Hank Aaron: Brave in Every Way by Peter Goldenbock, illustrated by Paul Lee [in AsianWeek]
31 Mar, by in Biography, Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction, Repost
Paperback reissue of the inspirational story of legendary Hank Aaron, who first had to break through color barriers in the world of professional major league baseball before he could break the Babe’s record for...
What’s a slumber party without special, cool things to do? This little handbook adds pizzazz to your overnight girlfriend fun – from spa treatments to crafts to cooking to playing games to...
A beautifully rendered, haunting autobiographical story about a young boy coming of age during China’s Cultural Revolution, a time marked with incomprehensible, dangerous, chaotic change. Absolutely breathtaking.
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Novelist and essayist (and frequent New York Review of Books contributor) Mishra adds to what seems to be a growing hybrid genre of memoir infused with history, philosophy, and politics. What begins...
If you understand the word “otaku” (and if you don’t, you’ll have to read this to find out), then this book’s for you: the first insider’s guide in English to...
In this updated 25th-anniversary edition of how to read your personal horoscope, you’ll find a lot of “Uh-huh,” and “Oh, wow – that’s so true!” going on. Lau even cross-tabulates...
Everything you ever needed to know about celebrating the good life like a real Chinese American – from the New Year to dragon boats to weddings and even funerals. And just in...
The detailed, illustrated chapters on Kabuki, Bunraku, Nō, Kyōgen, and contemporary theater (with even a theater listings guide), make me wish this book was around when I was...
An award-winning writer, activist, musician, and professor, Julian Lester uses his own personal story as an African American to engage young readers in exploring what makes each of us unique...
With all the endless shelves of parenting titles, why not tout one that champions Asian influences? One major diversion, however, from traditional discipline tactics attributed to Confucius: While...
A lively sourcebook filled with compelling essays that look at the Asian Pacific American experience through the experiences of APA youth – a group marked more by diversity than easy-to-define labels.
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Discovered over the last quarter-century in China and posited as the foundational text for early Taoism, Inward Training is composed of compact poetic verses written on silk and bamboo that were entombed for over...
WOW! A gorgeous photographic essay of the world’s second-largest economy that captures its ultimately high-tech contemporary achievements, sharply juxtaposed with striking images of a strongly traditional society of timeless beauty.
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Talk about bad first impression: Reading the jacket cover description with the glaring spelling error, “Shitimachi” (what does that sound like?!) instead of the correct “Shitamachi” (which literally means ‘below-town’ or more...
Oh, Asian influences are everywhere we look … and becoming endlessly more visible – or, in this case, more visual. The influences of Buddhist teachings and perspectives are...
From the screenwriter of such award-winning films as Mississippi Masala and Salaam Bombay! comes a stunning portrait of a rapidly shrinking community, the Parsis who number just 100,000 today. Followers of Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s...
With the 30th anniversary this year of the end of the Vietnam-U.S. War (and the 30th anniversary of the first significant wave of Vietnamese immigration to the United States), expect a lot more titles...
This boxed set, complete with an easy-to-follow how-to booklet and 60 sheets of origami paper in perfect holiday colors, is the ideal gift for children of any age – the big ones included!
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Through close readings of “nativist” Taiwanese literature of the 1960s and 1970s and of the Taiwanese New Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s, Yip offers a distinct national Taiwanese identity independent of historical Chinese...
For women of color, the fight for civil rights includes equitable reproductive rights. Both coercive sterilization and invasive long-term birth-control technologies have historically undermined the reproductive rights of women of color. Such practices continue...