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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Bibliophobia: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cart“A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”–Hua Hsu, author of Stay True
“Stirring and sparkling.”–The Washington Post A- Author: Chihaya, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0593594746
- Language: English
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Elvis Is Dead, I’m Still Alive: The Story of Asian Man Records
$24.95 Read moreThe page-turning, definitive guide to beloved ska musician Mike Park and his iconic indie label Asian Man Records.
Sourced from over a hundred hours of interviews with musicians, producers, booking age
- Author: Huguenor, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1960988840
- Language: English
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Mean Boys: A Personal History
$28.99 Read more“Makes you say: yes, that is exactly how it is.”-Torrey Peters
A ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed pre- Author: Mak, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1635577942
- Language: English
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Boat Baby: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartIn a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to repo… [more below]
- Author: Nguyen, Vicky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1668025574
- Language: English
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Bamboo Son: A Hmong Refugee’s Search for Identity and the American Dream
$24.95 Read more- Author: Lor, Pao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1976600650
- Language: English
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Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
$20.00 Add to cart“Groundbreaking . . . Chang’s lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual family’s time capsule and an artist’s timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem.” –NPR
Now in paperb
- Author: Chang, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1571311882
- Language: English
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A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake
$29.95 Add to cartA deeply affecting memoir of reckoning with a father’s death and the Japanese American incarceration
In a moving conversation with the past, Tamiko Nimura explores her late father’s life and her famil
- Author: Nimura, Tamiko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0295754753
- 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 Read moreThe 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 Add to cartHe 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 Add to cartA 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 Add to cartA 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
