Kim, Hyo-eun
Summary: "A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribble 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMLee, Stephan
Summary: "In the sequel to K-Pop Confidential, Candace is a Rookie idol. Her life is suddenly filled with the fans, cameras, and glamor of stardom: She and her boyfriend, YoungBae, are a K-Pop power couple; she's a walking icon at Brandt Foreign School; and her new girl group, known simply as THE GIRLS, is poised to break records across the industry. With her status as the industry's K-Pop Warrior, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEECha, 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 CHAJung, Jessica
Summary: Six years ago Korean American Rachel Kim was recruited by DB Entertainment, one of Seoul's largest K-pop labels. The rules are simple: Train 24/7. Be perfect. Don't date. Now, as the dark scandals of an industry bent on controlling and commodifying beautiful girls begin to bubble up, Rachel wonders if she is strong enough to be a winner, or if she will end up crushed. When she begins to develop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JUNJung, Jessica
Summary: Rachel Kim is at the top of her game: Girls Forever is now the number-one K-pop group in the world, and her viral airport styling attracts the attention of fashion's biggest names. The only thing that's missing is love, but in this world, falling in love can cost you everything. When Rachel literally falls head over heels into Alex's lap on a crowded metro, she's tempted to give up her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Cho, Tina
Summary: Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her free-diving haenyeo grandmother, a young Korean girl dutifully consumes her grandmother's strength-building abalone porridge and practices her breath control before suiting up and overcoming fears to make remarkable discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG CHOShin, Kyung-sook
Summary: "Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHIHan, Kang
Summary: Follows the aftermath of a young boy's shocking death during a violent student uprising as told from the perspectives of the event's victims and their loved ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANKim, Mia
Summary: "Set in Sixties post-war Korea, [Me, then] is a...story of Su-young's life with her aunt and her family. After a series of disastrous stays in various foster homes, the five year old Su-young, an illegitimate child, a lasting stigma in traditionalist Korea, hopes to find a stable home with her aunt. Her mother works and lives at an American army base on the outskirts of Seoul and visits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuan 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMMichell, Hannah
Summary: "At home in Seoul, former journalist Sae, is waiting with two clingy toddlers for her husband to come home from work. He has never been this late before. Her children are crying, and Sae, exhausted and anxious, turns on the TV to distract herself. She clicks to the news, which shows a horrific disaster, the collapse of a massive skyscraper where Jae was an engineer. Minutes, then hours, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICKim, Hyŏng-gyŏng.
Summary: Author Kim Hyeong Gyeong tells the story of seventeen-year-old Nieun's ordeal--she lost her parents in a car accident-- and portrays a full range of human emotions. This compelling and deeply moving story of family, friendship, loss, and overcoming hardship is illustrated through whales and the people in her father's hometown Cheoyongpo, a small fishing village.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ch'angbi 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Bentley, Don
Summary: When the leader of North Korea is catastrophically injured, his incapacitation inadvertently triggers a "dead-man's switch," activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea and precipitating a struggle for succession. Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus. But his benign trip takes a deadly turn when a wave of violence perpetrated by North Korean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENLee, 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 LEEJohn, D. B.
Summary: A propulsive and ambitious thriller about a woman trying to rescue her twin sister from captivity in North Korea, and the North Korean citizens with whom she forms an unlikely alliance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018