Desert Exile
9 best books like Desert Exile (Yoshiko Uchida): Nisei Daughter, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Murder in an Irish Pub, Horoscopes for the Dead, Lips Touch: Three Times, Citizen 13660, Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment, Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living, Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America
| Author | Monica Itoi Sone |
| ISBN | 0295956887 |
With charm, humor, and deep understanding, a Japanese-American woman tells how it was to grow up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" during World War II. Along with some 120,000 other persons of Japanese ancestry—77,000 of whom were U.S. citizens—she and her...
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
| Author | Ronald Takaki |
| ISBN | 0316831115 |
"A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out of the historical canon, Ronald...
When competing card sharps stir up Siobh�n O'Sullivan's quiet Irish village, a poker tournament turns into a game of Hangman . . .
Naomi's Bistro, managed by the many siblings of the lively O'Sullivan brood, is the place to go for a cuppa tea in Kilbane. For a pint or a game of darts, it's the pub...
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 1400064929 |
Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this new collection, Horoscopes for the Dead, the verbal gifts that earned him the title “America’s most popular poet” are on full display. The poems here cover the usual but everlasting...
| Author | Laini Taylor |
| ISBN | 0545055857 |
Three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with profound consequences for the kissers' souls:
Goblin Fruit
In Victorian times, goblin men had only to offer young girls sumptuous fruits to tempt them to sell their souls. But what does it take...
| Author | Mine Okubo |
| ISBN | 0295993545 |
Mine Okubo was one of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's illustrated memoir of life in relocation centers in California...
Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
| Author | Kimi Cunningham Grant |
| ISBN | 1605982725 |
Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to her husband tell the same story for the hundredth time, Kimi Grant's grandmother, Obaachan, was a missing link to Kimi’s Japanese heritage, something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up...
Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
| Author | Tim Bauerschmidt |
| ISBN | 0062664409 |
When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma—newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage—rose to her full height of five...
"The words leaped at me from The Washington Post. 'I have decided,' President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced, 'that approximately 1,000 refugees should be immediately brought from Italy to this country.' One thousand refugees....For years, refugees knocking on the doors of American consulates...
