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NWAW’s must-reads: Stories about being yourself

January 10, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Every summer, a young boy and his family go camping at Mountain Pond. While there, they will typically see animals such as eagles, salamanders, and chipmunks.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 2 | JANUARY 11 - JANUARY 17

Top 10 book recommendations

December 27, 2019 By Samantha Pak

Another year is coming to a close and that means another year of a whole lot of books. Here are 10 of my top reads—in no particular order—for 2019.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, 2020, DECEMBER 28, JANUARY 3, VOL 39 NO 1

Taxi conversations in Shanghai

November 27, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Frank Langfitt’s 2019 book The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China is the first-hand story of a long-time foreign correspondent and current NPR reporter who lived and worked in China in the 1990s and more recently in the 2010s.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 49 | NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 6

Book recommendations: Complications of young love

November 22, 2019 By Samantha Pak

At 17, Ali Chu has grown up as the only Asian person in her Indiana school. And to fit in, she knows she must be as bland as white toast to survive—meaning eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and ignoring the racism from her classmates and teachers.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 48 | NOVEMBER 23 - NOVEMBER 29

Book recommendations: Working for the family business

November 1, 2019 By Samantha Pak

Lana Lee is back on the case and this time, things are off to an explosive start.
On the first evening of Cleveland’s Asian Night Market, Wonton on Wheels, a food truck run by her parents’ old friends, blows up at the end of the night, leaving one man dead.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 45 | NOVEMBER 2 - NOVEMBER 8

Book recommendations: Unlikely heroes and underdogs

October 11, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

As a fight trainer/bodyguard to Aveda Jupiter and Evie Tanaka, the superheroines protecting San Francisco, Lucy Valdez is one of the toughest individuals in town without superpowers. But as tough as she may be, she still can’t confess her feelings to her longtime crush, Rose Rorick, head of the police department’s Demon Unit.

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 42 | OCTOBER 12 - OCTOBER 18

Nikki Haley moves back to South Carolina, fuels political speculation

September 27, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is moving back to her native South Carolina, re-establishing a home base and also fueling speculation that a return to politics is next on her to-do list.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, National News, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 40 | SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 4

The Ghosts of Gold Mountain are still with us

September 20, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

There are ghosts among us. Ghosts that, if left unrecognized, haunt the living, whether or not we are aware of it.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 39 | SEPTEMBER 21 - SEPTEMBER 27

Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation

August 23, 2019 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Port Townsend native and Taiwanese American Robert Tsai’s 2019 book “Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation” discusses how lawyers and activists can utilize the court system to achieve equality and right historical wrongs in an era where the courts are becoming more conservative.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, ROBERT TSAI, VOL 38 NO 35 | AUGUST 24 - AUGUST 30

Book recommendations — Retellings and reimaginings of classic tales and stories

August 16, 2019 By Samantha Pak

Aru Shah is back for another adventure in this second installment of Chokshi’s Pandava series.

Filed Under: On the Shelf, Feature stories Tagged With: 2019, VOL 38 NO 34 | AUGUST 17 - AUGUST 23

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