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Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

This selection of books was prepared in honor of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, celebrated annually in May.

Redwood City Public Library

67 items

  • Another Appalachia

    Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place

    Avashia, Neema,
    Book, 2022Morgantown, [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press, 2022. — 920 AVA
  • Asian American Is Not a Color

    Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family

    Poon, OiYan,
    Book, 2024Boston : Beacon Press, [2024] — 305.895 POO
  • Book, 2025San Francisco, CA : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [2025] — 730 ASAWA
  • Book, 2025New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2025] — FIC CHEN
  • Book, 2008Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2008. — HAUOFA
  • The Art of Tivaevae

    Traditional Cook Islands Quilting

    Rongokea, Lynnsay
    Book, 2001Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2001. — 746.4609 RONGOKEA
  • Book, 2021New York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, [2021] — 641.5996 Si451c
  • Book, 2022New York : Doubleday, [2022] — F-YANAGIHARA, H
  • Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization.
    Book, 2023New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — KAKIMOTO
  • "Told in part in the collective voice of a community fighting for its survival, 'Hula' is a spellbinding debut that offers a rare glimpse into a forgotten kingdom that still exists in the heart of its people."
    Book, 2023New York : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — F-HAK
  • "No Country for Eight-Spotted Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone but, in…
    Book, 2022New York : Astra House, [2022] — BIO AGUON
  • "An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in this searing, brave memoir. How do we understand ourselves when the story about who we are supposed to be is stronger than our sense of self? What do…
    Book, 2023New York : Crown, [2023] — BIO GUPTA
  • "An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?" Also available in digital formats.
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — F-KHO
  • What My Bones Know

    a Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma

    Foo, Stephanie,
    Book, 2022New York : Ballantine Books, [2022] — QUICK PICK F
  • Book, 2022New York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, [2022] — COOKING INTL ASIAN
  • Rise

    a Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now

    Yang, Jeff,
    Book, 2022Boston : Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — 305.895 YAN