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Naomi Hirahara
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…
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The latest entry in the award-winning Child's Introduction series celebrates the diversity, history, and rich culture of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community and teaches kids aged 8-12 about…
Naomi Hirahara,Hirahara
Both a riveting mystery and a powerful story of passionate relationships across a cultural divide, Gasa-Gasa Girl is a tale told with heart and wisdom: an unforgettable portrait of fathers…
Mas Arai returns for his fifth mystery by getting entangled in a family reunion murder in California’s strawberry fields.
Part of a series, this work provides detailed accounts of important segments of American society. One hundred essays chronicle the lives of outstanding Asian Americans from both historical and contemporary…
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…
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Sisters in Crime Los Angeles presents –Cover.
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In this compelling mystery, Mas Arai is back to save a wedding from a theft that threatens to destroy it.
Twelve-year-old Angela Kato arrives in L.A. and is put to work in her grandmother’s flower shop, folding origami to create 1,001-crane displays. As her skills improve and her relationships grow…
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…
The Edgar Award-winning author of Snakeskin Shamisen introduces 69-year-old gardener and Hiroshima survivor Mas Arai. Now living in Pasadena, Mass life of sin catches up to him. The bachi –the…
Set in modern L.A., this novel of moral and spiritual reckoning finds a Japanese American who survived the horrors of Hiroshima forced to relive the nightmare when a stranger show…
Leilani Santiago finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation that endangers her family and friends after saving a mysterious woman wearing a lei from drowning in Waimea Bay…
A battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of a crime leads Mas Arai to a dark mystery that reaches from the islands of Okinawa…
In curmudgeonly Mas Arai’s 6th mystery, he gets entangled in a baseball-related murder with international implications at Dodger Stadium.
The seventh and final Mas Arai Mystery.
After Leilani Santiago discovers a young pro surfer dead in her family’s shave ice shack on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, she must work to exonerate the No. 1 murder…
Akira Hirahara
Based on the critically claimed novel. High schooler Atsushi Andou has always hidden the fact that he's gay. But one day, he sees his classmate Sae Miura with a BL…
Naoto Asahara
"I wonder why people like us are born." Continuing to keep his sexuality a secret, Jun decides to start dating his classmate Sae. They go on dates, they kiss--but as…
Geraldine Knatz, Naomi Hirahara
Terminal Island: Lost Communities on America's Edge is the joint effort of two authors, Naomi Hirahara and Geraldine Knatz, whose backgrounds and talents are as different as the cultures that…
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…
Manabi Hirasaki,Naomi Hirahara
A Taste for Strawberries: The Independent Journey of Nisei Farmer Manabi Hirasaki is the autobiography of Manabi Hirasaki - a Depression-era boy, a Japanese American World War II veteran, a…
Southern California. Home to sandy beaches, waving palm trees, balmy weather. Also home to the rich and famous, those barely hanging on, and everyone else.
Add in murder, embezzlement, stalking…
Naomi Hirahara,Smithsonian Institute
A stunning anthology licensed in partnership with Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Center, We Are Here celebrates 30+ of the most influential Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history and…
David M Olsen,Tod Goldberg,Naomi Hirahara
What do you get when you pair the beach with some of today’s most talented writers? The Silver Waves of Summer is a collection of short stories by a dozen…
Naomi Hirahara,Heather C. Lindquist
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 : the relatively unexamined period…
The casual anthology L.A. has been waiting for, rich with insight, humor, personality, history, modernity, and great writers old and new.
It’s no secret that authors have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The oft-repeated cliche that the book was better than the movie holds true for more reasons than the average…
A lively new edition of the witty, colorful hit book that unlocks the insider secrets of Pasadena and environs.
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The Akashic Noir Series' forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles's most recognized neighborhoods.
