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The Road to Samarcand
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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… |
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Tricky Twins
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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 … |
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The surrendered
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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… |
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Samurai girl
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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. |
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Miles from nowhere
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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, … |
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Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
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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. |
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Lost and found
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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. |
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A Person of Interest
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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… |
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Soy sauce for beginners
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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… |
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The Authentics
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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… |
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Crossing
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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… |
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The virgins
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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… |
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The girl who wrote loneliness
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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. |
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El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca)
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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… |
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Shelter
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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… |
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Rich people problems
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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 … |
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Daughter of the Deep
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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… |
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My Year of Meats
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**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 … |
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Readers Circle (Center Point))
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Mohsin Hamid,Satya Bhabha |
The novel takes place during the course of a single evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe. |
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Understanding Media
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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. |
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