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• You'll Never Forget Me

  a Novel

  Raya, Isha,

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  "In this captivating cat-and-mouse thriller, a struggling actress is only just beginning to enjoy the life she's always wanted after inadvertently killing her rival-but now she must contend with the woman who threatens to take it all away"--…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Leave It Up to You

  a Novel

  Chong, Jinwoo,

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  A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is gone, and the love of his life has left him behind. Lost and disoriented, he makes a reluctant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pohaku

  A Novel

  Hakes, Jasmin 'Iolani,

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  From the award-winning author of Hula , a dazzling saga about the generations of women tasked with protecting the history and place that made them. Reminiscent of Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing , Min Jin Lee's Pachinko , and Tommy Orange's There, There , The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Adam & Evie's Matchmaking Tour

  a Novel

  Nguyen, Nora,

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  Recently out of work and dumped by her boyfriend Evie learns that in order to inherit her aunt's house she must venture on a matchmaking tour in Vietnam. A world away, Adam Quyen has been working around the clock for his sister's elite matchmaking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kaikeyi

  a Novel

  Patel, Vaishnavi,

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  Chicago native Vaishnavi Patel re-imagines the life of Queen Kaikeyi from the ancient Sanskrit story of the Ramayana.

• Mika in Real Life

  a Novel

  Jean, Emiko,

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  Currently jobless and unable to sustain a relationship, 35-year-old Mika Suzuki is a real trial for her traditional Japanese American parents. Then she receives a call from Penny, the daughter she gave up for adoption 16 years earlier, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Americans

  a Novel

  Khong, Rachel, 1985-

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  "An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?"--publisher

• Cinema Love

  a Novel

  Tang, Jiaming,

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  "Spanning three timelines—post-socialist China, 1980s Chinatown, and contemporary New York—Cinema Love is an staggering, tender epic about men and women who find themselves in forbidden relationships; the weight of secrets; and the way memory…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red, White and Brass

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  When Maka and Veni fail in getting tickets for the most important game of their lives, they decide to form a traditional Tongan marching band, just so they can go to the game. No one in their band of misfits knows anything about marching and they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kuleana

  a Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i

  Goo, Sara Kehaulani,

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  "Set in one of the world's most beautiful landscapes, Kuleana is the story of an award-winning journalist's desire to hold on to her family's ancestral Hawaiian lands-and find herself along the way. "A powerful story of land, belonging, loss, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Standing Above the Clouds

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  This documentary highlights the movement to protect Mauna Kea through the intergenerational stories of women in three Native Hawaiian families as they stand for the sacred mountain.

• Sister Snake

  a Novel

  Lee Koe, Amanda, 1987-

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  Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a nihilistic sugar baby in New York, living from whim to whim and using her charms to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Five Stages of Courting Dalisay Ramos

  De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-

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  To win the heart of his new coworker Dalisay Ramos, Evan Saatchi must go through the five stages of courtship--a ritual lovers in the Philippines have performed for generations, but when modern love and family expectations collide, they must find a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hula

  a Novel

  Hakes, Jasmin 'Iolani,

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  Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there's a lot she doesn't understand. She's never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heart of a Stranger

  An Unlikely Rabbi's Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging

  Buchdahl, Angela, 1972-

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  From the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, a stirring account of one woman’s journey from feeling like an outsider to becoming one of the most admired religious leaders in the world. Angela Buchdahl was born in Seoul, the daughter of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Seoul

  a Memoir

  Rho, Helena,

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  "In her powerful and moving memoir, Helena Rho reveals the courage it took to break away from the path that was laid out for her, to assert her presence, and to discover the freedom and joy of finally being herself"--publisher

• Biting the Hand

  Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

  Lee, Julia, 1976-

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  "A passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratification." --publisher

• Local

  a Memoir

  Machado, Jessica,

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  Born and raised in Hawai'i by a father whose ancestors are indigenous to the land and a mother from the American South, Jessica Machado wrestles with what it means to be "local." Feeling separate from the history and tenets of Hawaiian culture that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

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  This anthology collects the voices of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rise

  a Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now

  Yang, Jeff,

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  "'RISE' is a love letter to and for Asian Americans--a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which [their] culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that…Read moreRead more of this annotation