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The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother

A memoir of the Chinese American immigrant experience and the relationship between a mother and son, in which the mother makes eight promises to her mother before she leaves China, and instills the final one, to live with compassion toward all, into…

Hiromi's Hands

A biography of Hiromi Suzuki, a Japanese American girl who, with her father's guidance, defies tradition and trains to become a sushi chef at her family's restaurant in New York City

Sadako

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

The Illustrated Atlas of Hawaii

An introduction to the history, geography, fauna, flora, culture, and major sights of the Hawaiian Islands.