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2023 Read Widely: East Asia
If you Like Rachel Joyce, try...
In Remembrance: Fiction Set in Times of War (SCPL)
OBD Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month - ADULT (May)
If you Like Rachel Joyce, try...
In Remembrance: Fiction Set in Times of War (SCPL)
OBD Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month - ADULT (May)
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Korea, 1943, under Japanese occupation: As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, Hana enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day she saves her younger sister from a Japanese soldier and is herself captured and transported to Manchuria. There she is forced to become a 'comfort woman' in a Japanese military brothel. South Korea, 2011: Emi has spent more than sixty years trying to forget the sacrifice her sister made....
2) Pachinko
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"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
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The story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. As her children argue over how to find her and her husband returns to their countryside home to wait for her, they each recall their lives with her, their memories often more surprising than comforting.
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Sean Drummond novels volume 2
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JAG lawyer Sean Drummond has gotten himself in way over his head — with a case that challenges his deepest fears and a co-counselor who challenges just about everything else. Assigned to South Korea as an advocate for a gay officer accused of brutally killing the son of a South Korean war hero, Drummond is teamed up with an old law-school nemesis. Katherine Carson is a curvy, liberal, William Kunstler-like attorney with a reputation for manipulating...
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2023 Read Widely: East Asia
AAPI Heritage Month
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (WPL-ADULT)
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"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
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In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother--but her stern father is determined to maintain tradition, especially as the Japanese steadily gain control of his beloved country.
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Jack Ryan, Jr volume 12
Jack Ryan Jr volume 12
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 9
Thorndike Press large print core
Jack Ryan Jr volume 12
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 9
Thorndike Press large print core
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Jack Ryan, Jr. is the one man who can prevent a second Korean War in the latest thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. When the leader of North Korea is catastrophically injured, his incapacitation inadvertently triggers a "dead-man's switch," activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea and precipitating a struggle for succession. Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus. But his benign...
9) War trash
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Captured by enemy forces, Yu Yuan, a Chinese army officer serving in Korea in 1951, takes on the role of interpreter due to his proficiency in English, a role that places him in a conflict between his fellow prisoners and their captors.
10) XOXO
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Cello prodigy Jenny's goal is to get into a prestigious music conservatory. When she meets Jaewoo in her uncle's Los Angeles karaoke bar, it's clear he is the kind of boy who would uproot her careful plans. In a moment of spontaneity she allows him to pull her out of her comfort zone for one unforgettable night of adventure-- before he disappears without a word. Three months later, when Jenny and her mother arrive in South Korea to take care of her...
11) Honolulu
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Instead of the prosperous young husband and the chance at an education she has been promised, Jin is quickly married off to a poor, embittered labourer who takes his dsappointments out on his new wife, forcing her to make her own way in a strange land.
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"Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi, on the other hand, has had to fend for herself since childhood, most recently by smuggling goods across the border. Then there is Danny, a Chinese-American teenager whose quirks and precocious intelligence have long made him an outcast in his California high school. These three disparate lives converge when they flee their homes, finding themselves in a...
13) Y/N: a novel
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April 3, 2024: New Adult Fiction
Best of 2023 - Fiction
If You Like K-Dramas
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2023 New York Times Book Review - Adult
Best of 2023 - Fiction
If You Like K-Dramas
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2023 New York Times Book Review - Adult
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"Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant--a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction."--
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In Korea in 1473, eleven-year-old Young-sup overcomes his rivalry with his older brother Kee-sup, who as the first-born son receives special treatment from their father, and combines his kite-flying skill with Kee-sup's kite-making skill in an attempt to win the New Year kite-fighting competition.
15) Wicked fox
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Gumiho volume 1
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GPLD Best Fantasy for Teens
If You Like K-Dramas
OLPL: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
T - Valentine's Day - Fiction
If You Like K-Dramas
OLPL: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
T - Valentine's Day - Fiction
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A fresh and addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. No one in modern-day Seoul believes in the old fables anymore, which makes it the perfect place to for Gu Miyoung and her mother to hide in plain sight. Mihoung is a Gumiho, a nine-tailed fox, who must eat the souls of men to survive. She feeds every full moon--eating the souls of men who have committed crimes, but have evaded justice. Her life is upended when she kills a dokkaebi, a murderous...
16) Anna K away
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Anna K volume 2
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After the scandal surrounding the tragic death of her first love, Alexis, Anna K's father takes her to South Korea to "connect with family" but it feels more like exile. Back in the states, all her friends are spending their summers in different ways, but also each needs to face the reality of their relationships in order to move forward in the wake of last school year.
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A Gift of the Emperor is the poignant fictional account of real-life atrocities inflicted upon more than 200,000 Asian women by the Japanese military during World War II. This haunting story is narrated by Soon-ah, a Korean schoolgirl whose life is shattered when Emperor Hirohito's soldiers abduct her from her village and ship her and her schoolmates to a "house of relaxation" in the South Pacific. Here, on an island with surreal beauty, Soon-ah is...
18) Vicious spirits
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Gumiho volume 2
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"Somin and Junu are helping Miyoung and Jihoon heal from their recent trauma when a new supernatural threat arises"--
19) Re Jane
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Jane Re--a half-Korean, half-American orphan--takes a position as an au pair for two Brooklyn academics and their daughter, but a brief sojourn in Seoul, where she reconnects with family, causes her to wonder if the man she loves is really the man for her as she tries to find balance between two cultures.
Jane Re, a half-Korean, half-American orphan, takes a position as an au pair for two Brooklyn academics and their daughter. On a brief sojourn...
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"February 1954. Although the Korean War armistice was signed a year ago, most citizens of Seoul still battle to return to some semblance of normalcy. Conditions are dismal. Children beg for food, and orphanages are teeming. Alice J. Kim, a Korean translator and typist for the American forces still sanctioned in the city, yearns for the life she used to live before her country was torn apart. Then Alice's boss makes an announcement--the American movie...
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