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Mo Yan
Guan Moye (pseudonym Mo Yan) was born in 1955 to a family of farmers. He was 11 when the Cultural Revolution was launched, at which time he left school to work as a farmer, and began to work in a ...

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Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara is the author of the The People in the Trees, a book which she says she started writing when she was 21, and which took her nearly 20 years to complete. A Little Life was published in...

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A Little Life
The People in the Trees

Richard (Rick) Yancey
Richard (Rick) Yancey is the author of several novels and a memoir. His books have been published in over twenty languages and have earned numerous accolades and awards from around the world. His ...

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp

Gene Luen Yang
Gene Luen Yang is the author of American Born Chinese, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, the Eisner Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. He teaches high school in San Francisco, ...

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The Eternal Smile
American Born Chinese
Boxers & Saints Boxed Set

Jeff Yang
Jeff Yang has been observing, exploring, and writing about the Asian American community for over thirty years. He launched one of the first Asian American national magazines, A. Magazine, in the late ...

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Rise

Jia Lynn Yang
Jia Lynn Yang, a deputy national editor at the New York Times, was previously deputy national security editor at the Washington Post, where she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for ...

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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

Kao Kalia Yang
Kao Kalia Yang is the author of The Song Poet, which received the 2017 Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the PEN USA Literary ...

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Somewhere in the Unknown World

Susie Yang
Susie Yang was born in China and came to the United States as a child. After receiving her doctorate of pharmacy from Rutgers, she launched a tech startup in San Francisco that has taught 20,000 ...

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After the Miracle
by Max Wallace

Many people have heard one particular story about Helen Keller—how the saintly teacher, Annie ...
The Lost Wife
by Susanna Moore

The Lost Wife is a hard-hitting novella based in part on a white settler named Sarah Wakefield's ...
Firekeeper's Daughter
by Angeline Boulley

Voted 2021 Best Young Adult Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers

Angeline Boulley's young adult ...
Hello Beautiful
by Ann Napolitano

Ann Napolitano's much-anticipated Hello Beautiful pulls the reader into a warm, loving familial ...