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Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón

20 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, European, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Jewish, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Some time in the recent past, a video link came through that began with birthday wishes for Anne Frank, as if she had miraculously survived the Holocaust and lived many fulfilling decades. [I can't seem to find the link again, so if anyone recognizes the description...

Thermae Romae III by Mari Yamazaki, translated by Stephen Paul

30 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Before you can fully appreciate the final volume of the adventures of our favorite time-traveling hunky bathing beauty, you'll need to dive into the two previous volumes to catch up. If nothing else, aren't you curious why our ancient stoner is holding that bottle of Yakult? You won't find...

The Shadow Mother by Seán Virgo, illustrated by Javier Serrano Pérez

11 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian, European, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Confession: this post appears today only because of the word "Mother" in the title. In the U.S. and many countries around the world, the second Sunday in May is designated "Mother's Day" [check out this comprehensive chart for a Mother's Day near you!]. So here's the warning: if you're...

Coyote Run by Gaëtan Dorémus

18 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction

Here's your oxymoron for the day: wordless books that convey so much. French illustrator/author Gaëtan Dorémus pays a kid-friendly homage to the American western ...

Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner, foreword by Brian Michael Bendis, afterword by Jeet Heer

14 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Jewish, Young Adult Readers

"I am Fagin the Jew of Oliver Twist," begins the 'father of the graphic novel'-Will Eisner's 21st-century literary reclamation of the 19th-century classic. "This is my story, one that has remained untold and overlooked in the book by Charles Dickens," a tattered old man insists....

The Incredible Adventures of Dog Mendonça and PizzaBoy (I and II: Apocalypse) by Filipe Melo, art by Juan Cava, colors by Santiago Villa, translated by Raylene Lowe (I) and Philip R. Simon (II)

07 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Translation, Young Adult Readers

While watching evening TV that's been interrupted by a special bulletin about the unending "wave of child abductions in Lisbon," Eurico nods off, only to be jarred awake by the ringing telephone. He's late again to his pizza delivery job, where his boss thinks he's...

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Whenever I hear that a book is about to be transformed into celluloid, I get into a little panic to read the original, oftentimes titles I ironically wouldn't have opened otherwise. Occasionally, I'm pleasantly rewarded, Miss Peregrine among those few that fill me with literary gratitude....

Schroder by Amity Gaige

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

This is an immigration story. But not the sort of immigration I've become accustomed to ...

Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust by Loïc Dauvillier, illustrated by Marc Lizano, color by Greg Salsedo, translated by Alexis Siegel

31 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, European, Fiction, French, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Jewish, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Preorder this title now and you can stop reading here ...

A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker, translated by Kevin Wiliarty

21 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Myanmarese (Burmese), Myanmarese (Burmese) American, Southeast Asian, Translation

Every once in a while, only the very best schmaltz will do. Earnest and endearing, this just-arriving-in-translation sequel to the international mega-bestseller, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, is a through-the-night read that will leave you sighing and swooning. Okay, so we're not talking Nobel-quality: "'I speak of a...

Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan by Leslie Helm

17 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, European, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction

'Sprawling' barely begins to describe journalist/editor Leslie Helm's ambitious family history that spans nearly a century-and-a-half, three continents, and the titular five generations of a German Japanese American family with current branches spread throughout the rest of the world. Prompted by the death of his difficult...

Line 135 by Germano Zullo, illustrated by Albertine

15 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Translation

Clearly this image is not doing justice to the book's spirited cover with its bright lime green train and fluorescent orange doors. To appreciate its vibrancy is reason enough to go find the real book! See that jauntily ponytailed, smiling little girl? She's definitely inviting...

Blue Is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger

13 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, French, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Translation, Young Adult Readers

From the very first page, you'll learn that one lover is dead, while the other survives: "My love, when you read these words I will have left this world." Emma is in transit to Clementine's childhood home to retrieve Emma's diaries: "I asked my mother...

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books: The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, The Prisoner of Heaven, The Rose of Fire by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, translated by Lucia Graves

24 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Translation

Well, crud. In spite of making a list and checking it twice, thrice, and more, I read these in about as 'wrong' order as I possibly could. But before I offer two preventative options, some quick background: the full Cemetery of Forgotten Books by internationally bestselling...

Paris Was the Place by Susan Conley

13 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, South Asian

In Susan Conley's debut novel defined by deep relationships, the most intriguing alliances get neglected and overlooked for the more commonplace and predictable. Willow – called Willie – moves to Paris to be closer to her peripatetic brother Luke who was most recently in China bringing safe...

The Hole by Øyvind Torseter, translated by Kari Dickson

08 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Translation

So here I find myself facing a bit of a conundrum: how best to tell you about this whimsical delight without spoiling that giddy sense of discovery ...

My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz, illustrated by Eva Eriksson, translated by Julia Marshall

27 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Swedish, Translation

When Dani can't sleep, she doesn't count sheep, she "counted all the times she'd been happy." Now she's also excited, as well as happy: "She'd waited her whole life to start school." Her first day is "'[m]aybe a little bit scary, but lots of fun,'"...

Nasreddine by Odile Weulersse, illustrated by Rébecca Dautremer

21 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Translation, Turkish

Here's the perfect companion to Mar Pavón and Nívola Uyá's A Very, Very Noisy Tractor which posted Saturday. Young Nasreddine's answers his father Mustafa's request to ready the donkey for their journey to the market. Mustafa and their large sack of dates sit atop the donkey, while a...

A Very, Very Noisy Tractor by Mar Pavón, illustrated by Nívola Uyá, translated by Jon Brokenbrow

19 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Translation

An unnamed lady with "an enormous beehive hairdo" – in glorious auburn, no less! – chugs down the road ...

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

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

So here's the last of my recent unintentional assemblage of end-of-World-War-II novels that began with Elizabeth Wein’s wrenching Rose Under Fire, and progressed with Chris Bohjalian's desperate Skeletons at the Feast and continued with his latest, the vengeful The Light in the Ruins. Of this week's quartet, Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins (how about that...

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