Japanese Wife Best Friend - April 2024

No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII

The extraordinary tale of survival and friendship between a man and a dog in warFlight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: a World War II internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the prisoners suffered beatings, Judy would repeatedly risk her life to intervene. She survived bombings and other near-death experiences and became a beacon not only for Frank but for all the men, who saw in her surviv... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00NERQSSE
• ASIN: B00NERQSSE
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

Along the Broken Bay

From the bestselling author of A Pledge of Silence comes a story of resistance, intrigue, and risking it all in the WWII Philippines.December 1941. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture—or worse.Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila. There, she forges a new identity and opens a nightclub, where seductive... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1542093635
• ASIN: 1542093635
• ISBN: 1542093635
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

A Prayer for Owen Meany

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickI am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 006220422X
• ASIN: 006220422X
• ISBN: 9780062204226
• Brand: Brand: Harper
• Manufacturer: Harper

The Reckoning: A Novel

#1 bestselling author John Grisham’s The Reckoning is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet.  “A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga…The Reckoning is Grisham's argument that he's not just a boilerplate thriller writer. Most jurors will think the counselor has made his case.”—USA Today   October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi’s favorite son—a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October m... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079DBS447
• ASIN: B079DBS447
• Manufacturer: Dell

Paper Wife: A Novel

From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus comes a heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world.Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband’s first wife—a paper wife.On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and detainment on Angel Island. But when she finally reaches San Francisco, she’s met with a surpri... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07CGWQMHT
• ASIN: B07CGWQMHT
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

Hokusai Pop-Ups

The iconic art of Japanese artist Hokusai, from great waves to waterfalls and mountains, reimagined in dramatic 3-D pop-upsKatsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist born in 1760 whose legacy remains, some 150 years after his death, as important as ever. His work influenced Impressionism and Art Nouveau, and a range of contemporary artists working today.Realized in jewel-like colors, Hokusai’s simple views of everyday scenes in Japan, his sense of balance and harmony, and his highly stylized but ever-changing techniques seem to capture the spirit and traditions of his homeland. Hokusai Pop-Ups... [Read More]

• ASIN: 050051884X
• ASIN: 050051884X
• ISBN: 050051884X
• Brand: Thames Hudson
• Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson

The Long Ships (New York Review Books Classics)

• ASIN: B003WUYOP2
• ASIN: B003WUYOP2
• Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of 2018One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018One of The New York Times’s Notable Books of 2018“Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britain’s savior.” —Wall Street JournalIn this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally be fully seen and understood--b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101980990
• ASIN: 1101980990
• ISBN: 1101980990
• Manufacturer: Viking

Nimitz

Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976 and now available in paperback for the first time, continues to be considered the best book ever written about Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. Highly respected by both the civilian and naval communities, Nimitz was sometimes overshadowed by more colorful warriors such as MacArthur and Halsey. Potter's lively and authoritative style fleshes out Admiral Nimitz's personality to help readers appreciate the contributions he made as the principal archit... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00C4GUWI8
• ASIN: B00C4GUWI8
• Manufacturer: Naval Institute Press

Momofuku: A Cookbook

• ASIN: 030745195X
• ASIN: 030745195X
• ISBN: 030745195X
• Brand: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter

The Kitchen God's Wife: A Novel

With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.

• ASIN: B001ROAKDU
• ASIN: B001ROAKDU
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Shibumi: A Novel

• ASIN: B000FCK4HC
• ASIN: B000FCK4HC
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TO... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1455563927
• ASIN: 1455563927
• ISBN: 9781455563920
• Brand: Grand Central Publishing
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

My Year of Dirt and Water: Journal of a Zen Monk's Wife in Japan

In February 2004, when her American husband, a recently ordained Zen monk, leaves home to train for a year at a centuries-old Buddhist monastery, Tracy Franz embarks on her own year of Zen. An Alaskan alone—and lonely—in Japan, she begins to pay attention.My Year of Dirt and Water is a record of that journey. Allowed only occasional and formal visits to see her cloistered husband, Tracy teaches English, studies Japanese, and devotes herself to making pottery. Her teacher instructs her to turn cup after cup—creating one failure after another. Past and present, East and West intertwine a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07D3XYQ7Z
• ASIN: B07D3XYQ7Z
• Manufacturer: Stone Bridge Press

Richard Nixon: The Life

From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.   At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now-legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon’s finer attributes gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. The story of that transformation is the stunning overture to John A. Farrell’s magisterial biography of the p... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385537352
• ASIN: 0385537352
• ISBN: 0385537352
• Brand: DOUBLEDAY
• Manufacturer: Doubleday

Happy 65th Birthday : You're How Old!? Notebook, Journal, Diary, 105 Lined Pages, Funny Birthday Gifts for 65 Year Old Men or Women, Husband, Wife, Grandma, Grandpa, Grandparent, Best Friend, Sister or Brother, Book Size 8 1/2 X 11

Happy 65th Birthday: You're How Old!? Notebook, Journal, Diary, 105 Lined Pages, Funny Birthday Gifts for 65 Year Old Men or Women,

• UPC: 987735732

Happy 75th Birthday : Notebook, Journal, Diary, 105 Lined Pages, Birthday Gifts for 75 Year Old Women or Men, Mom or Dad, Husband or Wife, Best Friend, Great Grandma or Grandpa, Book Size 8 1/2 X 11

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• UPC: 629945577

Best Friend to Wife and Mother? - eBook

Stepping out of the friend zone !Leo Zaccharelli is a gorgeous TV chef, but to Amy Driver he's just her best friend. Yet when he saves her from a disastrous near miss down the aisle,

• UPC: 982613238

My Best Friends' Wives and I - eBook

This is a story about a bored married man with his own car business that is not doing too well.For a 40th birthday present to himself, he wants a one-time affair with some of his

• UPC: 592459371

Blacked World: My Wife Bet My Black Best Friend! Collection 1 - eBook

The first three books in M.A. Darkwood's explosive saga of interracial lust gone wild!In Book 1, my best bud, a big black guy by the name of Yrik, was boasting of his latest conquest and

• UPC: 670216212

Blacked World: My Wife Bet My Black Best Friend That He Couldn't Make Her Cum in Under Five Minutes, 2! - eBook

Stinging from his loss – he bet my wife he could make her orgasm in under five minutes and failed – my black best friend Yrik wants to double down... He says he can make

• UPC: 996334701

Blacked World: My Wife Bet My Black Best Friend That He Couldn't Make Her Cum in Under Five Minutes! - eBook

My best bud, a big black guy by the name of Yrik, was boasting of his latest conquest and my wife called him on it. She said that five minutes without foreplay is just too

• UPC: 543055381

Blacked World: My Wife Bet My Black Best Friend That He Couldn't Make Her Cum in Under Five Minutes, 3! - eBook

Two bets done and we're back to square one. My friend wants to leave but we've got one more bet up our sleeves... She can outlast two men at once. Finally, I'm gonna get some!

• UPC: 236981645

Blacked World: My Wife Bet My Black Best Friend That He Couldn't Make Her Cum in Under Five Minutes... Rematch, 2! - eBook

My loving wife had lost the rematch in the park! Or, had she...? The man who came into the clearing to investigate, he was a ringer! There was no way his arrival was accidental. Yrik

• UPC: 638337364

Reluctant Husband Watches Wife Cheat With Best Friend - eBook

Hotwife, Dawn embraces the heat she develops with her husband's best friend in this tantalizing short by Alexa Lynch.Dawn takes a road trip with her husband, Jeremy and his buddy Drew. Halfway through the drive,

• UPC: 852787118