Don Lee
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Partition is an updated exploration of Asian American identity, this time with characters who are presumptive model minorities in the arts, academia, and media. Spanning decades, these nine novelistic stories traverse an array of cities, from Tokyo to Boston, Honolulu to El Paso, touching upon transient encounters in local bars, restaurants, and hotels. Culminating in a three-story cycle about a Hollywood actor, The Partition incisively examines...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Yadin Park is a talented alt-country musician whose career has floundered, doomed first by his homely looks and lack of stage presence and then by a progressive hearing disorder. His girlfriend, Jeanette Matsuda, might have been a professional photographer but for a devastating heartbreak in her teens. Now Yadin works for Jeanette's father's carpet-laying company in California while Jeanette cleans rooms at a local resort. When Yadin's former lover...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1988, Eric Cho, an aspiring writer, arrives at Macalester College. On his first day he meets a beautiful fledgling painter, Jessica Tsai, and another would-be novelist, the larger-than-life Joshua Yoon. Brilliant, bawdy, generous, and manipulative, Joshua alters the course of their lives, rallying them together when they face an adolescent act of racism. As adults in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the three friends reunite as the 3AC, the Asian American...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
John Connor is a 20-something living on the streets as a common laborer. His mother has since died, and their earlier efforts did not stop the creation of SkyNet artificial intelligence network. As he will still become the leader of the human resistance, Connor is once again targeted by a Terminator sent from the future by SkyNet. This new Terminator, T-X, is a female and is more powerful than any of her predecessors. To protect Connor, the human...
Author
Series
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Lewis describes the ways in which he sees that "truth can be manipulated and distorted by governments, corporations, even [lone] individuals. He [posits that] truth is often distorted or diminished by delay: truth in time can save terrible erroneous choices. In part a history of communication in America, a cri de couer for the principles and practice of objective reporting, and a journey into several notable labyrinths of deception, [this book is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A vain man driven by greed and hubris, Dr. Stephen Strange was a world-renowned surgeon until a car accident crippled his hands. Broken and destitute, he journeyed to Tibet to seek a cure...and there found the path to the mystic arts! From his eerie Greenwich Village home, Dr. Strange unveiled new wonders and unimaginable dimensions, creating the most amazing corner of the Marvel Universe. Mystical menaces including Baron Mordo, Eternity, Dormammu,...
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Asian American plays provide an opportunity to think about how racial issues are engaged through theatrical performanceophysical contact, bodily labour, and fleshly desireoas well as through the more standard elements of plot, setting, characterization, staging, music, and action. Other Spaces of Asian America showcases seven exciting new plays that dramatize timely themes that are familiar to Asian Americans. The works variously address immigration,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Stephen Strange is a once-brilliant surgeon whose own failings left his hands in ruins and his career in tatters. He desperately sought a cure, but found so much more instead. Now, Doctor Strange is the Master of the Mystic Arts, Earth's Sorcerer Supreme--mankind's only hope against dark and otherworldly forces! From Strange's wicked rival Baron Mordo, to the Dread Dormammu, ruler of the Dark Dimension, prepare to have your horizons widened"--...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1963, Marvel had hit after hit, bringing new characters to a public ready for heroes with feet of clay. None that touched both that heroic ideal and human reality like Iron Man! A jet-setter, playboy and brilliant scientist, Tony Stark's life changed forever when a battlefield explosion ripped into his heart. Only the amazing Iron Man armour could keep him alive!" --
16) Black Widow
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When the Crimson Dynamo invades Avengers Tower, a certain superspy is on his trail. The Avengers have an imposter in their midst, and Natasha Romanoff wants answers. Black Widow must protect an important witness from being kidnapped by a mysterious foe. It's a classic team-up as Black Widow and Daredevil work together to save an innocent man's life and infiltrate a Hydra base. Then or her latest mission Natasha finds herself at odds with Silver Sable!"...