Asian - Pacific Island Heritage Month

Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.

This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and...

Divertidísima, adictiva y rebosante de opulencia, esta novela es una mirada indiscreta y bastante loca al mundo de los superricos asiáticos. Cuando la neoyorquina Rachel Chu acepta pasar el verano en Singapur con su novio, Nicholas Young, imagina un hogar familiar humilde y tiempo a solas con el hombre con el que espera casarse. Pero Nick ha olvidado facilitar ciertos detalles a su novia. En primer lugar, que la casa en la que creció parece...

Remote Pitcairn Island, a place of towering cliffs and lashing surf, is home to descendants of Fletcher Christian and the Bounty crew, who fled there with a group of Tahitian maidens after deposing Captain Bligh in 1789. Shrouded in myth, the island was considered a tropical Shangri-La by outsiders--but as the world discovered two centuries later, it was also a place of sinister secrets. In 2000, police descended on the British territory to investigate...

Dev is a 30-year-old actor in New York who has trouble deciding what he wants to eat, much less the pathway for the rest of his life. Ambitious, funny, cinematic, and personal, Dev's story takes him through subjects as diverse as the plight of the elderly, the immigrant experience, and how to find the most delicious pasta for dinner.

When a corporate law office is quarantined after exposure to a dangerous virus that makes the infected lose their inhibitions, a recently fired employee and a wronged client must battle their way to the executive level before time runs out.

"Compulsively readable . . . Although ostensibly a recipe book, this is as engaging and readable a memoir as Kitchen Confidential." —The Atlantic
Forewords by Anthony Bourdain and David Chang
Mission Chinese Food is not exactly a Chinese restaurant. It began its life as a pop-up: a restaurant nested within a divey Americanized Chinese joint in San Francisco's Mission District. From the beginning, a spirit...