India, an unusual nine-and-a-half-year-old living in small-town Maine, has a series of adventures which bring her closer to her artist-mother, strengthen her friendship with a neighbor boy, and help her to accept the man for whom her father moved away.

Explores the life and career of Amy Tan, from her childhood in California, through her struggle to accept her Chinese heritage, to her career as a writer.

Tsui offers a unique full-access pass to America's most famous Chinatowns--New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Las Vegas--revealing a captivating world-within-a-world. b&w photos throughout. Where in America can you visit another country without needing a passport? Chinatown, U.S.A.: a world within a world and a state of mind. In American Chinatown, acclaimed travel writer Bonnie Tsui takes an affectionate and attentive look at the...

Presents a biography of Maya Lin, the creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., shows how she overcame many obstacles to share her creations, which were always connected to surrounding landscapes and nature.

Shortly before San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, a twelve-year-old orphan named Sung Li finds a box containing a locket with a photograph and an address, which lead her to a better life away from her demanding aunt and cousin.

"The Most Southern Place on Earth: that's what they call the Mississippi Delta. It's not a place Lydia Chin, an American-born Chinese private detective from Chinatown, NYC, ever thought she'd have reason to go. But when her mother tells her a cousin Lydia didn't know she had is in jail in Clarksdale, Mississippi -- and that Lydia has to rush down south and get him out -- Lydia finds herself rolling down Highway 61 with Bill Smith, her partner, behind...

"A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family's hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands...

A high school bully has his life disrupted by a tiny alien aircraft lodged in his nostril; a girl questions her intellect when an encounter with an alien forces to her to ask if it's better to be smart or virtuous.