Demon (Volume 1) by Jason Shiga
14 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American
Warning first: This is NOT NOT NOT for kids. For us old folks, however ...
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A Family Is a Family Is a Family by Sara O’Leary, illustrated by Qin Leng
11 Oct, by in Absolute Favorites, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific
Talking about families can sometimes be daunting for kids, especially when you can't check off those expected, so-called "traditional" boxes on who's who of your bestest loved ones. Sitting in her classroom discussing "what we thought made our family special," one little girl is not...
Kizumonogatari: Wound Tale by Nisioisin, translated by Ko Ransom [in School Library Journal]
06 Oct, by 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...
Author Interview: Pamela Erens [in Bloom]
04 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Jewish, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
While Pamela Erens might not yet be a household-name author, she’s hardly a stranger to literary recognition. Her 2007 debut, The Understory – about a solitary, unemployed lawyer who’s about to lose his home – was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the...
The Pier Falls and Other Stories by Mark Haddon [in Library Journal]
28 Sep, by 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...
The Silent Dead [Reiko Himekawa, Book 1] by Tetsuya Honda, translated by Giles Murray [in Library Journal]
23 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
Already the star of an ongoing, bestselling series in Japan (on both page and screen), Det. Reiko Himekawa makes her English-translation debut, outsmarting her arrogant male colleagues by listening to the dead. At 29, Reiko is young to be a lieutenant in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's...
Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan [in Libary Journal]
21 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American
*STARRED REVIEW When a bomb explodes in a Delhi market in May 1996, the 11- and 13-year-old Khurana brothers, who were sent to pick up the family's repaired television, are killed, while their friend Mansoor Ahmed, 12, somehow survives. The senseless tragedy inextricably binds the two...
Book Uncle and Me by Uma Krishnaswami [in Shelf Awareness]
16 Sep, by in Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American
Just after turning 8, Yasmin Kader set a goal "to read one book every day. Every single day, forever." She's already up to more than 400, thanks to after-school detours to Book Uncle's Lending Library, a street-corner pop-up made of planks piled high with books....
Vaseline Budda by Jung Young Moon, translated by Yewon Jung [in Library Journal]
15 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation
As narratives go, little happens in Jung Young Moon's latest translated-into-English title: unable to sleep, the protagonist considers writing a story, but not before he prevents a possible robbery. The unknown fate of the fallen thief sparks his imagination to cite memories (a break-up, a...
Local Girl Swept Away by Ellen Wittlinger [in School Library Journal]
14 Sep, by in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Four best friends are on the Cape Cod coast when a storm blows in, and suddenly one of them, Lorna, is gone. Lorna was Jackie's best friend, Finn's girlfriend, and Lucas's dream girl. Her body is never found, but a memorial is organized, and life...
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds [in School Library Journal]
13 Sep, by in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW Jason Reynolds makes his middle-grade debut with a multigenerational story featuring two Brooklyn brothers sent to stay temporarily with grandparents in rural Virginia. While their parents take some time to salvage their fraying relationship, 11-year-old Genie and his almost 14-year-old brother, Ernie, are expected...
Beware That Girl by Teresa Toten [in School Library Journal]
12 Sep, by in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Kate has always been a liar – out of necessity rather than malice. She's smart and savvy and knows how to be a good friend. She's also the best scholarship student Manhattan's tony Waverly School has ever had. Olivia, by contrast, has grown up with every...
The Bombs that Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan [in Shelf Awareness]
09 Sep, by in British, European, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Some time, somewhere, Little Town and Old Country are separated by borders and bombs. If Little Town is said to be filthy, broke, and run by ragtag criminals, Old Country is conformist, rich, and militaristic. Almost 15, cautious Little Towner Charlie Law stays relatively safe...
This Is Me: A Story of Who We Are & Where We Came From by Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated by Laura Cornell
06 Sep, by in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific
Happy Back-to-School across these wide United States of America with this timely reminder that we are a nation of immigrants with histories and stories from somewhere else. Given some of the hot topics looming this election year, all parents, teachers, schools, libraries would do well to order...
Making Friends with Billy Wong by Augusta Scattergood [in Shelf Awareness]
02 Sep, by in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
When 11-year-old Azalea Morgan and her mother arrive in Paris Junction, Arkansas, in August 1952, her mother barely lasts a few minutes in her gossipy, small-town childhood home before she turns the car around, leaving her daughter behind to help her injured grandmother with her...
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