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• The Fourth Princess

  a Gothic Novel of Old Shanghai

  Chang, Janie,

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  From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light, even as the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street

  Ho, Wiley Wei-Chiun

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  The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street is an intimate geopolitical memoir about a family separated by distance and borders, split between Taiwan and Canada in the wake of shifting global powers.

• The Legend of the Nine-tailed Fox

  Kwan, Katrina,

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  From the author of The Last Dragon of the East comes a sweeping fantasy adventure with a dash of romance between a nine-tailed fox and the demon-hunter who captures her, banished to the underworld together and forced to form a reluctant alliance in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hunger We Pass Down

  Lee, Jen Sookfong,

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  Set against the gleaming backdrop of contemporary Vancouver, The Hunger We Pass Down is a devastating, horror-tinged novel about how unspoken legacies of violence can shape a family. It follows the relentless spectre of intergenerational trauma as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pick a Colour

  a Novel

  Thammavongsa, Souvankham, 1978-

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  Told over a single day, with razor-sharp precision and wit, Pick a Colour confirms Souvankham Thammavongsa's place as literature's premier chronicler of the immigrant experience, in its myriad, complex, and slyly subversive forms.

• The Tiger and the Cosmonaut

  Boudel Tan, Eddy, 1983-

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  Casper Han grew up the dutiful son of immigrants who never felt entirely welcome in their remote corner of British Columbia. Now an adult, living in Vancouver with a boyfriend whose privilege he quietly resents, Casper rarely returns to his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heavenly Tyrant

  Zhao, Xiran Jay,

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  After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself on the seat of power in Huaxia, but she has also learned that her world is not as it seems. Revelations about an enemy who dangles one of her loved ones as a hostage…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality

  Stories

  Wong, Lindsay,

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  Living forever isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Hearts can still break, looks can still fade, and money still matters, even in eternity. The ghosts, zombies, and demons in this collection are all shockingly human, and they're ready to spill…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Double Life of Benson Yu

  a Novel

  Chong, Kevin,

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  A unique work of metafiction follows Benson Yu, a writer, who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown.

• Chinese New Year

  a Celebration for Everyone

  Lee, Jen Sookfong,

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  Part of the nonfiction Orca Origins series, Chinese New Year is illustrated with color photographs throughout. Readers will learn how a simple gathering of family and friends grew into a weeklong, worldwide festival.

• The Space Between Here & Now

  Suk, Sarah,

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  Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she'll simply grow out of it if she tries hard…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To the Bridge

  a Novel

  Thanh, Yasuko,

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  When Rose's seventeen-year-old daughter, Juliet, attempts suicide, she does everything she can to hold her family together despite the inevitable unraveling that follows.

• We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies

  a Novel

  Lama, Tsering Yangzom,

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  In the wake of China's 1959 invasion of Tibet, Lhamo and her sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp on the border of Nepal, having survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas into exile when so many others did not. As Lhamo--haunted by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

  Stories

  Fu, Kim,

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  In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghost Forest

  a Novel

  Fung, Pik-Shuen,

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  How do you grieve, if your family doesn't talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed protagonist of Ghost Forest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong "astronaut" fathers, he stayed in Hong Kong to work, while the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Three Funerals for My Father

  Love, Loss and Escape From Vietnam

  Hoang, Jolie Phuong,

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  Jolie Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the communists took over in 1975; the family was harassed and lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded new economic zone.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chinatown Pretty

  Fashion and Wisdom From Chinatown's Most Stylish Seniors

  Lo, Andria,

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  This book features the portraits and stories of fashionable seniors across Chinatowns in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Vancouver, in a celebration of aging gracefully and Asian-American culture

• Chop Suey Nation

  the Legion Cafe and Other Stories From Canada's Chinese Restaurants

  Hui, Ann, 1983-

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  In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chinatown Ghosts

  the Poems and Photographs of Jim Wong-Chu

  Wong-Chu, Jim, 1949-2017,

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  Jim Wong-Chu is a legend in the Asian Canadian writing community. As founder of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (and its magazine, Ricepaper), he constantly encouraged and inspired writers across the country to get their work published and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Celebration

  Chinese Canadian Legacies in British Columbia

  Cheung, Winnie L., 1953-

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  Chinese Canadians have been among the earliest of settlers to this land we now call British Columbia. This book celebrates a community whose legacy can be found as physical traces in the landscape, and in the social and economic transformations that…Read moreRead more of this annotation