Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month | Burleson Public Library

1) The covenant of water: a novel

Author

Verghese, Abraham

Formats:

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least...

2) The secret gate: a true story of courage and sacrifice during the collapse of Afghanistan

Author

Zuckoff, Mitchell

Description

"When the U.S. began its withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan Army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban. A celebrated author, academic, and champion for women's liberation, Homeira had achieved celebrity in her home country by winning custody of her son in acontentious divorce, a rarity in Afghanistan's patriarchal society. Homeira tried and failed to escape with her family through the turmoil...

3) Advika and the Hollywood wives

Author

Ramisetti, Kirthana

4) Natural beauty: a novel

Author

Huang, Ling Ling

Description

"In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents-also stunningly talented musicians-who fled China in the wake...

5) A living remedy: a memoir

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"From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief-a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave hardship...

6) The do-over: a novel

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

"Bestselling author Lily Lee is on a short deadline to deliver her new career guide How to Land the Perfect Job, and she's been interviewing at all the top companies around town. But when she's offered a coveted position at her dream company, the employer's background check reveals she never actually finished her college degree. Unbelievably, her worst nightmare has come true. Lily returns to her alma mater to relive her senior year of college, after...

7) Brown boy: a memoir

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8) The perfumist of Paris

Author

Series

Henna artist volume 3

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

"A stunning portrait of a woman blossoming into her full power...this is Alka Joshi's best book yet!" —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye
From the author of Reese's Book Club Pick The Henna Artist, the final chapter in Alka Joshi's New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha's budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of...

9) The long reckoning: a story of war, peace, and redemption in Vietnam

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Description

"The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"--

10) The great reclamation

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Description

"A sweeping novel set in Singapore during the years leading up to its independence from British colonial powers, about one young boy from a rural fishing family and the love story that will shape his life and complicate the fate of his larger community"--

11) Chlorine: a novel

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Description

"Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep,...

12) Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers

Author

Sutanto, Jesse Q

Series

Thorndike Press large print core

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, WPL Large Print

Description

"A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way 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...

13) Dust child: a novel

Author

Nguyen, Phan Que Mai

Description

"An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"--

14) Now you see us: a novel

Author

Jaswal, Balli Kaur

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Description

"CRAZY RICH ASIANS meets THE HELP! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes an absolute tour de force-the wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own"--

15) The adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi: a novel

Author

Chakraborty, S. A

Series

Amina al-Sirafi novels volume 1

16) The porcelain moon: a novel of France, the Great War, and forbidden love

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In 1918 France, in the final days of the First World War, Pauline Deng, a young Chinese woman escaping an arranged marriage, is taken in by secretive Camille Roussel and becomes bound to this woman forever when they are forced to make a terrible decision.

17) While time remains: a North Korean defector's search for freedom in America

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18) Victory city: a novel

Author

Rushdie, Salman

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

"In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will...

19) Hungry ghosts: a novel

Author

Hosein, Kevin Jared

Formats:

Book, eBook, Playaway

Description

Publisher Annotation: From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding in 1940s Trinidad-and a chilling mystery that shows how interconnected their lives truly are. 352pp., 100K

20) Central places: a novel

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Description

"A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fianc�e home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents, toppling her carefully constructed life in this vibrant, insightful debut from an exciting new voice in fiction. Audrey Zhou left Hickory Grove, the tiny town in central Illinois where she grew up, as soon as high school ended, and she never looked back. She moved to New York City and became the person she always...