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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The expediter	David Hagberg	"It's the most extraordinary request McGarvey has ever received. He enters a dangerous international shadow world where almost nothing is as it seems. The puzzles lead him to a mysterious Russian ex-…	OL14927230W
The trip back home	Janet S. Wong	A young girl and her mother travel to Korea to visit their extended family.	OL15283800W
Good fortune in a wrapping cloth	Joan Schoettler	When Eomma's mother is chosen by the emperor to be a seamstress in his court, Eomma vows to learn to sew the beautiful Korean bojagi, or wrapping cloths, just as well so that she will also be summone…	OL15920473W
Damage control	M. Zachary Sherman	When their plane crashes behind enemy lines, Corporal Tony Donovan and his Army Corps of Engineer companions must rebuild one of the jeeps they were carrying--will they escape before the North Korean…	OL16152457W
Somebody's daughter	Marie G. Lee	Adopted and raised by Scandinavian-American parents in Minnesota, a Korean teenager returns to her native country to find her mother.	OL16919100W
Pachinko	Min Jin Lee	In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers…	OL17762217W
Somebody's daughter	Marie G. Lee	Adopted and raised by Scandinavian-American parents in Minnesota, a Korean teenager returns to her native country to find her mother.	OL1829080W
The Foreign Student	Susan Choi	Highly acclaimed by critics, The Foreign Student is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family. In 1955, a new student arr…	OL1848948W
Red Phoenix	Larry Bond	In the aftermath of a series of student riots in Seoul, the U.S. Congress rushes a bill into law calling for the complete withdrawal of American troops from South Korea. This sets off a chain reactio…	OL1942309W
Ms. Isabelle Cornell, herself	Carol J. Farley	Ibby's unhappiness at moving to Korea with her mother and new chaplain stepfather is alleviated when she meets some new friends, studies Korean and Buddhism, and becomes involved in a baffling myster…	OL1950231W
In the shadow of the sun	Anne Sibley O'Brien	Twelve-year-old Mia is on a five-day tour of North Korea with her older brother, Simon, and their father, Mark, a food aid worker, but she is scared because her father keeps sneaking off at night, an…	OL19717354W
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean nuclear attacks against the United States	Jeffrey G. Lewis	"America lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of March 2020. This is the final, authorized report of the government commission charged with investigating the calamity.<BR /><BR /> "T…	OL19752514W
The Island of Sea Women	Lisa See	Set on the Korean island of Jeju, The Island of Sea Women follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls from very different backgrounds, as they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female d…	OL19865296W
Daughters of the Dragon	William Andrews	During World War II the Japanese forced 200,000 young Korean women to be sex slaves or "comfort women" for their soldiers. This is one woman's riveting story of strength, courage and promises kept.	OL19999762W
Kim Jiyoung, born 1982	Cho Nam-ju	In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A thirtysomething-year-old “millennial everywoman,” she has recently left her white-collar desk job―…	OL20670294W
Echoes of the White Giraffe	Sook Nyul Choi	Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul.	OL2988786W
So far from the bamboo grove	Yoko Kawashima Watkins	A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.	OL3914678W
The girl-son	Anne E. Neuberger	Based on the life of Induk Pahk, a Korean educator, whose widowed mother disguised her as a boy at the age of eight in order for her to attend school, a choice forbidden to girls in the early twentie…	OL527764W
No Way Back (A Luther Ewing Thriller)	Michael Crow	Half–Vietnamese, half–black, Baltimore county cop Luther Ewing is known as "the Comanche" to his Gulf War buddies, "Shooter" to his fellow mercenaries in Bosnia, and "Five–O" to the Baltimore narc sq…	OL5737001W
Once the shore	Paul Yoon	So persuasive are Yoon's powers of invention that readers go searching for his Solla Island somewhere off the mainland of South Korea--not realizing that it exists only in this breathtaking collectio…	OL9249750W