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The Truth About Dragonsby Julie LeungIn a mix of Eastern and Western mythologies, a mother tells her child about two forests inhabited by different, but equally enchanting dragons that coexist within the child's heart.
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Finding Papa by Angela Pham KransYoung Mai and her mother embark on a long, perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa, who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family.
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The Spice Box by Meera SriramWhen he accidentally drops the spice box, which holds his family's memories passed down from one generation to the next, Rishi must draw courage and meaning from their treasured past to set things right.
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Everyone Loves Lunchtime But Zia by Jenny LiaoZia, a Chinese-American girl who dreads lunchtime, comes to appreciate the traditional Cantonese dishes her parents pack each day as she learns what the food represents, realizing her lunch could bring her good fortune after all!
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Mabuhay! by Zack SterlingStruggling to fit in at school, first-generation Filipino siblings JJ and Althea find their world turned upside down when the witches, ogres and other creatures from Filipino folklore come to life, forcing them to embrace who they really are to save their family.
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You Are Here: Connecting Flights by Ellen OhTwelve award-winning Asian American authors explore contemporary East and Southeast Asian American identity through interconnected stories set in a Chicago airport where an incident at a TSA security checkpoint sets in motion a chain of events that affects the lives of 12 young Asian Americans.
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Parachute Kids by Betty C. TangWhen their parents return to Taiwan, leaving her and her two older siblings in California on their own, Feng-Li must keep her family together as they all get tangled in a web of bad choices while navigating this strange new world.
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Emma and the Love Spell by Meredith IrelandTo keep her best friend—and secret crush—Evangeline from moving away, 12-year-old Korean-American adoptee Emma Davidson casts a love spell on Evangeline's parents so they won't get divorced, which backfires spectacularly.
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Ruby Lost and Found by Christina LiForced to spend the summer at Nai-Nai's senior center, Ruby Chu works to help save a historic Chinatown bakery while revisiting her late Ye-Ye's favorite spots to find a way to deal with her grief—and maybe even find herself.
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In Limbo by Deb J. J. LeeSet between New Jersey and Seoul, this coming-of-age story follows the author as she goes to South Korea, where she realizes something that changes her perspective on her family, her heritage and herself.
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I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom by Shannon C. F. Rogers After her mother’s death, 15-year-old Marisol tries to piece her life back together in an emotional, thoughtful exploration of pulling yourself up when you’ve made a mess of everything. Biracial Marisol sees her mother as her connection to Filipino culture, adding a layer of complexity to her grief throughout the story.
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Darius the Great Is Not Okay
by Adib Khorram
Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder. Then Darius meets Sohrab, the boy next door, and everything changes.
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Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen YangHigh school senior Valentina adored Valentine's Day until a shocking revelation leads her to believe her love life is cursed, until a Lunar New Year celebration introduces her to charming lion dancer boys and a chance at breaking her family's curse.
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This Book Won't Burn by Samira AhmedAfter her dad abruptly abandons her family, Noor Khan is forced to start the last quarter of her senior year at a new school and plans to keep her head down until she discovers hundreds of books being removed from the library and speaks up to effect change.
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This Time Will Be Different by Misa SugiuraPreferring a simple future to her mother's ambitions for her, a 17-year-old Japanese-American teen discovers her talent for flower arranging before her mother tries to sell the flower shop to the swindlers responsible for their hardships.
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The Coin
by Yasmin Zaher
Teaching at a school for underprivileged boys in New York, a young Palestinian woman, whose eccentric methods cross boundaries, gets caught up in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags, and to gain control over her body and mind, becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness and self-image, while drawing her students into her obsessions.
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Julie Chan is Dead
by Liann Zhang
Julie Chan, a supermarket cashier with nothing to lose, finds herself thrust into the glamorous yet perilous world of her late twin sister. As events spiral out of control, Julie uncovers the sinister forces that may have led to her sister’s demise and realizes she might be the next target.
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Love Can't Feed You
by Cherry Lou Sy
Queenie, her younger brother and their elderly Chinese father arrive in the U.S. to reunite with her mother who has been working as a nurse in this chronicle of a Filipino-American family's struggle to rebuild their lives in Brooklyn. A stunning, heartbreaking look at coming of age, shifting notions of home, and the disintegration of the American dream.
