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  • Magical Boy Volume 1: A Graphic Novel

    by The Kao ...
    A breathtakingly imaginative fantasy series starring Max -- a trans high school student who has to save the world as a "Magical Girl" . . . as a boy!Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But on top of classes, crushes, and coming out, Max's life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family secret: he's ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Magical Boy Volume 2: A Graphic Novel

    by The Kao ...
    A breathtakingly imaginative fantasy series starring Max—a high schooler chosen to become the next "Magical Girl." There's just one catch . . . he's a trans boy!Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But on top of classes, crushes, and coming out, Max's life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics

    by The Kao, Min Christensen, David Daneman ...
    In this vibrant and affirming comics anthology, 29 trans & nonbinary comic artists share their personal journeys of self-discovery and acceptance.Featuring the work of Sage Coffey, Kyla Aiko, and Coco Ouwerkerk, The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics includes 29 creators' tales of self-love and affirmation and detailing their experiences with gender and identity. Originally published as a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Crooked Mark

    by Linda Kao ...
    **"A dark, twisting coming-of-age sure to leave readers glancing over their shoulder for the Devil. Kao perfectly illustrates the struggles of choosing your own path through a lens of fire and knives, and you won't want to put it down." —Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With UsA dark and sinister debut YA novel about a teen boy who must hunt down those marked ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Where Rivers Part

    A Story of My Mother's Life

    by Kao Kalia Yang ...
    This powerful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety is a profound “testament to the miraculous strength of women and the indomitable resolve of the human spirit” (Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans).Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb’s childhood was marked by the violence of America’s Secret War and the CIA recruitment of the Hmong and other ethnic ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Somewhere in the Unknown World

    A Collective Refugee Memoir

    by Kao Kalia Yang ...
    A collection of true stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota's Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer .All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Latehomecomer

    A Hmong Family Memoir

    by Kao Kalia Yang ...
    One Hmong family’s harrowing escape from war in Laos to the uncertainty of a new home as refugees in Minnesota.Yang’s award-winning memoir of her family’s harrowing escape from war in Laos is a love letter to her grandmother, a troubling portrait of the consequences of US intervention in Southeast Asia, and a glimpse into the little-seen exodus of the Hmong people, first to refugee camps in ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Song Poet

    A Memoir of My Father

    by Kao Kalia Yang ...
    This "memorable and moving immigrant story" chronicles the life of the author's father, a Hmong refugee and keeper of cultural memory ( Booklist).Winner of the 2017 Minnesota Book Award in Creative NonfictionA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistIn the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses. He keeps the past alive, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Somewhere in the Unknown World

    A Collective Refugee Memoir

    by Kao Kalia Yang ...
    Narrated by Kao Kalia Yang, Kurt Kwan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    From “an exceptional storyteller,” Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet.All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Writing STEAM

    Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities

    Edited by Vivian Kao, Julia Kiernan ...
    This edited collection positions writing at the center of interdisciplinary higher education, and explores how writing instruction, writing scholarship, and writing program administration bring STEM and the humanities together in meaningful, creative, and beneficial ways.Writing professionals are at the forefront of a cross-pollination between STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Dancing Girl and the Turtle

    by Karen Kao ...
    A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of The Dancing Girl and the Turtle.Song Anyi is on the road to Shanghai and freedom when she is raped and left for dead. The silence and shamethat mark her courageous survival drive her to escalating self-harm and prostitution. From opium dens to high- class brothels, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Home on the Page

    by Kao Kalia Yang ...
    Illustrated by Seo Kim ...
    Nou loves her family, and she likes the brown house where they live, surrounded by trees with sheltering branches. But the young Hmong American girl’s sense of safety and belonging is shattered after she wakes one day to find a hateful message spray-painted on the family’s mailbox: "Asians Go Home." So Nou asks her parents if they can leave.Nou’s question leads her on a journey to discover where ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD