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Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature

Purpose of this award is to honor and recognize individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit. The awards are announced each January during the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting.

Adult Fiction

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Call Number: Fiction F6988h (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780345505330

Publication Date: 2009-01-27

When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, a man embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet [CD] by Jamie Ford; Feodor Chin (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction FO (Adult CD Audiobooks)

ISBN: 9780739382837

Publication Date: 2009-01-27
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet [E-Book] by Jamie Ford
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780345512505

Publication Date: 2009

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

Shanghai Girls : a novel by Lisa See
Call Number: Fiction S451r (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781400067114

Publication Date: 2009-05-26

Sisters May and Pearl leave their 1930s Shanghai home for a better life in America. They have been arranged to be married to two L.A. businessmen, and uncertainty regins. Arriving at Angel's Island (the Western Ellis Island), they are soon introduced to the harsh realities of immigrant life.
Shanghai Girls [CD] : a novel by Lisa See; Janet Song (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction SE (Adult CD Audiobooks)

ISBN: 9780739359334

Publication Date: 2009-05-26
Shanghai Girls [E-Book] : a novel by Lisa See
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781588368607

Publication Date: 2009

Adult Non-Fiction

American Chinatown : a People's History of Five Neighborhoods by Bonnie Tsui

Japanese American Resettlement : Through the Lens by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

Picture Book

Cora Cooks Pancit by Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore ; illustrated by Kristi Valiant

Tan to Tamarind by Malathi Michelle Iyengar ; illustrated by Jamel Akib

Youth Literature

Everything Asian by Sung Woo

Tofu Quilt by Ching Yeung Russell

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