On the Shelf – Page 19

When love doesn’t go the way it’s supposed to

July 4, 2014 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly The Ballad of a Small Player By Lawrence Osborne Hogarth, 2014 Meet Doyle — or Lord Doyle, as he comes to be known among […]

Life in a country away from home

June 6, 2014 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Sisters Written by Amy Laizans, Illustrated by Sophie ScahillLittle Steps Publishing, 2013 Jane and her best friend are like most other kids their age […]

New collection of images depicts WWII Japanese internment camp Minidoka

May 16, 2014 By Admin

By Signe Predmore Northwest Asian Weekly When President Bill Clinton designated the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho as a National Park in 2001, Teresa Tamura realized that although she […]

Mysteries and thrillers — Book recommendations

May 2, 2014 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly By Shamini Flint Minotaur Books, 2010 When Alan Lee, a big timber executive in Malaysia, is killed, police arrest his ex-wife, Chelsea Liew, as […]

Memoirs and life stories

April 4, 2014 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Kapoho, Memoir of a Modern Pompeii By Frances H. Kakugawa Watermark Publishing, 2011 Frances Kakugawa was only 5 years old when the Japanese bombed […]

Life at War — Book recommendations

February 28, 2014 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Cress By Marissa Meyer Feiwel and Friends, 2014 The Lunar Chronicles continue in this third installment right where the previous one ended. New Beijing […]

REVIEW: ‘Tiger Mom’ & hubby discuss new book

February 27, 2014 By Admin

By Alia Marsha NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY “Tiger Mom” Amy Chua defended her parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Motherwhen it sparked off national and international debate in 2011, accusing […]

When two worlds become one

February 7, 2014 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya By Nagaru Tanigawa Little, Brown and Company, 2013 As in the previous book, the latest installment in the Haruhi […]

Book recommendations

January 3, 2014 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic Story by Ginnie Lo, Illustrations by Beth Lo Lee & Low Books, 2012 While growing up in a small […]

Book recommendations

December 6, 2013 By Admin

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya By Nagaru Tanigawa Little, Brown and Company, 2013 In the latest installment in the Haruhi Suzumiya series, we find […]