
Earliest Publication Date
2023
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY HIRAHARA, N.
2 available
MYSTERY HIRAHARA, N.
2 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY HIRAHARA, N.
1 available
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY HIRAHARA, N.
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Description
"Los Angeles, 1946: 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 starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded...
3) Crown city
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Earliest Publication Date
2026
Description
Pasadena, 1903 : Eighteen-year-old Ryunosuke "Ryui" Wada staggers off the boat from Yokohama, Japan, ready to reinvent himself after the untimely deaths of his parents. Though battling loneliness and culture shock, Ryui does his best to settle into his work as an art dealer's apprentice while adjusting to his new home. From his enigmatic photographer roommate, Jack, to the beautiful seamstress living downstairs, Ryui finds himself surrounded by colorful...