Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2024

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage month. Celebrate by reading fiction and nonfiction books that highlight the culture, complexity, depth and diversity of the AAPI experience.
 

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1. Lady Tan's circle of women: a novel

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Author:
See, Lisa
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Formats:
Book, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian-born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness-is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations-looking, listening, touching, and asking-something a man can never do with a female patient. From...

2. She who became the sun

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Author:
Parker-Chan, Shelley
Series:
Radiant emperor volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything 'I refuse to be nothing...' In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness... In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family's eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness,...