Asian American Books


Best Gay Asian Erotica Best Price: $10.27 Go beyond the locker room in this playful, imaginative, and lushly written collection of gay...	Bollywood Confidential (Avon Books) Best Price: $0.04 I agree with Sugar Can Jane in terms of this book having interesting characters, but deserving a...	The Chinese American Family Album (The American Family Albums) Best Price: $4.13 The Chinese American Family Album is a scrapbook of family letters and diary entries, official...	Locke 1928 Having just put this book down, I am still slack-jawed at the richness of Ms. Ryan's...	Amy Tan: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers) Best Price: $36.04 This book is highly useful for use as a reference to the style, complexities, and the method of...



For Matrimonial Purposes Best Price: $2.49 This bubbly book was an entertaining and lighthearted read. Readers who criticize the main...	Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing Best Price: $19.65 A century of Asian American writing has generated a forceful cascade of hold words. This...	The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Best Price: $25.95 This book had a magnificent whirl of fun twisted into it, while it still kept the seriousness of...	House of the Winds (Emerging Voices. New International Fiction) Best Price: $7.66 I just finished this book two days ago, but I started it two and a half years ago. I gave up on...	Asian American Literature (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature) Best Price: $20.14 This critical study of Asian American literature discusses work by internationally successful...



Names Above Houses (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) Best Price: $8.93 I had a class with Oliver a few years ago and I noticed his collection in a bookstore the other...	Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome: A Descriptive Catalogue : Japonica-Sinica I-IV (Study of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Hi) Best Price: $135.44 The Jesuit Archives in Rome (Archium Romanum Societatus Iesu) contains books and manuscripts...	Death of a Red Heroine Best Price: $72.95 I'm sure it's been covered in other reviews but "Death of a Red Heroine"is no great...	Filipinos In America Best Price: $19.95	Buddha Baby Best Price: $0.87 This is a half way decent book but not as good as her Dim Sum of All Things.

Want: Poems Best Price: $7.99 ?Barot?s Want is dexterous and thrilling, and his capacious and generous vision shows us how...	Stone Field, True Arrow: A Novel Best Price: $1.00 It is fitting that the protagonist, Maya, is a weaver, for this book felt deftly...	The Bonesetter's Daughter The author of The Joy Luck Club weaves a complex tapestry of human emotion and filial...	A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)Cognition of the Italian/American Writer (Suny Series in Italian/American Studies) Best Price: $0.04 Using semiotics as a theoretical foundation, this book reexamines the notion of the hyphenate...	Night of Many Dreams Best Price: $4.46 Although I would't rate it as dull, I found the outcome to be predictable from the very...

Deadly Recall Best Price: $6.79 Dr. Jason Gilchrist working as a Locum physician at a nursing home stumbles upon a double...	A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night: An Autobiography in Art Best Price: $81.69 In 1944, when Song Nan Zhang was not yet three, he saw a baby tiger outside the hut in the...	Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body Best Price: $8.95 Traise Yamamoto clearly builds on earlier feminist works in her concern with the narrative and...	Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis (Place, Culture, and Politics) Best Price: $20.00 As wealthy immigrants from Hong Kong began to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, their...	Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America (Religion in American Life) Best Price: $21.62 Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America explores the challenges that Asian immigrants face when...

Honor and Duty This is a poignant story of an American-born Chinese who struggles with his cultural identity...	Show and Tell (Classic Munsch) Best Price: $13.73 Another winner! Robert Munsch is one of my favorite authors and I love his child-like approach...	Pasaje a La Libertad / Passage to Freedom: La Historia De Chiune Sugihara / The True Story of Chiune Sugihara, the "Japanese Schindler" Best Price: $4.17 This is the Spanish version of Passage to Freedom, a 30-page picture book. A remarkable and...	Somebody's Daughter: A Novel Best Price: $8.91 The reviews here ruin any surprise as to whether Sarah finds her birth mother. Instead this...	Mercy (American Poets Continuum) Best Price: $15.74 Lucille Clifton has been writing poetry since the 60s. Her poems have ranged from the...

American War Library - The Vietnam War: A History of U.S. Involvement (American War Library) Best Price: $1.88 The Vietnam War was the longest war in American history. It was also the most controversial and...	Hanif Kureishi (Contemporary World Writers) Best Price: $20.58 This comprehensive critical study of Hanif Kureishi details the writer's career to date....	Glencoe Asian American Literature Best Price: $3.99 Introduce Your Students to a Rich Literary Heritage Glencoe's new collection of ethnic...	Immigrants in America - The Vietnamese-Americans (Immigrants in America) Best Price: $28.61 Refugees from war and repression, the Vietnamese have managed an inspiring transition to their...	Pacific Microphone (Texas a&M University Military History Series, Vol 8) Best Price: $4.90

Soldier Talk: The Vietnam War in Oral Narrative Best Price: $19.55 This is a rare book that offers an authentic look at one of the many wars America has pursued...	Words Matter: Conversations With Asian American Writers (Intersections, Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies) Best Price: $21.24 Introducing 20 writers of Asian descent, this text invites the writers to comment on their work...	The Vietnam War in History, Literature and Film Best Price: $14.95 Mark Taylor offers an interdisciplinary approach to the Vietnam War -- a popular but complex...	Significant Other: Staging the American in China Best Price: $55.00 I found this book to be very insightful and enlightening as well as entertaining. Although this...	Form And Transformation: In Asian American Literature (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) Best Price: $25.00 This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian...

Danger and Beauty Best Price: $5.95 Writer, performance artist, poet and playwright Jessica Hagedorn's Danger And Beauty is a unique...	Un Lugar Llamado Nada / Saving Fish from Drowning Best Price: $17.46	Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i Best Price: $7.17 Hongo delights us with his poetic voice and I was expecting big things with this memoir. But...	Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn: Japanese Legends Life & Culture (Global Oriental) Best Price: $52.35 Lafcadio Hearn, who died in Japan in 1904, used to be considered one of the best Western writers...	Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits Best Price: $22.95 Transnational Asian America: Literary Sites and Transits examines the diasporic and...

Angel Island (We the People) Best Price: $15.77 Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay, is not particularly well known and is not one of the major...	Song of the Cicadas (Juniper Prize) Best Price: $16.95 I first read Mong-Lan's "Why is the Edge Always Windy?" before reading "Song of...	Mai Ya's Long Journey (Badger Biography Series) Best Price: $7.35 Mai Ya?s Long Journey by Sheila Cohen is the first book in the new Wisconsin Historical Society...	The Calcutta Chromosome Best Price: $5.25 ...this is not a very good book. The first 2/3 of the book are not bad at all, even if the...	Exploring cultures through literature

Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8 (Ncte Bibliography Series) Best Price: $30.95 The book review published for Kaleidoscope has absolutely nothing to do with the book. There...	Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate Best Price: $13.31 For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call...	From Both Sides Now: The Poetry of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath Mahony has done what no one before him was able to do--get a "big publisher" in this...	Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images Best Price: $13.40 Screaming Monkeys enacts one of the most challenging, yet culturally rewarding, subversions of...	Japanese Immigrants, 1850-1950 (Blue Earth Books: Coming to America) Best Price: $17.75

Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era, 1900-65 Best Price: $22.00 After trying to secure this book through Barnes and Nobles, I was told that there would be a...	Paradiso Diaspora (Poets, Penguin) Best Price: $0.91 As the anagram of its title suggests, the poems, prose, lyrics, and memoir in John Yau?s new...	English in Tibet, Tibet in English: Self-Presentation in Tibet and the Diaspora Best Price: $75.95 This book explores two kinds of self-presentation in Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora: that of...

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