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Download or read book Yakuza My Brother written by Jacob Raz and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yakuza, My Brother is a story based on true events. Raz, an Israeli scholar, befriends Yuki, a young, intelligent, well-educated but marginal man. Yuki disappears one day under mysterious circumstances, apparently because of his involvement with the Yakuza, the Japanese organized crime syndicate. Raz is perplexed. Along with his scholarly interest in Japan, he embarks on a personal quest to find and perhaps save his young friend. He knows the trail to Yuki leads through the Yakuza. He finally manages to penetrate one of the most important crime families by employing some uncommon methods. While pursuing his scholarly interest in the Yakuza, Raz never forgets Yuki, his lost friend. Ultimately, after dramatic and harrowing travels around East Asia, he finds a man who might be Yuki. But then again, he might not
Download or read book Tanaka Rain written by Kenya Clark and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plus size beauty Ebony Drake has been poor all her life. Instead of wishing for her situation to change, she decides to change it. She moves away from her drug addicted mother to start her life anew. The last thing on her mind is love until she meets the mysterious Rain Tanaka. Ebony doesn't know what he sees in her, all she knows is that he scares her with the way he makes her feel.Rain Tanaka has spent his life taking care of his family. He realizes quickly, he had been a fool in thinking everything he needed was found at home. Ebony Drake, is the missing piece. He knows he shouldn't get involved with her, but there's just something about the dark skin beauty that pulls him to her. However, just when things begin to heat up between them, he has to walk away.No matter how much Rain tries, he can't erase Ebony from his sweat filled dreams. Risking it all, Rain will do anything to get the love he left behind back. He should have remembered the code; NO ONE disobeys the Yakuza.
Book Synopsis That's what Brothers Do-- by : Derekica Snake
Download or read book That's what Brothers Do-- written by Derekica Snake and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To save his family, he sold his innocence. To save his sisters, he sold his body. To save his love, he sold his soul. Why? That's what brothers do... 2009 Rainbow Award Winner - 3rd place in Contemporary Novel category
Download or read book Odo Yakuza Tokyo written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Odo Yakuza Tokyo' is an intimate personal account of a Belgian photographer documenting the inaccessible subculture of Japanese organized crime: the Yakuza. Anton Kusters teams up with his brother Malik and documents the inside of the Shinseikai family, who control Kabukicho, the infamous red light district, in the heart of Tokyo. From funerals to covert training camps, business meetings to full on tattoo displays, the modern day enigma that is "Yakuza" in Japan is shown. The feeling of subtlety and massive underlying tension is present thoughout the images, constantly reminding us that this world we live in is not black verses white, not good versus evil ..."--Cover flap.
Book Synopsis My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 by : Gengoroh Tagame
Download or read book My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 written by Gengoroh Tagame and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of the acclaimed global sensation, from one of Japan's most notable manga artists: Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, and father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself to be the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and heartbreaking look at the state of a largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it's been affected by the West, and how the next generation can change the preconceptions about it and prejudices against it. (Please note: This book is a traditional work of manga, and reads back to front and right to left.)
Book Synopsis Confessions of a Yakuza by : Dr. Junichi Saga
Download or read book Confessions of a Yakuza written by Dr. Junichi Saga and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn’t a "good" life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world. In his low, hoarse voice, he describes the random events that led the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member, and ultimately the leader, of a gang organizing illegal dice games in Tokyo's liveliest entertainment area. He talks about his first police raid, and the brutal interrogation and imprisonment that followed it. He remembers his first love affair, and the girl he ran away with, and the weeks they spent wandering about the countryside together. Briefly, and matter-of-factly, he describes how he cut off the little finger of his left hand as a ritual gesture of apology. He explains how the games were run and the profits spent; why the ties between members of "the brotherhood" were so important; and how he came to kill a man who worked for him. What emerges is a contradictory personality: tough but not unsentimental; stubborn yet willing to take life more or less as it comes; impulsive but careful to observe the rules of the business he had joined. And in the end, when his tale is finished, you feel you would probably have liked him if you'd met him in person. Fortunately, Dr. Saga's record of his long conversations with him provides a wonderful substitute for that meeting.
