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Aurora Hills - Adult Biography
B CHUNG N
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B CHUNG N
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Columbia Pike - Adult Biography
B CHUNG N
1 available
B CHUNG N
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Shirlington - Adult Biography
B CHUNG N
1 available
B CHUNG N
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Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting myth. Nicole believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as she grew up - facing prejudice...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F CASTI
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F CASTI
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F CASTI
1 available
F CASTI
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F CASTI
1 available
F CASTI
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After fleeing the Philippines, Hero De Vera arrives at her uncles where she is given a fresh start. He asks no questions about her disturbing political past, but his daughter, the first American-born family member, is unable to resist her curiosity especially about her cousin's damaged hands.
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"'I am an American patriot not because I was born here but because I was not. I embraced American freedoms, raised my children to cherish and revere them, and lost a son who swore an oath to defend them, because I come from a place where they do not exist.' In fewer than three hundred words, Muslim American Gold Star father Khizr Khan electrified viewers around the world when he took the stage at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. And when he...
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Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 1
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Central - Adult Detective
D MANAN
5 available
D MANAN
5 available
Central - Recently Returned
D MANAN
1 available
D MANAN
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Detective
D MANAN
1 available
D MANAN
1 available
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes--one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic...
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A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even demeaning, moments. This book provides a sweeping and nuanced history of Asian Americans, revealing how and why the perception of Asian immigrants changed...
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"Behind the chic veneer of a wellness clinic lies a dangerous secret, in this compelling women's fiction novel from the author of The White Coat Diaries. Dr. Maya Rao is a gynecologist trying to balance a busy life. With three young children, a career, and a happy marriage, she should be grateful-on paper, she has it all. But after a disastrous encounter with a patient, Maya is forced to walk away from the city hospital where she's spent her entire...
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Central - Adult Biography
B WANG Q
5 available
B WANG Q
5 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Biography
B WANG Q
1 available
B WANG Q
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Biography
B WANG Q
1 available
B WANG Q
1 available
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters. "Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay." An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F OZEKI
2 available
F OZEKI
2 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F OZEKI
2 available
F OZEKI
2 available
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"A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house-a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F YOON
1 available
F YOON
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F YOON
1 available
F YOON
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A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket? He navigates his surroundings, one rough shape at a time. Here lies a pipe, there a reed that could be carved into a weapon, beyond a city he once lived in. He could swear his daughter's name began with a J, but what was it, exactly? Then he encounters an old man,...
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"A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience. Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future that had inspired her family to uproot themselves from...
11) Exhalation
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Central - Adult Science Fiction
SF CHIAN
5 available
SF CHIAN
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Aurora Hills - Adult Science Fiction
SF CHIAN
1 available
SF CHIAN
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity's oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In "Anxiety...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F RAMOS
3 available
F RAMOS
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F RAMOS
1 available
F RAMOS
1 available
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Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers, daily massages-and all of it for free. In fact, you're paid big money to stay here-more than you've ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds, your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. For someone...
13) Fiona and Jane
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Central - Adult Fiction
F HO
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F HO
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F HO
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F HO
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F HO
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F HO
1 available
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"A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades. Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years, surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters, and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F HUA
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F HUA
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F HUA
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F HUA
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F HUA
1 available
F HUA
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"A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished...
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Learning on the night of her sister's birth that a daughter has been lost in every generation of her Korean family, Janie assumes a protective role over her sister while learning more cautionary stories from her optimistic father and mythology-minded mother.
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Central - Adult Biography
B HUANG E
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B HUANG E
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Columbia Pike - Adult Biography
B HUANG E
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B HUANG E
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Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks
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The author is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus, the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night, and one of the food world's brightest and most controversial young stars. But before he created the perfect home for himself in a small patch of downtown New York, he wandered the American wilderness looking for a place to call his own. He grew...
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"Stories about love, family, and identity in the unexplored lives of Chinese-American millennials"--
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Charles Yu, time travel technician, helps save people from themselves in Minor Universe 31, a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog named Ed, and using a book titled "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional...
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"From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring how we form our identities in life, in politics, and in art"--