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The Road to Samarcand The Road to Samarcand Patrick O'Brian "This story begins with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon. The time is the 1930s, and the protagonist is a teenaged American boy whose missionary parents have just died… OL14870978W
Tricky Twins Tricky Twins Susan Blackaby Read-it! Readers…will delight children while strengthening their independent reading skills. Read-it! Readers and Read-it! Readers en Espanol are simple and effective ways to get the reading results … OL15181651W
The surrendered The surrendered Chang-rae Lee ** 'Masterful ... THE SURRENDERED bursts with drama and human anguish ... Powerful, deeply felt, compulsively readable and imbued with moral gravity, the novel does not peter out into easy redemption… OL15440390W
Samurai girl Samurai girl Carrie Asai With only the goal to stay alive, Heaven Kogo is in Las Vegas where a gambler has found her and wants to risk it all; but Heaven's heart isn't in the game. OL16027585W
Miles from nowhere Miles from nowhere Nami Mun Fleeing her 1980s Bronx family home in the wake of her unfaithful father's abandonment and her mother's mental illness, Korean teen Joon struggles through an adolescence marked by homeless shelters, … OL16071674W
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel Sara Farizan When Leila develops a crush on a new female student she has to decide if her sexuality is something she wants to share with everyone else. OL18008838W
Lost and found Lost and found Louise Vitellaro Tidd Nate's search for his missing sneaker leads him to many other things he has lost and is delighted to find again. OL1816366W
A Person of Interest A Person of Interest Susan Choi From an acclaimed novelist, an emotionally complex and riveting story of suspicion, innocence, and regretWhen a mail bomb explodes in the campus office next door, Lee, an Asian American math professo… OL1848950W
Soy sauce for beginners Soy sauce for beginners Kirstin Chen Gretchen Lin leaves behind a floundering marriage to return to her Singapore home, where she confronts the challenges of her mother's alcoholism and her father's artisanal soy sauce business before b… OL19704277W
The Authentics The Authentics Abdi Nazemian Daria Esfandyar is an Iranian American fiercely proud of her heritage. She and her friends call themselves the Authentics, because they pride themselves on always keeping it real. But in the course o… OL19713488W
Crossing Crossing Andrew Xia Fukuda Xing Xu, generally ignored by his classmates at the all-white Slackenkill High School in upstate New York, takes advantage of his "invisibility" to investigate when a series of mysterious disappearan… OL19938177W
The virgins The virgins Pamela Erens The Virgins is the story of Aviva and Seung's descent into confusion and shame, as re-imagined in richly detailed episodes by their classmate Bruce, a once-embittered voyeur turned repentant narrator… OL19970052W
The girl who wrote loneliness The girl who wrote loneliness Kyŏng-suk Sin Taking a sweatshop job in Seoul to support her family, a teenaged girl endures a life of extreme exploitation that contributes to Korea's economic rise in the 1970s. OL20008036W
El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca) El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca) Jhumpa Lahiri Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy starts to hate the awkward name and itches to cast it off, along with the inherited… OL2001056W
Shelter Shelter Jung Yun "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 i… OL20027528W
Rich people problems Rich people problems Kevin Kwan "[A] novel of a family riven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture gown sabotage, and the heir to one of Asia's greatest fortunes locked out of … OL20053660W
Daughter of the Deep Daughter of the Deep Rick Riordan Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana's paren… OL24235915W
My Year of Meats My Year of Meats Ruth Ozeki **A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the breakout hit by the celebrated author … OL2754906W
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Readers Circle (Center Point)) The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Readers Circle (Center Point)) Mohsin Hamid,Satya Bhabha The novel takes place during the course of a single evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe. OL489097W
Understanding Media Understanding Media Marshal McLuhan,Marshall McLuhan The author examines all types of communication including photographs, ads, games, television, radio, telephone, comics, numbers, money, clothing, movies, recordings, housing, and weapons. OL871783W
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