Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Under The Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An inspirational memoir about an abandoned young boy who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea and came to America in search of survival,...
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The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. Kien Nguyen watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, without...
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In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /"In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting ano...
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Making a Scene
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Illuminating." --The Washington Post * "Candid and relatable." --Time *"Riveting and personal." --Mindy Kaling * "Captivatingly immediate." --The ...
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea." - Yeonmi Park "One of the most harrowing ...
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Stay True: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found ...
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /***Now an International Bestseller!***"Distinctively Japanese musings on meaning and connection."—ObserverI'm starting a service... available for...
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The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies dur...
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A Living Remedy: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerA Living Remedy is both Nicole Chung's moving personal journey to understand her adoptive family and a universal and ex...
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jers...
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Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Named 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 th...
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The Lucky Lotus
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Born in India and taken to America without her mother's permission, Pushpa Devi was challenged to choose a life of growth or to sit in the muddy, m...
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Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A courageous and poignant memoir of one young man's daring escape from Cambodia's genocidal regime Forced from his home by the Khmer Rouge, teenage...
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood sc...
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Imperfect Partners: The United States and Southeast Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /"Imperfect Partners" is former ambassador Scot Marciel's inside account of US relations with Southeast Asia since the Cold War. Combining research,...
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Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This "graceful, captivating" (New York Times Book Review) story from a singular new talent paints a portrait of grief and the search for meaning as...
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The Fruit You'll Never See: A memoir about overcoming shame.
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Growing up in Gloucester, Massachusetts, a quaint coastal town with a dark underbelly, Gail learned early on that some people mattered and some peo...
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A Maze in Thailand: The Fortunes and Fiascoes of a Free Spirit
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Despite my self-knowledge of an overtaxed imagination and a weakening grip on reality resulting from a lack of quality sleep, I was still confident...
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Face of the Enemy: An American Asian's War in Vietnam and at Home
HardcoverOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Face of the Enemy is not your run-of-the-mill memoir. The second son of a mixed-race family of mainly Asian descent was challenge enough. His fathe...
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Face of the Enemy: An American Asian's War in Vietnam and at Home
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Face of the Enemy is not your run-of-the-mill memoir. The second son of a mixed-race family of mainly Asian descent was challenge enough. His fathe...
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America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /From the 1850s, as the United States pushed west, Chinese migrants met ordinary Americans for the first time. Alienation and xenophobia lost the US...
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Dangerous Territory
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An updated edition of the moving and beloved memoir by the author of Where Goodness Still Grows.Right after college, Amy Peterson boarded a plane f...
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Some Kind of Magic: A True Story of Love, Life, and Wanderlust
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /This is a love story, but maybe not the kind you expect. It started with an epiphany and a desire to live life more fully. One fateful day in 2017...
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Jesus did many other things as well...BOOK TWO: More Short Stories Out of Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Following on his first book, Tony Schmidt is joined by his wife in presenting 16 more short stories of experiences from their 33 years as missionar...
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