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Her Radiant Curse
by Elizabeth Lim
When her beautiful 17-year-old sister Vanna is to be auctioned off in a vulgar betrothal contest, Channi, who is cursed with a serpent's face, defends Vanna from the cruelest of suitors, unleashing an evil that could sever their bond forever.
▶ LISTEN to the beginning of this novel
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Destination Moon : the Remarkable and Improbable Voyage of Apollo 11
by Richard Maurer
Only now is it becoming clear just how exceptional and unrepeatable Apollo was. At its height, it employed almost half a million people, many working seven days a week and each determined that “it will not fail because of me.”
Beginning with fighter pilots in World War II, Maurer traces the origins of the Apollo program to a few exceptional soldiers, a Nazi engineer, and a young eager man who would become president.
Packed with adventure, new stories about familiar people, and undeniable danger, Destination Moon takes an unflinching look at a tumultuous time in American history.
👀 READ the beginning of this illustrated nonfiction title (click the right side to scroll through the pages)
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Lunar New Year Love Story
by Gene Luen Yang
Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate, family, and falling in love.
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The Brightest Star : a Novel
by Gail Tsukiyama
Arriving in Hollywood to become an actress, Anna May Wong discovers her beauty and talent aren't enough to overcome the racism that relegates her to supporting roles and, over the years, fights to win lead roles, accept risque parts, and keep her illicit love affairs hidden-even as she finds global stardom.
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Chlorine : a Novel
by Jade Song
An intense high school swimmer, intent on being scouted and awarded a scholarship, tries to deal with the pressure of it all while feeling a strange, dark suspicion that she is actually a mermaid.
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This Time It's Real
by Ann Liang
To keep a massive secret from coming out, 17-year-old Eliza Lin asks the famous actor in her class to pose as her fake boyfriend in exchange for writing his college applications—an agreement that starts to feel all too real, threatening her carefully laid plans.
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Gold Mountain
by Betty G. Yee
In 1860's China after her brother dies and her father is falsely imprisoned, Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as a boy and, taking her brother's contract to work for the Central Pacific Railroad Company in America, works to survive while protecting her secret.
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Like Water : a Cultural History of Bruce Lee
by Daryl J. Maeda
Bruce Lee embodies the intermixture of cultures that results from transnational flows of people, ideas, and capital. Nearly half a century after his tragic death at the age of 32, Bruce Lee continues to inspire people around the globe as a symbol of innovation, determination, and pursuit of justice.
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The Legend of Auntie Po
by Shing Yin Khor
Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po PanYin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch.
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Mooncakes + Milk Bread : Sweet & Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries
by Kristina Cho
A popular food blogger, focusing exclusively on Chinese bakeries and cafes, presents simple, easy-to-make interpretations of classic recipes for the modern baker, including sweet and savory baked buns, steamed buns, Chinese breads, unique cookies, juicy dumplings and more. Illustrations.
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Freedom Swimmer
by Wai Chim
Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals...But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond over evening swims and shared dreams. But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom.
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She Who Became the Sun
by Shelley Parker-Chan
When the Zhu family's eighth-born son, Zhu Chongban, given the fate of greatness, dies during a brutal attack, his sister, escaping her own fated death, uses her brother's identity to claim another future altogether—her brother's abandoned greatness.
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These Violent Delights
by Chloe Gong
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
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An Echo in the City
by K. X. Song
While in the Hong Kong police academy, 17-year-old Kai infiltrates a protest group where he falls in love with 16-year-old Phoenix despite their relationship being built on secrets and deception.
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