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As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness and shame for their older family members, part of the generation of Japanese Americans forced into the hastily built concentration camp in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066.
Only after a serious cancer diagnosis did Shirley's mother, Setsuko, share her vision for a museum at the site of the former camp, where she had been donating funds and volunteering in secret for many years. After Setsuko's death, Shirley skeptically accepted an invitation to visit the site, a journey that would forever change her life and introduce her to a part of her mother she never knew.
Navigating the complicated terrain of the Japanese American experience, Shirley patched together Setsuko's story and came to understand the forces and generational trauma that shaped her own life. Moving seamlessly between family and communal history, Setsuko's Secret offers a clear window into the "camp life" that was rarely revealed to the children of the incarcerated. This volume powerfully insists that we reckon with the pain in our collective American past.

The AIDS crisis reshaped life in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s and radicalized a new generation of queer Asian Americans with a broad vision of health equity and sexual freedom. Even amid the fear and grief, Asian American AIDS activists created an infrastructure of care that centered the most stigmatized and provided diverse immigrant communities with the health resources and information they needed. Without a formal blueprint, these young organizers often had to be creative and agitational, and together they reclaimed the pleasure in sex and fostered inclusivity, regardless of HIV status.

A community memoir, Love Your Asian Body connects the deeply personal with the uncompromisingly political in telling the stories of more than thirty Asian American AIDS activists. In those early years of the epidemic, these activists became caregivers, social workers, nurses, researchers, and advocates for those living with HIV. And for many, the AIDS epidemic sparked the beginning of their continued work to build multiracial coalitions and confront broader systemic inequities. Detailing the intertwined realities of race and sexuality in AIDS activism, Love Your Asian Body offers a vital portrait of a movement founded on joy.

For over fifty years Eliot Weinberger has been celebrated for his innovative literary and political essays--translated into over thirty languages--as well as his trailblazing translations from the Spanish. In his exquisite new book The Life of Tu Fu, Weinberger has composed a montage of fifty-eight poems that capture the life and times of the great Tang Dynasty poet Tu Fu (712-770 AD). As he writes in a note to the edition, "This is not a translation of individual poems, but a fictional autobiography of Tu Fu derived and adapted from the thoughts, images, and allusions in the poetry." Through lines as penetrating as a classical tanka and as fluid as a mountain stream, themes of endless war and ongoing pandemic surround the wandering life of the ancient Chinese master.

From the author of It's Boba Time for Pearl Li! comes an empowering, heartfelt middle grade novel about a grunge-loving Taiwanese American tween who must use her voice to fight for ESL support at her school.

Lily Xiao can't wait to go to Camp Rock Out this summer, where she'll finally be able to shed her "class robot" good girl reputation and start her journey to becoming the next Eddie Vedder! And she can't wait to do it with her best friend and cousin, Vivian, who's just moved from Taiwan to Lily's California hometown.

But as the two cousins work their way through seventh grade, Vivian struggles more and more with her schoolwork, which is all taught in English. If Vivian can't get her grades up, her parents won't let her go to rock camp.

Determined to help, Lily embarks on a mission to push their school to provide more support for English-as-a-Second-Language learners like Vivian. But her first-generation immigrant family is nervous about Lily challenging the status quo. We should be grateful to be here, they always say.

With Camp Rock Out on the line, Lily will need to decide how far she'll push against her family's wishes in order to stand up and speak out.

Inspired by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and set in a magical imperial Japan, this is a breathtaking fantasy adventure from the acclaimed author of The Pearl Hunter.

Yuki Snow wishes she were anywhere but here.

She hates Santa Dolores, where her mom and stepdad just moved the family. Her BFF back home, Julio, has already forgotten his promise to stay in touch--and worse, he like likes Yuki's mortal enemy. At her new school, the kids think she's either invisible or a know-it-all nerd.

The only friend she's made so far is the shopkeeper at a Japanese antiques store. Among the treasures there is an ancient brass mirror supposedly once owned by celebrated Japanese writer Sei Shonagon. It's also rumored to be a portal to Shonagon's world, which opens every hundred years. So when a woman with long jet-black hair and flowing silk robes appears in the glass, beckoning, Yuki knows there's only one thing to do--step through to the unknown....

The full-color Boys' Love webtoon/manhwa (comic) comes to English print for the first time! Don't miss this Mature-rated rom-com about a friendly office worker and his handsome (but tyrannical) boss!

It's been about a year since Lee Eun-gyeom started working at his office job. He's outgoing and gets along well with his co-workers, but his success with romantic relationships is less than stellar...especially since he tends to fall hard and fast based on looks alone. History seems poised to repeat itself with his handsome new boss, Han Jihyuk: the man is exactly Lee Eun-gyeom's type, but his personality is a total turn-off as he works Lee Eun-gyeom to the bone. The more aggravated Lee Eun-gyeom feels, the more he can't get Han Jihyuk off his mind. Could this heated attraction be mutual?

