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BookDragon Death Tag

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

14 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 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...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Nicola Yoon’s Everything Everything

07 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Caribbean American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Valynne Maetani’s Ink & Ashes

17 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Kaori Ozaki’s the gods lie.

12 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016, Young Adult Readers

The Widow by Fiona Barton [in Library Journal]

09 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 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...

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave [in Library Journal]

05 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Repost

Inspired by his grandparents' love story, meticulously recorded in his grandfather's extant letters (his grandmother's replies were sunk), Chris Cleave’s latest feels like his gentlest – in spite of the backdrop of World War II. At the novel's core is privileged, headstrong Mary North, who signs...

And Again by Jessica Chiarella [in Library Journal]

29 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 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...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Erin Entrada Kelly’s The Land of Forgotten Girls

20 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Filipina/o American, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016

The Last Cherry Blossom by Kathleen Burkinshaw [in Shelf Awareness]

20 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Japanese, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

Descended from a noble samurai family, 12-year-old Yuriko Ishikawa enjoys a privileged life in Hiroshima, Japan. While World War II rages on multiple continents, for now the seventh-grader exists in relative peace. Even when she's at school, with U.S. B-29s flying overhead, her legs wobbling...

Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez [in School Library Journal]

12 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW The 1937 school explosion in New London, TX, remains the deadliest school disaster in U.S. history. With that real-life tragedy as a starting point, Ashley Hope Pérez adds greater volatility with race, class, and family dysfunction, by introducing a love story between two teens from...

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

08 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 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...

A Midsummer’s Equation [Detective Galileo 3] by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith [in Library Journal]

07 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

The third installment of Keigo Higashino's Japan-set Detective Galileo series (after Salvation of a Saint) lands stateside, with plenty of didn't-see-that-coming surprises to keep listeners entranced straight to the end. Brilliant and eccentric physicist Manabu Yukawa – called Detective Galileo because of the sharp, unexpected...

A Poet of the Invisible World by Michael Golding [in Library Journal]

05 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Jewish, Persian, Repost

To get her four-eared infant to safety, Nouri Ahmad Mohammad ibn Mahsoud al-Morad's mother gave first her body, then her life. In 13th-century Persia, a child so different would require divine intervention to survive, and Nouri literally falls into the arms of a gentle, crippled...

The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid MacKeen [in Library Journal]

23 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Audio, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

"[A]s a reporter, I was spending my life telling other people's stories and ignoring my own family's incredible one," Dawn Anahid MacKeen realized at 35. Her 78-year-old Armenian mother was aging, and MacKeen could no longer ignore her calls to "come home." In 2006, MacKeen left...

Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart

19 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Six days before eighth grade starts, Lily and Dunkin meet for the first time. Lily is still known mostly as Timothy, the boy name he was given at birth – but he's practicing being his true self: a girl named Lily. Dressed in her mother's dress and sandals,...

The Passenger by Lisa Lutz [in Library Journal]

12 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 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 Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 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...

One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong [in Library Journal]

06 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Malaysian, Nonfiction, Repost

China's infamous one-child policy lasted just 35 years. Forced sterilizations, gruesome late-term abortions, an overseas adoption boom, and baby trafficking emerged as by-products of the draconian law. What was touted as a "necessary step in [China's] Herculean efforts to lift the population…from abject poverty" resulted in...

The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly [in School Library Journal]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Once upon a time, Soledad had two sisters and two loving parents. But tragedy can happen to anyone at any time, and suddenly, Sol and her younger sister, Ming, are transplanted to the other side of the world in a run-down apartment in Louisiana,...

On My Own by Diane Rehm [in Library Journal]

16 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Arab American, Audio, Egyptian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Beloved NPR host Diane Rehm’s latest memoir begins with her husband John's end – depleted by Parkinson's disease, unable to "stand walk, eat, bathe, or in any way care for himself on his own, he was now ready to die." After 54 years of marriage –...

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