29 Jul, by in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Fiction, Japanese American
It begins in mostly black and white ...
BookDragon Books for the Diverse Reader
Split by Swati Avasthi
28 Jul, by in Audio, Fiction, Indian American, Nonethnic-specific, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers
When Jace Witherspoon arrives at Christian Marshall's address after 19 hours of driving straight from Chicago to Albuquerque, he's not quite sure what he's going to say. "'I was in the neighborhood,' ...
The Last Night of Ramadan by Maissa Hamed, illustrated by Mohamed El Wakil
27 Jul, by in Arab American, Children/Picture Books, Egyptian American, Fiction
By various lunar predictions, tonight should be the last night of Ramadan. Eid Mubarak! In spite of all the good intentions expected of this holy month, world events haven't exactly played out quite that way, which only makes the first line of the preface here that...
Avatar: The Last Airbender | The Rift (Part Two) created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino, script by Gene Luen Yang, art by Gurihiru, lettering by Michael Heisler
25 Jul, by in Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Young Adult Readers
Just to be totally up front, we have four months of waiting for Part Three. Just saying (and sighing). Until then, in case you need to flash back, here's a look at Part One, which landed Avatar Aang and his motley entourage at what should have been the...
Moon Watchers: Shirin’s Ramadan Miracle by Reza Jalali, illustrated by Anne Sibley O’Brien
24 Jul, by in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Iranian American
Welcome to Ramadan at Shirin's house: she sky-gazes with her father, listens to stories told by her grandmother, helps her mother sort squares for a new quilt ...
The News: A User’s Manual by Alain de Botton
22 Jul, by in Adult Readers, British, Nonfiction, Repost
Alain de Botton has a book I might never ever read – the one that happens to have a little note inscribed to me from de Botton himself, courtesy of a dear friend who met him in London and shipped the volume across the Pond. Truth be told, that...
Nabeel’s New Pants: An Eid Tale retold by Fawzia Gilani-Williams, illustrated by Proiti Roy
21 Jul, by in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Indian African, Indian American
While you're preparing for Eid– which should begin next week on July 29 (the moon has a calendar all its own!) – add ordering, buying, or borrowing this book to your list of to-do's right now. Nabeel and his family are about to provide quite the nourishment for the soul. Ramadan,...
Hattie Ever After by Kirby Larson
20 Jul, by in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers
Readers with groupie-tendencies (like me), take careful note: Hattie Ever After is positive proof that if you ask an author enough times for more, you just might receive. "When I left Hattie at the end of Hattie Big Sky," confesses Kirby Larson in her ending "Author's...
The Flowers of Evil (vol. 10) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr
18 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers
Open this penultimate volume, and the belly begins flip-flopping over how it might – must? – end. Creator Shuzo Oshimi has clearly shown himself to be one scary manipulator, so already I'm trying to prepare for the inevitably shattering shock this October when that final installment comes out. Oh, but the agony of...
Our Happy Time by Gong Ji-young, translated by Sora Kim-Russell
17 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Translation
Not to discourage anyone, but feel free to stop reading any further and just go to your favorite bookstore, walk to your nearest library, click online, or visit your most literary buddy's shelves, and open to the first page of Our Happy Time as soon...
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
14 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race
So here I sit facing a familiar conundrum ...
Liar by Justine Larbalestier
13 Jul, by in Audio, Australian, Black/African American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers
Micah is a boy. Micah is a girl. Micah is 17, a senior in a progressive New York City private school. Micah's father went to Marseille in search of his unknown black French father and came back with a white French wife. Micah's father is an...
GTO: 14 Days in Shonan (vols. 1-2) by Tohru Fujisawa, translated by Ko Ransom
11 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers
Apparently, I've jumped way ahead and will need to go backwards sooner than later: GTO: 14 Days in Shonan is the sequel to the wildly successful original GTO which debuted in 1997 and quickly thereafter became a TV drama, live-action film, anime, and more. And the...
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
09 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Afghan, Afghan American, Audio, Fiction
See the entwined pair of hands? Although the girl and woman never meet, they remain forever bound by both blood and experience over a tumultuous century in Afghanistan. The woman is Shekiba, the only daughter in a family of sons, whose gender alone makes her a target of abuse...
Chukfi Rabbit’s Big, Bad Bellyache: A Trickster Tale told by Greg Rodgers, illustrated by Leslie Stall Widener
08 Jul, by in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples
Welcome to Choctaw country: native storyteller Greg Rodgers re-introduces a "hidden away" tale transcribed from the 1930s to "the living world of Choctaw literature," while native artist Leslie Stall Widener animates Rodgers' words with whimsical renditions of the animal characters garbed in Choctaw-inspired colorful duds. Young (and old, ahem!)...
The Last Werewolf Trilogy: The Last Werewolf, Talulla Rising, By Blood We Live by Glen Duncan
07 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Audio, British, British Asian, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race
In a roundabout way I can't quite recall, I ended up at this 2007 New York Times article, "Young Man Behaving Badly," and learned that bestselling author Glen Duncan is hapa British Asian. I found his latest title, By Blood We Live, magically waiting on my shelves, only...
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