Sayonara Slam

Author : Naomi Hirahara
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938849749

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Sayonara Slam by Naomi Hirahara Pdf

Japan faces Korea in the World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium, and curmudgeonly gardener Mas Arai finds himself embroiled in a murder. A Japanese tabloid writer drops dead on the field, and Mas gave the victim his last drink. It turns out there's more at stake than a baseball championship—international diplomacy depends upon uncovering secrets buried decades ago. Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar Award–winning and Anthony and Macavity Award–nominated author of the Mas Arai mystery series, including Strawberry Yellow, Blood Hina, and Snakeskin Shamisen. She is also the author of the new series of Los Angeles-based Ellie Rush mysteries, published by Penguin.

Author : Naomi Hirahara
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1684428653

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Sayonara Slam by Naomi Hirahara Pdf

In curmudgeonly Mas Arai's 6th mystery, he gets entangled in a baseball-related murder--with international implications--at Dodger Stadium.

Author : Naomi Hirahara
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684427987

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An Eternal Lei by Naomi Hirahara Pdf

It's the middle of the pandemic and Hawaii has been virtually closed to tourists. So when Leilani Santiago and her young sisters save a mysterious woman wearing an unusual lei from drowning in Waimea Bay in Kaua‘i, questions abound. Who is she and where did she come from? Leilani suddenly finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when the lei is traced back to her best friend, the very pregnant Courtney Kahuakai, and her family’s flower business. While the woman is in a medically-induced coma at a local hospital, Leilani sets out to discover her identity and her connections to the island. She is drawn deeper into the mystery, only to stumble into secrets that prove deadly. When Leilani’s investigation puts her family in danger, her survival and the safety of those dearest to her will depend on her sense of ingenuity and the strength of her island community.

Author : Jennifer Ho,Jenny Heijun Wills
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781603295659

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Teaching Asian North American Texts by Jennifer Ho,Jenny Heijun Wills Pdf

From the short stories and journalism of Sui Sin Far to Maxine Hong Kingston's pathbreaking The Woman Warrior to recent popular and critical successes such as Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Asian North American literature and media encompass a long history and a diverse variety of genres and aesthetic approaches. The essays in this volume provide context for understanding the history of Asian immigrants to the United States and Canada and the experiences of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Contributors address historical contexts, from the early enactment of Asian exclusion laws to the xenophobia following 9/11, and provide tools for textual analysis. The essays explore conventionally literary texts, genres such as mystery and speculative fiction, historical documents and legal texts, and visual media including films, photography, and graphic novels, emphasizing the ways that creators have crossed boundaries of genre and produced innovative new forms.

Author : Naomi Hirahara
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945551093

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Hiroshima Boy by Naomi Hirahara Pdf

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend’s ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy’s death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served. Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, including Summer of the Big Bachi, Blood Hina, Strawberry Yellow, and Sayonara Slam. She is also the author of the LA-based Ellie Rush mysteries, published by Penguin. Her Mas Arai books have earned such honors as Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of the Year and one of the Chicago Tribune’s Ten Best Mysteries and Thrillers. The Stanford University alumna was born and raised in Altadena, CA, where her protagonist lives; she now resides in neighboring Pasadena.

Author : Naomi Hirahara
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945551604

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Iced in Paradise by Naomi Hirahara Pdf

Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was being coached by her estranged father. As her father soon becomes the No. 1 murder suspect, Leilani must find the real killer and somehow safeguard her ill mother, little sisters, and grandmother while also preserving a long-distance relationship with her boyfriend in Seattle.

Author : Jack McGuigan
Publisher : Gorilla House
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780999298206

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Dog Walker II by Jack McGuigan Pdf

Ben Carter, pet care specialist, is hired to walk a Shiba Inu named Toby. Unbeknownst to Ben, Toby is no ordinary dog but an "inugami" – an immortal demon born in feudal Japan and bred for only one purpose: murder. Bonded by the power of the kakawari, their wounds are shared and their fates intertwined. The doorway to Hell has been opened. A great darkness has been unleashed upon on the Windy City, but even the dark knows to fear…the Dog Walker. "THE GIRL WITH SPIDER HAIR" Since we last saw him, Ben has been pulling double duty – dog walker by day, demon slayer by night. Toby assists in the latter, growing more violent with each kill. Dogs can be domesticated, but an inugami's murderous instincts are not easily suppressed. Ten-year-old wrestling prodigy Ash Ocampo is possessed by a sentient spider, which plans to overthrow humanity and bring about a new Age of Yōkai. Wanting to help Ash but worried he is losing Toby, Ben seeks the assistance of Lucas Alcindor – a freelance demon trainer with three inugami of his own. Can Ben regain control of Toby before disaster strikes? Can Ash free herself before the demon inside reigns supreme? Or are both merely prey for the monstrous wolves of the Shadow Pack?

Author : Jack McGuigan
Publisher : Gorilla House
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dog Walker by Jack McGuigan Pdf

A BOY AND HIS DEMON Ben Carter, pet care specialist, is hired to walk a Shiba Inu named Toby. Unbeknownst to Ben, Toby is no ordinary dog but an “inugami” - an immortal demon born in feudal Japan and bred for only one purpose...murder. A mysterious cult seeks to capture the inugami and harness its power for evil. With the help of an elderly luchador and a cop with a heart of gold, Ben must protect Toby and uncover the secret of the Tengu before the cultists can unleash the beast and the bloodlust claims the inugami once more.

