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Barefoot Gen: Never Give Up (vol. 10) by Keiji Nakazawa, translated by Project Gen

15 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

The final volume of Keiji Nakazawa's 10-part Barefoot Gen series begins in March 1953, almost eight years after the widespread decimation of August 1945 caused by American-dropped atomic bombs. Gen and his friends have established a routine in their young lives, with Ryuta, Katsuko, and Musubi working...

Barefoot Gen: Breaking Down Borders (vol. 9) by Keiji Nakazawa, translated by Project Gen

14 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa's graphic testimony continues in the penultimate volume of the heart-wrenching Barefoot Gen series, finally available in an unabridged English translation of all 10 volumes from San Francisco's renegade publisher Last Gasp. Alone and newly homeless, Nakazawa's fictionalized stand-in, Gen Nakaoka, moves in with...

Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri

08 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in European, Jewish, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Eva Mozes Kor survived the Holocaust because she was an identical twin. After a grueling journey from her native Romania which eventually ended at the infamous Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, Eva and her twin Miriam were immediately separated from their parents and two older sisters....

Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (vol. 2) by Fumi Yoshinaga, translated by Akemi Wegmüller

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

Although the second volume of Ōoku, a recently introduced (in translation) gender-bender series, this latest could definitely read as a stand-alone love story. And quite a unique and memorable one at that! The series' premise is that in an alternative history of premodern Edo Japan, the mysterious...

Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

Here's the assertion: "Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals." In a 2006 poll given to adults in 32 countries, the resulting U.S. statistics were just plain staggering to me ...

Up the Learning Tree by Marcia Vaughan, illustrated by Derek Blanks

25 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction

Young Henry Bell's master insists that "he'll take an ax to the finger of any slave who touches a book." But before his father was sold away, he told his son that "book learning" would provide the way out of slavery. When Master Simon starts school,...

How We Are Smart by W. Nikola-Lisa, illustrated by Sean Qualls

24 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Japanese American, Latina/o/x, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Poetry

Using research originally developed by Harvard psychologist Dr. Howard Gardner about multiple intelligences which was made popular by Dr. Thomas Armstrong, author Nikola-Lisa chooses 12 achievers to show how they were each 'smart' in different, important ways. "Here are eight basic ways people can be...

Horizon Is Calling by Taro Yashima

15 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

The remarkable story begun in The New Sun continues in this second volume of Taro Yashima's graphic memoir, a strikingly simple combination of pictures and brief text that capture a man's journey away from his homeland. Long out of print since its 1947 first printing, Horizon...

Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story by Ari Folman and David Polonsky

10 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Israeli, Jewish, Lebanese, Memoir, Palestinian, Young Adult Readers

No, I have not seen the film version of this title. The book is brutal enough on flat pages. I think moving pictures just might send me over the edge. That said, this riveting, nightmarish title should be required reading for anyone contemplating going to...

T4: A Novel by Ann Clare LeZotte

09 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in European, Fiction, Jewish, Middle Grade Readers, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

In just over a hundred pages of sparse, haunting verse, LeZotte illuminates a part of the Holocaust tragedy that takes up little shelf space in libraries today: the organized mass murder of mentally ill and physically challenged people, as well as the massacre of European...

The New Sun by Taro Yashima

05 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

What an amazing, unique, and LUCKY find! First published in 1943 by one of the oldest U.S. publishers, Henry Holt and Company, and in spite of excellent reviews plus a multi-year marketing campaign by both publisher and an early publicist who worked to get the...

A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts by Ying Chang Compestine

04 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

Even though the back of the galley says Compestine's latest title is for "Ages 12 and up," I'd definitely recommend saving it for much older readers. These are some of the most realistically gruesome tales outside of Halloween, not to mention dealing with more adult...

Animals Marco Polo Saw: An Adventure on the Silk Road by Sandra Markle, illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini

29 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, European, Middle Grade Readers, Mongolian, Nonfiction

Marco Polo sure got around in his time, way back in the 13th century! And what a great way to show our instant-access, Web-addicted kids just how incredible the Polo family's adventures were – for any generation! The latest in Chronicle Books' (that great indie San...

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak

28 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Audio, Fiction, Turkish

Even before this book hit U.S. shelves, French-born Turkish author Elif Shafak was charged with insulting "Turkishness" in violation of Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code because one of her characters refers to the large-scale massacre of Armenians that began in 1915 in Turkey as...

The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal, translated by Frank Wynne

26 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, European, Fiction, Translation

Prominently noted on the cover as "The first Arab novel to confront the Holocaust" and banned in the author's native Algeria, The German Mujahid is also based on a true story, making it an even more disturbing, striking read. To add to its authenticity, the novel...

The Silence of God and Other Plays by Catherine Filloux

23 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Cambodian, Drama/Theater, Jewish, Nonethnic-specific, Southeast Asian, Turkish

Playwright Catherine (pronounced Ka-treen) Filloux has built her dramatic reputation on giving voice to lost, overlooked souls. In Lemkin's House, Filloux presents the struggle of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish American lawyer whom she refers to as her "historical soulmate," a man who coined the term "genocide"...

Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship by Denise Chong [in Christian Science Monitor]

21 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Chinese, Nonfiction, Repost

Denise Chong has built an award-winning career capturing ordinary people living extraordinary lives. The Concubine’s Children (1994) told of her own family’s fractured journey from China to Canada and The Girl in the Picture (2000) detailed the harrowing story of the young girl whose screaming,...

Barefoot Gen (vols. 1-8) by Keiji Nakazawa, translated by Project Gen

04 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima Volume Two: The Day After Volume Three: Life After the Bomb Volume Four: Out of the Ashes Volume Five: The Never-Ending War Volume Six: Writing the Truth Volume Seven: Bones into Dust Volume Eight: Merchants of Death Atom bomb. Unimaginable horrors. Survival against all odds. Bearing...

The Calligrapher’s Daughter: A Novel by Eugenia Kim

25 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American

Historical works about Korea in English – especially during the tragic years of the Japanese occupation (officially 1910-1945) – seem few and far between. So I really wanted to fall madly in love with this debut novel by fellow Korean American Eugenia Kim. While I was grateful for...

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

11 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British, Nonfiction

From "aa" to "zyxt" [you'll have to look up the meanings yourself, because you thankfully can], the Oxford English Dictionary is filled with ...

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