Suzanne Kamata

• Jul-1998
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2008
• / General Fiction
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A young mother fights impossible odds to be reunited with her child in this acutely insightful first novel about an intercultural marriage gone terribly wrong.Jill Parker is an American painter living in Japan. Far from the trendy gaijin neighborhood...

• Jul-2011
• / Literary
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• May-2013
• / General Fiction
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Asian/Pacific American Honor Award for Young Adult LiteratureNamed Book of Outstanding Merit by Bank Street CollegeGrand Prize Winner of the Paris Book FestivalSakura Medal NomineeSkipping Stones Honor AwardInternational Book Award Winne...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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As seen on MTV.com At sixteen, Trudy Baxter is tired of her debutante mom, her deadbeat dad, and her standing reservation at the juvenile detention center. Changing her name to Trudy Sin, she cranks up her major chops as a singer and starts a band, g...

• Feb-2017
• / Contemporary Romance
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Elise Faulkner is more at home in the waters of her beloved Lake Michigan than on land where her beauty queen mom is always on her back about her lack of a social life; her sister is dating the boy of her dreams; her favorite penpal--the one who w...

• Apr-2017
• / General Fiction
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“Heart-lifting and inspiring, A Girls' Guide to the Islands explores the restorative and often-unexpected way that travel breeds connection.” -- Nicole Trilivas, author of Girls Who TravelThe American writer Suzanne Kamata had lived in Japan for...

• May-2019
• / General Fiction
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2019 NCTA Freeman Book Award Honorable MentionFifteen-year-old Aiko Cassidy, a bicultural girl with cerebral palsy, grew up in Michigan with her single mother. For as long as she could remember, it was just the two of them. When a new stepfather and ...

• Mar-2020
• / General Fiction
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Thirteen-year-old Satoshi Matsumoto spent the last three years living in Atlanta where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team -- a slugger with pro potential, according to his coach. Now that his father's work in the US has come to an end...

• May-2020
• / Thriller
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Pearl Dubois is a Southern belle. She was born in New Orleans to a prominent and wealthy family. During the Second World War, she wants to help the Allies. She lands a job in Paris working for the Office of Strategic Services. The OSS is the first sp...

• Oct-2021
• / General Fiction
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When Christine, an idealistic young American teacher, meets and marries Hideki Yamada, an aspiring Japanese high school baseball coach, she believes that their love with be enough to sustain them as they deal with cultural differences. However, Hidek...

• Oct-2022
• / Contemporary Romance
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Laura Murata is a university professor in Japan. She is also a divorced mother of Maya, a seven-year-old girl. Widower Kazu Mori is a dentist. He is raising his son, Max, on his own. The two parents meet at the holiday bake sale at Tokyo Cherry Bloss...

• Sep-2023
• / Contemporary Romance
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Divorced American mom Lauren Murata has stumbled into a university job teaching Home Economics at a conservative Japanese women's college with a dwindling student population. Although she has achieved success as a domestic goddess, she is actually a ...