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Author Celebration for Asian American, Native Hawai’ian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Author celebration for Asian American, Native Hawai’ian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Fiction and Nonfiction titles.

Mid-Continent Public Library

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  • A deeply personal narrative of being born and raised in Hawaii by a father with ancestors indigenous to the land and an American mother. In a land she struggled to connect with, she rebelled by moving to LA - this is a journey of family,…
    BookNew York : Little A, [2023] — B M185
  • This Pulitzer-Prize winning novel accomplishes what few do- if offers explosive social commentary while delivering a thrilling story of espionage and a poignant love story. - Kirstie
    BookNew York : Grove Press, 2015. — F NGUYEN
  • Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Gresham has a big problem - after decades of spending, behind the media lifestyle is a gargantuan mountain of debt. Rufus's scheming mother has a solution - attend his sister's wedding at a luxury…
    BookNew York : Doubleday, 2024. — F KWAN
  • A story of three Hindu sisters caught up in the riots and devastation of the partition of British India in 1947.
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — F DIVAKARUNI
  • When author and literary star Athena Liu dies in a freak accident, June acts on impulse - stealing her newly finished novel. With the lie crumbling, how far will she go to protect her secret? An immersive story told in first-person…
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — F KUANG
  • A story that explores the causes and effects of a woman who cares for her dying stepfather while trying to complete a project about the performance artist 'Tehching Hsieh.' As she digs deep into Hsieh's story, her project starts to merge…
    BookNew York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022] — F CHEN
  • The Porcelain Moon

    a Novel of France, the Great War, and Forbidden Love

    Chang, Janie,
    In the final days of WWI, a young Chinese woman runs away from her Uncle's home to Paris, to evade an arranged marriage. In the small town of Noyelles-sur-Mer, Camille Roussel plans to except from her abusive marriage. When Camille offers…
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — F CHANG
  • Spanning forty years and two continents, this family portrait centers on the deep connection between mother and daughter. From 1987 San Francisco to 1912 Shanghai, this beautifully evocative story will stay with you long after you finish.…
    BookNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013] — F TAN
  • In this spicy romance, a 30-year-old math whiz with Asperger's tries to make her love life as rich as her career by hiring an escort to help her with her lack of knowledge and experience in the dating department.
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2018. — F HOANG
  • A collection of stories that gives a vivid tableau of the Filipino diaspora.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. — F
  • In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. He is delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, making his story a legend.
    BookNew York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — F WASHBURN
  • Working with the injured following a hurricane on the island of Kauai, Ana, a physician abandoned by her mother and raised by native Hawaiian relatives, has an encounter with Niki, a Russian documentary filmmaker with his own turbulent…
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, 2006. — F