May Heritage Months

May is both Asian American-Pacific Islander and Jewish American Heritage Month. Celebrate these cultures with the book selections below, or visit the Main or Branch Libraries to peruse our displays.

Updated March 26, 2026
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May Heritage Months

May is both Asian American-Pacific Islander and Jewish American Heritage Month. Celebrate these cultures with the book selections below, or visit the Main or Branch Libraries to peruse our displays.

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Sharks in the time of saviors
Washburn, Kawai Strong 1980-
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2020 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL. One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020. A finalist for the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by the New York Times (#30), the Guardian, the Boston Globe, Oprah<...
All you can ever know : a memoir
Chung, Nicole
Paper Book
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER This beloved memoir "is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general" (Jasmine Guillory, Code Switch, NPR) What does it means to lose your roots--within your culture,...
Heart of a Stranger : An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging
Buchdahl, Angela.
Paper Book
Angela Buchdahl was born in Korea and grew up in Tacoma, Washington, the daughter of a Korean Buddhist mother and Jewish American father. Profoundly spiritual from a young age, she felt a connection to God when only a child and felt the first stirrings to become a rabbi at age sixteen. Despite the...
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