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Series
Journal of the Shaw Historical Library volume 19
Publisher
Shaw Historical Library
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
NewSage Press
Language
English
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The author at 16 years old was evacuated with her family to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, along with 110,000 other people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. She faced an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire in crowded, primitive camps. She struggled for survival and dignity, and endured psychological scarring that has lasted a lifetime.
This memoir is told from the heart and mind of a woman now nearly 80 years old...
This memoir is told from the heart and mind of a woman now nearly 80 years old...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
NOW A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: USA Today
The highly anticipated sequel to Alan Brennert's acclaimed book club favorite, and national bestseller, Moloka'i
"A novel of illumination
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Series
Language
English
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A Book Written By A Person of Color
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Graphic Memoirs
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Graphic Memoirs
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A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new...
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hannah Harper isn't a big fan of Christmas. Her father left on Christmas Day, when she was twelve years old. Now, some twenty years later, Hannah's forced to immerse herself in the silly season when she's dispatched by her company to a Christmas-themed town called Cookie Jar.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Like many innocent Japanese Americans released from WWII forced incarceration camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences of the camps. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling, Rabbit in the Moon uses eye witness accounts to examine issues...
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See
“A tender and satisfying novel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
In...
“A tender and satisfying novel.”—Garth Stein, bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
In...
11) Paper wishes
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Language
English
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Description
In North Dakota in 1951, years after losing her son in a horse riding accident, Margaret Blackledge seeks to retrieve her grandson from the daughter-in-law who ran off with another man but finds her efforts challenged by her reluctant husband and the boy's stepfamily.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Editor's Choice
On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes a harrowing and enlightening look at the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II— from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin
Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over...
A Booklist Editor's Choice
On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes a harrowing and enlightening look at the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II— from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin
Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over...
15) Retribution
Author
Publisher
Hellgate Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A prosperous Japanese family is banished from their home by the politics of war - forced to endure three bitter years of internment in the California desert. When they return home, everything is gone.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Former Frontline journalist Reeves (Portrait of Camelot ) examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during WWII, concentrating on a shortsighted military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
18) Trail of tears
Author
Publisher
Greenwood
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This book covers a critical event in U.S. history: the period of Indian removal and resistance from 1817 to 1839, documenting the Cherokee experience as well as Jacksonian policy and Native-U.S. relations"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him.
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