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Fiction to mark Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

5/3/2022

 
  • Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • America Is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo, print | ebook
  • The Wangs vs. The World, Jade Chang, large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Songs of Willow Frost, Jamie Ford, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • A Map of Betrayal, Ha Jin, print | ebook
  • Searching for Sylvie Lee, Jean Kwok, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee, print | ebook
  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Minari, DVD | Blu-ray
  • A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza, print | large print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen, print | ebook
  • When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Gold Diggers, Sanjena Sathian, print | ebook | eaudio
  • China Dolls, Lisa See, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Son of Good Fortune, Lysley Tenorio, print | ebook
  • The Color of Air, Gail Tsukiyama, print | ebook
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu, print | ebook | eaudio
  • O Beautiful, Jung Yun, print | ebook | eaudio​​
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Memoirs & Other Nonfiction to mark Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

5/2/2022

 
  • The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui, print | ebook
  • Family in Six Tones, Lan Cao & Harlan Margaret Van Cao, print
  • All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Missed Translations, Sopan Deb, print
  • The Donut King, DVD
  • The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Heart of Fire, Mazie K. Hirono, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Fresh off the Boat, Eddie Huang, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Good Talk, Mira Jacob, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Why Not Me?, Mindy Kaling, print | ebook | eaudio
  • An American Family, Khizr Khan, print | large print | audio CD | ebook
  • We Were Dreamers, Simu Liu, coming in May
  • My Life: Growing up Asian in America, coming in May
  • You Can’t Be Serious, Kal Penn, print | ebook | eaudio
  • They Called Us Enemy, George Takei, print | ebook
  • Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, DVD
  • Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, Jose Antonio Vargas, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Dear Girls, Ali Wong, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, Jeff Yang, et al., print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner, print | ebook | eaudio
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What's New for Adults?

4/26/2022

 
NEW NONFICTION
  • The Impossible City, Karen Cheung, print
  • Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World, Danielle Friedman, print
  • Making Numbers Count, Chip Heath & Karla Starr, print
  • The Believer, Sarah Krasnostein, print
  • The Treeline, Ben Rawlence, print
  • Seven Games, Oliver Roeder, print
  • The Founders, Jimmy Soni, print
  • Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, Jeff Yang, et al., print | ebook | eaudio
NEW FICTION
  • The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, Marianne Cronin, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Alice's Trading Post, Kerry Dean Feldman, print
  • W.E.B. Griffin Rogue Asset, Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Eva Jurczyk, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Scot Mist, Catriona McPherson, print
  • How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu, print | ebook | eaudio
  • When You Are Mine, Michael Robotham, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Rebel and the Rake, Emily Sullivan, print
NEW NONFICTION VIDEO
  • Ailey, DVD
  • Belushi, DVD
  • Nova: The Cannabis Question, DVD
  • Flee, Blu-ray
  • Last Man Fishing, DVD
  • Nature: My Garden of a Thousand Bees, DVD
  • Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston, DVD
  • Who We Are, DVD
FAVORITE MYSTERY SERIES
These authors are so popular that we recently made sure that we hold at least one copy of every book in these two series. More copies are coming to the Large Print shelves, too!
  • ​Kinsey Millhone: start with "A" Is for Alibi, Sue Grafton, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Cork O'Connor: start with Iron Lake, William Kent Krueger, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
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On the Shelves April - Kids & Families

3/25/2022

 
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Let Love Be Your Guide
by Dan + Claudia Zanes
Bluesy, world-inspired musician Dan teams up with jazz vocalist singer (and wife!) Claudia for an album about healing and togetherness that the whole family will love.
music CD
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My Tiny Twilight
by Dawn Landes
Folksy acoustic guitar and memorable lyrics make up these friendly, gentle pop songs.
​music CD 
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Two at the Top: A Shared Dream of Everest
by Uma Krishnaswami & Christopher Corr
Two life stories meet when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary make their way to the top of Everest in 1953.
​print
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History Comics: The Wild Mustang
by Chris Duffy & Falynn Koch
Learn how wild mustangs came to America and how they have lived with and without people over time.
​print
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On the Shelves April - Kids & Teens Flyer

3/25/2022

 
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The Swag Is in the Socks
by Kelly J. Baptist
- funky socks help Xavier rise to the challenge
print | ebook | eaudio
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​Living with Viola
by Rosena Fung
- the new girl at school struggles with anxiety
​print 
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Kiss & Tell
by Adib Khorram
- a gay boy band star has a breakup in the spotlight
​​print​
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Okoye to the People
by Ibi Zoboi
- backstory of the Dora Milaje warrior from Black Panther
​print
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On the Shelves April

3/25/2022

 
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Plant Powered Mexican
by Kate Ramos
This cookbook, focused on family meals,  uses Mexican ingredients and flavors in vegan and vegetarian dishes, with several modes of preparation.
print | ebook
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Heard It in a Love Song
by Tracey Garvis Graves
Two recent divorcees, a school music teacher and a dad with a child at the school, make a surprising connection.
​print | ebook | eaudio
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Clean Air
by Sarah Blake
After a climate apocalypse caused by tree pollen, a woman and her daughter live in an air-tight dome, in a community suddenly terrorized by a serial killer.
print | ebook
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On the Shelves November - Kids & Teens

3/25/2022

 
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Friday Night Wrestlefest 
by J.F. Fox & Micah Player
This funny family wrestles on Friday Night to make bedtime fun!
print | ebook
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Amber & Clay
by Laura Amy Schlitz
An epic of destiny for two children in Ancient Greece — a stable boy and a highborn girl.
​print | ebook | eaudio
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I Hope You're Listening
by Tom Ryan
A teen who narrowly escaped abduction as a child investigates missing persons cases on a podcast.
​print
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On the Shelves March - Kids & Teens Flyer

3/17/2022

 
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Violets Are Blue
​by Barbara Dee
- a makeup artist and her single mom
print
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The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
by Jonathan Stroud
- funny fantasy in future Britain
print
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Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions
by Navdeep Singh Dhillon
- adventures at prom
print | ebook
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Himawari House
by Harmony Becker
- exchange students in Japan
print | ebook
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On the Shelves January - Kids & Teens

3/17/2022

 
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Dogs at Work: Good Dogs. Real Jobs.
by Margaret Cardillo & Zachariah OHora
Did you know that dogs have jobs? Learn about some of them in this book!
print | ebook
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Borders
by Thomas King & Natasha Donovan
At the American-Canadian border, a boy and his mother identify themselves as Blackfoot and get caught in limbo.
​print | ebook
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Down to Earth
by Betty Culley
Ten-year-old Henry explores the meteorite that lands near his home and captivates his town.
​print 
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Blazewrath Games
by Amparo Ortiz
In an alternate, contemporary world, a teen competes in an international dragon-riding competition and uncovers a conspiracy.
print ​
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On the Shelves December - Kids & Teens

3/17/2022

 
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The Snowflake
by Benji Davies
A snowflake and a little girl both search for what makes them special.
print 
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How to Find a Fox
by Kate Gardner & Ossi Saarinen
Beautiful photos follow a fox through the seasons.
print
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Nom Nom Nom
by Jeffrey Burton & Sarah Hwang
This book lets little ones choose which food the animals can eat!
print
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Bruised
by Tanya Boteju
A teen learns about herself and her relationship toward pain after joining a roller derby team.
print | ebook
View this issue of On the Shelves.
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    Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

    After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

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    Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.
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