Browse Items (76 total)

  • Collection: CALA Best Book Award Collection

Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Monster and the Maze

Percy Jackson meets Dragonball in the first book of this adorable, funny, and action-packed graphic novel series! Follow along as the legendary Monkey King tries to save the world from a mysterious new threat—and smashes his way through the world of…

Position: 1049 (65 views)

尋找塵封的記憶: 抗戰時期民國空軍赴美培訓歷史及空難探秘

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“二戰時期,根據中美兩國政府達成的協議,一批批中華民國空軍飛行員先後被送到美國,參加培訓. 大部分學員學成歸國,投身於抗擊日本侵略者的戰鬥,許多人為此付出了年輕的生命. 還有一部分學員則在培訓期間逝於飛行事故. 由於戰亂和中國接連不斷的政治運動,他們的家人大多未能得知他們死難的具體情形,更不瞭解葬在何處. 而這些出師未捷身先死的年輕人,如同被遺忘的孤兒,七十年來遠離祖國與親人,在異國他鄉,一抔黃土,掩埋了他們殺敵報國的雄心.
本書作者李安的二叔李嘉禾便是如此.…

Position: 640 (317 views)

The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited

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"In The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, Louisa Lim, formerly a correspondent in Beijing for NPR and the BBC, and currently teaching journalism at the University of Michigan, revisits the 1989 crackdown on the democracy movement in…

Position: 110 (532 views)

Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same!

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This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Juvenile Books).

Position: 322 (447 views)

Maya Lin

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a 21-year-old college student is pushed into the National spotlight, as she is announced the winner of a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.. Lin faces discrimination and open criticism as people react to her race,…

Position: 1061 (53 views)

Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870

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This book has won the 2013 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Non-Fiction).

Position: 335 (444 views)

The Three-Body Problem

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"With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author.…

Position: 257 (465 views)

Chinatown Pretty

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"Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns. Andria Lo and Valerie Luu have been interviewing and photographing Chinatown's most fashionable elders on their blog and…

Position: 360 (437 views)

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.

America in 1954 is…

Position: 624 (325 views)

All That Work and Still No Boys

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This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Young Adult Books).

Position: 254 (468 views)