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The Outliers [The Outliers Trilogy, Book 1] by Kimberly McCreight [in School Library Journal]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Still reeling from her mother's sudden death, Wylie – already fighting debilitating anxiety – has become even more self-isolating. When her former best friend's mother shows up desperately seeking her daughter Cassie, Wylie doesn't confess that the two have barely seen each other since Cassie...

Tell Us Something True by Dana Reinhardt [in School Library Journal]

05 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

River Dean, 17, is not a bad kid: he's got warm relationships with his family (except his runaway dad), does well at school, and has good friends. But when Penny, the love of his life, dumps him, River starts making awful decisions, starting with stumbling...

Moo by Sharon Creech [in School Library Journal]

04 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Twelve-year-old Reena's outburst during a family conversation about parental careers, geography, and the future "ten years from now" catapults the family from a city of monuments, subways, and museums and lands them in rural Maine. Her expectations of her new home include lobsters, blueberries, beaches,...

Ghost [Track series: Book 1] by Jason Reynolds [in School Library Journal]

03 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Guy Lockard has assumed the mantle of narrator-of-choice for Jason Reynolds’s fiction: Ghost (2016 National Book Award finalist) is Lockard's third Reynolds title, following As Brave as You and Rashad's chapters in All American Boys. Here, as seventh grader Castle "Ghost" Crenshaw, Lockard performs...

The Best Man by Richard Peck [in School Library Journal]

02 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW The latest from Newbery Medal-winning author Richard Peck takes on important and timely topics – marriage, sexuality, manhood, nontraditional families –and alchemizes them into an affecting story full of warmth, acceptance, and understanding. Sixth grader Archer Magill narrates what he calls "A Tale of...

The Mortifications by Derek Palacio [in Library Journal]

21 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Cuban, Cuban American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW A mother, Soledad, flees Cuba, abandoning her revolutionary husband Uxmal and absconding with their 12-year-old twins Ulises and Isabel. She bypasses Miami for Hartford, CT, finding work as a court stenographer, making her the transcriber of other people's words. Although Uxmal’s presence never seems to...

Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith [in Library Journal]

20 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

The dozen stories in Ali Smith's (How To Be Both) latest collection share a common characteristic: a contagious sense of wordplay, from obscure etymology ("buxom" originally meant "obedient, compliant, gracious") in "Last," to multiple meanings of "fraud" linking D.H. Lawrence to credit card theft in...

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson [in Library Journal]

15 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW August, an Ivy League-pedigreed, peripatetic anthropologist who studies death in the farthest reaches of the world, returns home to Brooklyn to bury her father. A chance subway meeting with a childhood friend plunges August back into memories of another Brooklyn of the 1970s, when...

Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown by Lezley McSpadden with Lyah Beth LeFlore [in Library Journal]

09 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Memoir, Repost

Michael Brown was shot to death by police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, MO. Lezley McSpadden didn't see her 18-year-old son die, "but as his mother, I do know one thing better than anyone, and that's how to tell my son's...

The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela [in Library Journal]

05 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, Arab American, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW In a dual narrative, Leila Aboulela (Minaret; Lyrics Alley), winner of the inaugural Caine Prize for African Writing, exposes the impossibility of definitively taking sides. In 2010 Scotland, the global war on terror pixilates the lives of history professor Natasha, her student Oz, and...

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey [in Library Journal]

30 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

Colin Dickey (Afterlives of the Saints) cites a statistic that 45 percent of Americans believe in ghosts, and 30 percent profess to have had firsthand encounters. Such undying fascination means there was no shortage of stories to choose from when Dickey spent several years traveling...

Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes [in School Library Journal]

28 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

The Avalon Family Residence might sound nice, but it's not: "peeling paint, cockroaches…our tiny room." Dèja, her parents, and her two younger siblings are homeless, currently staying in a Brooklyn shelter. Her father can't work, and her exhausted mother is menially employed. As Dèja starts fifth...

How To Party with an Infant by Kaui Hart Hemmings

10 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hawaiian, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Mele, single mother of Ellie, joined the San Francisco Mother's Club (SFMC) to be matched with the perfect playgroup, something that never happened. Two years later, she's part of a rogue, "laughing, sh*t-talking, texting, even talking on the phone" fivesome that came together organically at...

Dear Fang, With Love by Rufi Thorpe

21 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Lucas and Katya spend a year in love as boarding school seniors and have a baby. Their parting leaves Lucas estranged throughout daughter Vera’s childhood; he eventually graduates to being a weekend dad. At 16, Vera goes to a party she shouldn’t have, which ends with...

How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball [in Library Journal]

20 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Morbid fascination will keep listeners riveted to Jesse Ball’s (A Cure for Suicide) shocking new novel as teenager Lucia Stanton chronicles –with unnerving detachment – her troubled life through a collage of blunt paragraphs, random lists, outrageous predictions, and a "pamphlet" bearing the book's...

Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan [in Library Journal]

19 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Repost, Singaporean, Singaporean American, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Jazzy is still single at almost 27. When her BFF-quartet lost Sher to the dream they all aspire to – marrying an "ang moh," a wealthy Western expat, because local Singaporean men "are a bit fussy" about "older girls" – Jazzy decides she needs a...

Vinegar Girl [Hogarth Shakespeare] by Anne Tyler [in Library Journal]

18 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

The third installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series transfers the 16th-century comedy The Taming of the Shew, set in Padua, Italy, to a contemporary Baltimore neighborhood, otherwise known as beloved Pulitzer-Prized Anne Tyler-territory. The Bard's obdurate, would-be lovers Katherina and Petruchio become Kate Battista, a...

A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi [in Library Journal]

17 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Afghan, Afghan American, Audio, Fiction, Repost

Accused of brutally murdering her husband, Zeba lands in jail. A mother of four, wife to Kamal, and obedient to Kamal's family, Zeba can't remember what happened. She remains silently resigned, realizing that in contemporary Afghanistan, just being a woman is enough to threaten not...

Kizumonogatari: Wound Tale by Nisioisin, translated by Ko Ransom [in School Library Journal]

06 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

As spring break begins, 17-year-old loner Araragi makes his only friend – and loses his humanity. Araragi is befuddled by class president Hanekawa's sudden attention, and his conversation with her about a vampire sighting doesn't sink in until he helps a dying limbless woman, only...

The Pier Falls and Other Stories by Mark Haddon [in Library Journal]

28 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

*STARRED REVIEW Wildly varying in topics from a seaside disaster in the titular opening story to an unlikely relationship that develops between an older man and the suicide attemptee he rescues in "The Weir," Mark Haddon’s nine stories here are thematically linked through a common sense...

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