Book Synopsis Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) by : Min Jin Lee
Download or read book Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) written by Min Jin Lee and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 2018DAYTON 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 TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones." In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. *Includes reading group guide*
Book Synopsis Mahu Blood: A Mahu Investigation (Mahu Investigations Book 5) by : Neil S Plakcy
Download or read book Mahu Blood: A Mahu Investigation (Mahu Investigations Book 5) written by Neil S Plakcy and published by Samwise Books. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka and his partner, Ray Donne, are on duty at a rally in downtown Honolulu organized by Kingdom of Hawai’i, one of many competing groups which seek reparations from the US for the loss of land and independence. An elderly woman is shot dead there, only a few feet from where Kimo’s mother and nephews are taking part in the demonstration, and Kimo and Ray take the case. At the same time, Kimo’s dealing with domestic difficulties, having just moved in with his partner, fire investigator Mike Riccardi. Since both are alpha males, the transition to shared living space isn’t easy, especially because Mike’s parents live next door. As Kimo and Mike struggle to adapt to living together, they begin to forge their own ohana—a Hawaiian term which means family, as well as community. The theme of ohana resonates through both Kimo’s personal life and his investigation of the murder as Kimo and Ray follow clues through a labyrinth of competing groups, uncovering a trail of gambling, money laundering, and mental illness. The title refers both to the blood spilled in three murders, as well as the blood ties that link native Hawaiians to each other. People come together in many ways here—through native heritage and family ties as well as love and fellowship. “Plakcy’s storytelling is tight, flawlessly executed, eminently interesting and inspiring.” George Seaton, Out in Print. “Neil S. Plakcy’s Mahu series is one of my favorites.” Melanie M, reviewer at Joyfully Jay. “To the mystery genre, Kimo Kanapa' aka is a refreshing tropical breeze.” Janie Franz, MyShelf Books in the Mahu series have reached the finalist stage for the Lambda Literary Awards as well as winning mystery fan awards and acclaim from mainstream publications such as Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal.
Download or read book The Getaway written by Marc Cerasini and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin fifteen-year-old New Yorkers Tom and Mitch like to spend their free time skateboarding and reading comics, until one day they are attacked by a thug in ninja gear. They then learn that their father and live-in-butler are members of a crime-fighting organization called R.O.N.I.N., that their father is in danger, and that they have been recruited to join their father's clan. This sets the brothers off on the adventure of a lifetime.
Book Synopsis Dose of Insanity by : Davis L. Temple
Download or read book Dose of Insanity written by Davis L. Temple and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dose of Insanity is a sweeping thriller about a promising new drug that goes horribly wrong when greed and denial trump scientific judgment. An exciting new discovery finds its way into the hands of giant Apex Pharmaceuticals following the death of a young scientist. Despite the many red flags, Apex's tyrannical CEO Maxwell Hall sees only the multibillion dollar potential of the product and rushes it into development. Once Medulin is announced to the world, only a small Connecticut biotechnology company called Genplex is successful at discovering a viable alternative. Genplex and its young research director, Jerrod Wesley, become locked in a battle of David-and-Goliath proportions as they struggle to reach the market first. But more is at stake than market share. Medulin causes patients to become violently insane, and Maxwell Hall leaves a trail of corruption and murder as he covers his tracks. When Jerrod's daughter, Courtney, is touched by the effects of Medulin, she seeks her own revenge. The conclusion is dramatic, terrifying, and satisfying. About the Author Davis L. Temple, Jr. is an established scientist and scientific writer. He is also the author of three previous novels, Two Letters Then Booger Den (for which he received the Mississippi Author of the Year Award in 2004), Preacherman, and Voodoo Storm. He lives with his wife, Patty, in Bonita Springs, Florida, and Greensboro, Georgia.