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Brotherless Night
by V. V. Ganeshananthan
Set during the early years of Sri Lanka’s three-decade civil war, Brotherless Night is a heartrending portrait of one woman’s moral journey and a testament to both the enduring impact of war and the bonds of home.
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I Will Greet the Sun Again
by Khashayar J. Khabushani
An Iranian American boy comes of age in 1990s Los Angeles. K wants to live like any other kid in the United States, shooting hoops with his brother and tooling around the San Fernando Valley with his friends. Instead, he's worried about being a good Iranian American son, trying to understand a father both tender and violent, and struggling with his own emerging sexuality.
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Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
by Kylie Lee Baker
Haunted by her sister's murder and the whispered words“bat eater,” Chinatown crime scene cleaner Cora Zeng confronts grief, paranoia and disturbing occurrences, including bat carcasses at crime scenes and bite marks that appear on her coffee table.
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My Life : Growing Up Asian in America
by CAPE (the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment)
Through a series of essays, poems and comics, 30 creators—including Melissa de la Cruz, Edmund Lee, Nathan Ramos-Park and Kao Kalia Yang—give voice to moments that defined them and shed light on the immense diversity and complexity of the Asian American identity.
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Boat Baby: A Memoir
by Vicky Nguyen
In a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family's daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love.
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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, From Punjab to California
by Jaclyn Moyer
A young South Asian American woman's story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming. Braiding memoir with historical inquiry, On Gold Hill explores the complexities of the immigrant experience, illuminates the ways colonialism and capitalism constrain our food system, and investigates what it means to lose—and to reclaim—one’s heritage.
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Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
by Jeff Yang
A love letter to and for Asian Americans offers a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community into who we are today.
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Ăn Chưa? Simple Vietnamese Recipes That Taste Like Home
by Julie Mai Trần
"Ăn Chưa?" (Did you eat yet?) is a common Vietnamese greeting that expresses affection through the everyday necessity, nourishment and comfort of food. In this special collection of time-honored recipes, Julie Mai Trần, a first-generation Vietnamese-Chinese American and the creator of Share My Roots, celebrates Vietnamese cuisine and culture inspired by her mother's cooking.
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Sabai: 100 Simple Thai Recipes for Any Day of the Week
by Pailin Chongchitnant
Presents one hundred recipes for Thai meals that can easily be made on a weekday, including beef laab, green curry chicken with winter melon, fish sauce wings, minimalist pad Thai, and banana coconut sundaes.
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Desified: Delicious Recipes for Ramadan, Eid & Every Day
by Zaynah Din
Inspired by the core principles of Ramadan, this collection of 90 recipes celebrating South Asian flavors and spices can be made for holidays or anytime and include Gajar Ka Halwa, Kadhi Pakora and Chaat Bombs.
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Imad’s Syrian Kitchen: A Love Letter to Damascus
by Imad Alarnab
A Syrian chef, entrepreneur, refugee and London restauranteur presents a tour through 90 traditional and updated Syrian dishes including shawarma, manakish, kababs and falafel along with the story of his home country and how he settled in the U.K.
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When a Korean-born man finds himself stuck in a small Indiana town with his father in a coma, he meets a woman who wants to stay in that same town instead of pursuing her dreams.
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A newly widowed eighty-year-old grandma unexpectedly finds herself in the middle of a Chinatown gang war.
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Didi (2024)Available on Blu-Ray only In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
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Samoan Wedding (2007)Sione's immature friends are banned from his wedding unless they can stop causing chaos and find acceptable women to take to the wedding. |
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Life of Pi (2013)Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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Blue Bayou (2021)Follows the story of a Korean adoptee, raised in the Lousiana bayou and living with his wife and stepdaughter, who must confront his past when he discovers that he could be deported.
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Monsoon (2019)Available to stream on Kanopy! A young man who fled Vietnam as a child during the Vietnam-American War, returns to his home country thirty years later.
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Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves – and their bank’s legacy in the Chinatown community – over the course of a five-year legal battle. |
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Examines how Asians were represented in Hollywood motion pictures after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
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Available to stream on Kanopy only! Examines the history of Japanese American internment camps within the United States during World War II. |
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