Cultural Region/Asian
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August in Kabul: America’s Last Days in Afghanistan
$28.00 Read moreTold through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty’s debut book offers a remarkable record of this historic moment.
As night fell on 15 August 2021- Author: Quilty, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350370312
- Language: English
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A Century of Queer Korean Fiction
$40.00 Add to cartSelections from the past hundred years of queer Korean literature
Following decades of LGBTQ+ activism, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Many openly gay
- Series: MLA Texts and Translations
- Author: Perry, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: December 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1603296271
- Language: English
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Fumiko and a Tokyo Tragedy: A Great Kanto Earthquake Survival Story
$27.99 Read more12-year-old Fumiko is fascinated by the Moga girls, modern young women with short hair and casual dresses who are making their way in 1920s Tokyo. Her parents, however, expect a traditional life for h… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Griner, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669010791
- Language: English
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The End of Imagination
$24.00 Add to cartThe End of Imagination brings together five of Arundhati Roy’s acclaimed books of essays into one comprehensive volume for the first time and features a new introduction by the author.
This new collec- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1608466191
- Language: English
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Mama and Papa Have a Store
$11.95 Read moreA young girl describes what a typical day is like in her parents’ Chinese store in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Recipient of a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor in 2000.
From the clip, clop of the mil
- Author: Lau Carling, Amelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1620143089
- Language: English
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
$21.99 Read more“Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062275658
- Language: English
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One Left
$22.95 Read moreDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territo
- Author: Soom, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747668
- Language: English
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Meet Cute Diary
$17.99 Read moreFelix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transgender teen’s first love challenges his ideas about perfect relationships.
* A 2022 ALA Rainbow Booklist
- Author: Lee, Emery
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0063038838
- Language: English
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Like Two Peas in a Pod
$12.99 Read moreIt began with a mistake. When Tanaka and Nakata are given each other’s papers back, they come to a horrible realization…
They have almost identical names. And test results. And body types. And tast- Author: Kanbe, Gorou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1427868042
- Language: English
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Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab: A Graphic Novel
$12.99 Read moreIn Priya Huq’s middle-grade graphic novel Piece by Piece, Nisrin will have to rely on faith, friends, and family to help her recover after she is the target of a hate crime
Nisrin is a 13-year-old Ba- Author: Huq, Priya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1419740199
- Language: English
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Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
$19.95 Read moreIndependent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY Awards) gold medalist
Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and i- Series: Foodstory
- Author: Ghosh, Madhushree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: April 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1609388232
- Language: English
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The Hare with Amber Eyes (Illustrated Edition): A Hidden Inheritance
$50.00 Read moreThe definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller
Two hundred and sixty-four Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when h- Author: de Waal, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374168288
- Language: English
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The Sound of the Mountain
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age–about an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 28 1996
- ISBN10: 0679762647
- Language: English
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Cartwheel Katie
$7.99 Add to cartWhen Katie sees gymnasts on TV, she thinks the girls are so cool So she jumps at the chance to take a gymnastics class. But it turns out that somersaults and cartwheels aren’t as easy as they look. W… [more below]
- Series: Katie Woo
- Author: Manushkin, Fran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1479558966
- Language: English
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The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
$35.00 Add to cartThis book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why … [more below]
- Author: Yanagi, Soetsu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 21 2013
- ISBN10: 1568365209
- Language: English
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Beauty and the Beast Girl
$13.99 Add to cartA sweet yuri manga about a lonely monster and the girl she loves! A lonely monster, dwelling in seclusion in the forest, wishes she could live among humans despite her frightening appearance. Everythi… [more below]
- Author: Neji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1626929777
- Language: English
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Student Ambassador: The Missing Dragon
$15.00 Read moreWhen a whip-smart student ambassador is sent on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to a far away land, he and a newly crowned boy king are thrust into a globe-trotting action-adventure mystery set in th… [more below]
- Series: Student Ambassador #1
- Author: Estrada, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1945820608
- Language: English
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Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu Zhelong’s Work for Sustainable Farming
$9.95 Read moreThe narrator is a composite of people Pu Zhelong influenced in his work. With further context from Melanie Chan’s historically precise watercolors, this story will immerse young readers in Chinese cul
- Author: Schmalzer, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0884486354
- Language: English
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The Hunt Is on: Book 1
$10.99 Read moreXinyue, his brother Qiliu, and their mother are seekers, hunting aweto–a rare, plantlike treasure–along the legendary Silk Road. After one outing, Xinyue discovers the offspring of a deity that crea
- Series: Seekers of the Aweto #1
- Author: Jun, Nie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1728420210
- Language: English
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Hold Fast
$16.95 Read moreIt’s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty’s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife’s untimely death, Grey resi
- Series: A Thomas Grey Novel #1
- Author: Gelernter, J. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882470
- Language: English
