Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year "Nimura paints history in cinematic strokes and brings a forgot...
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Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /During World War II more than one thousand Filipinas were kidnapped by the Imperial Japanese Army. Lolas’ House tells the stories of sixteen surv...
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Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Violent movements that opposed the existing political order erupted all over Europe in the course of the 19th century. Nowhere was revolutionary ...
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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld ...
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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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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerThe age of profound literary graphic narratives is upon us, and Tessa Hulls joins the ranks with Feeding Ghosts, a rich...
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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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The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp
HardcoverOriginal price $35.99Original price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /During World War II, the Japanese military extended Japan’s civilian licensing regime for domestic brothels to those next to its overseas bases. ...
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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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Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War
HardcoverOriginal price $56.95 - Original price $56.95Original price $56.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /In Among Women across Worlds, Suzy Kim excavates the transnational linkages between women of North Korea and a worldwide women's movement. Women of...
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Daily Giving Service: A History of the Diocesan Girls' School
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /A history of a Hong Kong girls' school that illustrates the city's dynamic development through the first-hand and archival accounts of its alumni. ...
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Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women' S Rights Worldwide
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Invigorating debut . . . [a] full-throated rallying cry." --Publishers Weekly One of Ms. Magazine's "most-anticipated feminist books of 2023" An e...
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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat & Family
Library BindingOriginal price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /"A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely...
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Shanghai Demimondaine: From sex worker to society matron
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Shanghai in 1930s had a booming prostitution industry which gave the city a certain reputation across Asia, and the beautiful Australian Lorraine M...
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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely...
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Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Meet the Jewish salon host in 1930s Shanghai who brought together Chinese and expats around the arts as civil war erupted and World War II loomed o...
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Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Kawai Koume (1804-1889) was an accomplished poet and painter and a wife, mother, and grandmother in a lower-ranking samurai family in the provincia...
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Women in Japanese Studies: Memoirs from a Trailblazing Generation
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Women in Japanese Studies: Memoirs from a Trailblazing Generation brings together trailblazing women scholars from diverse disciplines in Japanese ...
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Women in Japanese Studies: Memoirs from a Trailblazing Generation
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Women in Japanese Studies: Memoirs from a Trailblazing Generation brings together trailblazing women scholars from diverse disciplines in Japanese ...
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Tastes Like War: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A powerful account of a Korean American daughter's exploration of food and family history to understand her mother's schizophrenia.Product DetailsI...
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In 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 hun...
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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely...
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