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Qian Julie Wang🔸王乾 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Qian Julie Wang is a writer and civil rights lawyer. ex-undocu; ex-biglaw • managing partner, Gottlieb & Wang LLP • author, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY • 🎤 rep @hwaspeakers • Yale Law alum but prouder of my bad jokes here

27 books
Book Cover for: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith
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😭 this is such high praise. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn was a guiding light for me growing up. I must have read it at least 6 times https://twitter.com/bsaunders/status/1475634184634859522

Paperback, 2005

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sea Change, Gina Chung

Sea Change

Gina Chung
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so honored to be on the Today Show to recommend some spring reads! don’t miss: SEA CHANGE by @ginathechung DYSCALCULIA by @CAMONGHNE THE GREAT RECLAMATION by @rachelhengqp these page turners will stay with you & claim a piece of your heart. https://t.co/IPmKDKJEFI

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: You Are Here: Connecting Flights, Ellen Oh

You Are Here: Connecting Flights

Ellen Oh
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A chain of several connected stories... about Asian American identity, belonging, and courage... powerfully told through the insights of twelve powerhouse authors.

Paperback, 2024

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Rouge Street, Shuang Xuetao

Rouge Street

Shuang Xuetao
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ROUGE STREET: THREE NOVELLAS, by Shang XueTao, one of China’s most celebrated young writers, three dazzling novellas of Northeast China, mixing realism, mysticism, and noir and examining the unseen pains of those left behind by the recent economic boom https://t.co/oUvKXxfbCb

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Acceptance: A Memoir, Emi Nietfeld

Acceptance: A Memoir

Emi Nietfeld
Qian Julie Wang🔸王乾Qian Julie Wang🔸王乾

happy pub day to @eminietfeld, whose memoir ACCEPTANCE was named a best book of August by Apple Books and Amazon, and deemed “remarkable” in a rave review from NYT. join us for her launch event at @POWERHOUSEArena at 7 pm: https://t.co/qhOg3HU6Tm

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Stranger Things: Zombie Boys (Graphic Novel), Greg Pak

Stranger Things: Zombie Boys (Graphic Novel)

Greg Pak
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so very honored that Natalia Dyer of Stranger Things has chosen my book for @bookofthemonth: “Wang, with her honest and compelling prose, … invites you into the vulnerable intimacies of her upbringing. [U]nforgettable … and powerful.” Full review: https://bit.ly/3kaV1gf https://t.co/HS8D8Xzwl6

Paperback, 2020

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: House of Sticks: A Memoir, Ly Tran

House of Sticks: A Memoir

Ly Tran
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Ly Tran, her parents, and her three older brothers arrived in Ridgewood, Queens as refugees from Vietnam just a year before my mother and I arrived in the same city...the similarities had me crying, raging, torn as i sunk into her often poetic words.

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Beautiful Country: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood, Qian Julie Wang

Beautiful Country: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood

Qian Julie Wang
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“Beautiful Country is destined to be a classic. ... The writing was so cinematic that I could lose myself in her narrative for hours ... Qian Julie Wang redefines what it means to be 'American.'" So very honored by this recent review: http://shorturl.at/flAIM

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Duet for Home, Karina Yan Glaser

A Duet for Home

Karina Yan Glaser
Qian Julie Wang🔸王乾Qian Julie Wang🔸王乾

A powerful, uplifting book about tweens in a South Bronx family shelter.

Paperback, 2023

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, Alice Wong

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

Alice Wong
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At once a celebration of Alice's love of art, food, and pop culture and a challenge to dismantle the systemic ableism that pervades our society, 'Year of the Tiger' is both inspirational and fun.

Paperback, 2022

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book