Todd Shimoda

• May-2002
• / General Fiction
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Illustrated throughout with beautiful calligraphy, The Fourth Treasure is an original, surprising novel that weaves a suspenseful love story across and through two very different countries, cultures, and generations.Tina Suzuki has just begun her fir...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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"Oh " was selected for National Public Radio's summer reading list of 2009. NPR reviewer Lucia Silva called it "a triumphant kick in the pants for anyone who doubts the future of paper-and-ink books." The mysterious tension between material things a...

• May-2012
• / Psychological Suspense
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"Shimoda is a consummate storyteller" -- Booklist"Shimoda skillfully weaves (these) tales into the narrative, revealing how past events "continue to affect the island, like aftershocks." Earthquakes are an apt metaphor for the social disruptions on...

• Nov-2015
• / Mystery
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A fortuneteller hires a detective to find her missing son in this existential noir mystery. A startling clue leads the detective into the underground worlds of fortunetelling and "pleasure" tours. The missing son reminds him of an old case which ende...

• Oct-2021
• / Historical
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In this genre-bending, speculative historical novel set in Europe at the height of the Age of Enlightenment, Austrian composer and spy, Phillipe Wolf, sets off an incendiary clash between Isaac Newton and Antonio Stradivari over how to create a perfe...

• Apr-2023
• / General Fiction
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Prestigious Tokyo art curator Keizo Yukawa is hired by robotics magnate, Ichiro Ono, to create a monumental museum for Ono's ancestor, Takenoko, who painted a view of Mt. Fuji every day for a year. Yukawa soon finds all is not as it seems with Ono an...

• Apr-2023
• / General Fiction
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Pulsing with intrigue, full of provocative ideas, the novel Autumn Wind, Weeps alternates between computer programmer Gina Ono's reach for the pinnacle of artificial intelligence, and a wandering poet of five hundred years ago, Akikaze, who is search...