Asian Reads
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East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. Lewis
HardcoverOriginal price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigi...
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Paper Names
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /*A Reader's Digest Best Book of 2023**A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book*An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a we...
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Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series #7)
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /New York Times Bestselling Series!“These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history...
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Troublemaker
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerWith the events of the 1992 LA Riots unfolding around him, 12-year-old Jordan decides to take matters into his own hand...
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Love in the Library
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love s...
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Beneath the Wide Silk Sky
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Stunning, devastating, poignant: Debut author Emily Inouye Huey paints an intimate portrait of the racism faced by America's Japanese population ...
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So Far from the Sea
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Laura Iwasaki and her family are paying what may be their last visit to Laura's grandfather's grave. The grave is at Manzanar, where thousands of...
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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Jane Addams Peace Association Bilingual English/Japanese. A young girl finds things to be joyful about in the ...
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From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Received an Honorable Mention for the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction category Finalist in the Culinary...
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Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /When the U.S. government incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans as “domestic enemy aliens” during World War II, most other Americans succumbed t...
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Displaced: Manzanar 1942-1945: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This sorry episode has been illuminated in books and documentaries. But I've never felt its emotional texture--the unexpected mix of dereliction an...
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Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the move...
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Chinese Prodigal: A Memoir in Eight Arguments
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially ...
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My Nest of Silence
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Evocative prose and illustrations bring to life...[the] heart-wrenching decisions and considerations that Japanese Americans had to face...[and] t...
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Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy: Stories from the Second Basement
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as mu...
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas - and on the home front, has loc...
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Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /While globalization is often credited with the eradication of 'traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the ...
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Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War
HardcoverOriginal price $69.95 - Original price $69.95Original price $69.95$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /The player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In Asian American Play...
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Song of the Buffalo Boy
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /When American soldiers departed Vietnam, many left children behind--like seventeen-year-old Loi, whose fellow villagers ostracize her because she i...
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Farewell to Manzanar
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /The powerful true story of life in a Japanese American internment camp.During World War II the community called Manzanar was hastily created in the...
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Luck of the Titanic
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl comes the richly imagined story of Valora and Jamie Luck, twin British-Chinese ac...
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Luck of the Titanic
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl comes the richly imagined story of Valora and Jamie Luck, twin British-Chinese ac...
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Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding"...
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Two Faces
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This is the inspiring story of two friends who live through the dark days of World War II. Nina and Gordon were born in the San Joaquin Valley town...
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