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Author Interview: Ellen Oh [in Bloom]

10 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Ellen Oh, author of the acclaimed Prophecy trilogy – starring a third-century, yellow-eyed, teenage supergirl demon slayer – is channeling her own colorful fighting spirit. Two-thirds of her series, Prophecy and Warrior, are available now. King hits shelves this coming December. In the meantime, Oh herself has gone...

Prophecy and Warrior by Ellen Oh + Author Profile [in Bloom]

08 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Ellen Oh’s Prophecy Trilogy and Why #WeNeedDiverseBooks For Ellen Oh, good things seem to happen in threes. She’s the proud mother of three daughters. She’s had three careers – lawyer, professor, and finally a published writer (after 40!). The third book she wrote got her a three-book...

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian

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

Here's another title you might consider choosing to stick in your ears: 1. because this, Chris Bohjalian’s latest, is read by his own daughter, Grace Experience Blewer, who he credits as "instrumental in the creation of [his protagonist's] voice," who taught him "a lot – I...

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (vol. 10) by Motoro Mase, translated by John Werry, English adaptation by Kristina Blachere

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

So this is it ...

Garden of Stones by Sophie Littlefield

03 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese American

Patty Takeda moves in with her mother for the two weeks before her wedding. On the third day in her old room, she's woken by the sound of the doorbell, and is alarmed to hear her mother Lucy use the word "Inspector." Just a few blocks...

Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival by Marcel Prins & Peter Henk Steenhuis, translated by Laura Watkinson

01 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in European, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Anne Frank, the world's most famous hidden child during the Holocaust, was one of 28,000 Jews in the Netherlands alone who went into hiding. She was one of 12,000 who were betrayed and didn't survive. Among the 16,000 who lived, was award-winning filmmaker and cameraman...

The Blind Boy & the Loon retold by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, illustrated by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Daniel Gies

28 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples

"This is the story of a cruel mother, her daughter, and her blind son." That 'cruel' is fair warning that this is not a happily-ever-after fairy tale. It is, however, "one of the most ancient and commonly told [stories] in Inuit history," filmmaker/creator Alethea Arnaquq-Baril writes in...

I Love You More by Jennifer Murphy

27 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

What are the chances: I seem to be island-hopping this week ...

The Land of Steady Habits by Ted Thompson

24 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

As a young man, Anders Hill was rather a rebel, abandoning his stifling southern roots, estranging himself from his acerbic father by forsaking Duke University for an exclusive New England college. There he fell in love with his roommate's girlfriend who would become his wife. Becoming a husband, then...

Sisters by Raina Telgemeier, with color by Braden Lamb

22 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

If the cover looks somewhat familiar, that's because Sisters continues Raina Telgemeier’s highly entertaining (for the reader, certainly) coming-of-age escapades she shared in Smile, published four years ago to bestselling success. In Sisters, she's hasn't quite shed her braces, but she's heading to high school come fall. That pivotal summer...

The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob

21 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, South Asian, South Asian American

Probably my brain is showing its advancing age, but I can't remember the last time I stayed up half the night to finish a book unless I had an impending deadline (procrastinate? me?!). While I started Sleepwalk-ing in daylight stuck in the ears (debut novelist Mira Jacob...

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

19 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x

Oh, oh, oh. You know something special is coming when I start with those three simple syllables. Because big words like 'remarkable,' 'marvelous,' 'resonating' just don't carry the same admiring adoration as plain old 'oh, oh, oh.' I'm also hoping that sort of speechless reaction...

And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia Glass

16 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

If you've never read a Julia Glass novel (2002 National Book Award winner that she is, chances are slim, I suppose), just don't until after you've finished this one. If you have, forget you ever did. Only after the final Dark Sacred page (or last track; if you choose to...

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang

13 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction

Leslie T. Chang’s bio notes her gratitude to her immigrant parents for "forc[ing] her to attend Saturday-morning Chinese school" while growing up outside New York City. That multilingual skill clearly gave her privileged access during the decade she spent as a China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, while that lofty journalist...

God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Juliana Neufeld

11 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Indian American, Memoir, Short Stories, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

Here's a book you just have to hold and feel and breathe in. Although the snapshot of the cover offers a hint of its unique size, not until you're gently flipping through the pages can you appreciate that you're clasping Toronto-based music/performance/literature/film artist Vivek Shraya’s precious little gem. Poignantly...

The Hunt Series: The Hunt, The Prey, The Trap by Andrew Fukuda

06 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Japanese American, Young Adult Readers

So maybe I'm getting older faster, but oh my goodness, I'm surprised this trilogy is rated for kids – ages 12+ and grade 7+! Fair warning from this parent: the violence is graphic, the body count immeasurable, and by the end, most of the main characters...

Marina: A Gothic Tale by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, translated by Lucia Graves

04 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in European, Fiction, Spanish, Translation, Young Adult Readers

If you're looking for a feel-good love story, this won't be it. If three separate tragic romances connected by heart-thumping, horrifying adventures sounds about right, then here it is – supercharged adrenaline rush most definitely guaranteed. First comes young love. While exploring an older section of 1970s Barcelona,...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Sara Farizan’s If You Could Be Mine

01 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Iranian, Iranian American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

what did you eat yesterday? (vols. 2-3) by Fumi Yoshinaga, translated by Maya Rosewood

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

Hungry? Then don't read this ...

Surprise by Mies van Hout

31 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Translation

A baker's dozen of perfect active verbs, measured out sparingly just one at the time, culminating in a final two words together. Twelve dazzlingly expressive illustrations of different birds in various stages of anticipation (the adults) and growth (the chicks) on stark black backgrounds that make the...

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