Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Stories

"Stories about love, family, and identity in the unexplored lives of Chinese-American millennials"--

Home Remedies

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#hardcover #fiction #asianamerican #youngadult #romance #ya #yaromance #youngadultromance 

"As a biracial orphan, Rika has never felt like she fully belonged to her family or the Little Tokyo community in LA, until she embarks on a fairy tale-like quest to discover if America's leading movie star could be her biological mother"--

From Little Tokyo, with Love

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#hardcover #fiction #bookclubfavorite #asianamerican #botm #readwithjenna #comingofage 

Texas

A Novel

**A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick** A young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending. Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, Ivy’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen—and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy’s mother discovers her trespasses, punishment is swift and Ivy is sent to China, and her dream instantly evaporates. Years later, Ivy has grown into a poised yet restless young woman, haunted by her conflicting feelings about her upbringing and her family. Back in Boston, when Ivy bumps into Sylvia Speyer, Gideon’s sister, a reconnection with Gideon seems not only inevitable—it feels like fate. Slowly, Ivy sinks her claws into Gideon and the entire Speyer clan by attending fancy dinners, and weekend getaways to the cape. But just as Ivy is about to have everything she’s ever wanted, a ghost from her past resurfaces, threatening the nearly perfect life she’s worked so hard to build. Filled with surprising twists and a nuanced exploration of class and race, White Ivy is a glimpse into the dark side of a woman who yearns for success at any cost.

White Ivy

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Minnesota

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arkansas

Twenty-Five Asian American Voices

Includes short stories, poems, and excerpts from plays that relate what it is like growing up Asian America

American Dragons

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#fiction #hardcover #asianamerican #bookclubfavorite #readwithjenna #botm #comingofage #thetreasureshop-adultfiction 

New Jersey

#hardcover #fiction #jennyzhang #chineseamerican #asianamerican #collection #sourheart #aapi #bipocauthor #bipoc 

"A debut collection of stories that plunge readers into the tender and chaotic hearts of adolescent girls growing up in New York City, from celebrated poet and National Magazine Award nominee Jenny Zhang"--

Sour Heart

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#hardcover #fiction #bookclubfavorite #asianamerican #readwithjenna #botm #comingofage #whiteivy #susieyang #asianamericanauthor 

North Carolina

#hardcover #asianamerican #charming #debutnovel #novel #funny

California

DESCRIPTION: Hapa (Half Asian and half white) Patty Ho has never felt completely at home in her skin. Life at House Ho is tough enough between her ultra-strict Taiwanese mom (epic-length lectures and all) and her Harvard-bound big brother. But things get worse when a Chinese fortuneteller channels Patty's future via her bellybutton...and divines a white guy on her horizon. Her mom then freaks out and ships her off to math camp at Stanford. Just as Patty writes off her summer of woe, life starts glimmering with all kinds of probabilities. Written with the perfect balance of humor, poignancy, and sharp wit, NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (and a few white lies) is the debut of a bright new talent.

Nothing but the Truth

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family's Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those around them, a tender love affair begins to blossom. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the two are cruelly pulled apart as Ichimei and his family -- like thousands of other Japanese Americans -- are declared enemies and forcibly relocated to internment camps run by the United States government. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love that they are forever forced to hide from the world. Decades later, Alma is nearing the end of her long and eventful life. Irina Bazili, a care worker struggling to come to terms with her own troubled past, meets the elderly woman and her grandson, Seth, at San Francisco's charmingly eccentric Lark House nursing home. As Irina and Seth forge a friendship, they become intrigued by a series of mysterious gifts and letters sent to Alma, eventually learning about Ichimei and this extraordinary secret passion that has endured for nearly seventy years.

The Japanese Lover

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#hardcover #juvenile #nonfiction #biography #asianamerican

Literature and Education

Discusses the lives of some Asian Americans primarily known for their writing, including Amy Tan, David Henry Kwang, Dharati Mukherjee, Jessica Hagedorn, and Laurence Yep.

Lives of Notable Asian Americans

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Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She's accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen's adoptive brother is dead.

According to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a one-way ticket to Milwaukee. There, as she searches her childhood home and attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die, she will face her estranged family, her brother's few friends, and the overzealous grief counselor, Chad Lambo; she may also discover what it truly means to be alive.

