Exploring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage

Librarian picks in the catalog

We're having a special display of books at your local library during the month of May, with many titles for all ages, as seen in the scrolling list below. (You can also view an interactive list in our catalog, where you can filter for age, genre, or more, or download a PDF of the featured titles.)

Also, check out this month's Big Library Read: Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho. There will not be any waitlists or holds for this OverDrive title (available in eBook and audiobook formats) through May 17. 

eBooks and eMedia

hoopla

Movies and TV

OverDrive

eBooks & eAudio

kanopy

Movies and documentaries

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage resources

Reading suggestions

eBooks

Newspapers and magazines

  • PressReader: Read publications from Asia as well as some from Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and New Zealand.

Language learning

  • Mango: Study Cantonese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Mandarin, Pashto, Farsi, Punjabi, Shanghainese, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, or Vietnamese.
  • Little Pim: Kids can learn Korean, Japanese, or Mandarin.

Encyclopedia and research articles