Author : R. Scott Murphy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781257095186

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Ducks on the Pond by R. Scott Murphy Pdf

Ducks is a love letter to baseball, but it's not just diamonds, dust & Dodgers. It's about youth, wonder & nostalgia-simpler times when Pluto was a planet & reality stars were not. Steal away to Kool Aid-stained summer days, wiffle ball, BBQ hot dogs and American Top 40 with Casey Kasem. Award-winning writer R. Scott Murphy uses his storyteller mashup style to blend Cultural Literacy with Schoolhouse Rock and take snapshots of the grand game. He morphs generations of Bronx Bombers in Revelry In The House of Ruth, the ultimate conversation starter for Yankee Nation. Liven up your longball lingo with The Home Run Alphabet. Take a poetic excursion to every MLB stadium & every World Series played since 1965. Count down Murphy's favorite baseball nicknames with music references as assigned by ESPN's Chris Berman. Albert Pujols becomes E Pluribus Pujols, and The Monsters Are Raging On Huston Street. As Casey Kasem would say, Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Author : Davey Johnson,Erik Sherman
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781641250078

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Davey Johnson by Davey Johnson,Erik Sherman Pdf

Davey Johnson is best known for managing the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, and Baltimore Orioles—and taking all three clubs to their respective league championship series during his time at the helm. When teams needed to improve, they hired Johnson, and he delivered, memorably leading the Mets to the 1986 World Series title. Yet even as he raised the bar of their success, all three clubs parted ways with Johnson, a pattern that puzzles him to this day. A self-termed "army brat," Johnson kept moving, managing the Los Angeles Dodgers then the Washington Nationals before announcing his retirement in 2013. But managing baseball has been just one part of Johnson's fascinating life. A true Renaissance man, Johnson has also found incredible success as a land investor, pilot, scratch golfer, scuba diving teacher, and mathematician, pioneering the use of sabermetrics in the big leagues. Now, Johnson finally takes the time to meditate on his wild and remarkable journey, with reflections on not only his All-Star playing days and years of managerial success in New York, Cincinnati, and Baltimore, but on his entire career.

Author : 川口孟己
Publisher : Goken Co., Ltd.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4876150672

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使える・話せる・英単語 by 川口孟己 Pdf

「これは英語で何と言うのだろう」と思ったときにすぐに役立つ、日本語から引く英単語集です。日常生活でよく使われる約2000の単語が、会話や例文とともに収録されています。

Author : Naomi Hirahara
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938849039

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Strawberry Yellow by Naomi Hirahara Pdf

A new strawberry varietal has someone seeing red in this “intricate whodunit” featuring the curmudgeonly Japanese American gardener and reluctant sleuth (Kirkus Reviews). Hiroshima survivor Mas Arai first arrived in Watsonville, California in the 1940s. Now a semi-retired gardener living in an LA suburb, he returns for a cousin’s funeral only to get entangled in the mystery of a young woman’s murder. Was his cousin murdered, too? Mas has to figure out what happened, keep himself safe in the face of considerable peril, and uncover the mystery of a new strawberry varietal so important that someone just might be willing to kill for it. A skillfully plotted tale of family intrigue, revenge, and gardening that moves seamlessly between the past and the present, Strawberry Yellow is another outstanding chapter in an Edgar Award–winning series marked by “a shrewd sense of character and a formidable narrative engine” (Chicago Tribune). “Mas, less an amateur detective than a cranky, accidental one, is what makes the story work. His obdurance, his skill as a listener, and even his broken English are charming in a quirky, uncomplicated way.” —Booklist

Author : Yoshinobu Yamada
Publisher : Kodansha Comics
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781612626079

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Cage of Eden by Yoshinobu Yamada Pdf

Danger and action abound after Akira Sengoku and his classmates crash-land on a deserted island while flying home from a class trip. The island doesn't exist on any maps but that's not even the strangest part: the animals they find on the island are prehistoric beasts that are supposed to have been extinct for thousands of years! Now Akira and his friends are in danger as the island's residents start eyeing the humans for their next meal. Will they ever solve the mystery of the island and find their way home?

Author : Naomi Hirahara
Publisher : Dell
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440241546

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Summer of the Big Bachi by Naomi Hirahara Pdf

In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese-American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But while Mas keeps lawns neatly trimmed, his own life has gone to seed. His wife is dead. And his livelihood is falling into the hands of the men he once hired by the day. For Mas, a life of sin is catching up to him. And now bachi—the spirit of retribution—is knocking on his door. It begins when a stranger comes around, asking questions about a nurseryman who once lived in Hiroshima, a man known as Joji Haneda. By the end of the summer, Joji will be dead and Mas’s own life will be in danger. For while Mas was building a life on the edge of the American dream, he has kept powerful secrets: about three friends long ago, about two lives entwined, and about what really happened when the bomb fell on Hiroshima in August 1945. A spellbinding mystery played out from war-torn Japan to the rich tidewaters of L.A.’s multicultural landscape, this stunning debut novel weaves a powerful tale of family, loyalty, and the price of both survival and forgiveness.

Author : Naoshi Arakawa
Publisher : Kodansha Comics
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781682333303

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Sayonara, Football by Naoshi Arakawa Pdf