Contemporary Asian American

Robert, a college senior, is introduced to Catherine, an international student. Afraid that he’ll be crestfallen after graduation when she returns home, he decides to back off. But fate decides for him, with a series of chance encounters with her on campus. The stars align in his favor. Robert falls in love and declares his feelings for her. Soon after, Catherine's love for Robert blossoms. They quickly become an item, blissfully experiencing their last semester of school together. Then, out of the blue, their ex-lovers show up, both wanting to reconcile.

From Amazon best-selling American author Tom Anthony, Sabine is the story of a sex slave, who through perseverance overcomes adversity. But can she ever really love a man?

Kelly Hopkins is ready to break away, from her small apartment, loneliness, and most important, her past. Struggling to cope with her parents’ double murder five years prior, she’s finally ready to leave her reality-TV-show-addicted grandmother and the tense reality of being half-white in Koreatown. Receiving a scholarship from Columbia University, it is time to achieve her dreams of becoming a successful lawyer. Nothing can break her steadfast focus - that is, until she meets Ian.

The holidays take a threatening turn… in this riveting Dakota K-9 Unit novella. With a bounty on tech analyst Cheyenne Chen’s life, officer Jack Donadio and his K-9 partner safeguard her from hired assassins in Lynette Eason’s Deadly Christmas Trap. Only, when their hideout is discovered...

Baltimora, 15 agosto 1997. Brad e Bitsy Donaldson, una coppia molto americana, e Sami e Ziba Yazdan, marito e moglie iraniano-americani, si trovano all'aeroporto. Il momento è carico di emozioni e di aspettative, perché le due coppie, con i parenti al seguito, stanno aspettando il volo dalla Corea per prendere in consegna le loro bambine appena adottate. Contro ogni previsione, tra due famiglie piuttosto diverse nasce una lunga amicizia.

At 26, Hope has only ever slept with one man, and at her boss's unsolicited advice, Hope plans to forget the abuse and degradation she suffered at her ex's hand by seducing and bedding the next man she meets. Only after Hope finds a promise of death at her doorstep, her plans are derailed, and her only chance at staying alive rests on the dedication of her new bodyguard and her own sheer will to live the life she deserves.

This tender, elegant debut examines the struggle of keeping a family together when secrets threaten to pull it apart. "Both a book of demons and a book of uncommon grace; an instant classic in the queer canon. Davin Malasarn is an exquisite writer of the heart.”—Justin Torres, author of...

Daring yet aimless, smart but slightly strange, Cake Time's young female protagonist keeps making slippery choices, sliding into the dangerous space where curiosity melds with fear and desires turn into dirty messes. In "How Not to Have an Abortion" the teenage narrator looks for a ride from the clinic between her AP exams. In "Easy Target", the now-college-grad agrees to go to a swingers party with a handsome stranger. A decade later, in "Glow" she is suddenly confronted by the disturbing and thrilling fact of her lover's secret daughter.

"Where are you from . . . ? No—where are you from from?" It's a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying you'll never belong here, you're a perpetual foreigner, you'll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat. Monica Youn's From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core of "authenticity," no experience of your so-called homeland, how do you piece together an Asian American identity out of Westerners' ideas about Asians? Your sense of yourself is part stereotype, part aspiration, part guilt.

She had longed for a taste of the wild and reckless. And Olivia Jeffries got her chance when she met a handsome stranger at a masquerade ball. The attraction was instant, the electricity volatile. But days later she discovered her new lover was none other than Reginald Westmoreland, her...

The sweeping, unforgettable story of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all odds—a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet “Triumphant . . . sensuous, tender, and faceted like cut glass.”—Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author...

From one of the sharpest up-and-coming voices in contemporary poetry, a stunning collection that explores our most fundamental instincts, capacity for affection, and the ways in which we resemble the wild Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love...

From an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity. FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY “Written with great tenderness and intimacy, Dream of the Divided Field reveals what we do (and do not) owe to others...

Korean immigrant Mina Pak Johnson is clearing out the last of her husband’s things when she finds a picnic basket in his closet—a long-forgotten wedding present from her mother. With it comes decades of memories—of her mother’s wishes for her to be happy and her own shattered hopes for her first child—and regret at never having used it. Pushing her husband’s ashes and a bottle of wine in a rusty old stroller, Mina is determined to re-create the picnic they never had. But with it comes something Mina never expected, illuminating a loving gesture her husband made years ago.

Rani, a traditional girl of Indian origin meets a Panamanian hunk named Carlos Morales on a Caribbean cruise line. Carlos finds Rani's innocence very attractive and manages to woo Rani in spite of her initial reluctance. The story takes a different turn when Rani learns that Carlos is already married and has a seven-year-old son. Rani comes from a traditional Indian background and it remains to be seen if her love for Carlos will stand the test of time and tradition. Senorita Rani is a novelette that will capture your heart.

I have a secret. I kind of faked my perfect SAT score to get a full scholarship at Middleson University. It worked, but now I have one major problem - Rick, a wealthy jerk who looks like Zac Efron, and who's blackmailing me with my lie. What does the jerk want in exchange for his silence?