In search of Tiger: a journey through golf with Tiger Woods

• RC 58306
  Author: Tom Callahan
  Unconventional biography of precocious professional golfer Tiger Woods, who at twenty-four won twelve tournaments around the world in 2000. Callahan portrays the bond between Woods and his father and highlight ts golf’s other father-son pairs. Explores Woods’s victorious career through anecdotes from his older contemporaries. 2003.

Asian American dreams : the emergence of an American people

• RC 51913
  Author: Helen Zia
  Chinese American writer describes the history and potential of the large diverse Asian population in the United States. Explains how fragmented, isolated ethnic groups--motivated by hate crimes and stereotyping--transformed themselves into a new political power. Some strong language. 2000.

Pangs of love: stories

• RC 34554
  Author: David Wong Louie
  Louie’s stories depict the twentieth-century Asian-American experience. The title selection illustrates a second-generation Chinese-American’s frustration with his mother’s refusal to learn English and his own inability to speak more than rudimentary Cantonese. Other stories explore failed relationships between Asian and white Americans. Descriptions of sex. "Los Angeles Times" Book Award.

The accidental Asian: notes of a native speaker

• RC 47838
  Author: Eric Liu
  Journalist and former Clinton speech writer, Liu, twenty-nine, examines his and others’ attitudes about being Asian. A second-generation Chinese American or ABC (American-born Chinese), Liu had a suburban middle-class upbringing and married a woman of Scottish, Irish, and Jewish descent. He explores his ambivalence about choosing to assimilate or embrace his cultural heritage.

Farewell to Manzanar: a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment

• RC 43194
  Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
  An intimate look at the painful years during World War II when the Wakatsuki family was imprisoned in a California internment camp for Japanese Americans.

The loom and other stories

• RC 35007
  Author: R.A. Sasaki
  In these stories, a sansei--a third-generation Japanese-American--reveals what it is like to grow up in a culture different from one’s own. In the title story, Sasaki discusses a mother’s growing isolation, partially a result of wartime internment. In others she confirms the pervasive influence of the grandparents on the opinions of the household, and concedes embarrassment for the current generation as it strives to belong. Some strong language.

East to America: Korean American life stories

• RC 42383
  Edited by Elaine H. Kim, Eui-Young Yu
  Interviews with thirty-eight Korean Americans, including a journalist, monk, family counselor, policeman, seamstress, marketing executive, hairstylist, and women’s rights activist. The professors offer Korean American perspectives on history, identity, and community. Some strong language.

The hundred secret senses

• RC 40838
  Author: Amy Tan
  Although Olivia is disappointed and often embarrassed by her Chinese-born half sister, she tolerates Kwan’s eccentric, brassy, meddlesome ways and even her incessant discussions with nineteenth-century Chinese ghosts. Olivia is also disappointed with her marriage and its own ghost. Eventually Kwan helps Olivia to understand loyalty and unconditional love. Some violence, some descriptions of sex, and some strong language. Bestseller.