Book Synopsis The Face of the Wicked by : J.K. Jones
Download or read book The Face of the Wicked written by J.K. Jones and published by J.K. Jones. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dark and dangerous world... Yuli, an assassin, finds himself uncontrollably drawn to Ren Hirokazu, a notorious criminal and murderer. Despite the obedience collar that forces him to carry out orders for the powerful Yakuza organization, Yuli cannot resist the allure of Ren's dangerous charm. He kills for pay, accepting the poison that keeps him delirious as a necessary evil. But when a mysterious discovery leads him to defect and become a hunted traitor, Yuli's world is turned upside down. Hunted by the Yakuza and other powerful enemies, Yuli has nowhere left to turn until Ren offers him a way out, a chance for freedom. But at what cost? As they navigate a world filled with danger, secrets, and betrayal, their forbidden love becomes a liability. Will they survive and trust each other enough to make it out alive? Or will their enemies destroy them? Warning: this a dark MM romance, gay sci-fi romance, mm cyberpunk romance, mm enemies to lovers romance which includes gore, violence, mentions of sexual abuse, dystopia, short story, novella, mm sci-fi fantasy, mm possessive romance, mm second chance romance with a HEA ending.
Download or read book Broken Evolution written by Brendan Cody and published by Solitrix Books. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken Evolution is the ground-breaking biotech thriller for our time. On the verge of retirement, a Congressional Senator is murdered in his home. Struggling CIA biotech analyst Joshua Harker finds himself assigned to unravel the mysterious murder. Harker's hunt for evidence leads him across the globe, into the highest levels of a Japanese cartel engaged in covert, unethical genetic research. When he discovers Tokiko - a lover from his own past - married to the tycoon behind the assassination, Harker begins to suspect he is being used - but by which side? His new territory of black ops espionage leads Harker on into the darkest depths of a criminal underworld; a world where nothing is as it first appears. Together with Tokiko, they must confront their past and are forced to make decisions for all our futures. When they discover the ultimate truth of the assassin's identity, the secret rips apart all their lives. This technothriller, charged with espionage and intrigue, races toward a heart-stopping climax and a heart-breaking conclusion that will shatter our society ... for generations to come.
Book Synopsis My Pursuit of the Axis of Evil by : Bill Cox
Download or read book My Pursuit of the Axis of Evil written by Bill Cox and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Pursuit of the Axis of Evil is about meetings and adventures with interesting people in Asia and Alaska. I followed the advice of a long-ago traveler named Pythagoras, who admonished us to check your prejudices at every port of entry." As a result, I mostly traveled solo, merged with the locals, and got to see, experience, and understand things that would not have been otherwise possible. Plus, the locals can keep you out of trouble and get you out of trouble if you get into it! In Alaska, I sought out native elders and others in the far corners of this enormous state, street people, and the many interesting and famous people visiting or passing through. And high-level politicians—often at the opposite end of the political and social issues spectrum than me. I learned a lot, made new friends, and often got to see things from a different perspective. Encounters were overwhelmingly positive, and it is these people to whom I dedicate My Pursuit of the Axis of Evil. I commend you for your natural curiosity and desire to go out into the world and see for yourself. Pursuit of the Axis of Evil is a great primer on how to engage and interact with the incredible variety of people we meet on international travel - people that appear on the surface to be very different from you and me. Robert DeLaurentis, Polar and Equitorial Circumnavigator/Citizen of the World. "
Book Synopsis The Crew: (King's Harlots/Hell's Harlem Series Boxed Set) by : J.M. Walker
Download or read book The Crew: (King's Harlots/Hell's Harlem Series Boxed Set) written by J.M. Walker and published by J.M. Walker. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 1628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This boxed set consists of two completed series. King's Harlots Series: A female motorcycle club and Navy SEALs come together to bring down a human trafficking ring. GRIT: Putting differences aside, they will work together to bring down a malevolent force threatening to rip them apart... STAIN: Putting aside their friendship, they use the heat between them to please the depraved minds they now understand… GRIM: They have been together for months, have tried to be happy but still can't find that certain connection—the piece of them that should ignore the evils of life and focus on the love they have for each other. RUDE: Their souls collide, giving them the comfort they need when an unknown source takes pleasure in trying to rip them apart. NUMB: When an unexpected source rips through what they’ve worked hard to maintain, only then do they realize the full potential of their love. RUST: Only when Creena and Stone’s limits are tested, do they realize exactly what they will do to find that peace their family and friends deserve. FOR YOU: Hope Town, Georgia is the saving grace for their love, before the nightmares consume them both. Hell's Harlem Series: Meet and fall in love with some new characters as these biker bad boys deal with personal issues and the women who bring them to their knees. GREYSON: It started the moment she passed out in my arms. TRAY: She was off-limits, but it didn’t stop me from wanting her. CATCH: She rejected me when I needed her most.
