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• 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.

• Heavenly Tyrant

  Zhao, Xiran Jay

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  After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself at the seat of power in Huaxia. But she has also learned that her world is not as it seems, and revelations about an enemy more daunting than Zetian imagined forces…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Superfan

  How Pop Culture Broke My Heart : a Memoir

  Lee, Jen Sookfong,

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  For most of Jen Sookfong Lee's life, pop culture was an escape from family tragedy and a means of fitting in with the larger culture around her. Anne of Green Gables promised her that, despite losing her father at the age of twelve, one day she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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.

• Cactus Gardens

  Lau, Evelyn

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  Set against a backdrop of shifting weather and a blasted, mysterious landscape, CACTUS GARDENS explores the complexity and intensity of personal relationships. The narrator drifts through a variety of locales, from a hospital ward to a lakefront…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Better Next Year : An Anthology of Christmas Epiphanies

  Lee, J. J

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  Christmas is trumpeted as a time of peace, joy, bounty and goodwill. Believers and non-believers alike covet the spirit of the holidays even when circumstances are screwed up. Recollections from acclaimed Canadian authors combine with emerging…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Double Life of Benson Yu : A Novel

  Chong, Kevin

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  This fresh and 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. In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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, 1987-

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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

• Have You Eaten Yet?

  Stories From Chinese Restaurants Around the World

  Kwan, Cheuk,

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  From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brought delicious Chinese food across the globe. Unravelling a complex history of cultural migration and world politics, Cheuk Kwan narrates a fascinating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Upon a Midnight Clear : More Christmas Epiphanies

  Lee, J. J

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  In this second volume of the Better Next Year collection of true stories, discover more dashed holiday hopes, Christmas catastrophes, and slender, heartbreaking shards of joy.

• Rebellious Tide

  Boudel Tan, Eddy, 1983-

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  Sebastien's search for his father leads him to a ship harbouring a dangerous secret. Sebastien has heard only stories about his father, a mysterious sailor who abandoned his pregnant mother thirty years ago. But when his mother dies after a lifetime…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

• The Phoenix Crown

  a Novel

  Quinn, Kate,

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  San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Forbidden Purple City

  Huynh, Philip, 1975-

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  A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond. A son discovers the truth about his father's business ventures and his dreams of success. A…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

• 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

• The Woo-woo

  How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family

  Wong, Lindsay,

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  Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the 'woo-woo' -- Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo's sinister effects; at…Read moreRead more of this annotation