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F THAI
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F THAI
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F THAI
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F THAI
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Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F THAI
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F THAI
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When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life--a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste--but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WILKE
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F WILKE
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Westover - Recently Returned
F WILKE
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F WILKE
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4 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and...
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F NGUYE
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F NGUYE
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F NGUYE
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F NGUYE
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F NGUYE
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F NGUYE
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Description
"In 1969, two sisters from rural Vi��et Nam leave their parents' home and travel to the bustling city of S�ai G�on. Soon their lives are swept up in the unstoppable flames of a war that is blazing through their country. They begin working as 'bar girls' in one of the drinking dens frequented by American GIs, forced to accept that survival now might mean compromising the values they once treasured. Decades later, two men wander through the...
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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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"It's been nine years since Larkin fled Georgetown, South Carolina, vowing never to go back. But when she finds out that her mother has disappeared, she knows she has no choice but to return to the place that she both loves and dreads--and to the family and friends who never stopped wishing for her to come home. Ivy, Larkin's mother, is discovered in the burned out wreckage of her family's ancestral rice plantation, badly injured and unconscious....
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Central - Adult Fiction
F KWOK
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F KWOK
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F KWOK
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F KWOK
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F KWOK
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F KWOK
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Description
"A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women ;two sisters and their mother in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge."--