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Yang, Kelly

Paper Book

Finally seen

Yang, Kelly

Paper Book

The downstairs girl

Lee, Stacey

Paper Book

A Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick! A New York Times bestselling novel, The Downstairs Girl is a compelling and poignant story following seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan, a Chinese American girl living in segregated 1890s Atlanta. ...

Pachinko

Lee, Min Jin

Paper Book

* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through...

Arsenic and adobo

Manansala, Mia P.

Audiobook

A RUSA Award-winning novel! The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes--one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the...

The poppy war

Kuang, R. F.

Paper Book

Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018'The best fantasy debut of 2018' - WIRED A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of Chinaâe(tm)s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju âe" the...

The Wangs vs. the world

Chang, Jade

Paper Book

Charles Wang has just lost the cosmetics fortune he built up since emigrating to the US. Gone are the houses, the cars, and the incredible lifestyle. Faced with this loss, he decides to take his family on a trip to China and attempt to reclaim his ancestral lands. But first they must go on a cross...

Gold diggers

Sathian, Sanjena

Paper Book

The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane : a novel

See, Lisa

Audiobook

Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate - the first automobile any of them have seen - and a stranger arrives.In this remote Yunnan...

The Joy Luck Club

Tan, Amy

Paper Book

'The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' Stylist Discover Amy Tan's moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. <...

Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet : a novel

Ford, Jamie.

Paper Book

1986, The Panama HotelThe old Seattle landmark has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made a startling discovery in the basement: personal belongings stored away by Japanese families sent to interment camps during World War II. Among the fascinated crowd gathering outside the...

The very secret society of irregular witches

Mandanna, Sangu

Paper Book

The family Chao : a novel

Chang, Lan Samantha

Audiobook

Hula : a novel

Hakes, Jasmin 'Iolani

Paper Book

Named a Best Book of the Summer by Harper's Bazaar and ELLE * Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award Winner "Stunning . . . An intricately built novel that spans decades, moving in and out of a collective voice, while also telling Hi'i's deeply personal and devastating story...

The school for good mothers : a novel

Chan, Jessamine

Paper Book

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER READING PICK A BETWEEN THE COVERS NOVEMBER 2022 PICK 'Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere' ELLE 'Destined to be a feminist classic - kept me up at...

Chlorine : a novel

Song, Jade

Ebook

The bandit queens : a novel

Shroff, Parini

Paper Book

A sharply observed tragicomedy set in rural India revolving around an isolated woman falsely accused of killing her vanished husband, who becomes sought after to help other aspiring widows - perfect for readers of Love After Love, My Sister the Serial Killer and How to Kidnap the Rich.

We were dreamers : an immigrant superhero origin story

Liu, Simu

Paper Book

The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime. In this honest,...

What my bones know : a memoir of healing from complex trauma

Foo, Stephanie

Audiobook

Portrait of a thief : a novel

Li, Grace D.

Paper Book

"A remarkably assured debut" Sunday Times "This is as much a novel as a reckoning." New York Times The characters are alluring and ... engaging. So too are the emotional struggles the crew endure as they try to...

Afterparties : stories

So, Anthony Veasna

Paper Book

A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life - immersive, comic and unsparing - by an indisputable talent. A Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club pick.

Black water sister

Cho, Zen

Paper Book

This mischievous Malaysian-set novel is an adventure featuring family, ghosts and local gods - from Hugo Award winning novelist Zen Cho. 'A sharp and bittersweet story of past and future, ghosts and gods and family, that kept me turning pages into the dark hours of...

Why not me?

Kaling, Mindy

Paper Book

Mindy Kaling has found herself at a turning point. So in Why Not Me?,she shares her ongoing journey to find fulfilment and adventure in her adult life, be it falling in love at work, seeking new friendships inunlikely places, or attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight...

Crying in H Mart : a memoir

Zauner, Michelle

Paper Book

From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity. 'A story that is both beautiful and heartbreaking; it is as raw as it is precious. I bawled my eyes...

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