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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Best Recent Asian-American Fiction
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Most Popular Books in 2023
Read-Alikes for Our Missing Hearts
Reese's Book Club
Description
"Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities...
2) Key player
Author
Series
Front desk volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Titles Worth Trying: Historical Fiction [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Middle School]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Middle School]
Description
"Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang! The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade...
Author
Series
Chai Masala Club romances volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Payal is a girl on the verge--of living a life she's always dreamt of, becoming a rising star in fashion, and...of marriage?! When her parents insist she marry fellow Londoner and serial dater Ayaan Malhotra in order to save their company, Payal has a choice: stick it to her dysfunctional family but put her hard-earned fashion success on hold...or get engaged to save her family's fortune and rescue her own dream-come-true life. Ayaan has always been...
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Four experts (Michael Berry, Karl Gerth, Nile Green, and Pankaj Mishra) offer unique insights into different aspects of contemporary Asian society based upon their personal and professional experiences, sharing their perspectives on the similarities and differences between Asia and the West.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pakistan, 'Land of the Pure', remains a country of contradictions. A bastion of radical Islam trying to change to a modern state. We examine some of the undercurrents threatening the stability of this Atomic nation. Up in the Himalayas, at an altitude of 6,000 meters, a bizarre sort of war is being waged. 1,000 Pakistani soldiers face off against 3,000 Indian soldiers for control of the Siachen Glacier, biggest reserve of fresh water available. With...
8) Boatman
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
Italiano
Description
BOATMAN is Gianfranco Rosi's account of a boattrip along the Ganges river, together with his helmsman Gopal. They pass tourists and Indians who are bathing, working or meditating. In a series of small portraits Rosi depicts life on and at the banks of India's sacred river.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Russian director Vitaly Mansky follows the life of one girl and her family in the year she prepares to join the Children's Union, on the 'Day of the Shining Star' (Kim Jong-Il's birthday). In doing so, Mansky crafts an indelible portrait of life in modern North Korea.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Southeast Asia. 1960's. Flash point of the Cold War. 'Dateline - Saigon' tells the inspiring story of a small group of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists - David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and the great photojournalist Horst Faas - who fought to report a truth that was vastly different from the rosy White House version during the early years of the Vietnam War...even as their own government sought to discredit them.
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...11) Exploring India
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A political scientist, historian and writer offer brief insights into various aspects of past and present Indian society. Featured are John Dunn, Nile Green and Pankaj Mishra.
12) Chinese Portrait
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
China in all its diversity. Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaus of people and environments, each one more extraordinary than the last.
13) The comeback
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ariadne Hui thrives on routine. So what if everything in her life is planned down to the minute: that's the way she likes it. If she's going to make partner in Toronto's most prestigious law firm, she needs to stay focused at all times. But when she comes home after yet another soul-sucking day to find an unfamiliar, gorgeous man camped out in her living room, focus is the last thing on her mind. Especially when her roommate explains this is Choi...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
Art imitates life in this quietly devastating masterpiece from Hong Sang-soo. Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden, Claire's Camera) plays Younghee, an actress reeling in the aftermath of an affair with a married film director. Younghee visits Hamburg then returns to Korea, but as she meets with friends and has her fair share to drink, increasingly startling confessions emerge. No stranger to mining his own experience for his films, Hong, whose real-life affair...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Central Khmer
Description
After The Missing Picture (Un Certain Regard winner, Cannes and Oscar nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2014), Rithy Panh continues his personal and spiritual exploration of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge era. His earlier films, S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine and Duch: Master of the Forges of Hell, analyzed the mechanisms of the crime. GRAVES WITHOUT A NAME searches for a path to peace.
When a thirteen-year-old child, who lost the greater
...17) Of Love and Law
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
日本語
Description
Openly gay life partners Fumi and Kazu run a small law firm in downtown Osaka, Japan. Through their life and work, we see a snapshot of Japan in transition - a country where collective unity is absolute and often maintained at the expense of individual rights and freedom.
19) Dwarves Kingdom
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
One day, a Lord of the Rings-obsessed Chinese real estate investor met a little person on the train. This downtrodden man's openness about his trouble finding a job inspired the businessman to try and help: he created an amusement park where people with dwarfism could live and earn money performing. Though the park has attracted negative attention from groups like Little People of America, DWARVES KINGDOM attempts to capture what the park means to...
Publisher
Visual Antics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
Every year, on the 2nd Thursday of November, the entire country of South-Korea is put to the test. That day, more than half a million senior high school students take part in the National University Exam, better known as Suneung. 'REACH FOR THE SKY' tells the story of several South-Korean high school students, their families and teachers, as they prepare for the annual National Exam. The exam will not only determine where the high school seniors will...
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