Further Reading -
Our Community Reads 2007
When the Emperor Was Divine

Fiction

FIC BLIGHT  A Time to Choose = Jiki No Sentaku.  Blight, Edward.

FIC CREEL  The Magic of Ordinary Days.  Creel, Ann Howard.
   
Heart Mountain.  Erlich, Gretel.  (Please request.)

FIC HAMAMURA  Color of the Sea.  Hamamura, John.

FIC HOUSTON  The Legend of the Fire Horse Woman. Houston, Jean Wakatsuki.

FIC Ikeda  What the Scarecrow Said.  Ikeda, Stewart David.

Itsuka.  Kogawa, Joy.  (Please request.)

Obasan.  Kogawa, Joy.  (Please request.)     

FIC MINATOYA  The Strangeness of Beauty.  Minatoya, Lydia Y.
   
FIC MORI  Stone Field, True Arrow.  Mori, Kyoko. 
   
FIC MUELLER  The Climate of the Country.  Mueller, Marnie.
   
FIC RIZZUTO  Why She Left Us.  Rizzuto, Rahna R.
   
YA FIC SALISBURY  Eyes of the Emperor.  Salisbury, Graham.

AUDIO BOOK FIC TAT  All the Way Home.  Tatlock, Ann.

Nonfiction

301.45 SPI Impounded People: Japanese-Americans in Relocation Centers. United States. War Relocation Authority.  Spicer,  Edward.

391.00952 IMP Kimono Vanishing Tradition: Japanese Textiles of the 20th Century.  Imperatore, Cheryl.

OVERSIZE 704.0869 HIR The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts From the Japanese Internment Camps, 1942-1946.  Hirasuna, Delphine.

709.52 TUR Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth- Century Japan.  Murase, Miyeko ed.

OVERSIZE 709.5209045 MUR  Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky.  Munroe, Alexandra.

712.6 YOU  The Art of the Japanese Garden.  Young, David and Michiko.

736.98 ONO  The Simple Art of Japanese Papercrafts: 35 Gift Ideas for Step-by-Step Oriental Style.  Ono, Mari.

741.51 HAR  Manga Mania Villains: How to Draw the Dastardly Characters of Japanese Comics. Hart, Christopher.

OVERSIZE 759.952074 TWE  Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art From the Imperial Collections.

808.8141 HIG The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku.  Higginson, William J. 

808.8141 STO & J 808.8141 STO  Stone Bench in an Empty Park.

895.613208 ESS  The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa.  Hass, Robert ed.
 
895.6 MES   Japanese Viewpoints: Expressions in Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Thought.  Meskill, John Thomas.

895.6 MOO  The Moon in the Pines: Zen Haiku

895.609 KEE  The Pleasures of Japanese Literature.  Keene, Donald.

895.61508 LIK  Like Underground Water: The Poetry of Mid- Twentieth Century Japan
  
940.53 ONL  Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience

940.53 SCH  World War II.  Schneider, Carl J.

940.53 VAN  1001 Things Everyone Should Know About World   War II.  Vandiver, Frank E. 
 
940.5308 DAN   Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II.  Daniels, Roger.

940.5308 FUJ Sayo, Born into Two Cultures: The True Story of One Woman and Her Family’s Struggle for Survival Through World War II and Beyond.  Fujiwara, Sayo.

940.53082 YEL  Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II.  Yellin, Emily. 

940.53089956 LAN  Impounded:  Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment.  Lange, Dorothea

940.5315 SMI  Democracy on Trial: The Japanese American Evacuation and Relocation in World War II.  Smith, Page.

940.531503956 OKI  Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II.  Okihiro, Gary.

940.53162 MUL  Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II.  Muller, Eric L.

940.5317 MAL In Defense of Internment: The Case for “Racial Profiling” in World War II and the War on Terror.  Malkin, Michelle.

940.54 BRO  An Album of Memories: Personal Histories From the Greatest Generation.  Brokaw, Tom.

940.541241 NEI  Eighth Army: The Triumphant Desert Army That Held the Axis at Bay From North Africa to the Alps, 1939-1945.  Neillands, Robin.

940.5421 ASA  Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad: The Story of the 100th Battalion/442 Regimental Combat Team in World War II.  Asahina, Robert.

940.542142 BRI  Voices of Valor: D-Day: June 6, 1944.  Brinkley, Douglas.

940.5426 MIL  D-Days in the Pacific.  Miller, Donald L.

940.5426 RIC  Reflections of Pearl Harbor: An Oral History of December 7, 1941.  Richardson, K.D.

940.5472 HOU  Farewell to Manzanar.  Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki.
 
940.5472 TAT And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps.  Tateishi, John

940.5472 WEG  Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps.  Weglyn, Michi.

940.547243 COH  Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble.  Cohen, Roger.

940.547252 MAC   Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45.  MacArthur, Brian.

940.5486 ODO  Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of World War II’s OSS.  O’Donnell, Patrick K. 

REF 940.5303 OXF  The Oxford Companion to World War II.

REF 940.5303 WOR World War II: A Student Encyclopedia. Vol. 1-5.

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• St. Charles Public Library (Illinois Per Capita Grant)
• Elgin Community College Writers Center