Audience: Student
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The Manor of Dreams
Vivian Yin was the first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, Now she is dead, and her daughters are only interested in dividing her estate. The Manor of Dreams is a thrilling family gothic story that examines the true cost of the American Dream—and what happens when the roots we set down in this country…
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Detained: A Boy’s Journal of Survival and Resilience
D. attempts to join his parents by traveling with his cousins to the US border. He is detained by the US government and seperated from his cousins. His memoir chronicles the different stages of his travels through variour retention centers some are only a tent with a port-a-potty. “This is a brutally honest account of…
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The Matchmaker
In this heart pounding mystery, Nura, a matchmaker is shocked after one of her matched couple’s weddings is ruined. This sabotage is the first in a chain of suspicious and increasingly terrifying events. Azar with her matchmaking team by her side embarks on a dangerous game to solve the mystery.
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I Leave It up to You
What does it means to love, to repair a family after a tragedy? “I Leave It Up to You is a delicious meal of a book, with courses of drama, tragedy, and comedy. Jack Jr.’s efforts to separate himself from his raucous, loving, over-reaching Korean American immigrant family are rendered with brilliant finesse and beauty.”…
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The Original Daughter
An emmotional, sometimes humorous tale of two sisters as they struggle with family, freedom, intimacy, and forgiveness. One wonders what it means to love, and love well, when our family relationships can create love and pain.
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Saving Five
“Nguyen’s narrative cuts back and forth in time, from her childhood growing up with a violently abusive father, to the landmark moment in 2016 when the Survivors’ Bill of Rights Act was passed in Washington, to the vantage point of the adult Amanda, who eventually becomes an astronaut. Throughout, the author’s central task is to…
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Reading Fun for Summer and All Year Round
In 2025, let’s celebrate the joy of reading books that reflect who we are — our backgrounds, interests, personalities, and ways of thinking. Explore stories about people who inspire you, characters who bring you joy, and voices that open up new perspectives. Enjoy books that speak to your heart, spark your curiosity, and make you…
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Fitting Indian
This highschool graphic novel shines a light on how harmful the stigma of mental illness is and how lifesaving a community that is honest about mental health can be. All Nitasha’s parents want is for her to be the perfect Indian daughter. Everything she does seems to disappoint them, especially her mom. They just don’t…
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Everything We Never Had
Four generations of boys in a Filipino-American family deal with prejudice, and family issues. Francisco, a migrant farm worker, organizes the farm workers in his area. Emil refuses to follow in the footsteps of his labor organizer father, Francisco, and is determined to make it on his own. Chris is determined to prove that his…
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Tall Water
Nimmi wants to travel to Sri Lanka to confront the mother who refused to leave the island during a war. Her father is going back for the first time as a reporter on assignment, but he refuses to take her, because Sri Lanka is too dangerous. Nimmi buys her own ticket for her father’s flight.…
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Rick Kotani’s 400 Million Dollar Summer
Rick is a baseball-obsessed twelve-year-old who moves to Oregon to help take care of his grandfather, but ends up learning unexpected truths about his family and how they mysteriously parallel the Japanese folktale of the fisherman Urashima Taro.
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Incredible: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Changed the World
Incredible introduces some of the vast number of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who have made significant and lasting change in the world, including groundbreaking journalist Connie Chung, first Asian American Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, and renowned singer/activist Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole.