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Cellists Fiction Dating (Social customs) Korea (South) Fiction Korea Korean Americans Fiction Korean War, 1950-1953 Fiction Logan, Pike Fiction Seoul (Korea) Fiction Special forces (Military science) United States Fiction Special operations (Military science) Fiction United StatesShaara, Jeff
Summary: June 1950. The North Korean army invades South Korea, intent on uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops, and together they drive the North Koreans back to their border with China. But several hundred thousand Chinese troops have entered Korea, laying massive traps for the Allies. In November 1950,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Shaara 2017Summary: The legend of the invincible fleet begins! Set five years before the epic battle depicted in The Admiral: Roaring Currents, Hansan: Rising Dragon is based on the true historical naval engagement, Battle of Hansan Island. In July 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his Korean naval fleet face off against invading Japanese naval warships. Falling into crisis, the admiral must use his secret weapon to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HANTaylor, Brad
Summary: "Hot on the trail of a North Korean looking to sell sensitive US intelligence to the Syrian regime, Pike Logan and the Taskforce stumble upon something much graver: the sale of a lethal substance called Red Mercury. Meanwhile, North Korea has its own devastating agenda: a double-cross that will dwarf the attack in Syria even as it lays the blame on the Syrian government. Leveraging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAYLee, Lyla
Summary: Mindy, Dad, and Julie travel to Korea to mourn Grandpa's passing with family and for the annual Chuseok celebration, and while the occasion is a somber one, Mindy is determined to make her first official Mid-autumn Festival one to remember.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LEEPark, Linda Sue.
Summary: With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARGendry-Kim, Keum Suk
Summary: "Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story--the peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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Summary: "Former Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face to face with a conspiracy where nothing is as it seems. Hot on the trail of a North Korean looking to sell sensitive US intelligence to the Syrian regime, Pike Logan and the Taskforce stumble upon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYSummary: Set in the late 1920s, the story follows a cat-and-mouse game between a group of resistance fighters who want to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and the Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is torn between his duty as an officer and his instinct to support the greater cause.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGEChurch, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHUSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Summary: In a late 1990s North Korea, a younger Inspector O is working Pyongyang as the country's nuclear missile program begins to escalate and as the wife of a North Korean diplomat turns up dead in Pakistan under suspicious circumstances, but as Inspector O investigates, he discovers that the woman's death could lead to a larger conspiracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUSummary: Follows the humorous & dramatic adventures of the staff of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital unit in Uijeongbu, South Korea during the Korean War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASRooney, Kathleen
Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROOLee, Julie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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Summary: American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YICornwell, Bernard.
Summary: The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon's Army but France's deadliest assassin. He's already failed to kill Captain Richard Sharpe once. Now, he's getting a second chance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: In the fall of 1950, the Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, and personal conflicts will determine fates for better or worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIHolman, Sheri.
Summary: In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HOLPak, Greg
Summary: "Hana and Kenichi have been separated, forced to find their own ways back to the Island. Kenichi, cast out in exile, must learn to survive the wilderness on his own without the support his noble upbringing previously provided. Hana must also survive a dangerous foreign environment, as she travels alongside the Shogun's caravan back towards the Island and contends with the cutthroat political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios 2020
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Summary: "Two women's lives and identities are intertwined-through World War II and the Korean War-revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the 20th century. "Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories." -Heather Morris, #1 New York Times bestselling author Can't I Go Instead follows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge/Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YIHa, Robin
Summary: Kai Song dreams of being a warrior. She wants to follow in the footsteps of her beloved father, the commander of the Royal Legion. But while her father believes in Kai and trains her in martial arts, their society isn't ready for a girl warrior. Still, Kai is determined. But she is plagued by rumors that she is the granddaughter of Gumiho, the infamous nine-tailed fox demon who was killed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 HASummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: A corrupt political plot threatens to put an end to the South Essex regiment and the life of Major Richard Sharpe when he investigates and discovers an illegal recruiting ring selling soldiers like cattle to other divisions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORHiga, Susumu
Summary: "A peaceful, independent kingdom until its annexation by the Japanese Empire in the 19th century, Okinawa was the site of the most destructive land battle of the Pacific War. Today, the archipelago is Japan's poorest prefecture and unwilling host to 75% of all US military bases in Japan. Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island's pre-eminent mangaka, Susumu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2023