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Kizumonogatari: Wound Tale by Nisioisin, translated by Ko Ransom [in School Library Journal]

06 Oct, by SIBookDragon 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 SIBookDragon 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...

Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan [in Libary Journal]

21 Sep, by SIBookDragon 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...

Local Girl Swept Away by Ellen Wittlinger [in School Library Journal]

14 Sep, by SIBookDragon 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...

Beware That Girl by Teresa Toten [in School Library Journal]

12 Sep, by SIBookDragon 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 SIBookDragon 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...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Kazu Kibuishi’s Amulet

09 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016, Young Adult Readers

My Name Is Not Friday by Jon Walter [in School Library Journal]

31 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, British, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Samuel, almost 13, and his younger brother Joshua are orphans but born free and growing up educated. During the Civil War’s final year, Samuel takes the blame for mischief that he’s convinced that Joshua committed, and finds himself betrayed by the priest who has...

Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens [in Library Journal]

24 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW In a Manhattan hospital, two women are each pregnant – one obviously, the other not yet visibly. Lore arrives with no partner, no friends, and no support, but she is armed with a several-page birth plan with which she expects to control the...

The Widow by Fiona Barton [in Library Journal]

09 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

While the titular widow is the character around which all others circle, she’s certainly not alone in holding secrets. Jean Taylor (read with unnerving control by Hannah Curtis) stood by her husband, Glen, through the heinous accusations leveled against him, until a week ago when...

Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua [in Booklist]

08 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

Journalist Vanessa Hua’s debut in fiction is an intriguing collection of 10 stories with personal resonance from being the child of Chinese immigrants and a two-decade, continent-hopping career. Each of her protagonists is never quite grounded, caught between multiple cultures and countries. Each hides beneath layers...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Brianna Baker and F. Bowman Hastie III’s Little White Lies

03 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016, Young Adult Readers

The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin [in Library Journal]

01 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW When Fen Danlin first landed in New York to join his wife, Yan Haili, she delivered him to a "seedy" Chinatown inn with $500 and instructions to stay – alone – within walking distance of an arranged restaurant job. She returned the next day...

And Again by Jessica Chiarella [in Library Journal]

29 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Gifted artist Hannah was supposed to die of lung cancer, Congressman-for-sale David of brain cancer, has-been actor Connie of AIDS, and housewife and mother Linda trapped by immobility forever. Yet this quartet comprise the first SUBlife cases, and some of their brains – the parts...

How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee [in Library Journal]

08 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, North Korean, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW After the brutal murder of his father and the wrenching separation from his mother and sister, Yongju must survive a new life of deprivation after his privileged upbringing as the only son of one of North Korea’s power elite. Danny, a misfit immigrant teen...

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, translated by Henning Koch [in Library Journal]

03 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Repost, Swedish, Translation

One Monday in January, 63-year-old Britt-Marie enters an unemployment office, having last worked as a waitress in 1978. After decades of fastidious living – perfect cutlery drawers, coasters under every drink, dinner at six, beds disinfected with baking soda – Britt-Marie needs a job. She's left...

The Bones of Grace [Bengal Trilogy, Book 3] by Tahmima Anam [in Christian Science Monitor]

28 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Bangladeshi, Bangladeshi American, British Asian, Fiction, South Asian, South Asian American

'The Bones of Grace': Anam's ‘Bengal trilogy’ comes to a graceful close First, a warning: The Bones of Grace is the final installment in Bangladeshi-born, London-domiciled Tahmima Anam’s “Bengal trilogy.” If the trilogy’s publication history is any indication – A Golden Age in 2008, The Good...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Meredith Russo’s If I Was Your Girl

15 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016, Young Adult Readers

The Passenger by Lisa Lutz [in Library Journal]

12 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific

*STARRED REVIEW Tanya Dubois, as she's initially introduced, is not the woman her husband believed her to be. He's dead – she didn't do it – but Tanya runs anyway, shedding her name and recent past yet again and taking on another identity. In another town, another...

After Disasters by Viet Dinh [in Booklist]

10 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Indian, Repost, South Asian, Vietnamese American

*STARRED REVIEW O. Henry Prize winner (2009) and first-time novelist Dinh drops four fictional characters into the tragic aftermath of the real-life January 2001 cataclysmic earthquake in Gujarat, India, as they travel from New York, London, and Delhi to attempt to save lives, including their own. The...

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