This program is a fun and engaging class on how you too can become a tarot reader. The class begins with a short lecture covering Tarot cards, their history, the theory behind tarot reading, and common myths. At the end of the program, volunteers are invited to read each other’s tarot cards and tell each other's fortunes. Not to worry—your future is still yours to create, and no one is ever left stuck with bad news!
From a Maui native and food blogger comes a gorgeous cookbook of 85 fresh and sunny recipes reflects the major cultures that have influenced local Hawaiʻi food over time: Native Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Filipino, and Western.
The White Lotus meets Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians in this devilishly entertaining debut novel: both a sophisticated locked-room mystery in the tradition of Agatha Christie, and a provocative literary whodunit for the twenty-first century.
Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, an emotionally engaging literary debut about a grandmother and granddaughter who connect over a beloved lost place and the secrets they both carry.
Introducing a character as viscerally believable and unforgettable as any in fiction, The All-Americanis a triumph―full of energy, dark humor, suspense, and hard-won wisdom.
A mesmerizing historical novel from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island.
A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness. “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”
Celebrate with more books written and about Asian American and Pacific Islanders here.
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
Learn more about James, the author, and download our premade discussion guide here.
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