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Ru

By Thúy, Kim

In Vietnamese “ru” means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, and money. Ru is the poetic, meditative story of Nguyên An Trinh, a girl who escaped Vietnam with her family and came to live in Quebec. The Governor General's Literary Award-winning title is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland. (Adult Fiction)

Shanghai Girls

By See, Lisa

This book is about the complex relationship between two sisters, Pearl and May, as they go through great pain and suffering in leaving war-torn Shanghai and trying to adjust to their difficult roles as wives in arranged marriages and Chinese immigrants to the U.S. (Adult Fiction)

Please Look After Mom

By Shin, Kyung-Sook 

This novel from widely-acclaimed Korean author Shin follows the efforts of a family to find their mother who went missing from Seoul Station and also their sobering realizations that she may not have been happy. This best-selling story of triumph, set in South Korea, transcends culture. (Adult Fiction)

I Hotel

By Yamashita, Karen Tei

In this 2010 National Book Award-nominated novel, Yamashita describes a motley cast of characters making their way through the history of the day, becoming caught in a riptide of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil that culminate in their effort to save the International Hotel - epicentre of the Yellow Power Movement in 1969. (Adult Fiction)

The Panic Button

By Kankesan, Koom

Thambi is a young Tamil man living in Scarborough. He does his best to be a dutiful son, but he is also having a lustful affair with a Canadian woman at work who is white. He struggles to find a way out of his upcoming arranged marriage. (Adult Fiction)

Secret Daughter

By Gowda, Shilpi Somaya

Raised by an adoptive family in the United States, Asta returns to India in search of her birth family and her cultural roots. This poignant novel explores the contrasting lives of women in North America and India. (Adult Fiction)

Inside Chinatown: Ancient Culture in A New World

By Amos, Robert

Victoria's Chinatown is Canada's oldest Chinese neighbourhood and has a lineage unbroken since 1858. Through stunning pictures and text in both Chinese and English, you will take an inside look at the culture of this complex community. (Adult Non-fiction)

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

By Chua, Amy

This controversial book traces the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese American mother’s exercise in extreme parenting, describing the exacting standards she applies to grades, music lessons, and avoidance of Western cultural practices. (Adult Non-fiction)

After Tehran: A life Reclaimed

Nemat, Marina.

This is Nemat’s sequel to the memoir of her incarceration in Evin prision, Prisoner of Tehran. She recounts her journey to Canada via Hungary and her struggle to break the silence surrounding her captivity and forced marriage to one of her interrogators. (Adult Non-fiction)

The Lady and the Peacock: the Life of Aung San Suu Kyi

By Popham, Peter

Until she was released in November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi had been under house arrest in Burma for fourteen of the previous twenty years.  Brought up mostly in India, and settled in North Oxford with her English scholar husband and two sons, she was called back to Burma to look after her sick mother, and was then caught up in a revolutionary uprising - never to see her husband again. (Adult Non-fiction)

At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka

By Jaffrey, Madhur

For all who love the magical flavors of good Indian cooking and want to easily reproduce some of the delectable dishes from that part of the world, here is a groundbreaking book from the incomparable Madhur Jaffrey that makes it possible. (Adult Non-fiction)

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History

By Huang, Yunte

This biography of Charlie Chan presents American history in a way that it has never been told before. Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon. (Adult Non-fiction)

Inside Out & Back Again

By Lai, Thanhha

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. It is the winner of a National Book Award and a Newbery Honor book. (Children Fiction)

Everything Asian

By Woo, Sung J

In this charming tale of family, community and the struggle for understanding, young Korean immigrant David Kim learns to acculturate to a new American life. This debut novel captures the struggle of contemporary immigrants in America. (Children Fiction)

Big Red Lollipop

By Khan, Rukhsana

Rubina is invited to her first birthday party. Her mother, Ami insists that she must take her little sister despite her protests that they don’t do that here in Canada. (Children Picture Book)

The Beckoning Cat

Nishizuka, Koko

The book is based on a traditional Japanese folktale and describes the origins of the beckoning cat and how it came to be a symbol of good luck. (Children Non-fiction)

Nearly Nonsense: Hoja Tales from Turkey

This is a collection of Turkish folktales featuring Nasrudin Hoja and lessons taken from his experiences with his family, at the market, and with animals. (Children Non-fiction)

Bringing in the New Year

Lin, Grace

This exuberant story follows a Chinese American family as they prepare for the Lunar New Year. It discusses the customs and traditions of Chinese New Year. (Children Non-fiction)