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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

10 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Chinese American, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

A fatally injured 9-year-old girl, a third-grade boy labelled by teachers as "‘mentally retarded,’" a restless doctor burnt out from overwork in refugee camps, are saving the world. Rachel Beckwith didn't survive a highway collision, but her ninth birthday wish to raise $300 to build a faraway...

Fox’s Garden by Princesse Camcam

08 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Here's a book without words, which speaks a universal language that we all need to hear loud and clear: Be kind. Could the message be simpler? Somewhere, anywhere, on a cold wintry night made bright with snow, a single fox seeks shelter. The glow of soft...

El Deafo by Cece Bell, color by David Lasky

07 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

You might not recognize her name immediately, but if you click here (and happen to have children of a certain age, and/or like to browse the kiddie sections of libraries and bookstores), you'll definitely recognize Cece Bell’s literally artful creations. This, her first graphic title, is...

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

06 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

In 2004, Gilead gave voice to the aging Reverend John Ames, who recognizes he will not live to see his 7-year-old son grow up and so creates an epistolary record of all that he will never be able to share with his boy. Four years later, Home featured...

Malala: A Brave Girl from Pakistan | Iqbal: A Brave Boy from Pakistan by Jeanette Winter

29 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Pakistani, South Asian

Earlier this month, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai made world history by becoming the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. She shares the award for 2014 with India's Kailash Satyarthi: the pair were cited "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the...

Vintage by Susan Gloss

27 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian American, Nonethnic-specific, South Asian American

A divorcée with her baby clock ticking, a teenage-math-prodigy-mother-to-be who no longer needs that wedding dress, and an immigrant Indian woman who's just found out her husband has spent the better part of their three-decade marriage lying to her, gather in a vintage clothing shop...

The Possibilities by Kaui Hart Hemmings

20 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hawaiian, Nonethnic-specific

So as not to prolong the disappointment and annoyance, I'm going to try to keep this short. I actually skip posting about duds more often than not because the energy feels so wasted, but this title has history: it was attached to a 'how-many-of-these-have-you-read?"-query from a...

Gustave by Rémy Simard, illustrated by Pierre Pratt, translated by Shelley Tanaka

12 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

As much as Gustave tends toward dark (both in illustrations and initial narrative content), it's even more so about hope ...

Even More Bad Parenting Advice by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher

10 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Translation

Even when we old folks have only the noblest intentions, our parenting skills don't always live up to the 'skill' part, ahem. Canadian French comic master Guy Delisle humorously mines his own follies, and gives us the perfect opportunity to keep laughing with him, and even more...

Ashes to Ashes [Burn for Burn Trilogy 3] by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

09 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

"The idea for the Burn for Burn trilogy began over cupcakes, as the best ideas usually do," the back cover teases, citing YA-writing BFFs Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian's inseparable relationship. That said, little is sweet about this searing series featuring three high school girls bound together...

Don’t by Litsa Trochatos, illustrated by Virginia Johnson

04 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

If you like to giggle and guffaw – and really, who doesn't?! – have I got a book for you! "Don't start a food fight with an octopus." Why? Well ...

Fire with Fire [Burn for Burn Trilogy 2] by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

29 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Even more than Reeve who is lying in a hospital bed – his intended college football career probably shattered – Lillia, Kat, and Mary are the ones who need to recover from the shocker that was Homecoming. Guilt, for now, is as paralyzing as any cast...

The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go

22 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Nonethnic-specific

Debut novelist Justin Go had me riveted until page 447 (or some 16 hours stuck in the ears). With less than 20 pages to go, how did that utter devotion morph into annoyance, disappointment, dare I say, even a sense of betrayal? I thought – hoped? –...

Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle

21 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

For all the challenges he survived in Better Nate than Ever, Nate Foster is now just five weeks from making his Broadway debut. So he'll be going on as Alien Number Seven in a single-word part, but he's also the second understudy for the titular...

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian

07 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Here's another title you might consider choosing to stick in your ears: 1. because this, Chris Bohjalian’s latest, is read by his own daughter, Grace Experience Blewer, who he credits as "instrumental in the creation of [his protagonist's] voice," who taught him "a lot – I...

Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

04 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

Let me begin with the reasons to go aural on this one: co-author Stephen J. Dubner narrates (his near-breathless energy is downright contagious), plus you get additional bonus selections (including commitment devices, banning tipping, and not-men women) at book's end from the authors' Freakonomics Radio archives during which...

Take Away the A by Michaël Escoffier, illustrated by Kris Di Giacomo

02 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

It's subtitled "An ALPHABEAST of a book!" which should give you some indication that letters will be involved. Ah, but there's a catch – a simply ingenious, uniquely entertaining one at that. Ready to wordplay? "Without the A the BEAST is the BEST." I can vouch for...

I Love You More by Jennifer Murphy

27 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

What are the chances: I seem to be island-hopping this week ...

Burn for Burn [Burn for Burn Trilogy 1] by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

26 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

The first of a trilogy (#3 debuts next month; I'm arriving on Jar Island a little late), Burn is inarguably shocking, but it definitely sets the stage for more chills to come. Mary, who left Jar Island in 7th grade, is back in 11th completely transformed. Lillia, once...

You Are (Not) Small by Anna Kang, illustrated by Christopher Weyant

25 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific

OH. MY. What a tiny world. Although I don't personally know first-time kiddie book author Anna Kang, I could definitely recite and/or impersonate (badly) parts of her graduate thesis film, not black or white, on command as I've used it some 148 times in classrooms over the...

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