Asian & Asian American
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world–an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent – A TODAY SHOW #REA… [more below]
- Author: Wang, Qian Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0593313003
- Language: English
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Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging
$28.95 Add to cartA warm and poignant narrative about finding one’s self amidst the grind of restaurant life, the cross-generational immigrant experience, and a daughter’s attempts to connect with parents who have alwa… [more below]
- Author: Phan, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368515
- Language: English
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Chinese in Washington: The Legacy of the Chinese Exclusion ACT
$24.99 Add to cartHow the U.S. law targeting Chinese laborers impacted families for generations.
Near the end of the nineteenth century, after the railroads were completed and the gold mines exhausted, an economic downt
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Hackett Nicola, Trish
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1467147729
- Language: English
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Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan: Man of Joy and Hope
$19.95 Add to cartThis definitive biography of the heroic life of Servant of God Cardinal Thuan is told by his sister ?lisabeth, with Father Stefaan Lecleir, in the context of his family life, priesthood, and prison l
- Author: Nguyen Thi Thu Hong, Élisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: March 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1621647374
- Language: English
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Dinner with an Astronaut
$32.99 Add to cartThe inspiring journey of Leroy Chiao, one of the first Asian American astronauts in history, elucidating his remarkable path into space as well as his experiences on Earth and beyond
Imagine if you cou… [more below]
- Author: Chiao, Leroy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1335000674
- Language: English
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Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya
$24.99 Read moreA book about building a home and a wild garden on the edge of a Himalayan forest, illuminated by the author’s own watercolors.
When acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a dereli
- Author: Roy, Anuradha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0063491834
- Language: English
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American Flygirl
$18.95 Add to cartOne of WWII’s most uniquely hidden figures, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Asian American woman to earn a pilot’s license, join the WASPs, and fly for the United States military amid widespread anti-Asi… [more below]
- Author: Tate Ankeny, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0806542837
- Language: English
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Phantom Paradise: Escape from Manchuria
$29.32 Add to cartAFTER THE JAPANESE EMPIRE COLLAPSED OVERNIGHT, CIVILIANS WERE ABANDONED TO FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES
When Soviet forces stormed into Manchuria at the end of World War II, a young mother was left alone with
- Author: Enokido, Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1954805926
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Gay Shah: My Story of Family, Fame, and Becoming a King
$27.99 Read moreHe didn’t fit the mold–so he made a throne instead.
At just four years old, Reza Farahan left Iran for what was supposed to be a quick family trip to Los Angeles. But while he was soaking up the Calif
- Author: Farahan, Reza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1464218277
- Language: English
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The Woman Warrior
$29.98 Add to cartA seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity
- Series: Picador Classics #14
- Author: Hong Kingston, Maxine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1447275225
- Language: English
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We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American Christianity
$27.99 Read moreA daughter of the Asian American church wrestles with faith, exile, and belonging.
Being a Christian has nothing to do with being Chinese American–that’s what Kristin T. Lee learned as a child. A fi
- Author: Lee, Kristin T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889835028
- Language: English
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Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir
$29.99 Read moreA graphic memoir-in-essays examining the in-betweenness of being mixed-race and the cultural confrontations inherent to forging one’s identity
Who are you? What are you? And how does it feel to be yo- Author: Hook, Leise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1250845033
- Language: English
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Blackinese: Reflections on Race and Ethnicity from a Biracial Millennial
$15.99 Add to cartIn this candid and thought-provoking memoir, a millennial woman of Black and Chinese heritage reflects on the complexities of growing up with a mixed identity in the American South and beyond. From ch
- Author: Moore, Patricia Bradby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992999808
- Language: English
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The Japanese Way of Parenting: And What It Taught Me about Raising (Mostly) Calm, Caring, Capable Kids
$19.99 Read moreIn this fascinating half-memoir, half-parenting guide, Lisa Katayama shares her quest to raise her American kids using Japanese parenting principles which combine unconditional love with unwavering ru… [more below]
- Author: Katayama, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1523531851
- Language: English
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The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir
$21.00 Add to cart“Water is fluid, soft, yielding. But water will wear away rock… what is soft is strong.” -Lao Tzu
In 1920s Detroit, King Ying lives in a small apartment behind her parents’ laundry business, where sh
- Author: Jensen, Karin K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798897409709
- Language: English
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Just a Little Buzzed: A Life Told Sideways
$23.99 Add to cartLife rarely moves in straight lines – sometimes it tilts sideways, breaks apart, and demands to be rebuilt.
In Just a Little Buzzed, Taira Soo offers a raw, unfiltered memoir of reinvention. Growing u
- Author: Soo, Taira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: October 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999546500
- Language: English
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Fit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir
$17.95 Add to cartIn her most innovative book yet, Molly Gaudry embarks on a search for belonging amid loss, framing her memoir around a fictional narrative featuring the tea house woman–a character who appeared first
- Author: Gaudry, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1941628370
- Language: English
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The Fairfax Way: Inside Prem Watsa’s Secret to Lasting Success
$28.50 Add to cartThe rise and stall–and rise again–of corporate Canada’s least well-known spectacular success
Even those who have heard of Prem Watsa and Fairfax Financial probably don’t understand them. The company- Author: Thomas, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1037802195
- Language: English
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When News Breaks: A Memoir of Love and War
$21.95 Add to cartCNN anchor Carol Lin is at the height of her career after becoming the first network journalist to break the news of the 9/11 attacks.
A month later, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a Taliban s
- Author: Lin, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991212366
- Language: English
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From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
$19.99 Add to cart“A page-turner…deeply moving, beautifully written, and most inspiring. When I reached the last page, my heart was filled with joy and gratitude.” — Nien Chang, author of Life and Death in Shanghai
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- Author: Thwe, Pascal Khoo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0060505230
- Language: English
