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Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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This powerful poetry collection seeks to map the emotional and spiritual territory of diaspora, violence, abuse, and exile. Kai Cheng incorporates autobiographical details from her own childhood and adult life with the rhythms of the oral storytelling tradition and fairytale motifs, poignantly depicting the plight of trans women of color.
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English
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"From the bestselling author of 'All You Can Ever Know' comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief--a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave...
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English
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"Teenager Viola Li and her sister Roz are selling bean buns at a science fiction gathering in Seattle when she suddenly collapses--she wakes up in the hospital to find that somehow she has developed an extreme case of photosensitivity (so bad that even ordinary lights can cause blisters), and somehow, in her senior year of high school, she has to craft a new life that will still include journalism school, activism, and the new guy who caught her as...
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Publisher
Mémoire d'encrier
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
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Un jeune homme peint des clous au salon de coiffure du quartier. Une femme plume des poules dans une usine de transformation alimentaire. Un père emballe des meubles destinés à des maisons qu'il n'aura jamais les moyens d'habiter. Une femme au foyer apprend l'anglais en écoutant des téléromans.
Souvankham Thammavongsa donne voix à des personnages qui luttent pour gagner leur vie, fait résonner leurs espoirs, leurs déceptions, leurs...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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A read-in-one-sitting, fast-paced Rom Com.
"An electric will-they-or-won't-they...sexy slow burn romance."—PW
Adelaide Song might have a teeny reputation in her family for being the party girl. But Adelaide's dazed and debauched days are over (mostly)—and it's time to take her place as part of the Hansol legacy. All she needs is her fashion savvy, a good cause, and a little help from her childhood...
"An electric will-they-or-won't-they...sexy slow burn romance."—PW
Adelaide Song might have a teeny reputation in her family for being the party girl. But Adelaide's dazed and debauched days are over (mostly)—and it's time to take her place as part of the Hansol legacy. All she needs is her fashion savvy, a good cause, and a little help from her childhood...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea's neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family's annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence."--Publisher
Inspired by true events on Korea's Jeju Island, the author explores what it means to truly love in the wake of devastation.
Author
Publisher
Blair
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.
In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection Tomorrow in Shanghai explores multicultural complexities through lenses of class, wealth, age, gender, and sexuality—always tracking the nuanced, knotty,
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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A read-in-one-sitting, fast-paced Rom Com.
A high-glam, humorous, and completely un-put-downable romantic comedy...with just a touch of corporate espionage!
Film producer Colin Song just wants to make it in Hollywood...and Korean heiress Jihae Park is his golden ticket, given all her connections. Of course, Jihae hasn't the slightest clue who Colin really is—or that it was his family she's...
A high-glam, humorous, and completely un-put-downable romantic comedy...with just a touch of corporate espionage!
Film producer Colin Song just wants to make it in Hollywood...and Korean heiress Jihae Park is his golden ticket, given all her connections. Of course, Jihae hasn't the slightest clue who Colin really is—or that it was his family she's...
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Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"M. Evelina Galang's stories center on the experiences of Filipina women and families and interweave Filipino folklore and Tagalog, quietly but insistently challenging racialized capitalism and the exclusion of the Filipino American experience from racial discourse in the U.S. while also making clear the role of ancestry and ancestors on younger generations."--
130) A different pond
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English
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"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
131) The Bollywood bride
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English
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"Ria Parkar is Bollywood's favorite Ice Princess--beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof--until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling home to Chicago for her cousin's wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting Vikram Jathar." --
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English
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After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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There is no easy path for a woman aspiring to power. A concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the Emperor's attention. Many paint their faces white and style their hair attractively, hoping to lure in the One Above All with their beauty. Some present him with fantastic gifts, such as jade pendants and scrolls of calligraphy, while others rely on their knowledge of seduction to draw his interest. But young Mei knows...
134) Suki's kimono
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English
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The joyful story of a young girl who dances to her own drumbeat, and in doing so teaches others about the richness of diversity.
135) Maggie's chopsticks
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English
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Maggie has new chopsticks, but her family tells her that she is holding them all wrong, until Father comes along to tell her that she is unique and can do it her own way.
136) God loves hair
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Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
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"A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity. In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first book; in the ten years since, Vivek has published six more titles, including a novel, poetry collection, graphic novel, and children's picture book, while also working as an artist, musician, and academic. God Loves Hair is a collection of short stories...
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Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Full of warmth, terror, and underhanded humor, If I Were the Ocean, I'd Carry You Home, Pete Hsu's debut story collection, captures the essence of surviving in a life set adrift. Children and young people navigate a world where the presence of violence and death rear themselves in everyday places: Vegas casinos, birthday parties, church services, and sunny days at the beach. Each story is a meditation on living in a world not made for us—the...
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Marya Khan ; 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When Marya's third-grade class participates in taking care of the school's new garden, Marya wants to be the student leader in charge, but every time she tries to prove she has what it takes to be a leader things get messy."--
139) A god at the door
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English
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"In an era of pandemic lockdown and brutal politics, Tishani Doshi's poems make vital space for what must come next-the return of wonder and free movement, and a profound sense of connection to what matters most. From a microscopic cell to flightless birds, to a sumo wrestler and the tree of life, Doshi interrupts the news cycle to pause in grief or delight, to restore power to language. A God at the Door invites the reader on a pilgrimage-one that...
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Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Winner of the 2020 PEN Open Book Award
Best of 2019: Nonfiction - Entropy Magazine
A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle.
Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life—child migrant, talented photographer,
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