Asian & Asian American
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Jerry’s Last Mission
$18.95 Add to cartJerry’s Last Mission captures the emotional turmoil of World War II enemy combatants whose lives are forever changed when their youngest children marry each other. Jerry Yellin was a World War II P-51
- Author: Yellin, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: November 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1737276240
- Language: English
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Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family’s Past Among Taiwan’s Mountains and Coasts
$17.95 Read moreThis “stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and off… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Jessica J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1646220005
- Language: English
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Invisible Vision: The hidden story of Dr. Newton K. Wesley, American contact lens pioneer
$17.95 Add to cartAs recently as 1940, contact lenses did not exist for Americans. Invisible Vision is the hidden story of the man who brought them into existence, trained doctors and opticians to fit them, and develop
- Author: Wesley, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1945398051
- Language: English
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Jesus did many other things as well…BOOK TWO: More Short Stories Out of Japan
$12.00 Add to cartFollowing on his first book, Tony Schmidt is joined by his wife in presenting 16 more short stories of experiences from their 33 years as missionaries in Japan. Each story gives a glimpse of Japanese
- Author: Schmidt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1775146227
- Language: English
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Skinny Woman in a Straw Hat
$27.00 Add to cartWhen young Hao Tran left Vietnam in 1974 to study abroad, he had no idea it would be 20 years before he could return, or how much his native land would change in his absence. These are the stories of
- Author: Tran, Hao C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1945955422
- Language: English
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
$17.95 Add to cartIn the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child s… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030396
- Language: English
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Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor tha
- Author: King, Michelle T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324021284
- Language: English
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The Birch Bark Books of Simon Pokagon
$5.99 Add to cartThe Birch Bark Books of Simon Pokagon is a collection of articles and legends written for and about the Potawatomi tribe by Simon Pokagon. Originally printed on the bark of the white birch tree, a ges
- Series: Mint Editions (Native Stories, Indigenous Voices)
- Author: Pokagon, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1513211978
- Language: English
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Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Hawai’i O Ne Summer, Other Writings (Loa #355)
$45.00 Read moreThe largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigran
- Author: Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: May 17, 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537245
- Language: English
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Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir of Motherhood and Absence
$17.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily – Selected by Time, NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023
“This book…is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be.” –Kies- Author: Nguyen, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1982196351
- Language: English
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Kazuko: Sixth Grade in World War II Hiroshima
$17.99 Add to cartKazuko is the memoir of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor. It is the story of a young Japanese girl’s experience living through the world’s first atomic bomb and its aftermath.
Kazuko Blake, now in her
- Author: Blake, Kazuko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartThis “vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers).
Nineteen eighties D… [more below]
- Author: Chin, Curtis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 031650775X
- Language: English
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Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
$28.00 Add to cartA master of what he called “the sculpturing of space,” Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged any
- Author: Herrera, Hayden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535981
- Language: English
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Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam
$26.00 Add to cartFourth Uncle in the Mountain is an odyssey of a single-father folk hero and his foundling son in a land ravaged by the atrocities of war. It is a classic story complete with humor, tragedy, and insigh
- Author: Nguyen, Quang Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0312314310
- Language: English
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We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartEven when we leave them, our cities never leave us. After her Dutch mother’s death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents’ lives, and her own Pakistani-Dutch h… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Khan, Sorayya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0814258484
- Language: English
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A Runaway Teenager: Who Found Freedom
$16.99 Add to cartWhat is freedom worth to you?
At 14 years old, Quyen (Quin) Ha risked everything for a chance for a better life. Living under the communist regime in Viet Nam, Quyen saw his freedoms being taken away.
- Author: Ha, Quyen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1736849107
- Language: English
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
$18.99 Add to cartA Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way.
My mother, Meher, believed that we choose our lives for the lessons w
- Author: Farah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1739355024
- Language: English
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The Grave on the Wall
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 PEN Open Book Award
Best of 2019: Nonfiction – Entropy Magazine
A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s
- Author: Shimoda, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867900
- Language: English
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
$9.99 Add to cartA Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way.
My mother, Meher, believed that we choose our lives for the lessons w
- Author: Farah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1739355008
- Language: English
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A Living Remedy: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * Today
From the
- Author: Chung, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063031620
- Language: English
