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Umma : A Korean Mom's Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes
by Sarah Ahn
Sarah Ahn's viral food videos of her and her mom have captivated millions of viewers with their behind-the-scenes look at Korean cooking and multigenerational home life. This collaboration is now a must-have cookbook blending the emotional intimacy of Crying in H Mart with practical culinary advice from Nam Soon's lifetime of kitchen experience. The recipes are framed by mother-daughter conversations that are funny, profound, and universally relatable-plus all the food is backed by the recipe-testing power of America's Test Kitchen.
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Ordinary Disasters : How I Stopped Being a Model Minority
by Anne Anlin Cheng
Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, this collection of original essays threaded with personal stories summons up the grief, love, anger and humor in negotiating the realities of being a scholar, an immigrant Asian American woman, a cancer patient, a wife of a white man and a mother of biracial children.
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Viewfinder : A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
by Jon M. Chu
Long before he directed Wicked, In The Heights, or the groundbreaking film Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu was a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese American, helping at his parents' Chinese restaurant in Silicon Valley and forever facing the culturalidentity crisis endemic to children of immigrants. Growing up on the cutting edge of 21st-century technology gave Chu the tools he needed to make his mark at USC film school, and to be discovered by Steven Spielberg, but he soon found himself struggling to understand who he was. In this book, for the first time, Chu dives deep into his life and work, telling the universal story of questioning what it means when your dreams collide with your circumstances, and showing how it's possible to succeed even when the world changes beyond all recognition. With striking candor and unrivalled insights, Chu offers a firsthand account of the collision of Silicon Valley and Hollywood--what it's been like to watch his old world shatter and reshape his new one. Ultimately, Viewfinder is about reckoning with your own story, becoming your most creative self, and finding a path all your own.
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Connie : A Memoir
by Connie Chung
In this witty and definitive memoir, the trailblazing journalist recounts her groundbreaking career as the first Asian woman in U.S. television news, detailing her experiences with sexism, her major stories and her behind-the-scenes challenges and triumphs.
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The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World
by William Dalrymple
*This book will be published April 29th, you can place your hold now!
Award-winning Delhi-based Scottish historian Dalrymple returns with a cultural, religious, and intellectual history of India. In what amounts to a travelogue as well, he takes readers to the monasteries where Buddhism took hold, traces trade routes, and explores the innovations in math, art, science, and more that shaped civilization.
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Mad Love : Big Flavors Made to Share, from South Asia to the West Indies; A Cookbook
by Devan Rajkumar
Chef Rajkumar celebrates his heritage in his debut cookbook that fuses flavors from Guyana, India, and the Caribbean. The book is divided into the following sections: "Pantry Essentials," "Shared Plates," "All Rise" (breads), "Romaine Calm" (vegetables), "A Shore Thing" (fish and seafood), "A Cut Above" (meat and poultry), and "Keep It Chill" (drinks and desserts), and all the recipes feature icons that represent various dietary requirements and needs. Lovers of Indian food will enjoy the classic dishes of butter chicken and lamb curry while savoring some of Rajkumar's family recipes: Bake & Saltfish, parsad, and the appropriately titled Mom's Okra, Mom's Dhal, and Mom's Chicken Stew. The garam masala-spiced pecan pie, shrikhand cannoli, and masala mac and cheese with butternut squash are sure to delight the taste buds with their unusual combinations of Eastern and Western flavor profiles.
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Love, Queenie : Merle Oberon, Hollywood's first South Asian star
by Mayukh Sen
Merle Oberon attained Hollywood immortality with a nomination for a Best Leading Actress Oscar for her role in the 1935 film 'The Dark Angel'. It was the first time a performer of colour had received an acting nomination at the Academy Awards but becauseOberon concealed her South Asian identity throughout her lifetime and 'passed' for white, very few people knew it. In 'Love, Queenie', the first biography in more than forty years of the India-born actress, Mayukh Sen draws on family interviews and previously untapped archival research to animate the 'Wuthering Heights' star's hard-won journey to fame
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A Billion Butterflies : A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory
by J. Shukla
The Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist's inspiring memoir details his journey from rural India to revolutionizing global weather prediction, saving lives, improving food security and advancing climate science while offering hope in the face of a warming planet.
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My Vietnam, Your Vietnam : A Father Flees, a Daughter Returns
by Christina Vo
My Vietnam, Your Vietnam chronicles the divergent journeys of a Vietnamese father, who fled war on a small boat to find refuge in the United States, and his American-born daughter, who ventures to Vietnam as an adult, capturing the stark contrast between their perspectives on their shared homeland. In this dual memoir, Christina Vo and her father, Nghia M. Vo, delve into themes of identity and heritage, with intertwined stories that present a multifaceted portrayal of Vietnam and its profound influence on shaping both familial bonds and individual identities across time. Captivating in its fluid movement and evocative depictions of place, My Vietnam, Your Vietnam offers readers a rich, multilayered exploration of Vietnam through two very distinct voices and perspectives. The memoir aims to deepen readers' understanding and appreciation of Vietnam and its culture by showcasing these two contrasting viewpoints.
