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Justine Chan's debut book Should You Lose All Reason(s) is a luminous triptych of poems in which she examines her experiences as a Chinese American woman yearning for genuine belonging and connection. In conversation with a Southern Paiute folktale, these poems run off the page, exploring landscapes, cityscapes, music, exile, race, family, and resilience.

Saint Maur International School has sat on the bluff overlooking Yokohama, Japan since 1872. It is Japan's oldest international school and one of the oldest of its kind in the world. Historian, teacher, and author Glenn Scoggins celebrates the school's sesquicentennial with Steadfast: Saint Maur's First 150 Years on Yokohama's Bluff, presenting the fascinating, interlocking histories of Japan, Yokohama, and Saint Maur over the centuries. With a unique and idiosyncratic approach to history, Scoggins champions feminist histories, highlighting the fierce women who were foundational to the school. In the early days, there is the hopeful, steely Mother Mathilde Raclot under whose leadership and dedication the Saint Maur sisters established Saint Maur in a country where the practice of Christianity was still illegal. We also meet funny and fearless Sister Carmel O'Keefe; assigned the daunting task of overseeing the school in the immediate wake of World War II, she revives the school from the ashes and steers it into the 21st century. Having taught at Saint Maur for forty-five years, Scoggins also brings his expatriate perspective and story to the history. With its mix of primary-source material and firsthand accounts, Steadfast is expansive and intimate in its scope.

Fighting to Be Heard is a love letter to one of the most over-engineered jet aircraft ever built: the British Aerospace 146. This regional aircraft was truly the beginning of the ?RJ? (aka Regional Jet), which has become commonplace in air travel today. Although the 146 was ahead of its time, the program, the company, and the aircraft was plagued with many challenges. As a result, the 146 became the last commercial aircraft to be built in the United Kingdom. The title signifies the uphill battle British Aerospace faced in trying to convince airlines to buy and operate the world's quietest jet.Fighting to Be Heard features stories never before printed, photographs from the archives of British Aerospace that have never been published, and interviews with a wide range of people from pilots to customer service reps, salespeople to airline executives. The author spent over four years researching and interviewing a wide range of people involved with the 146, including airlines and operators that flew this unique aircraft. He's summoned records from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for the tragic murder in the sky of PSA flight 1771, with never before seen images of evidence derived from over 300 pages of reports and interviews.

Twin cases entangle and drag a morose yet shrewd Japanese private detective into the shadowy depths of the human psyche.

In a multimedia feast for the senses, this memoir-in-meals crosses the world investigating how food nourishes memory, culture, and community.

Bill Porter, a.k.a Red Pine, connects modern China to its past in a riveting journey down the Yellow River.

Sanwal learned the secrets of Punjabi cuisine in her mother-in-law's kitchen. She reveals those secrets in easy-to-follow prose and recipes.

Middle-aged Walter Doucet returns to Vacherie, Louisiana, and his low-country roots to build the family's last competing Christmas Eve bonfire.

Sakiko cannot say no. Hiroko is tired of hearing it. Two sisters, straddling American and Japanese culture, navigate womanhood.

A young artist's letters home to her parents paint a vivid picture of her travels through India, Nepal, and Tibet.

Crowley interviews longtime residents of one of Seattle's most culturally vibrant and racially diverse neighborhoods, now beset with rampant gentrification.

Haunt the halls of a demolished writers' house. Punch through the "timber curtains" that cover clear-cuts, gentrification, and bereavement.

How did discriminatory policies shape a uniquely pan-Asian neighborhood? Multiple disciplines and immigrant histories merge in this timely urban exegesis.

This muckraking novel by one of Korea's greatest living writers portrays China at the dawn of its global economic dominance.

An early immigrant's vision transforms swampland into a beloved public park. Essays, poems, and photographs celebrate Fujitaro Kubota's legacy.

From lumberyard to theater, Sancho captures the passion behind a pop-up disco for David Byrne's play about Imelda Marcos.

This dark sci-fi comedy explores the lost universes of actor Dylan Greenyears. After losing the lead in Titanic, Dylan exiles himself and his wife to a recently-settled exoplanet. For a while, life beyond Earth seems uncannily un-wondrous. But then a box of old fan mail (and the hint of a galaxy-wide conspiracy) offers Dylan a chance to recapture the past.

When a little girl has to move away, her babysitter helps her feel brave through food, stories, and traditions.

Natural Consequences is a collection of forty-two environmental essays by Char Miller, Professor of Environmental Analysis & History at Pomona College in Southern California. These essays variously encourage readers to get out in nature, to take a hike and restore our relationship to the land in order to better recognize the challenges of climate change. Collected into six sections, these personal narratives explore the threats of fire, drought, development, and fracking. Char Miller is well aware of climate change and the ecological degradation developed nations are causing. From personal experiences in his Southern California neighborhood or through his travel, Char Miller explores the damage of the dominant cultures on the environment and the need to address environmental injustice. His thoughtful vignettes and fascinating historical interpretations clearly lay out our challenges. Willing to admit his own role in our worldwide crisis, Char Miller's essays offer local, regional, and global solutions to reduce the natural consequences of our actions.

In Urban Creatures, Sarah Gray's short stories shift from the unsettling to the surreal to the frightening, all cut through with her characteristic black humor. Urban survival makes creatures of us all.

Fledgling democracy and human rights movements challenge autocrats throughout Asia. What role will the US play in the region in a post-Trump world?

A multi-genre celebration of the Pacific Northwest featuring monochrome photos by Nathan Wirth and poetry and essays inspired by those photos from leading writers.

The author retraces the 200-year-old route of artist David Roberts through Cairo, Sinai, Petra, Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon, sketching all the way.

In this blend of fiction and nonfiction, two young Japanese American sisters try to make sense of a world where their government imprisons them in World War II concentration camps while some of their friends and neighbors come to their aid.

Photographer Bernstein stages "living pictures" to tell the story of Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, which was known as Film Row during the 1920s, became a haven for artists in the 1960s and 1970s, and gave birth to Grunge in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Spring is a book-length lyric essay that examines grief and transformation through the lens of mystical animal appearances following the death of the narrator's partner.

A daughter recounts how her parents fled war-torn Europe for the US and built the popular Olga brand.

Thirty stories and 32 photos chronicle life on Seattle's No. 7 bus during the graveyard shift.