Download or read book Scorpion written by India Millar and published by Red Empress Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men speak of sacrifice, but only a woman who has lost everything truly knows what the word means. It is said that the gods become offended when mere humans try to usurp their supremacy in directing earthly affairs. Keiko learns this in a way that leaves her with nothing but crushing grief. To catch a traitor, Keiko must lower herself to serve the man who betrayed her, forced to become his slave. When she loses the thing that has come to mean more to her than anything else in the world, she does not know if she can–or should–continue fighting. If life is only suffering, she would rather die an honorable death. She is alone, abandoned by the world, and it is only by the strangest twist of fate that a figure from her past returns and promises to help her turn disaster into triumph. But will the cost be worth it?
Book Synopsis Twelve Months of Kristal by : Theodora Taylor
Download or read book Twelve Months of Kristal written by Theodora Taylor and published by Rom Tell That. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lot can elfin' happen in 12 days... On the eleventh day of Christmas, a Japanese billionaire's perfect date is ruined by a deliciously curvy woman, claiming to be an elf. When he challenges this supposed elf to replace the date he lost, they share a magical night that he can't forget. Literally. Over the next year, the billionaire becomes more and more obsessed with the elf who disappeared the next morning, leaving behind no trace of who she really was. He can't find her anywhere, but he also can't stop thinking about her. And this obsession is threatening to destroy both his playboy lifestyle and his sanity. But then he sees a picture of the curvy elf on an American work colleague's computer, which is why.... On the first day of the next Christmas, the Japanese billionaire flies back to San Francisco in his private plane to track down the elf who got away. And this is the magical and epic story of what happens next. This steamy, heartwarming novel is perfect for fans of omakase sushi experiences, PEOPLE magazine, spooky mysteries, and watching magical love stories unfold. NOTE: TWELVE MONTHS OF KRISTAL will only stick around until Valentine's Day. So get it now, while the magical lovin' is still warm!
Download or read book Spinegrinder written by Clive Davies and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First came video and more recently high definition home entertainment, through to the internet with its streaming videos and not strictly legal peer-to-peer capabilities. With so many sources available, today’s fan of horror and exploitation movies isn’t necessarily educated on paths well-trodden — Universal classics, 1950s monster movies, Hammer — as once they were. They may not even be born and bred on DAWN OF THE DEAD. In fact, anyone with a bit of technical savvy (quickly becoming second nature for the born-clicking generation) may be viewing MYSTICS IN BALI and S.S. EXPERIMENT CAMP long before ever hearing of Bela Lugosi or watching a movie directed by Dario Argento. In this world, H.G. Lewis, so-called “godfather of gore,” carries the same stripes as Alfred Hitchcock, “master of suspense.” SPINEGRINDER is one man’s ambitious, exhaustive and utterly obsessive attempt to make sense of over a century of exploitation and cult cinema, of a sort that most critics won’t care to write about. One opinion; 8,000 reviews (or thereabouts.
