The Fire Kimono American Book Award (1991) Join the teachers

Join the teachers

This 60th anniversary edition includes for the first time Screwtape Proposes a Toast

It's an unfortunate but common pattern: a family achieves wealth and stability but can't sustain its success beyond the second generation

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wheedles and tricks into his possession is strictly for him and his band of fellow con-artists and thieves: the Gentleman Bastards

The Fire Kimono American Book Award (1991) Join the teachersThe Fire Kimono is another dazzling historical mystery set in feudal Japan from acclaimed author Laura Joh Rowland. Japan, March 1700. The strife between Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of war. When a long buried skeleton with mysterious links to the shogun suddenly comes to light, Sano and his wife, Reiko, who defies social conventions by joining in his