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1) Siren queen
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"It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers." Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl from Hungarian Hill--but she doesn't care. She'd rather play a monster than a maid. But in Luli's world, the worst monsters in Hollywood are not...
2) I am golden
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1st Grade Recommended Reads
2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
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This moving ode to the immigrant experience, as well as a manifesto of self-love for Chinese American children, is a jubilant celebration of accepting who you are.
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AAPI Heritage Month
AMPL Dark Academia
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (WPL-ADULT)
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AMPL Dark Academia
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (WPL-ADULT)
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"Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will...
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Amy Wu volume 1
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English
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2023 Monarch Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
2024 Monarch Award
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2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
2024 Monarch Award
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Amy is determined to make a perfect dumpling like her parents and grandmother do, but hers are always too empty, too full, or not pinched together properly.
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (WPL-ADULT)
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Reading List AAPI (SCPL)
Best of 2022
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Reading List AAPI (SCPL)
Best of 2022
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"Joan is a thirtysomething ICU physician at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who moved to America to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does look up sometimes and wonder where her true roots lie: at the hospital, where her white coat makes her feel needed, or with her family, who try to shape her life according to their own cultural and...
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"Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady--ah, lady of a certain age--who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her...
7) Watercress
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2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
9) Convergence
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Zodiac legacy volume 1
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2023
By Stan Lee
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
By Stan Lee
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
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Follows the experiences of a Chinese-American teen who is thrown into the middle of an epic global chase involving the release of twelve magical superpowers.
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AAPI Fiction
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2023
HPL Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month 2023
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2023
HPL Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month 2023
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"The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds--the WASP establishment of her father's family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with"--
On her very first morning on the island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao-- and instantly can't stand him. Especially when he kisses...
11) Stargazing
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2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
5th Grade Recommended Reads
AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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5th Grade Recommended Reads
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Growing up in the same Chinese-American suburb, perfectionist Christine and artistic, confident, impulsive Moon become unlikely best friends, whose friendship is tested by jealousy, social expectations, and illness.
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"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
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"A teenage sorcerer's apprentice must solve her boss's murder in order to prove her innocence in this twisty, magic-infused murder mystery perfect for fans of Knives Out and The Inheritance Games. Being an apprentice to one of the world's most famous sorcerers has its challenges; Tabatha Zeng just didn't think they would include solving crime. But when her boss, the infamous fortuneteller Sorcerer Solomon, predicts his own brutal death--and worse,...
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Asian American Authors
HPL Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month 2023
LSS - AAPI Adult Fiction
Lunar New Year
HPL Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month 2023
LSS - AAPI Adult Fiction
Lunar New Year
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"From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee...
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Cadence Lim has transformed from behind-the-scenes number cruncher to an integral part of the sales team at Prism Realty. But despite moving up the corporate ladder, her complicated relationship with her estranged elderly father weighs heavily and she can't seem to shake the desire for a new beginning. At least Cadence can always lean on her favorite co-worker and co-conspirator, Matt Escanilla. A top broker with an unsuccessful love life, the forever...
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When her stepfather leaves and her family loses their home to fire, twelve-year-old Chinese-American Monica, or Mo, struggles with anxiety, but the chance to hunt an elephant ghost--and the promise of a new friend--help convince her to live a little more dangerously.
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Lunar New Year - Picture Books
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD Lunar New Year (February) - YOUTH
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD Lunar New Year (February) - YOUTH
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"Chinese New Year is a time of new beginnings. Follow one little girl as she learns how to welcome the coming year and experience all the festivities surrounding it."-- P. [4] of cover.
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2022 Time Capsule
AAPI Fiction
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (WPL-ADULT)
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AAPI Fiction
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (WPL-ADULT)
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"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...
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Theo Tan volume 1
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A twelve-year-old Chinese American boy must learn to embrace his heritage and accept his beloved older brother's spirit companion--a mystical fox named Kai--to solve the mystery of Jamie's death.
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