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2017
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English
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English
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.
Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the
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I survived volume 8
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Scholastic Inc
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English
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While visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death, Ben and his family are swept away-and pulled apart-by a terrible tsunami.
Eleven-year-old Japanese-American Owen has been in Japan for his sixth-grade year. By March, he finally feels like he's getting the hang of the new culture. But early one morning, everything changes and Owen suddenly finds himself just trying to survive one of history's most devastating disasters....
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Published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, a riveting narrative of human resilience, told through first-hand experiences of five survivors, reveals the physical, emotional and social challenges of post-atomic life.
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices detonated over Japan changed life on Earth forever.
11) Soul lanterns
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Elementary and Middle Grade Books in Translation
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Elementary and Middle Grade Books in Translation
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Twelve-year-old Nozomi's understanding of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is transformed when she learns how those she knows and loves were affected by the event. Includes author's notes.
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2017.
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On March 11, 2011, a 120-foot-high tsunami smashed into the northeast coast of Japan, leaving more than eighteen thousand people dead. It was Japan's single greatest loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. Ghosts of the Tsunami is the intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through...
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Sano Ichiro mysteries volume 16
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English
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When the shogun's carefully regulated court is thrown into chaos by a massive earthquake in 1703 Japan, Sano Ichiro investigates the poisoning murders of a nobleman's daughters to prevent the regime's takeover.
14) Spirit's chosen
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Series
Princesses of myth volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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As Himiko traverses ancient Japan in order to free enslaved members of her clan, she encounters members of many other tribes and emerges as the leader who will unify them.
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the fighting continued between American forces and the Japanese, who were losing but determined to fight till the bitter end. And so it fell to a new president, Harry S. Truman to make the fateful decision to drop two atomic bombs one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki and bring the war to rapid close. Now, even seventy years later, can anyone know if this was the right choice?
16) On the horizon
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"From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak"--
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014, ©2011.
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English
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In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War.
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"After his father passed away, James Nolan's mother gave him a box of materials that his dad had kept private. To Nolan's complete surprise, the contents revealed the role his grandfather had played as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the Project, helped organize the safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity Test at Alamogordo, escorted...
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