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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month May 2023
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
A stereotyped character actor stumbles into the spotlight before uncovering surprising links between his family and the secret history of Chinatown. By the award-winning author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
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Hani and Ishu's guide to fake dating
by Adiba Jaigirdar
"Everyone likes Humaira 'Hani' Khan--she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts outthat she's in a relationship...with a girl her friends absolutely hate--Ishita 'Ishu' Dey. She's an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will set her on the right track for college. Despite their mutually beneficial pact, they start developing real feelings for each other"
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Shanghai girls : a novel
by Lisa See
Forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors, sisters May and Pearl struggle to adapt to life in 1930s Los Angeles while still bound to old customs, as they face discrimination and confront a life-altering secret
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Homicide and halo-halo
by Mia P. Manansala
Upon opening her new café, Lila Macapagal stumbles into unpleasantness when the head judge of a local beauty pageant is murdered and her cousin becomes the main suspect, in the second novel of the series following Arsenic and Adobo. Original.
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The key to happily ever after
by Tif Marcelo
Taking over the family business, the de la Rosa sisters soon discover that wedding planning isn't all rings and roses but realize that, no matter what, they'll always have each other, in this charming romantic comedy that celebrates the power of sisterhood. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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Insurrecto
by Gina Apostol
While on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, both collaborate and clash in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American war.
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Everything I never told you : Library Edition
by Celeste Ng
A first novel by a Pushcart Prize-winning writer explores the fallout of a favorite daughter's shattering death on a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio. Simultaneous.
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The best we could do : an illustrated memoir
by Thi Bui
The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format
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House of sticks : a memoir
by Ly Tran
This memoir of a young Vietnamese woman follows her journey from war-torn Vietnam to New York City and struggles to reconcile her family's Buddhist faith and meager lifestyle with her desire to assimilate. 100,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Crying in H Mart : a memoir
by Michelle Zauner
The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother. Illustrations.
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Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
by Jose Antonio Vargas
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker and immigration-rights activist presents a debut memoir about how he unknowingly entered the United States with false documents as a child. .
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Long live the tribe of fatherless girls : a memoir
by T Kira Madden
An acclaimed literary essayist presents this raw and redemptive debut memoir about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager in Boca Raton, Florida, where she, the only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, found loving friendships with fatherless girls.
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Speak, Okinawa : a memoir
by Elizabeth Miki Brina
An American woman whose parents met in U.S.-occupied Okinawa, her mother a war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran, describes the complicated, embattled dynamics of her family and the feelings of shame and self-loathing that plagued her cultural heritage.
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Good talk : a memoir in conversations
by Mira Jacob
The author of the critically acclaimed The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing presents an intimate graphic memoir about American identity as it has shaped his interracial family in the aftermath of the 2016 elections.
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Tastes like war : a memoir
by Grace M. Cho
"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself and the cultural roots of her mother's condition"
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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. Illustrations.
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Asian Americans
Explores Asian American history including such topics as immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation
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