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Come enjoy an author talk with award-winning author and artist Trung Le Nguyen @trungles, creator of the 2022 One Book, One San Diego graphic novel, "The Magic Fish"!

We are excited to offer both physical and digital copies of this year's One Book, One San Diego titles:

 -        “Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind” by Cynthia Grady and Amiko Hirao

-        “They Called Us Enemy” (“Nos Llamaron Enemigo”) by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker

  You can place the physical copies on hold or enjoy them digitally on Hoopla with your Escondido Library Card!

 We encourage you to learn more about the historical subject matter presented in these titles: Japanese-American Internment during World War II, the racism and lasting socioeconomic tragedies Japanese-Americans endured, and their many unique experiences as multiethnic citizens. Related titles we offer include:

-        “Kiyo’s Story: A Japanese-American Family’s Quest for the American Dream” by Kiyo Sato (also available as an eBook on Libby, OverDrive, and Hoopla and as an eAudiobook on Hoopla)

-        “Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad” by Robert Asahina (also available as an eAudiobook on Hoopla)

-        “To Be Takei”, a DVD documentary edited and co-directed by Bill Weber and written/directed by Jennifer M. Kroot.

-        “A Place to Belong” by Cynthia Kadohata and Julia Kuo (also available as an eAudiobook on CloudLibrary)

-        “Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II” by Albert Marin (also available as an eBook on Libby, OverDrive, and CloudLibrary)

-        “Manzanar”, photographs by Ansel Adams and commentary by John Hersey, edited by John Armor and Peter Wright

-        “Legacy of the Nisei: Stories of Japanese American Internment and World War II Veterans”, a DVD documentary produced by the San Leandro Public Library, Nancy Fong, Mary Beth Barloga, and Addie Silveira.

-        “Within These Lines” by Stephanie Morrill (also available as an eBook on CloudLibrary and Hoopla, and as an eAudiobook on Hoopla)

-        “Weedflower” by Cynthia Kadohata

-        “Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston (only available digitally as an eBook on Libby, OverDrive, and CloudLibrary, and as a eAudiobook on CloudLibrary)

-        “Aleutian Sparrow” by Karen Hesse

-        “The Last Year of the War” by (also available as an eBook and eAudiobook on CloudLibrary)

-        “The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II” by Jan Jarboe Russell

-        “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” by Jamie Ford (also available as an eBook on Libby, OverDrive, and CloudLibrary, and as an eAudiobook on Libby and OverDrive)

-        “Ruth Asawa: A Sculpting Life” by Joan Schoettler and Traci Van Wagoner

-        “Honor Before Glory: The Epic World War II Story of the Japanese American GIs Who Rescued the Lost Battalion” by Scott McGaugh (also available as an eAudiobook on Hoopla)

-        “Silent Honor” by Danielle Steel (also available as an eBook on Libby and OverDrive)

-        “Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds” by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto (also available as an eBook on Hoopla and CloudLibrary, and as an eAudiobook on Hoopla)

Join us for the next 2nd Tuesday Book Club meeting on October 10, 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. on Zoom and upstairs in the Board Room!

We will be discussing the 2023 One Book, One San Diego winner, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together" by Heather C. McGhee!

Come enjoy an author talk with award-winning author and artist Trung Le Nguyen @Trungles, creator of the 2022 One Book, One San Diego graphic novel, "The Magic Fish"!

It will be on Monday, December 12 at 4:00 p.m. in the Student Services West Room 1560 of San Diego State University!

One Book One San Diego will announce the 2022 selection on Saturday, August 20, at 10:00 a.m.!

KPBS and the San Diego Central Library invite you to hear Author Annette Bay Pimentel  and disability rights activist Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins discuss their picture book collaboration, "All The Way To The Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything."