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TitleAmerican Like Me
AuthorFerrera, America
Sub-ImprintGallery Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1Social Science
ISBN-139781501180927
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages336
Title StatusAS
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Academy Award–nominated actress and 2023 SeeHer award recipient America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.
Title14 Miles
AuthorGibson, DW
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Social Science
ISBN-139781501183430
US Price$17
CDN Price$23
Pages352
Title StatusAS
An esteemed journalist delivers a compelling on-the-ground account of the construction of President Trump’s border wall in San Diego—and the impact on the lives of local residents.
TitleAlways Running
AuthorRodriguez, Luis J.
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139780743276917
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages288
Title StatusAS
The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new introduction by the author.
TitleBarely Missing Everything
AuthorMendez, Matt
Sub-ImprintAtheneum Books for Young Readers
FormatPaperback
Category 1Young Adult Fiction
ISBN-139781534404465
US Price$11.99
CDN Price$15.99
Pages320
Title StatusAS
“There are moments when a story shakes you...Barely Missing Everything is one of those stories, and Mendez, a gifted storyteller with a distinct voice, is sure to bring a quake to the literary landscape.” —Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Long Way Down

In the tradition of Jason Reynolds and Matt de la Peña, this heartbreaking, no-holds-barred debut novel told from three points of view explores how difficult it is to make it in life when you—your life, brown lives—don’t matter.
TitleHouse of Sticks
AuthorTran, Ly
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781501118821
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages400
Title StatusAS
New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner

One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year

This beautifully written “masterclass in memoir” (Elle) recounts a young girls journey from war-torn Vietnam to Queens, New York, “showcas[ing] the tremendous power we have to alter the fates of others, step into their lives and shift the odds in favor of greater opportunity” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis).
TitleIsla to Island
AuthorCastellanos, Alexis
Sub-ImprintAtheneum Books for Young Readers
FormatPaperback
Category 1Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-139781534469235
US Price$12.99
CDN Price$17.99
Pages192
Title StatusAS
This stunning wordless graphic novel follows a young girl in the 1960s who immigrates from Cuba to the United States and must redefine what home means to her.
TitleThe Madonnas of Echo Park
AuthorSkyhorse, Brando
Sub-ImprintFree Press
FormatPaperback
Category 1Fiction
ISBN-139781439170847
US Price$17
CDN Price$23
Pages240
Title StatusAS
Reminiscent of Sherman Alexie and Sandra Cisneros, acclaimed author Brando Skyhorse’s “engaging storytelling” (Vanity Fair) brings the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles to life in this poignant and propulsive novel following several generations of Mexican immigrants through their shifting cultural and physical landscapes.
TitleThe Newcomers
AuthorThorpe, Helen
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Social Science
ISBN-139781501159107
US Price$19.99
CDN Price$26.99
Pages432
Title StatusAS
From the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us, an “extraordinary” (The Denver Post) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school and their compassionate teacher and “a reminder that in an era of nativism, some Americans are still breaking down walls and nurturing the seeds of the great American experiment” (The New York Times Book Review).
TitleThe Stationery Shop
AuthorKamali, Marjan
Sub-ImprintGallery Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1Fiction
ISBN-139781982107499
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages336
Title StatusAS
A poignant, heartfelt new novel by the award-nominated author of Together Tea—extolled by the Wall Street Journal as a “moving tale of lost love” and by Shelf Awareness as “a powerful, heartbreaking story”—explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate.
TitleThe Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
AuthorSee, Lisa
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Fiction
ISBN-139781501154836
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages400
Title StatusAS
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.