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Inspector Imanishi Investigates

by Seicho Matsumoto ...

Translated by Beth Cary ...

In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word “kameda.” Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to ... Read more

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In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word “kameda.” Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to
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Zen and Ghibli

Life Lessons for Lasting Happiness from the Legendary Studio

by Toshio Suzuki ...

Translated by Beth Cary ...

The secrets for how to live a happy, enlightened life from three charming Buddhist monks and Toshio Suzuki, the Oscar-winning Studio Ghibli producer behind internationally beloved and acclaimed films including Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and The Boy and the Heron.One visionary filmmaker. Three Buddhist monks. Countless life-changing lessons.How do we live now? In Zen and Ghibli, legendary ... Read more

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The secrets for how to live a happy, enlightened life from three charming Buddhist monks and Toshio Suzuki, the Oscar-winning Studio Ghibli producer behind internationally beloved and acclaimed films including Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and The Boy and the Heron.One visionary filmmaker. Three Buddhist monks. Countless life-changing lessons.How do we live now? In Zen and Ghibli, legendary
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Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War

Letters to the Editor of "Asahi Shimbun"

by Frank Gibney, Beth Cary ...

This acclaimed work is an extraordinary collection of letters written by a wide cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences and opinions of the Pacific war. "SENSO" provides the general reader and the specialist with moving, disturbing, startling insights on a subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by Japan's citizenry ... Read more

$82.99 USD

This acclaimed work is an extraordinary collection of letters written by a wide cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences and opinions of the Pacific war. "SENSO" provides the general reader and the specialist with moving, disturbing, startling insights on a subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by Japan's citizenry
... Read more
Transboundary Game of Life

Memoir of Masahiko Aoki

by Masahiko Aoki ...

Translated by Beth Cary ...

Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
The central part of this book is an English version of the memoir of Masahiko Aoki that was published in Japanese in 2008 (青木昌彦『私の履歴書人生越境ゲーム』日本経済新聞出版社). In this memoir, Aoki goes over his life as a young boy immediately after World War II, as an activist who opposed the rearmament of Japan under the US-Japan Security Alliance, as a student of Marxist economics first and then modern mathematical ... Read more

$53.99 USD

The central part of this book is an English version of the memoir of Masahiko Aoki that was published in Japanese in 2008 (青木昌彦『私の履歴書人生越境ゲーム』日本経済新聞出版社). In this memoir, Aoki goes over his life as a young boy immediately after World War II, as an activist who opposed the rearmament of Japan under the US-Japan Security Alliance, as a student of Marxist economics first and then modern mathematical
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Inspector Imanishi Investigates

by Seicho Matsumoto ...

Narrated by Kenichiro Thomson ...

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11 hours 41 min

Tokyo, 1960s. An unassuming but respected homicide detective, Eitaro Imanishi has a knack for both writing haiku and solving crimes. But when a mysterious unidentified body appears on the tracks of a rail yard, Imanishi has his work cut out for him. Soon, he finds himself on a strange chase that takes him from the hip hangouts of avant-garde Tokyo to a spa in rural Honshu. And all the while, the ... Read more

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Tokyo, 1960s. An unassuming but respected homicide detective, Eitaro Imanishi has a knack for both writing haiku and solving crimes. But when a mysterious unidentified body appears on the tracks of a rail yard, Imanishi has his work cut out for him. Soon, he finds himself on a strange chase that takes him from the hip hangouts of avant-garde Tokyo to a spa in rural Honshu. And all the while, the
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Zen and Ghibli

Life Lessons for Lasting Happiness from the Legendary Studio

by Toshio Suzuki ...

Narrated by Shiro Kawai, Francois Chau, Feodor Chin, Brian Nishii, Tim Lounibos ...

Unabridged

5 hours

The secrets for how to live a happy, enlightened life from three charming Buddhist monks and Toshio Suzuki, the Oscar-winning Studio Ghibli producer behind internationally beloved and acclaimed films including Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and The Boy and the Heron.One visionary filmmaker. Three Buddhist monks. Countless life-changing lessons.How do we live now? In Zen and Ghibli, legendary ... Read more

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The secrets for how to live a happy, enlightened life from three charming Buddhist monks and Toshio Suzuki, the Oscar-winning Studio Ghibli producer behind internationally beloved and acclaimed films including Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and The Boy and the Heron.One visionary filmmaker. Three Buddhist monks. Countless life-changing lessons.How do we live now? In Zen and Ghibli, legendary
... Read more

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Bad Day at the Vulture Club

the warm and witty cosy crime series from the acclaimed author of the Malabar House series

by Vaseem Khan ...

Narrated by Madhav Sharma ...

Series series Baby Ganesh series
Unabridged

12 hours 19 min

In the gripping new Baby Ganesh Agency novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of one of Mumbai's wealthiest citizens, a murder with ramifications for its poorest.The Parsees are among the oldest, most secretive and most influential communities in the city: respected, envied and sometimes feared.When prominent industrialist Cyrus Zorabian is murdered on holy ground, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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In the gripping new Baby Ganesh Agency novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of one of Mumbai's wealthiest citizens, a murder with ramifications for its poorest.The Parsees are among the oldest, most secretive and most influential communities in the city: respected, envied and sometimes feared.When prominent industrialist Cyrus Zorabian is murdered on holy ground,
... Read more

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Malice

A Mystery

by Keigo Higashino ...

Narrated by Jeff Woodman ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Kyoichiro Kaga Series
Unabridged

7 hours 31 min

Malice is one of the bestselling—and acclaimed—novels in Keigo Higashino's series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, one of the most popular fictional creations in Asia.Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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Malice is one of the bestselling—and acclaimed—novels in Keigo Higashino's series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, one of the most popular fictional creations in Asia.Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within his
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Death of a Red Heroine

by Qiu Xiaolong ...

Narrated by David Shih ...

Series series Inspector Chen
Unabridged

16 hours 55 min

Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award–winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that ... Read more

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Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award–winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that
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A Midsummer's Equation

A Detective Galileo Mystery

by Keigo Higashino ...

Narrated by P.J. Ochlan ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Detective Galileo Series
Unabridged

11 hours 38 min

Detective Galileo, international bestselling author Keigo Higashino's most beloved creation, returns in the next thrilling installment, A Midsummer's Equation.Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hariguara, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has ... Read more

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Detective Galileo, international bestselling author Keigo Higashino's most beloved creation, returns in the next thrilling installment, A Midsummer's Equation.Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hariguara, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has
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Cold Storage, Alaska

by John Straley ...

Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Cold Storage Series
Unabridged

8 hours 9 min

Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're Zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-twentieth century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is ... Read more

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Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're Zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-twentieth century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is
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Death in the Off-Season

by Francine Mathews ...

Narrated by Madeleine Maby ...

Series series Nantucket Mysteries
Unabridged

10 hours 20 min

When Rusty Mason, scion of one of Nantucket's oldest and wealthiest families, is found dead in a flooded cranberry bog one foggy fall night, thirty-two-year-old detective Meredith Folger is faced with her first murder case. Merry is the daughter of the local police chief and granddaughter of his predecessor; her father is a strict boss and Merry feels pressure to go the extra mile to prove her ... Read more

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When Rusty Mason, scion of one of Nantucket's oldest and wealthiest families, is found dead in a flooded cranberry bog one foggy fall night, thirty-two-year-old detective Meredith Folger is faced with her first murder case. Merry is the daughter of the local police chief and granddaughter of his predecessor; her father is a strict boss and Merry feels pressure to go the extra mile to prove her
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