THE END BEGINS

The final stages of Big Basilta's plan are underway! Shii can claim the throne of the country without humans if she wants it, but the king won't go down without a fight. The country wavers on the edge of destruction--what fate lies ahead for the golems and their creators? Find out in the final volume of The Country Without Humans!

The final volume!

MEETING THE FAMILY TO STAY OUT OF SIBERIA

It was inevitable that Honjouji Rika would end up meeting Takuya's family if they were to continue with their fake engagement plan, but nothing could have prepared her for the excitable Oohara lot! The two arrive in Kumamoto, intent on coming clean, but is that really so easy? And why is it that meeting Takuya's beautiful and peppy childhood friend has Rika feeling so glum? Can the fake couple convince the Ooharas that they're really not betrothed? Can they even convince themselves?

Inspired the TV Drama Map for the Wedding and an Anime Adaptation!

A novelist teams up with a demonic colleague to solve supernatural urban mysteries--and don't miss the anime!

Mysteries aren't just secrets, they're objects! There is the Elixir of the Moon, which restores one's youth! The Songs of Another World, which must never be uttered aloud. The Curious Report of the Enchanted Land, which contains the testimonies of those who have been spirited away! And now, in Tokyo, these mysteries and more are reappearing in the form of urban legends. Burnt-out novelist Ogawa Sumireko and demon boy Adashino Ren are out to collect as many as possible, but Sumireko has a knack for not just finding but triggering the magical effects of the mysteries! Will she survive her brush with the supernatural?! Does the demonic Ren have other plans for her?!

AN UNSETTLING PRESENCE LOOMS CLOSER...

Although Ivy and the Sword of Flames arrive in Otolwa safely, she still cannot shake the unpleasant gaze clinging to her every move. Rattloore and the others decide to capture the "organization" they believe to be the culprit, and despite her fear, Ivy resolves to stand with them. But will her bravery last when she learns the truth?

A Vampire Cat Serves Only One Master

When a stray black cat named Kuro crosses Mahiru Shirota's path, the high school freshman's life will never be the same again. Kuro is, in fact, no ordinary feline, but a servamp: a servant vampire. While Mahiru's personal philosophy is one of non-intervention, he soon becomes embroiled in an ancient, altogether surreal conflict between vampires and humans.

"Edward Wong's exquisite family chronicle achieves a level of humane illumination that only one of America's finest reporters on China could deliver. In tracing his father's journey--from Hong Kong to Xinjiang to America--Wong gives us a profound story of modern China itself. Anyone who once was absorbed by the power of Wild Swans will savor this meditation on memory, history, and belonging." --Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition, winner of the National Book Award

One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2024

An epic narrative that tells the story of modern China by braiding an intimate family memoir with contemporary reporting by a New York Times diplomatic correspondent and former Beijing bureau chief

The son of Chinese immigrants, Edward Wong grew up around Washington, DC, with family secrets. His father worked in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke about his native land or his time as a soldier in the People's Liberation Army under Mao. Yook Kearn Wong came of age during the Japanese occupation in World War II and the Chinese civil war, then fell under the spell of Mao's promise of a strong and modern China. He went on to spend harsh years with the army on a journey that took him from Manchuria in the remote northeast to Xinjiang, along the Central Asian frontier. In 1962, disillusioned with the rule of the Communist Party, he made plans for a desperate escape to Hong Kong.

When Edward Wong moved to Beijing for The New York Times during a pivotal period, he investigated his father's mysterious past while also assessing for himself the dream of a resurgent China. He had a front-row seat to the nation's economic boom and geopolitical expansion, as well as the darker currents of nationalistic rule under Xi Jinping, the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao. Following in his father's footsteps, he witnessed ethnic clashes in Xinjiang and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. And he had an insider's view to the world's two superpowers meeting at a crossroads.

As a son considering his father's life and his own time in China, Wong tells a moving chronicle of a family and a nation that spans more than eighty years and gives insight into a new authoritarian age transforming the world. At the Edge of Empire is the essential work for understanding China today.

Now that she's found Sungyeon again, Miso feels that she can finally put a close to her childhood trauma--except the details of that day just don't seem to add up. Just what truly happened that day all those years ago, and is Sungyeon really the boy she's been looking for?

In the third volume of this stunning series, Kaoru Mori-author of award-winning series A Bride's Story and Emma-shares works from her personal collection of sketches and concept drawings. From familiar characters and settings to illustrations drawn from Mori's own interests, Scribbles is a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes and into the sketch books of one of Japan's most beloved creators.

One day, Fukamachi catches a cold and loses his mysterious ability to distinguish lies. While he is out of commission, Professor Takatsuki at an event where he meets an actress who claims she can see ghosts! How will Takatsuki fare in an investigation of her haunted studio without his erstwhile lie-detector...?