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The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (vol. 14) by Eiji Otsuka, art by Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida, edited by Carl Gustav Horn

07 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation

After more than two-and-a-half years since volume 13 hit Stateside shelves in December 2012, the Kurosagi quintet-plus-puppet (I mean alien) are FINALLY back. And then some. Because in this latest volume, it's Kurosagi x 3, as in three distinct Kurosagi versions fighting for page time. Guess they...

Wind / Pinball by Haruki Murakami, translated by Ted Goossen [in Library Journal]

06 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Before A Wild Sheep Chase made Murakami an international sensation, he wrote these “kitchen-table novels,” so named for where his composition efforts took place after he wrapped up managing his Tokyo jazz bar for the day. Both Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Jillian Tamaki’s SuperMutant Magic Academy

05 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Flood of Fire [Ibis Trilogy, Book 3] by Amitav Ghosh [in Christian Science Monitor]

04 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Flood of Fire brings the astounding, exceptional Ibis Trilogy to a close Readers of this review will fall into two categories: (1) Those who are already two-thirds invested in the Ibis Trilogy, and (2) Newbies who might be wondering if continuing the perusal of this review...

The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh

03 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

"Well, my mama was a hairdresser, but she had this big dream that what she really wanted to be one day was a – an astronomer," 12-year-old Galileo Galilei Barnes explains to her teacher and class on her first day at her new school. Pointing at the...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Walter Mosley’s 47

31 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Diamond Head by Cecily Wong

30 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hawaiian

If you're tuned to celluloid pop culture, you probably heard about the Aloha casting controversy earlier this year, most specifically that casting Emma Stone as a hapa Chinese Hawaiian Swedish character named Allison Ng was probably not the smartest (accurate? effective? politically correct?) choice. Depicting...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Stella M. Draper’s Stella by Starlight

28 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Roseanne Greenfield Thong’s ‘Twas Nochebuena

27 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Poetry, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015

Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker by Julian Voloj, illustrated by Claudia Ahlering, introduction by Jeff Chang

24 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction, Puerto Rican, Young Adult Readers

Given that gang violence, unfortunately, makes for all-too-familiar headlines, the story of a gang truce is truly noteworthy news to be lauded and emulated. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, New York's Bronx was both a haven for poor ethnic communities pushed out of Manhattan, and...

The Whale in My Swimming Pool by Joyce Wan

23 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction

"Race you to the pool!" an excited little boy sporting bright red trunks shouts on his way out to his backyard. But he's forced to come full stop because of ...

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda with Liz Welch

21 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in African, Audio, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

"I was a typical twelve-year-old girl, far more interested in what I should wear to school than what I might learn there," co-author Caitlin Stoicsitz (as she was named then) introduces her 1997 self. "I assumed most kids, regardless of where they lived, had lives...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Kean Soo’s Jellaby series

17 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Huber’s Adrian and the Tree of Secrets

15 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

The Red Bicycle: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Bicycle by Jude Isabella, illustrated by Simone Shin

15 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in African, Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean American

For two years, young Leo has worked hard to pay for his bicycle, which he affectionately names Big Red. As rewarding as the boy-and-his-bike relationship has been, Leo is still growing ...

Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper

14 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Out when and where they shouldn't be on a chilly October night, Stella and her brother Jojo witness "[n]ine robed figures dressed all in white," gathered around a single wooden cross ablaze. In 1932, Bumblebee, North Carolina is small enough that most of the townspeople know one another,...

Confessions by Kanae Minato, translated by Stephen Snyder

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

OH. MY. MY. MY. Dare I say ...

Fake ID by Lamar Giles

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

Being the new kid (again) in high school is hard enough, but for Nick Pearson, he also has to get used to a new name and a whole new identity that comes with his latest 'fake ID.' Every time Nick (nope, not his real name) and...

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

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

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Cece Bell’s El Deafo

09 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015