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Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney

06 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Award-winning author Caroline Cooney never intended to write a sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton, which she ends with an uncertain telephone call: "I wanted you...

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin

04 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, Fiction

Bolanle is the only one of Baba Segi's four wives who is literate, has a college education, and retains her own name. When she becomes the prized final wife of...

Migritude by Shailja Patel

26 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Indian African, Indian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Poetry, South Asian American

Given the sheer number of books that arrive in the mailbox, I rarely pick up a title and start reading immediately. But something about Migritude (debuting from fabulous indie publisher Kaya Press: 'Smokin' Hot Books'!!) demanded 'read me NOW!' Once opened, I could hardly put...

20th Century Boys (vol. 11) by Naoki Urasawa, with the cooperation of Takashi Nagasaki, English adaptation by Akemi Wegmüller

20 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Most teenagers seem to go through that 'I-hate-my-parents'-phase ...

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger

10 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

If you're of a certain age (like me), you probably still remember some of the titles that made you wide-eyed those many decades ago ...

Ristorante Paradiso by Natsume Ono, translated by Joe Yamazaki

08 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Nicoletta arrives in Rome with a very specific goal: she's determined to confront the mother who abandoned her 15 years ago. The reason her mother gave then remains just as inexcusable now: "'There's a man I'm destined to be with. But he'll never marry a...

Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger

04 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Two things are keeping me up at nights ...

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

25 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

What timing ...

Manazuru by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Michael Emmerich

17 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Translation

Manazuru is the first of Akutagawa Prize-winning Japanese writer Hiromi Kawakami's novels to be translated into English. It's one of those unexpected titles that wear better with time; it needs to sort of 'sit' after reading to fully appreciate. While the overall story might initially seem almost...

20th Century Boys (vol. 10) by Naoki Urasawa, with the cooperation of Takashi Nagasaki, English adaptation by Akemi Wegmüller

10 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Never mind the series title, it's girl power all the way: locked up in church with a bursting audience as witnesses, young Kanna manages to get the biggest gangster bosses to call a truce and band together to protect the imminently-visiting Pope. Meanwhile, Koizumi Kyoko has...

Water Ghosts: A Novel by Shawna Yang Ryan

20 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction

How ironically fitting that Shawna Yang Ryan’s debut novel – about, yes, ghosts! – has already had multiple lives. First published in 2007 as Locke 1928 by a tiny non-profit California press, El León Literary Arts, it returned to bookshelves two years later in a new incarnation with...

Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro

19 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, Fiction, Short Stories

Sometimes, only a good story can keep me adding the miles out there, one foot in front of the other, just to find out what happens next. How fitting to choose a collection called Runaway while I'm trying to make sure I do my training...

Mimi Says NO by Yih-Fen Chou, illustrated by Chih-Yuan Chen

28 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Mimi's independent ways continue ...

Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea by Jane Jeong Trenka

25 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Korean, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction

Jane Jeong Trenka's follow-up to her phenomenal debut memoir, The Language of Blood, is a searing, disturbing account of why transracial adoption does not work. Newly divorced, having severed her relationship with her adoptive parents, escaping from a violent stalker now in jail, Trenka arrives in Korea having...

Lucky Girl: A Memoir by Mei-Ling Hopgood

20 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Memoir, Nonfiction, Taiwanese, Taiwanese American, Young Adult Readers

The first reaction to finishing Lucky Girl is 'lucky readers.' Definitely of the 'you can't make this stuff up'-genre, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood's debut memoir is one lucky surprise after another. Paced just right to keep you reading, the Taiwanese-born Hopgood reveals a remarkable story of her Midwest...

Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

13 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Memoir, Nonfiction

With the publication of her first memoir, Infidel (2007), Ayaan Hirsi Ali spent the better part of a year seeing her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Born in Somalia, at times neglected, abandoned, or abused by her parents, the strictly-raised Muslim child that...

Bijou Roy by Ronica Dhar

28 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, South Asian American

Six months after Nitish Roy’s death, his wife and two daughters gather in Calcutta, India where Bijou Roy as the oldest must send her father’s ashes down the holy river to eternal rest. The haphazard ceremony – made even more so because she is not...

How I Made It to Eighteen: a mostly true story by Tracy White

25 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Tracy White’s graphic sort-of-autobiography is “only mostly true because I skipped over things, moved events around, embellished, and occasionally just plain made things up,” she explains on the first page. “The technical term for this is dramatic license. I used it,” she adds in the...

Blue Jay Girl by Sylvia Ross

24 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples

Sylvia Ross, LA-born and “raised … apart from her family Chukchansi culture,” as stated in her bio, has focused her writerly life on her Native American culture. Her latest title captures an inspiring ‘girl power’ story of long ago … about a “medium-sized” Yaudanchi child...

Me and Rolly Maloo by Janet S. Wong, illustrated by Elizabeth Buttler

21 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Janet Wong has gone literally hybrid. Her latest title, debuting next month, is part graphic novel, part regular prose. Thanks to her flexible illustrator Elizabeth Buttler, the result is an entertaining new way for young readers to enjoy a story on different levels. Popular. pretty Rolly Maloo is...