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Saturn Apartments (vol. 3) by Hisae Iwaoka, translated by Tomo Kimura

06 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

With the debut volume receiving major approval by the American Library Association earlier this year by making YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association)'s list of 2011 Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens, the rest of the Saturn series certainly has quite a bright future on translated shores. Kind and gentle Mitsu...

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, illustrated by Henry Cole

24 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Welcome to Banned Books Week 2011, which begins today and ends October 1. Leading the "Top ten most frequently challenged books of 2010" – at the top for the fifth year in a row, with a respite at #2 in 2009! – is little Tango. Reasons cited: "homosexuality, religious viewpoint,...

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

18 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction

Eight years have passed since Jeffrey Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (as well as too many other accolades to list) for this, his second novel, and nine years since it was first published. Nine years later (pattern forming here? – his debut The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex are also...

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

13 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Indian American, Nonethnic-specific, South Asian American

Just after finishing Divisadero, I immediately found myself missing Hope Davis' voice – she who so lullingly narrated Michael Ondaatje's dream-like bifurcated drama. So what a comforting surprise to click on Ann Patchett's Wonder and find Davis' voice gently streaming out of my headset! Serendipity indeed! As the...

A Full Moon Is Rising by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Julia Cairns

24 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Nonethnic-specific, Poetry

All around the wide world, once a month (or so), we all get a glimpse of the full moon as our earth makes its perpetual orbit. “So come along on a lunar journey,” poet Marilyn Singer (author of over 85 children’s books!) invites readers, “to...

The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Save Families by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore, collages by Susan L. Roth

16 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, African, Children/Picture Books, Japanese American, Nonfiction

The village of Hargigo in the tiny African country of Eritrea was once a landscape of dust and deprivation ...

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

09 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Biography, Indian American, Nonfiction, South Asian American

I won't lie: at almost 600 pages (or almost 21 hours if you choose the audible option), Siddhartha Mukherjee's 2011 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction is a Commitment (yes, capitalization intended!). But commitment can come with vast rewards and, in this case, get ready for a massive infusion of...

Intuition by Allegra Goodman

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

True confession: Intuition is not my favorite Allegra Goodman title (I remain most partial to Kaaterskill Falls and recently enjoyed The Cookbook Collector). That said, Intuition proved to be a highly useful tool as I happened to read it just before I picked up 2011 nonfiction Pulitzer Prize...

Tall Story by Candy Gourlay

27 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in British, Fiction, Filipina/o, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Southeast Asian

As we head into the holiday weekend, here's a debut novel to help you celebrate ...

The Other by David Guterson

14 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

I could cry over The Other. And not tears of the 'I'm so gratefully happy'-variety, alas; I'm talking truly disappointed waterworks. David Guterson writes quietly wrenching novels, including his bestselling Snow Falling on Cedars, and later East of the Mountains, which I actually found more effecting. The Other, too,...

Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit: A Book of Changing Seasons by Il Sung Na

09 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in British, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean

Surely the wintry melée is over, especially since our son and I have the tell-tale signs of sneezing and wheezing with the bursting buds. Not that we're complaining, of course! Celebrate the warmth with little rabbit and his friends as they shed the last season. All...

Watch Me Grow! A Down-to-Earth Look at Growing Food in the City by Deborah Hodge, photographed by Brian Harris

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

First reaction after reading this inviting title: I wanna move to Vancouver ...

Leo the Snow Leopard: The True Story of an Amazing Rescue by Juliana Hatkoff, Isabella Hatkoff, and Craig Hatkoff

10 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Pakistani

Given this morning's short flurries here in DC, had to post something with SNOW in the title! Welcome to Leo's world, brought to you by the same bestselling, award-winning Hatkoff family...

Elsie’s Bird by Jane Yolen, illustrated by David Small

13 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

The versatile Jane Yolen – apparently she hates the word "prolific" according to a recent interview – debuts her 300th title bearing her good name over the half century she's been writing! No, that's not a typo. Yes, truly 300 books! No wonder she's been called...

The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough by Katie Smith Milway, illustrated by Sylvie Daigneault

14 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Latin American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction

María Luz's family is in trouble. Their land in the hills of Honduras, which provides them with the corn and beans they need to live, has "lost its goodness." In order for the family to survive, María Luz's father must leave home and find work....

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...

Moon Bear by Brenda Z. Guiberson, illustrated by Ed Young

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

"Who blinks in the sunlight / that peeks through the Himalayas?" ...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

14 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

If, at the end of reading (or, as in my case, listening to Fred Sanders read addictively out loud) this book, you are not completely and utterly convinced that human beings were born to run, I want to hear about it for sure. If you're...

Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace by Jen Cullerton Johnson, illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler

13 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in African, Biography, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction

For those of us of a certain age, we remember well that shampoo commercial ...

The Fast Runner: Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat by Michael Robert Evans [in Library Journal]

01 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonfiction, Repost

What ironic timing to discover Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, the 2001 Cannes Film Festival Caméra d'Or Award winner about two Inuit brothers – one murdered, the other who escapes by running naked over vast ice – during the 2010 Snowpocalypse. One of Canada’s top 10...

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