Demon (Volume 1) by Jason Shiga
14 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American
Warning first: This is NOT NOT NOT for kids. For us old folks, however ...
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A Family Is a Family Is a Family by Sara O’Leary, illustrated by Qin Leng
11 Oct, by in Absolute Favorites, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific
Talking about families can sometimes be daunting for kids, especially when you can't check off those expected, so-called "traditional" boxes on who's who of your bestest loved ones. Sitting in her classroom discussing "what we thought made our family special," one little girl is not...
Author Interview: Pamela Erens [in Bloom]
04 Oct, by 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...
The Pier Falls and Other Stories by Mark Haddon [in Library Journal]
28 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories
*STARRED REVIEW Wildly varying in topics from a seaside disaster in the titular opening story to an unlikely relationship that develops between an older man and the suicide attemptee he rescues in "The Weir," Mark Haddon’s nine stories here are thematically linked through a common sense...
Kurosawa’s Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Most Iconic Films by Paul Anderer [in Library Journal]
22 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Japanese, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost
When Rashomon won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion in September 1950, the world embraced its director, Akira Kurosawa (1910–98), who quickly gained unrivaled prominence – Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg are a few of his self-declared disciples. Convinced “that Westerners...
Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan [in Libary Journal]
21 Sep, by 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...
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth [in Library Journal]
20 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW Angela Duckworth (psychology, Univ. of Pennsylvania) grew up hearing, "You know, you're no genius!" from her own father; she didn't even qualify for the gifted and talented program in third grade. In 2013, the MacArthur Foundation overturned her father's judgment, awarding her one of...
Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife by Barbara Bradley Hagerty [in Library Journal]
19 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW At the risk of sounding utterly selfish, thank goodness Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Fingerprints of God) recovered from her excruciating throat injury to narrate her latest title. Her conspiratorial, gregarious recitation, a skill that clearly contributed to her two-decade, award-winning NPR career, instantly convinces listeners...
Book Uncle and Me by Uma Krishnaswami [in Shelf Awareness]
16 Sep, by in Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American
Just after turning 8, Yasmin Kader set a goal "to read one book every day. Every single day, forever." She's already up to more than 400, thanks to after-school detours to Book Uncle's Lending Library, a street-corner pop-up made of planks piled high with books....
Vaseline Budda by Jung Young Moon, translated by Yewon Jung [in Library Journal]
15 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation
As narratives go, little happens in Jung Young Moon's latest translated-into-English title: unable to sleep, the protagonist considers writing a story, but not before he prevents a possible robbery. The unknown fate of the fallen thief sparks his imagination to cite memories (a break-up, a...
Local Girl Swept Away by Ellen Wittlinger [in School Library Journal]
14 Sep, by 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...
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds [in School Library Journal]
13 Sep, by in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW Jason Reynolds makes his middle-grade debut with a multigenerational story featuring two Brooklyn brothers sent to stay temporarily with grandparents in rural Virginia. While their parents take some time to salvage their fraying relationship, 11-year-old Genie and his almost 14-year-old brother, Ernie, are expected...
The Bombs that Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan [in Shelf Awareness]
09 Sep, by 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...
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain with Gregory Mone and Erica Moroz [in School Library Journal]
08 Sep, by in Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers
*STARRED REVIEW Beyoncé, J.K. Rowling, and Albert Einstein are examples of introverts who harnessed their "quiet power" to become iconic successes. Here Susan Cain offers an entertaining, illuminating adaptation of her adult bestseller, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, to help younger readers...
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings [in School Library Journal]
07 Sep, by in Audio, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers
As today’s most prominent transgender teen, Jennings stepped into the national spotlight in 2007 at the age of 6 in a televised interview with Barbara Walters. In the almost-decade since, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) – psychology/psychiatry’s bible for identifying mental disorders...
Making Friends with Billy Wong by Augusta Scattergood [in Shelf Awareness]
02 Sep, by in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
When 11-year-old Azalea Morgan and her mother arrive in Paris Junction, Arkansas, in August 1952, her mother barely lasts a few minutes in her gossipy, small-town childhood home before she turns the car around, leaving her daughter behind to help her injured grandmother with her...
Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South by Adrienne Berard [in Booklist]
01 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Thirty years before Brown v. Board of Education struck down segregation in public schools, a Chinese American family in the Mississippi Delta fought to continue their daughter’s education. On September 15, 1924, Rosedale School’s principal banned nine-and-a-half-year-old, straight-A student Martha Lum and her older sister...
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