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Where Rivers Part : A Story of My Mother's Life
by Kao Kalia Yang
A memoir about a Hmong family's epic journey to safety, told from the perspective of the author's incredible mother who survived, and helped her family escape, against all odds. Kao Kalia Yang unveils her mother's epic struggle towards safety and the important undocumented history of a time and place most US readers know nothing about, offering insight into America's Secret War in Laos with tenderness and unvarnished clarity. In doing so, she excavates the plight of many refugees, who suffer silently and are often overlooked as one of the essential foundations of this country
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
by Emmanuel Acho
For Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby no question about Jews is off-limits. They go there. They cover Jews and money. Jews and power. Jews and privilege. Jews and white privilege. The Black and Jewish struggle. Emmanuel asks, Did Jews kill Jesus? To which Noaresponds, "Why are Jewish people history's favorite scapegoat?" They unpack Judaism itself: Is it a religion, culture, a peoplehood, or a race? And: Are you antisemitic if you're anti-Zionist? The questions, and answers, might make you squirm, but together, they explain the tropes, stereotypes, and catalysts of antisemitism in America today. The topics are complicated and Acho and Tishby bring vastly different perspectives. Tishby is an outspoken Israeli American. Acho is a mild-mannered son of a Nigerian American pastor. But they share a superpower: an uncanny ability to make complicated ideas easy to understand so anyone can follow the straight line from the past to our immediate moment, and then see around corners. Acho and Tishby are united by the core belief that hatred toward one group is never isolated: if you see the smoke of bigotry in one place, expect that we will all be in the fire
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Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza : a Reckoning
by Peter Beinart
After Gaza, where Jewish texts, history, and language have been deployed to justify mass slaughter and starvation, he argues, Jews must tell a new story. After this war, whose horror will echo for generations, they must do nothing less than offer a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew? Beinart imagines an alternate story that would draw on other nations' efforts at moral reconstruction and a different reading of Jewish history. A story in which Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, and in which Jewish and Palestinian safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined. One in which we inhabit a world that recognizes the infinite value of all human life, beginning in the Gaza Strip.
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Gentlemen of the Woods : Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack
by Willa Hammitt Brown
The folk hero Paul Bunyan stands astride the story of the upper Midwest--a manly symbol of the labor that cleared the vast north woods for the march of industrialization while somehow also maintaining an aura of pristine nature. This conception receives a long overdue and thoroughly revealing correction in Gentlemen of the Woods, a cultural history of the life and lore of the real lumberjack and his true place in American history.
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Good Stress : The Health Benefits of Doing Hard Things
by Jeff Krasno
This practical wellness guide explores how modern comforts undermine health, offering insights from experts and a 10-step program to embrace natural stressors, improve resilience and combat chronic diseases through balanced practices for a longer, healthier life.
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The Battle of Manila : Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War
by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
Douglas MacArthur had a special relationship with the city of Manila. Many years before, when he had decided to make a career in the U.S. Army-like his father-and had bounced around the globe, he kept coming back to the city. He received his first promotion in Manila and contracted malaria so severe, the Army had to send him back to the United States. The city was a constant in a life without many others. He was by any measure an exceptional soldier. At the U.S. Military Academy he earned an athletic letter in baseball, became the First Captain of the Corps of Cadets, and finished first in a class of ninety-three. Commissioned in the Corps of Engineers, he had first assignment in the Philippines.
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Autism Out Loud : Life with a Child on the Spectrum, from Diagnosis to Young Adulthood
by Kate Swenson
In this moving narrative of resilience and pure love, three mothers share their experiences and learnings about life alongside autism. Kate Swenson, Adrian Wood and Carrie Cariello are from different parts of the country and backgrounds, but they were brought together by a singular experience: they are each a mother to a child with autism. Together they have shared laughter, tears, victories and the unconditional love that molds their lives.
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Making the Best of What's Left : When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered
by Judith Viorst
From the bestselling author Judith Viorst comes a witty and poignant exploration of the joys and sorrows of life's twilight years-one that leaves us laughing, pondering, and grateful for the moments we have left. In a career that has spanned more than fifty years, Judith Viorst has captivated readers with her bestselling children's books and collections of poetry reflecting on each decade of life. Now in her nineties, Viorst writes about life's "Final Fifth," those who are eighty to one hundred years old. Her signature blend of humor and vulnerability infuses personal anecdotes and observations, drawing you into her world of memories and candid conversations.
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