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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
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To learn more about Chinese culture and history, try these new fiction titles written by authors of Chinese heritage!
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Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century: Oral Histories of First- To Fourth-Generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines,
By Lee, Joann Faung Jean
2008-09 - New Press
1595581529
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This follow-up to the bestselling classic "Asian Americans" collects all-new interviews that reveal intimate and often conflicting thoughts about Asian-American identities, immigration, relationships, and educational and professional achievement.
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Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
By Huang, Yunte
2010-08 - W. W. Norton & Company
0393069621
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2011 Edgar Award Winner-Best Critical/Biographical
Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book: "An ingenious and absorbing book, that provides a convincing new mode for examining the Chinese experience through both Chinese and Western eyes. It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story." Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China and Return to Dragon Mountain
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Half Life
By Farooki, Roopa
2010-04 - St. Martin's Press
0312577907
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Orange Award for New Writers nominee Farooki returns with this luminous new work about love and its powerful hold across time and place.
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Hello Kitty Must Die
By Choi, Angela S.
2010-04 - Tyrus Books
1935562037
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American Psycho meets The Joy Luck Club, with a pinch of Heathers for the thirty-something set.
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
By Ford, Jamie
2009-01 - Ballantine Books
0345505336
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Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, the times and places are brought [stirringly] to life (Jim Tomlinson, author of "Things Kept, Things Left Behind").
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A Person of Interest
By Choi, Susan
2008-02 - Viking Books
0670018465
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Intricately plotted and emotionally riveting, A Person of Interest asks how far one man can run from his past, and explores the impact of scrutiny and suspicion in an age of terror.
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Shanghai Girls
By See, Lisa
2009-05 - Random House (NY)
1400067111
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From the author of the bestsellers "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" and "Peony in Love" comes a stunning new novel about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles.
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The Surrendered
By Lee, Chang-Rae
2010-03 - Riverhead Books
1594489769
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Combining the complex themes of identity in "Native Speaker" and "A Gesture Life" with the broad range, energy, and pure storytelling of "Aloft," Lee has delivered his most ambitious work yet. It is a mesmerizing novel, elegantly suspenseful and deeply affecting.
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Tallgrass
By Dallas, Sandra
2008-02 - St. Martin's Griffin
0312360207
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During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small town. Part thriller, part historical novel, this novel is a riveting exploration of the darkest--as well as the best--parts of the human heart.
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Wingshooters
By Revoyr, Nina
2011-02 - Akashic Books
1936070715
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In Nina Revoyr's best novel to date, the events of 1974 forever change Michelle LeBeau, her town, and her family.
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