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For this site's Giveaway, I have THREE inspiring Books for ONE
​Lucky U.S./Can. WINNER!

​    This first book is a non-fiction account, based upon the true story of a shipwreck which occurred on May 20, 1899. Sixteen men became stranded on a small island in the Pa cific Ocean, and all of them lived there together with perseverance and hope, surviving successfully until they were rescued.

Print Length: 174 pages | Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1697014054

• Publisher: Takasaku Translations (October 24, 2019)
• Publication Date: October 24, 2019

ABOUT the BOOK:
      Fateful Journey Back in Time,
      Surprising Glimpse of the Asian Mind
    The book was published in Japanese for the first time in 1943, and has continued to be popular with readers of all ages in Japan for many decades. The English translation has recently been released and is now drawing interest from readers in many countries. When we read this book, we can step outside of our current modern-day perspective and glimpse into the mindset of Asian fishermen and sealife researchers more than a century in the past. The men display a bold and yet gentle spirit of courage, innovation and cooperation which is rare today, and attractive. The reader feels as if he or she is also stranded on the island, striving with the men in their dilemma.
     The Japanese version of this book continues to be reprinted, and has garnered hundreds of positive and appreciative reviews. Now the story is newly available for a much wider audience of readers to enjoy in English. It conveys a peculiarly compelling and intriguing “Zen” nature. If you would like to have an adventurous journey of traveling backwards in Time to experience being shipwrecked with comrades on a tiny island, and yet come away from it alive and satisfied and positively influenced by the experience—this book will do it for you.
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Author, Kunihiko Sugawa, was born in Tokyo in 1880. After graduating from Tokyo Nautical School (now Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology) in 1905, he joined Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co. and worked as a captain on ocean-going vessels. He later became a professor at Tokyo Nautical School. He wrote a lot of ocean-related books, one of which, a non-fiction work called Mujinto ni ikiru jyurokunin (Sixteen Men Living on a Desert Island), has become a longtime bestseller in Japan since its publication in 1943. He died in 1949. 

Ben Bentley-Taylor translates from Russian and Japanese into English and is an editor and proof-reader. He has a BA in History and Modern Languages from Merton College, The University of Oxford, and learned Japanese while working in Japan between 2000 and 2012. He has passed the Chartered Institute of Linguist’s (UK) post-graduate level Diploma in Translation (Japanese). 

      
​      Yoriko's Amazon Page 

Book Graciously donated by the above author/translators

Yoriko Takasaku is an En-Jp / Jp-En translator. She has a bachelor's and a master's degree in law from Waseda University, Tokyo, and an LL.M. from the College of Law at the University of Utah. She has translated many articles and books for National Geographic as a staff translator. Her best-known work is a book called Manshu kiseki no dasshutsu, the Japanese rendition of Escape from Manchuria by Paul K. Maruyama, which was dramatized and aired on NHK TV in March 2018. Currently she is committed to introducing Japanese non-fiction to the world through translation. 

The Next Book is Young Adult Fiction, Based on Fact, which is about a Youth's Devastating Events in India. Adults are sure to enjoy it, as well!

• 185 pages | Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Story Vision Magic, Inc (October 17, 2018)​
  

ABOUT the BOOK:
     After fifteen-year-old Ganpu Aapla and his parents lose everything they own, including their beautiful ancestral home in Katalveldurwadi Dabhol, India, to a forced takeover by America’s Enrone Corporation, they move to Mumbai in search of justice. Ganpu’s family takes up residence in a temporary shack that doubles as a chai shop near the Bandra Kurla Complex in a Mumbai suburb.One day during monsoon season, when Ganpu’s parents are out working, a harmless drizzle suddenly turns into a torrential downpour, which quickly floods the streets.Julie, Rick, James, and Saira, four international students whose parents all live in India, are supposed to be taking a boat trip to the Elephant Caves, but the unexpected cloudburst dampens their plans. After the tour group heads back to land, their guide leaves them with a stranger—a local teacher named Anu—at a bus stop while he looks for help. Local teens Siva, Javed, and Xinmin, enthralled by the Mumbai rains, decide to venture out into the city instead of going straight home after school and find themselves also stranded at the bus stop. 
     This ragtag group of mixed classes, races, and genders is forced to seek shelter with one another in Ganpu’s family’s shop. While they wait, the intensity of the rain increases, threatening their survival. With no way of contacting their frantic parents, the group reluctantly waits together to be rescued.When it appears an outside rescue might be impossible, Ganpu wholly commits to saving the lives of his guests despite their distrust of him, a lowly roadside hawker. In order for his plan to work, though, he must destroy his family’s only home and livelihood, while each one of the stranded must overcome personal demons and prejudices.Terrified and left with no other way out, Anu must conquer her own fears and motivate the kids to work together, or else the whole crew will face certain death.This thrilling, edge-of-your-seat story demonstrates how courage, heart, and integrity is necessary to change our lives and the world around us.

