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2019. | The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | viii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 940.5317 WILLI |
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The mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is not only a tale of injustice; it is a moving story of faith. In this pathbreaking account, Duncan Ryūken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, Japanese-American Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation's history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American.--
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[2005] | Ten Speed Press | 128 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 704.0869 HIRAS |
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"A photographic collection of arts and crafts made in the Japanese American internment camps during World War II, along with a historical overview of the camps"--Provided by publisher.
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Westover - Adult Nonfiction
940.5317 KITAG
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[2019] | First edition. | CityFiles Press | 152 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 x 29 cm | English | Available
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 940.5317 KITAG |
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"More than 110,000 ethnic Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes at the start of World War II and transported to desolate detention centers after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in early 1942. Paul Kitagaki's parents and grandparents were part of that group, but they never talked about their experience. To better understand, Kitagaki tracked down the subjects of more than sixty photographs taken by Dorothea...
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[2020] | FC2 | 286 pages: illustrations ; 22 cm | English |
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"More like a tapestry than a traditional novel, The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi blends magical elements with stories based on the oral narratives of the author's grandparents and their experiences during the 1940s at the Tulare Assembly Center and the Gila River War Relocation Center, two WWII relocation camps in Arizona. The author's technique gives the novel the effect of working through accretion, collecting one-breath fictions...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
940.5317 MANBO
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[2012] | University of North Carolina Press | xi, 122 pages : illustrations ; 25 x27 cm. | English | Available
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Central - Adult Nonfiction 940.5317 MANBO |
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2021. | Atria Books | x, 388 pages :illustrations ; 24 cm | English |
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In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, many established Buddhist temples and...
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c2017. | University of Washington Press | xi, 334 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 759.13 FUJII JOHNS |
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Takuichi Fujii (1891-1964) left Japan in 1906 to make his home in Seattle, where he established a business, started a family, and began his artistic practice. When war broke out between the United States and Japan, he and his family were incarcerated along with the more than 100,000 ethnic Japanese located on the West Coast. Sent to detention camps at Puyallup, Washington, and then Minidoka in Idaho, Fujii documented his daily experiences in words...
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2009 | 1st ed. | Ballantine Books | 290 p. ; 24 cm. | English | Available
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2009 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2009 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2009 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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[2009] | Thorndike Press | 507 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type LT F FORD |
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"Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices."— Kirkus Reviews
“A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever,...
“A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever,...
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2005. | W.W. Norton | 205 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 940.5472 LANGE |
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In the aftermath of the Pearl harbor attack of December 7, 1941, the government, journalists and media turned their anger inward and ratcheted up a racist fever against all Americans of Japanese ancestry branding them as dangerous potential spies and saboteurs. There were no charges or even allegations of disloyatly to the U.S. and two-thirds of them were American citizens. Nevertheless, they were detained without trial or even hearings, incarcerated...
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940.5317 REEVE
Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction
940.5317 REEVE
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2015. | First edition. | Henry Holt and Company | xxi, 342 pages, 16 pagesof unnumbered black and white plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction has 2 940.5317 REEVE Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction 940.5317 REEVE |
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[2015] | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 9 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult Audiobooks has 2 CD 940.5317 REEVE |
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Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military rule. The U.S. Army immediately began rounding up thousands of Japanese-Americans,...
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©2020 | University of Nebraska Press | 309 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult New Nonfiction 796.357 FITTS |
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2017. | Coffee House Press | x, 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm | English |
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"Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita: "It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." -NPR "Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." -New York Times Book Review With delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point." -Kirkus "Magnificent. Intriguing." -Library Journal "This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative." -Publishers...
13) No-no boy
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2019. | Penguin Books | 210 pages ; 20 cm | English |
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Checked Out
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"The first Japanese American novel: a powerful, radical testament to the experiences of Japanese American draft resisters in the wake of World War II After their forcible relocation to internment camps during World War II, Japanese Americans were expected to go on with their lives as though nothing had happened, assimilating as well as they could in a changed America. But some men resisted. They became known as "no-no boys," for twice having answered...
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©2020 | The University of Wisconsin Press | xii, 351 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult New Nonfiction 973.0495 HIGUC |
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As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness and shame for their older family members, part of the generation of Japanese Americans forced into the hastily built concentration camp in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066.Only after a serious...
15) Shadow child
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F RIZZU
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F RIZZU
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©2018. | First edition. | Grand Central Publishing | 341 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F RIZZU Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction F RIZZU |
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"A haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women, the dangerous ties of family and identity, and the long shadow our histories can cast"--
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2012. | Pegasus Books | 325 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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A young girl growing up in rural Pennsylvania eschews her Japanese heritage until she learns the details of the time her grandmother spent in an internment camp along with 112,000 other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Graphic Novel
GRAPH 940.5317 TAKEI
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GRAPH 940.5317 TAKEI
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GRAPH 940.5317 TAKEI
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[2019] | Top Shelf Productions | 204 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
13 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Aurora Hills - Adult Graphic Novel GRAPH 940.5317 TAKEI Central - Adult Graphic Novel has 2 GRAPH 940.5317 TAKEI Westover - Adult Graphic Novel has 3 GRAPH 940.5317 TAKEI |
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2019 | OverDrive | IDW Publishing | English | Checked Out
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Graphic novel memoir of George Takei's childhood imprisoned in American concentration camps for people of Japanese descent during World War II.
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...
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2016. | First edition. | CityFiles Press | 240 pages : illustration ; 28 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 940.5317 CAHAN |
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It is a shame of America. In the spring of 1942, the United States rounded up 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast and sent them to interment camps for the duration of World War II. Many abandoned their land. Many gave up their personal property. Each one of them lost a part of their lives. Amazingly, the government hired famed photographers Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and others to document the expulsion--from assembling...
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2002. | Knopf | 141 pages ; 19 cm | English | Available
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[2012] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio : | 3 audio discs (3 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult Audiobooks has 2 CD F OTSUK |
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2003 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Online OverDrive Collection has 3
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2007 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2007 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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[2003] | Random House Large Print | 257 pages (large print) ; 19 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type LT F OTSUK |
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The debut novel from the PEN/Faulkner Award Winning Author of The Buddha in the Attic
On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to