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  • Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World

    by Grace Y. Kao ...
    Series series Advancing Human Rights series
    In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without “distinction of any kind,” possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that time, human rights have arguably become the cross-cultural moral concept and evaluative tool to measure ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $8.99 USD

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    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

    $14.99 USD

    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

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cultures Colliding

    (Searching For a Way Out) Vol. 2

    by Kao Saeteurn ...
    Cultures Colliding, Vol. 2: Searching for a Way OutWest Sacramento, the early 1990s. Kao Saeteurn is three years out of a refugee camp on the Thai border when a black Firebird pulls up outside his mother's house and empties a magazine at him. He survives it with a jammed pistol, a friend's.44, and a bullet lodged under the skin of his foot. He refuses the hospital and cuts it out himself, because ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Diamond Explorer

    by Kao Kalia Yang ...
    From APALA-winning author and Guggenheim Fellow Kao Kalia Yang, a middle-grade debut about a Hmong American boy's struggle to find a place for himself in America and in the world of his ancestors.Malcolm is the youngest child of Hmong refugees, and he was born over a decade after his youngest sibling, giving him a unique perspective on his complicated immigrant family.In the first part of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Spirit of Fearless Living

    by Kao Choua Vue ...
    An unfiltered, deeply personal account of war and survival as told by the author’s mother—a Hmong woman who endured bombings, famine, and forced displacement during the US Secret War in Laos.The Spirit of Fearless Living is a memoir shaped by over fifty hours of oral storytelling between Kao Choua Vue and her mother, Mee Thao—a Hmong refugee who lived through war, exile, and the precarious search ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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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

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • The Waiting Years

    by Kao Kalia Yang ...
    A mesmerizing true story of a young Hmong girl in Minnesota that celebrates the immigrant experience.At fourteen years old, Kalia feels like two different girls. At home, she is the reliable daughter who makes dinner and takes care of her younger siblings, while her older sister is in class and her parents work long hours. But at school, she is silent, shy—waiting for the day her life will really ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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