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Summary: Inspired by a mysterious message, seventeen-year-old Ginny Park sets off to find herself as she reflects on her experiences of growing up Zainichi, an ethnic Korean born in Japan, and the incident that forced her to leave years prior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHESuk, Sarah
Summary: Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You've Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA novel follows a teen with a mysterious condition that transports her to the past when she smells certain scents linked to specific memories. Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUKLee, Krys
Summary: Three young people struggle to make new lives for themselves in the dangerous region where China borders North Korea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEYi, Kŭm-i
Summary: "'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YIJung, Young Moon
Summary: In his inimitable, recursive, meditative style that reads like a comedic zen koan but contains universes, Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River recounts Korean cult writer's Jung Young Moon’s time spent at an artist’s and writers residency in small-town Texas. In an attempt to understand what a “true Texan should know,” the author reflects on his outsider experiences in this most unique of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deep Vellum Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JUNChurch, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CHULee, J.M.
Summary: "An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols are written in blood near the corpse. Gilmo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories, is arrested on the spot. Angela, a CIA operative, is assigned to gain his trust and access his unique thought-process. The enigmatic Gilmo used to have a quiet life back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEChurch, James
Summary: Ordered out of retirement to Pyongyang to cover up a crime of passion committed by the young leader of a transitional government vital to a tenuous peace agreement between the two Koreas, Inspector O finds his life threatened when the case tests his loyalties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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Summary: Sohee helps her family prepare for the Lunar New Year celebration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PARChurch, James.
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 CHUKim, Nancy Jooyoun
Summary: "Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the facts of Mina's life as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMCha, Frances
Summary: "Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a 'room salon', an exclusive bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her livelihood. Her roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAHan, Jimin
Summary: "In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she has been thrust into the afterlife, fighting to head off a curse that will otherwise devastate generations to come. Hak Jeonga has always shouldered the burden of upholding the family name. When she sent her daughter-in-law to America to cover up an illegitimate birth, she was simply doing what was needed to preserve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANKim, Angie
Summary: "A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMLee, Chang-rae.
Summary: At the end of the Korean War, the lives of orphan June Han and American soldier Hector Brennan collide. Thirty years later, they meet again and are forced to come to terms with the secrets of their devastating past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEEPark, Linda Sue.
Summary: A child, eager for a favorite meal, helps with the shopping, food preparation, and table setting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2005
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PARStabenow, Dana.
Summary: As a hijacked Russian freighter loaded with black-market plutonium sails undetected towards North America, a CIA analyst uncovers a terrorist plot, a conspiracy that places his estranged wife in the middle of the international crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAStabenow, Dana.
Summary: A dirt bomb set on a busy market street in Thailand kills over a hundred people. Fearing terrorists are ready to bring unimaginable devastation to American shores, husband-and-wife team, Hugh Rincon, a Langley-based CIA honcho, and Sara Lange, the executive officer aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth, try to stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STALee, Min Jin
Summary: "A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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Summary: "Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island's beloved female divers. She doesn't like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn't play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean's also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea's solar system-dominating space agency, since a mission...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hillman Grad Books, a Zando imprint 2024
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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: Cello prodigy Jenny's goal is to get into a prestigious music conservatory. When she meets Jaewoo in her uncle's Los Angeles karaoke bar, it's clear he is the kind of boy who would uproot her careful plans. In a moment of spontaneity she allows him to pull her out of her comfort zone for one unforgettable night of adventure-- before he disappears without a word. Three months later, when Jenny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHHwang, Sok-yŏng
Summary: During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the atrocities were attributed to American military, but in truth they resulted from malicious battling between Christian and Communist Koreans. Forty years later, Ryu Yosop, a minister living in America returns to his home village, where his older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HWAShaara, 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