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ASIAN AMERICAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN, PACIFIC ISLANDER STORIES AND VOICES
  • The great reclamation
  • Koreatown dreaming : stories & portraits of Korean immigrant life
  • Portrait of a thief : a novel
  • Indian cuisine : authentic flavors from the land of spice.
  • They called us enemy
  • The storm we made : a novel
  • Playing for freedom : the journey of a young Afghan girl
  • Inspired Ikebana : modern design meets the ancient art of Japanese of flower arrangement
  • We have always been here : a queer Muslim memoir
  • Dust child : a novel
  • Last to eat, last to learn : my life in Afghanistan fighting to educate women
  • Homeseeking
  • Tehrangeles
  • Vera Wong's guide to snooping (on a dead man)
  • Becoming Nisei : Japanese American urban lives in prewar Tacoma
  • Sharks in the time of saviors
  • The house of doors : a novel
  • Our voices, our histories : Asian American and Pacific Islander women
  • Hula : a novel
  • Dear America : notes of an undocumented citizen
  • Threading my prayer rug : one woman's journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
  • No country for eight-spot butterflies : a lyric essay
  • Jeremy Pang's simple family feasts.
  • Always a sibling : the forgotten mourner's guide to grief
  • Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
  • Local : a memoir
  • Martyr!
  • Nuclear family : a novel
  • Nisei radicals : the feminist poetics and transformative ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake
  • Late bloomers : a novel
  • Kalaya's Southern Thai kitchen
  • Lies and weddings : a novel
  • The woman who climbed trees : a novel
  • Sigh, gone : a misfit's memoir of great books, punk rock, and the fight to fit in
  • Book of queens : the true story of the Middle Eastern horsewomen who fought the War on Terror
  • Every drop is a man's nightmare : stories
  • Savor : a chef's hunger for more
  • Beasts of a little land : a novel
  • White Mulberry
  • Brotherless night : a novel
  • Arsenic and adobo
  • Jang : the soul of Korean cooking
  • Afterparties : stories
  • Kaikeyi : a novel
  • The making of Asian America : a history
  • Midnight's borders : a people's history of modern India
  • The swimmers
  • On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel
  • Biting the hand : growing up Asian in Black and White America
  • Love Japan : recipes from our Japanese American kitchen
  • The great reclamation
  • Koreatown dreaming : stories & portraits of Korean immigrant life
  • Portrait of a thief : a novel
  • Indian cuisine : authentic flavors from the land of spice.
  • They called us enemy
FEATURED FICTION
  • Wild dark shore
  • Summer in the city
  • This book will bury me : a novel
  • The buffalo hunter hunter
  • Retreat : a novel
  • The dream hotel : a novel
  • Saltwater
  • When the Moon Hits Your Eye
  • Beach vibes
  • Witness 8 : an Eddie Flynn novel
  • Story of my life
  • The love we found
  • We do not part : a novel
  • The crash
  • Far from home : a novel
  • Story of my life
  • The bones beneath my skin
  • We all live here
  • None of This Is True
  • Beg, borrow, or steal : a novel
  • Wild dark shore
  • Summer in the city
  • This book will bury me : a novel
FEATURED NONFICTION
  • Careless People : A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
  • Who is government? : the untold story of public service
  • Resolute : how we humans keep finding ways to beat the toughest odds
  • The lost tomb : and other real-life stories of bones, burials, and murder
  • The 5 types of wealth : a transformative guide to design your dream life
  • The sirens' call : how attention became the world's most endangered resource
  • Lorne : the man who invented Saturday Night Live
  • Eve : how the female body shaped human evolution
  • On the Hippie Trail : Istanbul to Kathmandu and the making of a travel writer
  • Beyond anxiety : curiosity, creativity, and finding your life's purpose
  • Dare I say it : everything I wish I'd known about menopause
  • The secret history of the rape kit : a true crime story
  • I'm that girl : living the power of my dreams
  • On air : the triumph and tumult of NPR
  • The ultimate retirement guide for 50+ : winning strategies to make your money last a lifetime
  • The mother next door : medicine, deception, and Munchausen by proxy
  • Why Nothing Works : Who Killed Progress and How to Bring It Back
  • The forever dog : surprising new science to help your canine companion live younger, healthier, and longer
  • Fearless and free : a memoir
  • Gentle : rest more, stress less, and live the life you actually want
  • Careless People : A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
  • Who is government? : the untold story of public service
  • Resolute : how we humans keep finding ways to beat the toughest odds
  • The lost tomb : and other real-life stories of bones, burials, and murder
  • The 5 types of wealth : a transformative guide to design your dream life
NY TIMES BESTSELLERS – FICTION
  • 1. Shield of Sparrows
  • 2. Great Big Beautiful Life
  • 3. My Friends
  • 4. The Missing Half
  • 5. Silver Elite
  • 6. 25 Alive
  • 7. Onyx Storm
  • 8. The Perfect Divorce
  • 9. James
  • 10. Say You'll Remember Me
  • 11. Strangers in Time
  • 12. Iron Flame
  • 13. Broken Country
  • 14. The Names
  • 15. The Women
  • 1. Shield of Sparrows
  • 2. Great Big Beautiful Life
  • 3. My Friends
  • 4. The Missing Half
  • 5. Silver Elite
NY TIMES BESTSELLERS – NONFICTION
  • 1. Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
  • 2. Matriarch
  • 3. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
  • 4. My Next Breath
  • 5. Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World
  • 6. I Regret Almost Everything
  • 7. Karen: A Brother Remembers
  • 8. Abundance
  • 9. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
  • 10. The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
  • 11. Uptown Girl
  • 12. Hope
  • 13. The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness
  • 14. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
  • 15. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
  • 1. Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
  • 2. Matriarch
  • 3. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
  • 4. My Next Breath
  • 5. Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World
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