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Fault lines : a novel / by Itami, Emily,author.;
"Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Housewives; Adultery; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Before we say goodbye : a novel / by Kawaguchi, Toshikazu,1971-author.; Trousselot, Geoffrey,translator.; translation of:Kawaguchi, Toshikazu,1971-Sayonara mo ienai uchi ni.English.;
The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following a new group of customers in a magical time-travelling Tokyo café. The regulars at Café Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with the whimsical ability it grants them to take a trip into the past -- as well as the strict rules involved, including that each traveller must return to the present in the time it takes for their coffee to get cold. In Toshikazu Kawaguchi's previous novels, patrons have been reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family and visited loved ones. Now readers will once again be introduced to a new set of visitors.
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Novels.; Coffeehouses; Interpersonal relations; Time travel;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cajun justice / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Axum, Tucker,author.;
In this new standalone thriller, Cain Lemaire is an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. With help from his sister who's working in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a successful CEO. But Cain ends up tangling with the yakuza (Japanese mafia) and unravelling a sex slavery ring.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Private security services;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Cajun justice [sound recording] / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Stillwell, Kevin,narrator.; Axum, Tucker,author.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Kevin Stillwell."The Bayou is a unique place to live and it provides a grit and passion to any who hail from it, including Cain Lemaire, an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. Cain had the dream job he had always wanted, protecting the President, until a single night resulted in a scandal that lost him his post. Needing a new direction for his life and with help from his sister who works in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very successful and important CEO. What he thought was a simple security post unravels a tangled web of corruption, greed, and extortion, but now Cain is on his own and without the wealth of resources he had with the Secret Service. Years of training and international missions kick in as he races to find justice that only way a born and raised Cajun can do"--Amazon.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Private security services;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Three assassins : a novel / by Isaka, Kōtarō,1971-author.; Malissa, Sam,translator.; translation of:Isaka, Kōtarō,1971-Gurasuhoppā.English.;
"Three Assassins is the high-stakes, high-style, and utterly propulsive follow-up to Kotaro Isaka's international bestseller, Bullet Train, a Crime Reads "Most Anticipated Book of 2021." Suzuki is an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. To get answers and his revenge, Suzuki abandons his law-abiding lifestyle and takes a low-level job with a front company operated by the crime gang Maiden, who are responsible for his wife's death. Before long, Suzuki finds himself caught up in a network of quirky and highly effective assassins: The Cicada is a knife expert. The Pusher nudges people into oncoming traffic. The Whale whispers bleak aphorisms to his victims until they take their own lives. Intense and electrifying, Three Assassins delivers a wild ride through the criminal underworld of Tokyo, populated by contract killers who are almost superhumanly good at their jobs"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Assassins; Revenge;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The fine art of uncanny prediction / by Goddard, Robert,author.;
Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances. Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a twenty-seven-year-old investigation by her late employer and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of the Second World War. As Wada uncovers a dizzying web of connections between then and now, it becomes clear that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the past buried. Soon those she loves most will be sucked into the orbit of one of the most powerful men in Tokyo. And he will do whatever it takes to hold on to his power.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Businesspeople; Conspiracies; Parent and adult child; Private investigators; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Days at the Torunka Café : a novel / by Yagisawa, Satoshi,1977-author.; translation of:Yagisawa, Satoshi,1977-Junkissa Torunka.English.; Ozawa, Eric,translator.;
"Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café, a neighborhood nook where the passersby are as likely to be local cats as tourists. Its regulars include Chinatsu Yukimura, a mysterious young woman who always leaves behind a napkin folded into the shape of a ballerina; Hiroyuki Yumata, a middle-aged man who's returned to the neighborhood searching for the happy life he once gave up; and Shizuku, the café owner's teenage daughter, who is still coming to terms with her sister's death as she falls in love for the first time."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Coffeehouses; Interpersonal relations;
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Before your memory fades : a novel / by Kawaguchi, Toshikazu,1971-author.; Trousselot, Geoffrey,translator.; translation of:Kawaguchi, Toshikazu,1971-Omoide ga kienai uchi ni.English.;
"From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafae Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer. Along with some familiar faces from Kawaguchi'sprevious novels, readers will also be introduced to a daughter, a comedian, a sister and a lover, each with something they wish they had said differently"--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Coffeehouses; Interpersonal relations; Regret; Time travel;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The mantis : a novel / by Isaka, Kotaro,author.; Malissa, Sam,translator.;
'The Mantis' is a propulsive new thriller set in Tokyo's criminal underworld about the intrigue and tensions a family man faces as he tries to hide his secret life as a hitman.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Assassins; Criminals; Families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Silent parade / by Higashino, Keigo,1958-author.; Murray, Giles,translator.; translation of:Higashino, Keigo,1958-Chinmoku no parēdo.English.;
"Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino's best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in Silent Parade, a complex and challenging mystery--several murders, decades apart, with no solid evidence. A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned out house. There's a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn't indicted, he returns to mock the girl's family. And this isn't the first time he's been suspected of the murder of a young girl, nearly twenty years ago he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases. The neighborhood in which the murdered girl lived is famous for an annual street festival, featuring a parade with entries from around Tokyo and Japan. During the parade, the suspected killer dies unexpectedly. His death is suspiciously convenient but the people with all the best motives have rock solid alibis. CI Kusanagi turns once again to his college friend, Physics professor and occasional police consultant Manabu Yukawa, known as Detective Galileo, to help solve the string of impossible-to-prove murders"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Girls; Murder; Physicists; Police; Serial murder investigation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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