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• Maya in Multicolor

  Teerdhala, Swati,

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  When it comes to romance, Maya still believes in meet-cutes, but she's done with boys wasting her time. After her freshman romance refuses to put a label on their relationship, Maya decides to reclaim her life and completely turnaround her college…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• First Love Language

  Valentine, Stefany,

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  Taiwanese American Catie Carlson has never fit in with her white family. As much as she loves her stepmom and stepsister, she yearns to understand more about her culture and find her biological mother. So Catie is shocked when an opportunity comes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eliza, From Scratch

  Lee, Sophia, (M.D.),

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  Eliza Park's senior year will be perfect: She's going to be salutatorian, give a tear-jerking graduation speech in front of her parents, and enjoy her last year with her equally ambitious best friends. But when a scheduling mishap enrolls her in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything We Never Had

  Ribay, Randy,

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  An emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships. Told in multiple perspectives, Everything We Never Had unfolds like a beautifully…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lunar New Year Love Story

  Yang, Gene Luen

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  Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed--no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dragonfruit

  Lucier, Makiia,

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  In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. But as with all things that offer hope when hope had gone, the tale came with a warning. Every wish demands a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ex Marks the Spot

  Chao, Gloria, 1986-

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  For Gemma's whole life, it has always been her and her mom against the world. As far as she knew, all her grandparents—and thus her ties to Taiwanese culture—were dead. Until one day when a mysterious man shows up at her door with two shocking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Bloodcarver

  Le, Vanessa, 1999-

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  In the industrial city of Theumas, Nhika is seen not as a healer, but a monster that kills for pleasure. And in the city's criminal underbelly, the rarest of monsters are traded for gold. When Nhika is finally caught by the infamous Butchers, she's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• HALFWAY THERE

  a Graphic Memoir of Self-discovery

  Mari, Christine

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  A Japanese American college student reconnects with her roots in Tokyo, Japan, while wrestling with feelings of loneliness, depression, and cultural identity confusion.

• Into the Sunken City

  Thiru, Dinesh,

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  In a world where the rain never stops, impoverished Jin Haldar is offered the score of a lifetime--a massive stash of gold hidden in the sunken ruins of Las Vegas and must do what she promised herself she'd never do again: dive.

• Rising From the Ashes

  Los Angeles, 1992 : Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire

  Yoo, Paula,

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  In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating of a Black man, Rodney King, Los Angeles was torn apart. Thousands of fires were set, causing more than a billion…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• ASAP

  Oh, Axie

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  Sori has worked her whole life to become a K-pop idol, until she realizes she doesn't want a life forever in the spotlight. But that's not actually up to Sori—she's caught between her exacting mother's entertainment company and her father's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ping-pong Queen of Chinatown

  Yang, Andrew (Young adult novelist)

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  In this charming, insightful YA novel follows two high school students who form a complicated, ground-shifting bond while filming a movie. High school junior Felix Ma wants to prove to his parents that he's not a quitter. After crashing out of piano…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chloe and the Kaishao Boys

  Coyiuto, Mae, 1994-

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  When Chloe Liang is officially off the wait list for USC, she's one step closer to realizing her dream of becoming an animator in the United States. Her auntie insists on planning a traditional debut for Chloe's eighteenth birthday, and it would be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Scarlet Alchemist

  Baker, Kylie Lee

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  In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zhara

  Jae-Jones, S.

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  Magic flickers. Love flames. Chaos reigns. Magic is forbidden throughout the Morning Realms. Magicians are called an abomination, and blamed for the plague of monsters that razed the land twenty years before. Jin Zhara already had enough to worry…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'm Not Supposed to Be in the Dark

  Neilson, Riss M.

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  Seventeen-year-old Aria Cayetano dreams of ghosts. She used to see them too, but thanks to a special tea brewed by her grandfather, Aria’s connection to the spirit world has been severed. Until a decades old rosebush suddenly dies across the street,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Caught in a Bad Fauxmance

  Rose, Elle Gonzalez

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  A fun contemporary rom-com about an aspiring artist who agrees to fake date one of his family's longtime enemies in the hopes of gathering intel strong enough to take down their rivals and keep the family cabin they gambled in a risky bet. Devin Bez…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Didn't See That Coming

  Sutanto, Jesse Q.

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  Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. She can’t help but be totally herself… except when she’s online. Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Even her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

  Park, Patricia (Fiction writer)

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  Alejandra Kim feels like she doesn’t belong anywhere. Not at home, where Ale faces tense silence from Ma since Papi’s passing. Not in Jackson Heights, where she isn’t considered Latinx enough and is seen as too PC for her own good. Certainly not at…Read moreRead more of this annotation