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• We Hereby Refuse

  Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

  Abe, Frank

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  Three stories of Japanese American resistance during wartime paint a fuller picture of a dark chapter in US history. (NoveList)

• Leaving Yesler

  Bacho, Peter

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  LEAVING YESLER features a sensitive, mixed race (Puerto Rican and black) protagonist (Bobby). Bobby's life is difficult--in short order, he lost his mom to cancer and his older protective brother to Vietnam. His Filipino stepfather is old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Greatest of Marlys

  Barry, Lynda, 1956-

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  Presents a collection of comic strips focusing on the adventuers of Marlys Mullen and her family and friends. (NoveList)

• Roots & Reflections

  South Asians in the Pacific Northwest

  Bhatt, Amy

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  Immigrants from South Asia first began settling in Washington and Oregon in the nineteenth century, but because of restrictions placed on Asian immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century, the vast majority have come to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• America Is in the Heart

  a Personal History

  Bulosan, Carlos

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  "First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hapa Tales and Other Lies

  a Mixed Race Memoir About the Hawai'i I Never Knew

  Chang, Sharon H.

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  "In her first work of literary nonfiction, Sharon H. Chang reflects critically on her Asian American, Mixed Race, and activist identity through the prism of returning to Hawai'i as a tourist. While visiting O'ahu and Kaua'i she considers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Raising Mixed Race

  Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-racial World

  Chang, Sharon H.

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  Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become. In the last decade, we have also seen a sudden massive shift in America's racial makeup with the majority of the current under-5…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lovely, Dark, and Deep

  Chen, Justina, 1968-

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  Viola Li has her future as a globe-trotting journalist all planned out, but everything comes into question when her body suddenly betrays her. Passionate and ambitious, Viola, a biracial (Chinese/white) 18-year-old, is unmoored when her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Unforgotten Seattle

  Chew, Ron

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  Third-generation Seattleite, historian, journalist, and museum visionary Ron Chew spent more than five decades fighting for Asian American and social justice causes in Seattle. In this deeply personal memoir, he documents the tight-knit…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exhalation

  Chiang, Ted

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  Exploring humankind's place in the universe and the nature of humanity, many of the stories in this stellar collection focus on how technological advances can impact humanity's evolutionary journey. Chiang's (Stories of Your Life and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• King of Joy

  Chiem, Richard, 1987-

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  From one of the most exciting and risk-taking new literary voices, Richard Chiem’s debut novel King of Joy is the triumphant, electrifying story of one woman’s quest for survival against all odds, told in the author’s inimitable prose…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seattle's International District

  the Making of a Pan-Asian American Community

  Chin, Doug

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  Those interested in the history of Asian immigrants to the US will appreciate this history of Seattle's Asian community. Chin, a specialist in the history of Chinese Americans and of Seattle's International District, has compiled a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• DMZ Colony

  Choi, Don Mee

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  The stunning third collection from Choi (Hardly War) is a feat of docupoetics, collage, and translation that bears witness to unheard voices from the Korean War and the Park Chung Hee military dictatorship. (Publisher's Weekly)

• Hardly War

  Choi, Don Mee

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  Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chinese Soul Food

  a Friendly Guide for Homemade Dumplings, Stir-fries, Soups, and More

  Chou, Hsiao-Ching, 1972-

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  Chinese food is more popular than any other cuisine and yet it often intimidates North American home cooks. Chinese Soul Food draws cooks into the kitchen with recipes that include sizzling potstickers, stir-fries that are unbelievably…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Paper Shadows

  Memoir of a Past Lost and Found

  Choy, Wayson, 1939-2019

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  The author offers a memoir of his discovery at the age of fifty-seven that he was adopted, and his realization, in the process of uncovering his life's secrets, that his art and his life are intertwined. (NoveList)

• All You Can Ever Know

  a Memoir

  Chung, Nicole

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  A Korean adoptee who grew up with a white family in Oregon discusses her journey to find her identity as an Asian American woman and a writer after becoming curious about her true origins. (NoveList)

• Filipinos in Puget Sound

  Cordova, Dorothy Laigo

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  Since the 19th century, Filipinos have immigrated to the Puget Sound region, which contains a deep inland sea once surrounded by forests and waters teeming with salmon. Seattle was the closest mainland American port to the Far East. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

  a Novel

  Ford, Jamie

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  When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• For Today I Am a Boy

  Fu, Kim

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  Peter, the only boy among four siblings born to Chinese immigrants, is convinced he is a girl and must fight the confines of a small town as well as the expectations of his parents to forge his own path into adulthood. (NoveList)