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**Please note, some of these titles are not written by persons of the specific culture, but represent histories of the culture as well as biographies about people of the culture.**
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Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (6 Volume Set)
Karen Christensen - Charles Scribner & Sons
Format: Hardcover
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The Encyclopedia of Modern Asia is a monumental new scholarly work, as expansive in scope as the continent of Asia itself. Under the direction of cultural anthropologist David Levinson, 800 contributors from around the world -- including 25 Asian countries -- provide 6, 000 articles on Modern... |
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Japanese Voices
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They Called Us Enemy
George Takei - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback
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New York Times Bestseller!A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage,... |
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Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave... |
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Chinese Voices
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
AMY TAN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate... |
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My Chinese-America
Allen Gee - Santa Fe Writer's Project
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Eloquently written essays about aspects of Asian American life comprise this collection that looks at how Asian-Americans view themselves in light of Americas insensitivities, stereotypes, and expectations. My Chinese-America speaks on masculinity, identity, and topics ranging from Jeremy... |
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An awe-inspiring often hilarious and unerringly honest story of one mothers exercise in extreme parenting revealing the rewards-and the costs-of raising her children the Chinese way All decent parents want to do whats best for their children What Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother reveals... |
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Vietnamese Voices
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The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Julie Yip-Williams - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more - a powerful exhortation to the living. That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle.... |
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Korean Voices
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A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
Eunsun Kim - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide... |
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North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State
John Sweeney - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative and, at times, frightening investigation into the dark side of North Korean society. North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation on earth. Big Brother is always watching: It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. Award-winning... |
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
NICOLE CHUNG - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection An Official Junior Library Guild Selection An ABA Indies Introduce Selection "This book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story, then widens her aperture... |
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Cambodian Voices
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Filipino Voices
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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American." - Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow"l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents endured." - Amy Tan,... |
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Afghan Voices
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A Brief History Of Afghanistan
Shaista Wahab
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Explores the history and culture of Afghanistan from prehistoric times through its current events, covering the political, cultural, and economic changes the country has undergone over the years. |
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom
John Follain
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Zoya's Story is a young woman's searing account of her clandestine war of resistance against the Taliban and religious fanaticism at the risk of her own life. An epic tale of fear and suffering, courage and hope, Zoya's Story is a powerful testament to the ongoing battle to cla |
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An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir
Phyllis Chesler - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she arrived... |
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Indian Voices
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Victoria & Abdul
Shrabani Basu - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017. Tall and handsome Abdul was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Within a year, Abdul... |
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Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Print book
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Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk... |
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Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
Padma Lakshmi - Ecco
Format: Print book
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A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Atetraces Padma Lakshmi s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron s HeartburnLong before... |
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A Long Way Home: A Memoir
Saroo Brierley - G.P. Putnam's Sons; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and homebut an identity long-since left behind.At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last... |
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Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today
Vijay Prashad - New Press, The
Format: Hardcover
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Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center, misdirected assaults on Sikhs and other South Asians flared on streets across the nation, serving as harbingers of a more suspicious, less discerning, and increasingly fearful world view that would drastically change ideas of belonging... |
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Pakistani Voices
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Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey
ZIAUDDIN YOUSAFZAI - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A moving and deeply personal memoir by Ziauddin Yousafzai, whose daughter, Malala, survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.Since her miraculous recovery from a bullet fired by the Taliban in 2012, Malala Yousafzai has spoken across the globe... |
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced... |
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Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West
Benazir Bhutto - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"It is impossible to understand todays world without knowing Pakistan; and impossible to understand Pakistan without reading this book. A courageous woman - tragically killed - speaks to us of reconciliation. We owe it to her - and to ourselves - to listen, comprehend, and act."... |
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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In 1993, following a failed attempt to ascend K2, Greg Mortenson was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers in Pakistan and promised to build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time - Mortenson's... |
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Iranian Voices
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Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran
Roxana Saberi - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Between Two Worlds is an extraordinary story of how an innocent young woman got caught up in the current of political events and met individuals whose stories vividly depict human rights violations in Iran." - Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Between Two World... |
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reissue edition
Format: Print book
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular;... |
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Firoozeh Dumas - Random House Trade Paperbacks; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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This new Readers Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.” In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge... |
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Iraqi Voices
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The Girl Who Escaped ISIS: This Is My Story
Farida Khalaf - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Named a "Best Book of the Year" by New York Post "Farida Khalaf's story is harrowing but crucial - especially when it comes to understanding what ISIS actually is and does." - Glamour "As gripping as it is appalling ... a compelling testament to the suffering... |
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Saudi Arabian Voices
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Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
Carmen Bin Ladin
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A former sister-in-law of Osama bin Ladin describes her experiences of marrying into and divorcing from the bin Ladin family, her witness to the clan's complex and secretive ways, and her sorrow over the September 11 attacks. 60,000 first printing. |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
Qanta Ahmed - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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"In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti-Semitism, but the surprise is how Dr. Ahmed also finds tenderness... |
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Yemeni Voices
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The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war.Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco,... |
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