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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it's been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She's distraught that her sister hasn't spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Grace's understanding. Shawn...
Author
Series
Pippa Park volume 2
Publisher
Fabled Films Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Korean American Pippa Park picks up right where she left off . . . trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat, and fitting in. Eliot, her math tutor--and the cutest boy at school--is finally paying attention to her. And Marvel--her childhood friend--is making her required volunteering much more interesting. But things with the Royals, her new friends and teammates who rule the school, still feel a bit...
24) Y/N: a novel
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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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."--
The narrator, a Korean American woman living in Berlin, is obsessed with Moon: anything not-Moon in her life fell away when she beheld the K-pop idol in concert. Moon dances as if his movements are creating their own gravitational field. Seized by ineffable...
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Finding the most beautiful persimmon to give to her grandma who will be visiting from far away, Joo Hong, a young Korean American girl, wonders what to do as the persimmon looks less and less perfect as time passes by.
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mindy Kim loves food...When a local pizza place advertises a trivia competition, Mindy can't believe that the big prize is unlimited pizza for a whole year! Mindy is confident she and her dad can take the top spot. But Dad is worried he might not understand all the cultural references. And he wants Mindy to know that the most important thing is to always try your best, even if you don't win"--
28) Shelter
Author
Publisher
Picador
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Kyung Cho's home is worth less money than he owes. A tenure-track professor, he and his wife, Gillian, have always lived beyond their means. Now their decisions have caught up with them, and Kyung is anxious for his family's future: all he wants is to provide the home that was denied him to their son. Not that he ever wanted for pleasing things -- his father moved the family from Korea, and made good money engineering patents for the university that...
29) The evening hero
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
A sweeping, lyrical novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confront the secrets of the past or risk watching the world he's worked so hard to build come crumbling down. Dr. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life. Every day for the last fifty years, he has brushed his teeth, slipped on his shoes, and headed to Horse Breath's General Hospital, where, as an obstetrician, he treats the women and babies of the small...
30) Made in Korea
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Two entrepreneurial Korean-American teens butt heads-and fall in love-while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school"--
31) Heart and Seoul
Author
Series
Heart and Seoul volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
32) Off the rails
Author
Series
Mihi ever after volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Mihi and her friends head back to the Rainbow Realm to save Princess Pat from a destructive quest.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sang Duri is the eldest member and 'visual' of a Korean boy band at the apex of global superstardom. But when his latest solo single accidentally leads to controversy, he's abruptly canceled. To spare the band from fallout with obsessive fans and overbearing management, Duri disappears from the public eye by hiding out in the McMansion of a Chinese American woman he meets in a Los Angeles H Mart. But his rescuer is both unhappily married with children...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A disaster in romance, high school senior Desi Lee decides to tackle her flirting failures by watching Korean television dramas, where the hapless heroine always seems to end up in the arms of her true love by episode ten.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Peter Lee, in a desperate attempt to regain the popularity he had in elementary school, discovers that serving detention can win him important friends, much to the dismay of his over-achieving eighth-grade sister, Sunny.
Author
Publisher
Relegation Books
Language
English
Description
"In this masterful novel of inheritance and loss, Sonya Chung (Long for This World) proves herself a worthy heir to Marguerite Duras, Hwang Sun-won, and James Salter. Spanning generations and divergent cultures, The Loved Ones maps the intimate politics of unlikely attractions, illicit love, and costly reconciliations. Charles Lee, the young African American patriarch of a biracial family, seeks to remedy his fatherless childhood in Washington, DC,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Korean American Jasmine Yap's long-time boyfriend, Paul, is caught cheating on her, her giant, overprotective family secretly arranges to use her graduation party to introduce her to Orlando's most eligible men. Jasmine Yap plans to move in with her long-time boyfriend, Paul, before starting a nursing program at community college-- until she catches Paul cheating. To her giant, overprotective family, Paul's loss is their golden ticket to showing...
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