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Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month for Adults!

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the US! AAPI diverse population has many distinct life experiences that others won't have or cannot imagine. Read these books to feel the feelings and live the livings!

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  • How to American

    An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents

    Yang, Jimmy O.
    A fun read with some disheartening moments about a 11 year old immigrant navigating their identity, conflicts of cultures and finding their American dream.
    BookNew York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2018. — 92 Ou9h 2018
  • Chinatown Pretty

    Fashion and Wisdom From Chinatown's Most Stylish Seniors

    Lo, Andria
    This books explores the fashion styles of grandmas and grandpas in Chinatown and how these styles reflect their life experiences.
    BookSan Francisco, California : Chronicle Books, [2020] — 779.2 L7801c 2020
  • A great book to know the different immigration waves from China to American in the 1800s and 1900s, and how these waves shaped the immigrant communities and affected the development of America.
    BookNew York : Viking, 2003 — 973.04951 C36239c 2003
  • Minor Feelings

    An Asian American Reckoning

    Hong, Cathy Park
    "Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in…
    BookNew York : One World, 2020. — 92 H7574m 2020
  • "Two teenagers in Los Angeles, one Korean-American and the other African-American, deal with the ripple effects of a shooting from decades ago after a new incident brings their families’ painful memories hurtling back.”
    BookNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — Fiction Cha
  • "Willis Wu wants to be Kung Fu Guy but is resigned to being Generic Asian Man. At the restaurant where he works, the cop show Black and White is perpetually in production, and Willis's chance at the spotlight gives him a new understanding…
    BookNew York : Pantheon Books, [2020] — Fiction Yu
  • This is a letter from a son to a mother. With poetic text, the book unravels the family's history before the son was born - a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam.
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2019. — Fiction Vuong
  • From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry

    the Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement

    Yoo, Paula
    "A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson Michael Nitz. When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter and received only a…
    BookNew York, NY : Norton Young Readers, [2021] — 305.89507 Y8f 2021 TEEN
  • "Mei Lien believes she is sailing to the "Gold Mountain" in America to become the wife of a rich Chinese man. Instead she finds herself sold into prostitution: beaten, starved, and forced into an opium addiction. Will the Occidental…
    BookSalt Lake City : Shadow Mountain, [2020] — Fiction Moore
  • Infamy

    the Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

    Reeves, Richard, 1936-
    Arizona has two internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII. Read this book to know about the key causes and dire consequences of this approach.
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015. — 940.53177 R25955i 2015