On the Shelf – Page 14

Embracing what makes us different

November 30, 2018 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Sail Away with Me By Susan Fox Zebra, 2018 Aside from her years at the university in Vancouver, B.C., Iris Yakimura has spent her […]

Building a new life after trauma — Book recommendations

November 16, 2018 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Severance By Ling Ma Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018 As a 20-something living in New York, Candace Chen is living month-to-month, just trying to […]

This month’s must-reads: Drama, mystery, and murder novel recommendations for foodies

September 21, 2018 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “The Way You Make Me Feel” By Maureen Goo Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018 Clara Shin doesn’t take life too seriously. For her, it’s […]

Book recommendations: Questioning the status quo

August 17, 2018 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Go By Kazuki Kaneshiro, translated by Takami Nieda AmazonCrossing, 2018 As a Korean student attending a Japanese high school, Sugihara has been in (and […]

Fostering positive mental health in your community

August 10, 2018 By Admin

By Joshua Holland NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY In a world full of seemingly increased shared prosperity and more opportunities, life for people today is better than ever. Increasingly however, in the […]

Book recommendations

August 3, 2018 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly The Kiss Quotient By Helen Hoang Berkley, 2018 For Stella Lane, math is everything and her job of coming up with algorithms to predict […]

Book recommendations: Murder mysteries

June 22, 2018 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Death by Dumpling By Vivien Chien St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2018 Now that she is an adult, the last place Lana Lee thought she would […]

Book recommendations

June 1, 2018 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Novel By Balli Kaur Jaswal William Morrow, 2017 As the daughter of Indian immigrants, Nikki’s life is in […]

Book recommendations — Life’s unexpected turns

April 27, 2018 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly How to American By Jimmy O. Yang Da Capo Press, 2018 When Jimmy O. Yang graduated from college at the University of California, San […]

Book recommendations — When things don’t go as planned…

March 30, 2018 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Checked By Cynthia Kadohata Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2018 For 11-year-old Conor, hockey is life. Everything else comes second — except his dad. Although he’s […]