Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Simple wishes Simple wishes Lisa Dale GOING HOME IS THE LONGEST JOURNEY OF ALL... Adele Matin couldn't wait to put her lonely childhood and hometown behind her. Amid the bright lights and hustle and bustle of New York, she built a life … OL13763775W
A Piece of Home A Piece of Home Jeri Hanel Watts When Hee Jun’s family moves from Korea to West Virginia, he struggles to adjust to his new home. His eyes are not big and round like his classmates’, and he can’t understand anything the teacher says… OL17336079W
Pachinko 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
The Foreign Student 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
Ask a North Korean Ask a North Korean Daniel Tudor The long-running "Ask a North Korean" column produced by NK News in Washington D.C. invites readers to ask questions of recent North Korean defectors about everyday issues that are not generally disc… OL19734841W
Love love Love love Sung J. Woo Judy Lee's life has not turned out the way she'd imagined. She's divorced, she's broke, and her dreams of being a painter have fallen by the wayside. Her co-worker Roger might be a member of the Yaku… OL20008051W
The boy who escaped paradise The boy who escaped paradise Yi, Chŏng-myŏng (Novelist) An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols written in blood near the corpse. Ahn Gil­mo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas,… OL20043081W
Korean immigration Korean immigration Sheila Smith Noonan An overview of immigration from Korea to the United States and Canada since the 1960s, when immigration laws were changed to permit greater numbers of people to enter these countries. OL6029153W
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