A bleakly comic tour de force that's by turns poignant, uproariously funny, and viscerally unsettling, this debut novel has shades of Bernhard, Beckett and Bowles--and it announces the singular voice of Patty Yumi Cottrell.

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

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#historicalfiction #asianamerican #historical #fiction #paperback #geisha

Ohio

Sent by her family to work in a silk factory just prior to World War II, young Pei grows to womanhood, working fifteen-hour days and sending her pay to the family who abandoned her

Women of the Silk

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Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life

Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad. Though addressed to her daughters, the letters are absurdly funny, surprisingly moving, and enlightening (and gross) for all.

Dear Girls

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Sixteen-year-old Emily is one of three Asian students at her high school in Richmond, Virginia, and the only child of protective, ambitious parents. She loves her parents and has always strived to please them, but her interest in a sexy new student, her growing passion for art, and her need to break away without breaking her tightly-knit family apart force Emily to create a web of lies, one that traps her just as tightly as her circumstances. It's her art that provides a key to freedom and a new understanding of her place in the world.

Seeing Emily

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Pennsylvania

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 Artists Collective--together negotiating the demands of art, love, commerce, and idealism until another racially tinged controversy hits the headlines, this time with far greater consequences. Long after the 3AC has disbanded, Eric reflects on these events as he tries to make sense of Joshua's recent suicide.With wit, humor, and compassion, The Collective explores the dream of becoming an artist, and questions whether the reality is worth the sacrifice.

The Collective

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Illinois

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Georgia

Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her. 750,000 first printing.

The Valley of Amazement

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World Book Night special edition paperback. #historicalfiction #japan #ww2 #asianamerican #aapi

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

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New Mexico

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District of Columbia

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"Wild and ambitious . . . [with] something ablaze at its core. It burns." --The New York Times Book Review

A Tiny Upward Shove is inspired by Melissa Chadburn's Filipino heritage and its folklore, as it traces the too-short life of a young, cast-off woman transformed by death into an agent of justice--or mercy.

Marina Salles's life does not end the day she wakes up dead.

Instead, in the course of a moment, she is transformed into the stuff of myth, the stuff of her grandmother's old Filipino stories--an aswang, a creature of mystery and vengeance. She spent her time on earth on the margins; shot like a pinball through a childhood of loss, she was a veteran of Child Protective Services and a survivor, but always reacting, watching from a distance, understanding very little of her own life, let alone the lives of others. Death brings her into the hearts and minds of those she has known--even her killer--as she accesses their memories and sees anew the meaning of her own. In her nine days as an aswang, while she considers whether to exact vengeance on her killer, she also traces back, finally able to see what led these two lost souls to a crushingly inevitable conclusion.

In A Tiny Upward Shove, the debut novelist Melissa Chadburn charts the heartbreaking journeys of two of society's castoffs as they make their way to each other and their roles as criminal and victim. What does it mean to be on the brink? When are those moments that change not only our lives but our very selves? And how, in this impossible world, full of cruelty and negligence, can we rouse ourselves toward mercy?

A Tiny Upward Shove

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#hardcover #fiction #bookclubfavorite #asianamerican #readwithjenna #botm #comingofage #thetreasureshop-adultfiction 

Xuan Juliana Wang

Home Remedies

Sarah Kuhn

From Little Tokyo, with Love

Susie Yang

White Ivy

Susie Yang

White Ivy

Laurence Yep (Editor)

American Dragons

Susie Yang

White Ivy

Jenny Zhang

Sour Heart

Susie Yang

White Ivy

Justina Chen Headley

Nothing but the Truth

Isabel Allende

The Japanese Lover

Ronald T. Takaki

Lives of Notable Asian Americans

Patty Yumi Cottrell

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

Gail Tsukiyama

Women of the Silk

Ali Wong

Dear Girls

Joyce Lee Wong

Seeing Emily

Don Lee

The Collective

Susie Yang

White Ivy

Amy Tan

The Valley of Amazement

Jamie Ford

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Xuan Juliana Wang

Home Remedies

Susie Yang

White Ivy

Melissa Chadburn

A Tiny Upward Shove

Susie Yang

White Ivy

Susie Yang

White Ivy