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The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Format: Print book
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Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction,... |
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Well-Behaved Indian Women
Saumya Dave
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Simran Mehta has always felt harshly judged by her mother, Nandini, especially when it comes to her little "writing hobby." But when a charismatic and highly respected journalist careens into Simran's life, she begins to question not only her future as a psychologist, bu |
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Lisa See - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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2018 Audie Award Finalist The thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been abandoned and adopted by an American couple - now available at a great value!Li-yan and her family align their... |
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Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories - longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written - that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters... |
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Sarong Party Girls: A Novel
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon's "Best Book of the Month"A brilliant and utterly engaging novel - Emma set in modern Asia - about a young woman's rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism.On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best... |
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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The #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel that introduced Khaled Hosseini to millions of readers the world over. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history,... |
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Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born... |
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The Kitchen God's Wife
Amy Tan
Format: Paperback
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Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the pastincluding the terible truth even Helen... |
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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
Kelli Estes - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback
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The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets...Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt's island estate when she finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. As she peels back layer upon layer of the secrets it holds, Inara's life becomes interwoven... |
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On Such a Full Sea: A Novel
Chang-rae Lee - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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"Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides all that and more. . . . With On Such a Full Sea, [Chang-rae Lee] has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation: the oft-told tale of the desperate, betraying,... |
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The Bride Test
Helen Hoang - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart...Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down... |
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If I Had Your Face: A Novel
Frances Cha - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossibly high standards of beauty, secret room salons catering to wealthy men, strict social hierarchies, and K-pop fan mania."Even as a girl, I knew the only chance... |
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A Door in the Earth
Amy Waldman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the national bestseller The Submission comes the journey of a young Afghan-American woman trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth in this "penetrating" (O, Oprah Magazine) , "stealthily suspenseful," (BOOKLIST... |
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The Star-touched Queen
Roshani Chokshi - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book
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Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you're only seventeen?Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father's kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly... |
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid - Harvest Books
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion pictureShort-listed for the Man Booker PrizeNew York Times bestseller"Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel." - Washington Post"One of those achingly assured novels that makes... |
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The Shanghai Moon: A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel
S. J. Rozan - Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With The Shanghai Moon, S. J. Rozan returns to her award-winning, critically acclaimed, and much-loved characters Lydia Chin and Bill Smith in the first new novel in the series in seven years.Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Bill Smith, Chinese-American private investigator Lydia Chin... |
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The Namesake: A Novel
Jhumpa Lahiri - NHLA READS-TO-GO
Format: Paperback
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Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors... |
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The Satanic Verses: A Novel
Salman Rushdie - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight.... |
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A Burning: A novel
Megha Majumdar - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise--to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies--and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.Jivan... |
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds... |
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Killing Commendatore: A novel
Haruki Murakami - Vintage
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - from one of our greatest writers. * "Exhilarating ... magical." - The Washington PostWhen a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world... |
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The Japanese Lover: A Novel
Isabel Allende - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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Named one of the most anticipated novels of the year by New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Publishers Weekly, The Huffington Post, and more. From New York Times and internationally... |
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Under the Sun
Justin Kerr-Smiley - Arcadia Books
Format: Paperback
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Under the Sun is set in the closing stages of World War Two in the South Pacific. Flight Lieutenant Edward Strickland is a young RAF Spitfire pilot flying sorties over the Carolines and their outlying atolls. On a dawn patrol he is shot down attacking a submarine and ends up on a remote... |
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Bridge Of Scarlet Leaves
Kristina McMorris - Kensington; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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Los Angeles. 1941. Violinist Maddie Kern's life seemed destined to unfold with the predictable elegance of a Bach concerto. Then she fell in love with Lane Moritomo. Her brother's best friend, Lane is the handsome, ambitious son of Japanese immigrants. Maddie was prepared for disapproval... |
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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In the opening pages of Jamie Ford's stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery:... |
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The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai - Grove Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often... |
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