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ABOUT the AUTHOR:
      Rajesh Naiksatam was born and raised in Mumbai, India. At age ten, while on the school playground, Rajesh was hit by a powerfully thrown but misguided javelin. By the grace of God, the javelin wobbled at the very last moment and lost its momentum, fortunately leaving Rajesh with nothing more than a half-inch-deep hip wound.
        Rajesh's late father, Shrikant Naiksatam, was one of the finest animators and visual effects artists India has ever produced. Shrikant wanted Rajesh to become a computer engineer, but Rajesh was more interested in following in his father's footsteps and joining the creative field. Eventually, Rajesh convinced Shrikant to let him work with him. While training with his father in animation and visual effects, Rajesh had the privilege of working with Prahlad Kakar, India's advertisement guru. Prahlad gave Rajesh an opportunity to direct his first stop-motion animation film for a commercial, which won an Advertising Club Award.
             Rajesh came to the United States to pursue a master's degree in computer graphics at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where one of his teachers was Chris Wedge, the director of the movie Ice Age.
           After graduating from SVA, Rajesh worked for Tony Ciao’s company Data Motion Arts in New York City, where part of his job was training interns. Visual effects artist John Kohn was one of his interns. A few months after John's internship ended, he went to Los Angeles for work and convinced Rajesh to also move there, inviting him to stay in his apartment until Rajesh found a job. Since then Rajesh has worked with several film studios, including Boss Films, Digital Domain, Warner Bros., Walt Disney Animation, DreamWorks, and Sony Pictures Imageworks. 
Amazon Author Page

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This Final Book is  YA/Adult Fiction about the Civil War period of the U.S.! It is part of a series but can be read as a "Stand Alone".

The Hound of Justice( The Janet Watson Chronicles #2) by Claire O'Dell
Paperback, 323 pages
Published July 30th 2019 by Harper Voyager
ISBN: 0062699334 (ISBN13: 9780062699336)
​ABOUT the BOOK:
      Dr. Janet Watson and former covert agent Sara Holmes, introduced in the acclaimed A Study in Honor, continue their dangerous investigation into the new American Civil War with the help of fresh allies, advanced technology, and brilliant deduction in this superb reimagining of Sherlock Holmes.
      It’s been two months since Dr. Janet Watson accepted an offer from Georgetown University Hospital. The training for her new high-tech arm is taking longer than expected, however, leaving her in limbo. Meanwhile, her brilliant friend and compatriot, Sara Holmes, has been placed on leave--punishment for going rogue during their previous adventure. Neither is taking their situation very well.
      Then an extremist faction called the Brotherhood of Redemption launches an assassination attempt on the president. The attempt fails but causes mass destruction—fifty dead and hundreds more injured, and Holmes takes on the task of investigating the Brotherhood.
     Holmes is making progress when she abruptly disappears. Watson receives a mysterious message from Holmes’s cousin Micha and learns that her friend has quit the service and is operating in the shadows, investigating clues that link the Brotherhood to Adler Industries.
      She needs a surgeon, Micha tells Watson. She needs you.
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OTHER BOOK IN SERIES: (Not included in Giveaway)
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Mystery
A selection in Parade’s roundup of “25 Hottest Books of Summer 2018”
A Paste Magazine’s Most Anticipated 25 books of 2018 pick
A Medium’s Books pick for We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 list
Set in a near future Washington, D.C., a clever, incisive, and fresh feminist twist on a classic literary icon—Sherlock Holmes—in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes will use espionage, advanced technology, and the power of deduction to unmask a murderer targeting Civil War veterans.

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About Claire O'Dell
​Claire O'Dell grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, in the years of the Vietnam War and the Watergate Scandal. She attended high school just a few miles from the house where Mary Surratt once lived and where John Wilkes Booth conspired for Lincoln to die. All this might explain why she spent so much time in the history and political science departments at college. Claire currently lives in Manchester, CT with her family and two idiosyncratic cats.
Pen name of Beth Bernobich

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