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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.8521 FOO 2022
2 available
616.8521 FOO 2022
2 available
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2 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"A searing memoir of reckoning and healing from an acclaimed journalist and former This American Life producer investigating the little-understood science behind Complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at This American Life and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk. After years of questioning...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO TRAN 2020
1 available
BIO TRAN 2020
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO TRAN 2020
1 available
BIO TRAN 2020
1 available
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"For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
641.5959 NGUYEN 2021
1 available
641.5959 NGUYEN 2021
1 available
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"In 1975, Tung Nguyen fled Vietnam as a pregnant refugee and landed in Miami, where she met Kathy Manning, an American grad student who opened her doors to eleven immigrants. The two women grew close, raising Tung's daughter, Lyn, together and opening a tiny restaurant. Hy Vong, meaning Hope in Vietnamese, quickly became famous in the local community for its delicious, authentic Vietnamese flavors. The restaurant continued to gain in popularity, until...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO CHOW 2021
1 available
BIO CHOW 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CHOW 2021
1 available
BIO CHOW 2021
1 available
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After her mother dies unexpectedly of cancer, a Chinese American writer and journalist weaves together the story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO CHANG 2020
1 available
BIO CHANG 2020
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CHANG 2020
1 available
BIO CHANG 2020
1 available
Description
Full of grace, candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles Chang’s switchback path. He lays bare his mistakes and wonders about his extraordinary luck as he recounts the improbable series of events that led him to the top of his profession. He wrestles with his lifelong feelings of otherness and inadequacy, explores the mental illness that almost killed him, and finds hope in the shared value of deliciousness. Along the way, Chang gives us a...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CHUNG 2018
1 available
BIO CHUNG 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO CHUNG 2018
1 available
BIO CHUNG 2018
1 available
Description
Chung investigates the mysteries and complexities of her transracial adoption in this chronicle of unexpected family for anyone who has struggled to figure out where they belong.
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
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6 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
LP BIO ZAUNER 2021
1 available
Description
The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother.
"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American,...
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO BRINA 2021
1 available
BIO BRINA 2021
1 available
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"A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her father a Vietnam veteran, her mother an Okinawan war bride--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO HUANG 2013
1 available
BIO HUANG 2013
1 available
Description
A Taiwanese-American rebel restaurateur chronicles his rise to success from his difficult childhood in the American South to his decision to embrace all he had learned about food in his father's restaurants and his mother's kitchen to create his own culinary identity.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 KOH 2020
1 available
813.6 KOH 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.6 KOH 2020
1 available
813.6 KOH 2020
1 available
Description
"After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji's parents return to Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family's new California home. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself in a world made strange in her mother's absence. Her mother writes letters over the years seeking forgiveness and love-letters Eun Ji cannot understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box. The letters lay bare the impact of her...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO HONG 2020
1 available
BIO HONG 2020
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO HONG 2020
1 available
BIO HONG 2020
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO TALUSAN 2020
1 available
BIO TALUSAN 2020
1 available
Description
"A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and the search for love"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
BIO WANG 2021
1 available
Description
"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay. An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's five...
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"As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life"--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO HIRONO 2021
1 available
BIO HIRONO 2021
1 available
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO HIRONO 2021
1 available
BIO HIRONO 2021
1 available
Description
"Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as "Keiko" did not speak English when she entered...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.7602 WONG 2019
1 available
791.7602 WONG 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.7602 WONG 2019
1 available
791.7602 WONG 2019
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.7602 WONG 2019
1 available
791.7602 WONG 2019
1 available
Description
"In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so heavily that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. The sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she's...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 TAKEI 2019
1 available
791.4502 TAKEI 2019
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 TAKEI 2019
1 available
791.4502 TAKEI 2019
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Nonfiction
791.4502 TAKEI 2019
1 available
791.4502 TAKEI 2019
1 available
Description
A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new...
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Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO PENN 2021
1 available
BIO PENN 2021
1 available
Description
"Kal Penn's unlikely career arc has taken him from nerdy American kid from an immigrant family in the New York suburb of Montclair, New Jersey, to world-famous actor, to White House staffer under President Obama, and back to actor again. Now, in You Can't Be Serious, he reflects on the most ridiculous, offensive, and rewarding moments that have stood out during his journey. With intelligence, humor, and charm on every page, Penn explores what it means...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
BIO OWUSU 2021
1 available
BIO OWUSU 2021
1 available
Description
"Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world--from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone. When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen...
20) collected schizophrenias essays
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