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The Marvels by Brian Selznick

05 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, British, Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Wonderstruck. I know, I know – that's the title of Brian Selznick’s previous jaw-dropping accomplishment on the page ...

Maya’s Blanket | La manta de Maya by Monica Brown, illustrated by David Diaz, translated by Adriana Domínguez

30 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Jewish, Latina/o/x, Translation

We're right in the middle of National Hispanic Heritage Month – now through October 15. Do you know where your books are? If you're looking for a delightful, heart-tugging, bilingual even (!) picture book, this is it! Monica Brown, creator of the rollicking Marisol McDonald series, introduces...

The Complete Chi’s Sweet Home (Part 1) by Konami Kanata, translated by Ed Chavez

25 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation

Who can resist a lost little kitten? Furry-friendlies unite: this adorable black-grey-and-white fluff-bundle will set your heart all aflutter. Wandering out with Mommy Cat and two siblings, this little one gets lost. She's woofed at by a dog (thankfully leashed), and narrowly misses getting run over...

Two White Rabbits by Jairo Buitrago, illustrated by Rafael Yockteng, translated by Elisa Amado

21 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latin American, Latina/o/x, Translation

A young girl and her father are traveling, with little more than a backpack each. She counts what she sees to pass the time: cows, hens, a bored donkey, the clouds ...

Secret Coders (Volume 1) by Gene Luen Yang & Mike Holmes

18 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

"Listen. I'm going to tell you a story -- " Well, of course, if two-time National Book Award finalist (third time will be the charm!) Gene Luen Yang is involved with the explicating, you're going to listen, and listen well. This former high school computer science...

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

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

This week, the National Book Foundation is releasing the longlists category by category, day by day, for the coveted National Book Award (winners will be announced November 18). Included among the 10 titles cited for "Young People's Literature" is Laura Ruby’s Bone Gap. [I confess I have fingers,...

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

15 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

So you know how the book ends by the second paragraph in the "Prologue." But holy moly, once you start, you'll want to experience every detail of how the eponymous boys in the boat – "nine young men from the state of Washington – farm boys, fisherman, and...

The Inker’s Shadow by Allen Say

14 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction

Caldecott Medalist author/illustrator Allen Say introduced his personal portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-young-man in the one title he didn't illustrate, the autobiographical middle-grade novel, The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice, originally published in 1979. More than three decades later, in 2011, Say returned to his early artistic journey, reworking his Apprentice into a...

The Bishop’s Wife [A Linda Wallheim Mystery, Book 1] by Mette Ivie Harrison

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

Here in my temporary exile in the Beehive State, I remain fascinated by the religion that dominates my current location. In a moment of ironic timing, as I was wandering the many surrounding mountains with narrator Kirsten Potter stuck in the ears, this passage stuck: "Whenever friends from other...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Cynthia Kadohata’s Half a World Away

03 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Central Asian, Fiction, Japanese American, Kazakhstani, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015

The Little Tree by Muon Van, illustrated by JoAnn Adinolfi

01 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, South Asian American, Vietnamese American

Somewhere in an old forest, a little tree grows. But the forest is shrinking, the rains shower less often, and the little tree knows that her precious seed cannot flourish there. With the help of a brown bird who has flown far into the blue skies, she sends...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Thanhhà Lại’s Listen, Slowly

31 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015

China Rich Girlfriend [Crazy Rich Asians 2] by Kevin Kwan

31 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Singaporean, Singaporean American, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Summer is waning way too quickly, but you still have a final week left to indulge in frothy reads: the over-the-top excesses of Singaporean Manhattanite Kevin Kwan’s novels might be just what you've been looking for as Labor Day looms. If you haven't yet relished Kwan's debut,...

Cover of Dance of the Banished by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Dance of the Banished by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

26 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian, Central Asian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Turkish, Young Adult Readers

The year is 1913. Zeynep and Ali are teenage lovers in Anatolia (once Asia Minor, now modern Turkey) who part with a lingering sense of bitterness: Ali's impending departure breaks their promise of escaping their village together. Feeling betrayed, Zeynep turns away: "I refuse to be your...

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

25 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Allow me to dispel any notions that the dragons within are why I'm insisting this is one of my Absolute Favorites ever. Plenty of other reasons make Nimona an irresistible delight: allow me to count at least the top-10 ways ...

what did you eat yesterday? (vol. 9) by Fumi Yoshinaga, translated by Jocelyne Allen

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

Salmon meunière, acqua pazza, mizuna and onion salad, yellowtail teriyaki ...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Eric Gansworth’s If I Ever Get Out of Here

19 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy + Author Interview [Bloom]

19 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, European, Fiction, Repost

Freshly back from the Jersey Shore, debut novelist P.S. Duffy talks about writing her first book at age 10 although she didn’t publish her first novel until she was 65, her inability to ever return to her birth country of China, and how a stranger’s...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Patti LaBoucane-Benson’s The Outside Circle

18 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy + Author Profile [Bloom]

17 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, European, Fiction

“Define moral certainty”: The Great War in P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No Man’s Land “Moral certainty.” “Righteous anger.” “God’s retribution.” The Great War implodes humanity in “No Man’s Land – a cratered landscape of ruin” in P.S. Duffy’s first novel. Published in October 2013 when Duffy was 65, The...

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