Search

Criteria:
  • Keyword = manzanar
Page:1Modify search
Showing 1 to 3 of 3
  • DAUGHTER OF MOLOKA'I. by Brennert, Alan
    Brennert, Alan
    DAUGHTER OF MOLOKA'I.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: St Martin's, (2019). First edition - A follow-up to Brennert's Molokai, spanning the years from 1917 to 1970, this tells the story of Ruth, the daughter who Rachel Kalama was forced to give up at birth. It follows her from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry farm in California, her marriage and internment at Manzanar during World War II - and then, after the war, to the day when she receives a letter Rachel, her birth mother, and they are finally reunited. Letter from the author to booksellers laid in. Author's note. 309 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 78083
    View cart More details Price: $25.00
  • DAUGHTER OF MOLOKA'I. by Brennert, Alan
    Brennert, Alan
    DAUGHTER OF MOLOKA'I.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A follow-up to Brennert's Molokai, spanning the years from 1917 to 1970, this tells the story of Ruth, the daughter who Rachel Kalama was forced to give up at birth. It follows her from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry farm in California, her marriage and internment at Manzanar during World War II - and then, after the war, to the day when she receives a letter Rachel, her birth mother, and they are finally reunited. Map. Author's note. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-1250137661.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88521
    View cart More details Price: $24.50
  • BLACK DRAGON. by Mitchell, Kirk.
    Mitchell, Kirk.
    BLACK DRAGON.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1988). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set during World War II at the internment camp at Manzanar.
    Publishers Weekly commented in their "In addition to being a fast-paced thriller laced with intrigue and murder, this is also a provocative look at the shameful treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. In 1944, Lt. Jared Campbell, head of military police at the Manzanar, Calif., internment camp, finds the body of issei (Japan-born) Masao Shido, apparently a case of seppuku (ritual suicide). Campbell then discovers the headless corpse of the camp's Quaker director. With the help of camp police-chief Hank Fukuda, an American-trained criminologist, Campbell tries to solve the mystery. . . This…

    (more)

    New York: St Martin's, (1988). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set during World War II at the internment camp at Manzanar.
    Publishers Weekly commented in their "In addition to being a fast-paced thriller laced with intrigue and murder, this is also a provocative look at the shameful treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. In 1944, Lt. Jared Campbell, head of military police at the Manzanar, Calif., internment camp, finds the body of issei (Japan-born) Masao Shido, apparently a case of seppuku (ritual suicide). Campbell then discovers the headless corpse of the camp's Quaker director. With the help of camp police-chief Hank Fukuda, an American-trained criminologist, Campbell tries to solve the mystery. . . This is a bleak and effective book that does not gild the sorry racism of the times." 410 pp. ISBN: 0-31201774X.

    (less)

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83608
    View cart More details Price: $21.50