- Browse the Catalog
- » My Account
- » List
Author
Formats:
Summary
Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
2) The refugees
Author
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
NGUYEN V. [SHORT STORIES]
1 available
NGUYEN V. [SHORT STORIES]
1 available
Summary
"The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. In The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from...
3) Pachinko
Author
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
LEE M.
1 available
LEE M.
1 available
Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
LEE M.
1 available
LEE M.
1 available
Summary
"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
4) The namesake
Author
Summary
A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
Author
Summary
With a new foreword by Domenico Starnone, this stunning debut collection flawlessly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.
With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide.
A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions...
Author
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Mystery Collection
M MANANSALA M.
1 available
M MANANSALA M.
1 available
Summary
"The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes-one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic...
Author
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
VUONG O.
1 available
VUONG O.
1 available
Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
VUONG O.
1 available
VUONG O.
1 available
Summary
A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
811.6 VUONG 2016
1 available
811.6 VUONG 2016
1 available
Summary
A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty.
9) Yolk
Author
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA CHOI M.
1 available
YA CHOI M.
1 available
Summary
Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
10) A Good True Thai
Author
Formats:
Summary
In 1970s Thailand, three young people meet each other with fateful results.Det has just lost his mother, the granddaughter of a king. He clings to his best friend Chang, a smart boy from the slums, as they go to college; while there, Det falls for Lek, a Chinese immigrant with radical ideals. Longing for glory, Det journeys into his friends' political circles, and then into the Thai jungle to fight. During Thailand's most famous period of political
...Author
Summary
Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
12) The kite runner
Author
On Shelf
Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Audio Visual Collection
CD HOSSEINI K.
1 available
CD HOSSEINI K.
1 available
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
GN HOSSEINI K.
1 available
GN HOSSEINI K.
1 available
On Shelf
Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Audio Visual Collection
PLAYAWAY HOSSEINI K.
1 available
PLAYAWAY HOSSEINI K.
1 available
Summary
Overview: A deluxe collector's edition of the phenomenally bestselling The Kite Runner, filled with striking and memorable photographs that bring Khaled Hosseini's compelling story to life. Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has shipped over four million copies and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy through the horrific rule of the Taliban, The Kite...
Author
Summary
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
Author
Summary
Presents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece, in a collection that includes "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary, " "Mono No Aware" and "The Waves."
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
305.48 HONG 2020
1 available
305.48 HONG 2020
1 available
Summary
"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 reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How...
Author
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Biography
B ZAUNER M.
1 available
B ZAUNER M.
1 available
Summary
"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
GN B JACOB M.
1 available
GN B JACOB M.
1 available
Summary
"Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love. Written with...
Author
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
641.5092 CHANG 2020
1 available
641.5092 CHANG 2020
1 available
Summary
In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny space in Manhattan's East Village. Chang, the chef-owner, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups. He was about to become one of the most influential chefs of his generation, driven by the question, "What if the underground could become the mainstream?" Here he recounts the improbable...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA KUHN S.
1 available
YA KUHN S.
1 available
Summary
Kimi Nakamura loves nothing more than transforming the outfits of her friends into expressions of their "Ultimate Selves" but her mother thinks it is a waste of time. After a huge fight, Kimi makes the decision to accept her grandparents' invitation to Kyoto where she is surrounded by her heritage, which is simultaneously foreign and familiar, and the environment helps her understand her mother better than ever before.
Author
On Shelf
Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Young Adult Collection
YA MENON S.
1 available
YA MENON S.
1 available
Summary
When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him.