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Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he about to be the …

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No Pianos, Pets or Foreigners! My Life in Japan in the 80's

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The Only Gaijin in the Village

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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

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Super Sushi Ramen Express: One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan

Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The Japanese go to the most extraordinary lengths and expense to eat the finest, most delectable, and downright freakiest food imaginable. Their creativi…

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Journey through India: Two pensioners backpack their way across the subcontinent... what could go wrong?

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Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan (Round Earth Book 1)

Lost between worlds. A 750-mile walk through Japan. A life that will never be the same.

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The Sicilian (The Godfather #2)

After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work--a lushly roma…

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Zen is the perfect antidote to the chaos of modern life . . .

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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World

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In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human …

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Walking Home: Common Sense and Other Misadventures On the Pacific Crest Trail

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Can a comically straightforward American man learn patience and understanding in the wilderness? Laugh out loud, chok…

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Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World

In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Beard left her family and friends in London and set off on a 35,000-mile solo adventure around the world …

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Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings

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Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

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Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken …

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This book is a thinking man's ghost story in the vein of The Turn of the Screw, and its rich pathos should delight fans of King's warmer fare.

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The English-language debut of one of Japan's most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-…

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A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an am…

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