From the day he saw her in "Roman Holiday," Toshi, a young Japanese, has been infatuated with Audrey Hepburn and all things female-American. He gets his chance to try the real thing when he moves to Tokyo where there is no shortage of American women. The novel follows him from one culture shock to another. A debut in fiction.

Fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi faces the destruction of everything she knows and a new life living among the enemy after American bombers attack her city with napalm, leaving the city in ruins.

"Ink is in their blood. On the heels of a family tragedy, Katie Greene must move halfway across the world. Stuck with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels lost. Alone. She doesn't know the language, she can barely hold a pair of chopsticks and she can't seem to get the hang of taking her shoes off whenever she enters a building. When Katie meets aloof but gorgeous Tomohiro, the star of the school's kendo team, she is intrigued by him...and a little...