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Mister Doctor: Janusz Korczak and the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto by Irène Cohen-Janca, illustrated by Maurizio A.C. Quarello, translated by Paula Ayer

22 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Biography, European, Jewish, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Translation, Young Adult Readers

While this summer's Justice League and Fantastic Four make for great celluloid entertainment, for true inspiration, Mister Doctor – as Dr. Janucz Korczak was called by his beloved children – is a real life superhero to be admired and emulated. His accomplishments beyond doctoring included also being a scholar,...

The Divine by Boaz Lavie, illustrated by Asaf Hanuka and Tomer Hanuka

10 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Israeli, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

Really, it's not just because of the dragon that I'm telling you to read this. Although, yes, the dragon is indeed an intriguing draw, especially since it doesn't appear until the very last pages, deus ex machina-style, albeit not without bringing violent retribution with it,...

Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee + Author Interview [in Bookslut]

06 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

When Samantha Young swoops out of her father's dry goods store still angry from the news that they will soon be leaving Missouri for California – the exact opposite direction from New York – she couldn't possibly have realized that her life would literally be...

Master Keaton (vol. 2) by Naoki Urasawa, story by Hokusei Katsushika and Takashi Nagasaki, translated and adapted by John Werry

03 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Okay, I admit it: Master Keaton is my favorite new series. Luckily, Naoki Urasawa’s manga tend to go lonnnggggg (24 volumes of 20th-into-21st Century Boys, 18 volumes of Monster, and the shortest, eight-volumes of Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka) so hopefully the good Master will keep me mightily satisfied for a...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Holly Thompson’s Orchards

24 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Danica Novgorodoff’s The Undertaking of Lily Chen

17 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan [in Christian Science Monitor]

15 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American

The Ever After of Ashwin Rao explores grief that lingers long after the bombing of an airliner Two weeks short of the 19th anniversary of the bombing of Air India Flight 182 – which disintegrated off the Irish coast on June 23,1985 – psychologist Ashwin Rao...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Crystal Chan’s Bird

12 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Caribbean American, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, translated by John Cullen [in Christian Science Monitor]

04 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Arab, European, Fiction, French, Repost, Translation

The Meursault Investigation cleverly builds on The Stranger by Camus In a New Yorker interview this March, Algerian journalist Kamel Daoud spoke of reading the iconic 1942 classic, The Stranger by Albert Camus – in which a man arbitrarily commits murder and is tried and sentenced...

Ink and Ashes by Valynne Maetani + Author Interview [in Bloom]

03 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Having lived most of my life in cities, being temporarily stuck in a small ski resort town in the Wild West has been quite the challenge. Whenever I leave Dodge, I seem to take a good percentage of the diversity with me. When – shall...

Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village by Fang Suzhen, illustrated by Sonja Danowski, translated by Huang Xiumin

19 May, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, European, Fiction, Taiwanese, Translation

Xiao Le – whose name means "little joy" –hasn't seen his grandmother in "a long time." When his mother announces an impending visit, Xiao Le is happy at the thought of riding a train, and the chance to share his toy truck with his grandmother. When mother...

Three Souls by Janie Chang + Author Interview [in Bookslut]

04 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

"We have three souls, or so I'd been told. But only in death could I confirm this." Thus begins Canadian author Janie Chang’s debut novel, Three Souls, in which a dead woman will learn about a life that ended too quickly, and how she might...

Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda by J.P. Stassen, translated by Alexis Siegel

17 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

In Latin, Deo gratias, means 'thanks be to God.' And yet in Belgian graphic artist/author J.P. Stassen’s arresting title of the same name, gratitude and God have all but disappeared. The titular Deogratias here was once a teenage boy – mischievous, a little desperate, in love with...

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

02 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Jewish

In real life, Linda Lavin (known to a certain generation as TV's Alice, also known to others for her almost-half-century of on-stage success) isn't quite as old as the titular Boston Girl, but she absolutely epitomizes the ideal narrator here. The year is 1985, and...

I Was Here by Gayle Forman

24 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

As the story begins, the titular 'I' is dead. That's actually not a spoiler – "The day after Meg died ...

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Indian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, South Asian American

Ah finally, I'm fully caught up with the good doc, having read each of Atul Gawande’s four bestsellers in published order. And how grateful am I to have followed through so methodically, because all that 'homework' certainly made this, his latest, an even fuller read. Here's...

Ruby by Cynthia Bond

24 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction

How surprised was I to hear earlier this month that Oprah's latest Book Club 2.0 pick just happened to be on my iPod! I suppose the fact that I always have no fewer than a couple dozen books on my phone at all times makes...

The Accidental Apprentice by Vikas Swarup

09 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian, South Asian

Trust me, you're just going to have to go with the impossible premise right up front. If you need a little help, you can choose to go audible, because expert narrator Sneha Mathan will surely help you believe. Go ahead, check your doubts: you'll be amply rewarded by career diplomat...

The Four Books by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas [in Library Journal]

02 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Yan Lianke (Dream of Ding Village) has built his substantial career on exposing the surreal absurdity of China's 20th-century tragedies. His latest-in-translation features the 99th district of a reeducation camp, where intellectuals controlled by a maniacally cruel yet innocently naïve child endure merciless conditions...

Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign (vols. 1-2) by Takaya Kagami, illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto, storyboards by Daisuke Furuya, translated by Adrienne Beck

23 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Here's an intriguing blend of vampiric dystopia: "One day ...

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