Under the Persimmon TreeStaples, Suzanne FisherFiction St275uDuring the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Shabanu
Staples, Suzanne FisherFiction St2751sh2003Shabanu is to marry one man but she finds she must marry another to solve a family problem. The question is, what does Shabanu really want?
The Laughing SutraSalzman, MarkFiction Sa392La1992A naive but courageous orphan and the formidable Colonel Sun risk everything to track down an elusive Buddhist scripture in post-Cultural Revolution China and contemporary San Francisco.
A Single ShardPark, Linda SueFiction P2197sTree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
A Step from HeavenNa, AnFiction N11sYoung Ju describes her family’s bittersweet experience in the United States after their emigration from Korea. Their hopes for a better life in America are complicated by the difficulty of learning English, their insular family life, and the traditions of the country they left behind.
Shizuko’s DaughterMori, KyokoFiction M824s1994Yuki is still recovering from her mother’s suicide when her father remarries. She withdraws as she finds living with a stepmother even more difficult than having no mother at all.
Saying GoodbyeLee, Marie G.Fiction L5143sIn this sequel to Finding My Voice, Ellen is at Harvard. However, she doesn't want to be a doctor as her parents wish. She wants to write. Will she be able to break out on her own, or is she trapped by her past?
Necessary Roughness
Lee, Marie G.Fiction L5143n1998Chan Kim was the popular soccer star of his Los Angeles high school. Now he and his twin sister are the only Koreans in their new high school in Minnesota. Chan starts to play football to fit in, but will he survive the team hazing?
Lee, Marie G.Fiction L5143fEllen is the only Korean student in her Minnesota high school. Life would be easier if her strict parents weren't pressuring her to get into Harvard and a guy wasn't trying to kiss her.
China BoyLee, GusFiction L5123c1994Kai Ting's life in 1950s San Francisco is anything but easy. Fighting bullies and surviving on the streets is more than he ever bargained for.
Interpreter of MaladiesLahiri, JhumpaFiction L1393iA debut collection of short fiction blends elements of Indian traditions with the complexities of American culture in such tales as "A Temporary Matter," in which a young Indian-American couple confronts their grief over the loss of a child, while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout.
Snow CountryKawabata, YasunariFiction K179y:esA tale of wasted love by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author. Follows the story of a tragic affair between a wealthy dilettante and a mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets.
