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You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar
$16.95PaperbackRead moreIn this electric debut essay collection, a Myanmar millennial playfully challenges us to examine the knots and complications of immigration status, eating habits, Western feminism in an Asian home, an… [more below]
- Author: War, Pyae Moe Thet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222008
- Language: English
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By: Shan, Weijian
Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
$21.95PaperbackRead moreForeword by Janet Yellen
Weijian Shan’s Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Am
- Author: Shan, Weijian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1394172583
- Language: English
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By: Bhaskar, Kanchan
Leaving: How I Set Myself Free from an Abusive Marriage
$17.95PaperbackRead moreAs a young woman in New Delhi, Kay Bhaskar enters into an arranged marriage to a social charmer-only to find that her new husband is an alcoholic with a wildly violent streak, and the system in India … [more below]
- Author: Bhaskar, Kanchan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424755
- Language: English
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How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story
$26.95HardcoverRead moreThe first memoir about the “reeducation” camps by a Uyghur woman.
“I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.”
— Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs ha- Author: Haitiwaji, Gulbahar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1644211483
- Language: English
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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95PaperbackRead more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- Language: English
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By: Chai, James
Sang Kancil: A Tale about How Ordinary Malaysians Defied the Odds
$21.99PaperbackRead moreStories of courageous underdogs who battled against disadvantages and challenges, and emerged victorious in pushing humanity forward Ordinary is not as ordinary as you think. History is written by the… [more below]
- Author: Chai, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9815127136
- Language: English
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By: Ratnavel, Roy
Prisoner #1056: How I Survived War and Found Peace
$27.00HardcoverRead more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An incredible immigrant story from a prominent Canadian Tamil who fled torture and imprisonment, arrived in
BRONZE MEDALIST IN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY FOR THE AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS- Author: Ratnavel, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 073524572X
- Language: English
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By: Kaur, Jaspreet
Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women
$18.99PaperbackRead moreYou might feel that this fight is too big for you. How on earth can you dismantle so many complex, long-standing systems of oppression? My answer: piece by piece.
Brown Girl Like Me is an inspiring me- Author: Kaur, Jaspreet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1529056357
- Language: English
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By: Eng, Alvin
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
$20.95PaperbackAdd to cartNEW IN PAPERBACK!
BOOKS ARE MAGIC 2023 HOLIDAY GIFT BOOK With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and pr- Author: Eng, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504833
- Language: English
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Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir
$18.95PaperbackRead moreFinalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award
This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pie
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada
A TODAY Show Recommended Read- Author: Lee, Jen Sookfong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0771025211
- Language: English
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By: Oun, Leth
A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service
$30.00HardcoverRead more“I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to the U.S.” Thus begins Leth Oun’s poignant and vivid memoir. A survivor of the Cambodian Killi
- Author: Oun, Leth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1439923361
- Language: English
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By: Bacho, Peter
Uncle Rico’s Encore: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle
$24.95HardcoverRead moreFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant racism, sporadic violence, and poverty while their US-bor
- Author: Bacho, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0295749776
- Language: English
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By: Yang, Kao Kalia
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
$18.99PaperbackRead moreWinner of the 2017 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction
Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN USA Literary Center Award, and the Dayton Literary Pea- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 125013188X
- Language: English
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By: Aryal, Khem K.
South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South
$29.95PaperbackRead moreThis anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays depicts diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the … [more below]
- Author: Aryal, Khem K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1680032968
- Language: English
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By: Wang, Qian Julie
Beautiful Country: A Memoir
$28.95HardcoverRead moreA 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0385547218
- Language: English
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By: Jing, Chai
Seeing: A Memoir of Truth and Courage from China’s Most Influential Television Journalist
$27.00HardcoverRead moreIn the tradition of Katy Tur, Jane Pauley, and Peter Jennings, Chai Jing shows us the power of television news and the complex challenges of reporting in China.
After becoming a radio DJ in college an- Author: Jing, Chai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1662600674
- Language: English
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Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-Shek, China, 1887-1975
$40.00HardcoverRead moreAn extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and controversial figures
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) le- Author: Pantsov, Alexander V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260202
- Language: English
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Why Didn’t You Tell Me? ¿Por Qué No Me Lo Dijiste? (Spanish Edition)
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cart- Author: Wong, Carmen Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063209993
- Language: Spanish
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By: Samatar, Sofia
The White Mosque: A Memoir
$27.00HardcoverRead moreWinner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award)
Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, w- Author: Samatar, Sofia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220978
- Language: English
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By: Gill, Charlotte
Almost Brown: A Memoir
$27.00HardcoverRead moreAn award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a mul… [more below]
- Author: Gill, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0593443012
- Language: English


