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Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 2
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2022. Berkley Prime Crime
First edition.
279 pages ; 21 cm.
2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
OverDrive
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2022 Penguin Publishing Group
OverDrive
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
2022 Penguin Publishing Group
OverDrive
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred...
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NOVEL NGUYEN
2021. Alfred A. Knopf
First edition.
289 pages ; 22 cm
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NOVEL NGUYEN
2021 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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2021 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Description
"When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. Over time, Huong realizes she will never see Cong again. While she copes with this loss, her sons, Tuan and Binh,...
Author
Series
[2020] Park Row Book
381 pages ; 24 cm
2021. Park Row Books
404 pages ; 20 cm.
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CD NOVEL KIM
[2020] Harper Audio
Unabridged.
9 audio discs (approximately 645 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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CD NOVEL KIM
eAudiobook
2020 Harlequin Audio
Unabridged
OverDrive
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL KIM
2020. Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company Gale
543 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL KIM
Description
Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching consequences of secrets in the lives of a Korean immigrant mother and her daughter. Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can't understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. Determined to discover the truth, Margot unravels her single mother's past as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented...
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[2021] One World
First edition.
257 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"In Ghost Forest, the unnamed narrator is the eldest of two daughters who grew up in Vancouver with her mother, away from her father in China, who's now sick. She's twenty-four and realizing she has never told her father that she loves him. The stories and experiences that unfold through his subsequent death and memorialization are lessons and curiosities of intimacy and affection. They are real, raw, and poignant meditations on how life and love...
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NOVEL JIN
[2020] Custom House
First edition.
279 pages ; 24 cm
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NOVEL JIN
[2020] Harper Audio
Unabridged.
8 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2020 HarperAudio
Unabridged
OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
eBook
2020. Thorndike Press
425 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China--to her,...
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NOVEL VO
2021. Tordotcom
First edition.
262 pages ; 22 cm
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NOVEL VO
2021 Tom Doherty Associates
OverDrive
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2021 Tom Doherty Associates
OverDrive
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2021. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
425 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
"Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions,...
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NOVEL KUPERSMITH
[2021] Random House
First edition.
378 pages : ilustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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NOVEL KUPERSMITH
Description
"In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. And in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend, disappears without a trace. Over the course of the novel, the fates of these three women will lock...
8) Bestiary
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NOVEL CHANG
[2020] One World
First edition.
259 pages ; 22 cm
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NOVEL CHANG
2020 Books on Tape
Unabridged
OverDrive
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2020 Random House Publishing Group
OverDrive
Available Online
2020 Random House Publishing Group
OverDrive
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Description
"One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt leaves red on everything she touches; another aunt arrives with eels in her belly. All the while, Daughter is falling for her...
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NOVEL NGUYEN
2021. Grove Press
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
xiii, 345 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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NOVEL NGUYEN
2022 Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
First edition.
xii, 407 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"The astonishing sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend,...
10) Gold diggers
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NOVEL SATHIAN
2021. Penguin Press
344 pages ; 24 cm
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NOVEL SATHIAN
2021 Penguin Publishing Group
OverDrive
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2021 Penguin Publishing Group
OverDrive
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[2021] Random House Large Print
First large print edition.
449 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Description
"An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"--
Author
Series
Kiss quotient novels volume 3
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HOT PICKS ROMANCE HOANG
2021. a Jove
First edition.
338 pages ; 21 cm
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HOT PICKS ROMANCE HOANG
[2021] Berkley
339 pages ; 22 cm.
[2021] Dreamscape Media, LLC
Unabridged.
8 audio discs (9 hr., 31 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2021] Dreamscape Media, LLC
Unabridged.
2 audio discs (MP3) (approximately 571 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2021 Dreamscape Media
Unabridged
OverDrive
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1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
2021 Penguin Publishing Group
OverDrive
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2021 Penguin Publishing Group
OverDrive
Available Online
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LARGE TYPE ROMANCE HOANG
2021. Center Point Large Print
Large print edition.
424 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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LARGE TYPE ROMANCE HOANG
[2021] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
"A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected-and the man she enlists to help her-in this sizzling new romance by USA Today bestselling author Helen Hoang. When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to be perfect in other people's eyes. If Anna ever wants to move forward, she has to learn to listen to her own heart, but...
Author
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[2021] Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First edition.
260 pages ; 22 cm
[2021] HarperCollins
Unabridged.
6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2021 Harper Collins Publishers
Unabridged.
6 sound discs (420 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life-immersive and comic, yet unsparing-that marks the arrival of an indisputable new talent in American fiction"--
Author
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SCI-FI CHO
2021. Ace
First edition.
370 pages ; 21 cm
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SCI-FI CHO
[2021] Recorded Books, Inc
Unabridged.
9 audio discs (11 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A reluctant medium is about to discover the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power. . . . When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, she chalks it up to stress. Closeted, broke and jobless, she's moving back to Malaysia with her parents - a country she last saw when she was a toddler. She soon learns the new voice isn't even hers, it's the ghost of her estranged grandmother. In life, Ah Ma was a spirit medium, avatar of a mysterious...
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NOVEL YU
[2020] Pantheon Books
First edition.
270 pages ; 22 cm
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NOVEL YU
2020. Vintage
First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
270 pages ; 20 cm
2020 Books on Tape
Unabridged
OverDrive
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
2020 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
OverDrive
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
2020 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
OverDrive
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
2020. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
309 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
"From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."--
Every day Willis Wu leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy--...
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2020 IDW Publishing
Expanded
OverDrive
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GRAPHIC NOVEL BIOGRAPHY TAKEI
Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens 1 available
J GN TAKEI
Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens 2 available
TEEN GRAPHIC NOVEL TAKEI
[2019] Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing
204 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
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GRAPHIC NOVEL BIOGRAPHY TAKEI
Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens 1 available
J GN TAKEI
Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens 2 available
TEEN GRAPHIC NOVEL TAKEI
2020 IDW Publishing
Expanded
OverDrive
Available Online
Description
"A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new...
16) Severance
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NOVEL MA
2018. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First edition.
291 pages ; 22 cm
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NOVEL MA
eAudiobook
2018 Macmillan Audio
Unabridged
OverDrive
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1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
After an epidemic causes most New Yorkers to flee, Candace Chen stays behind and continues her routine: going to work, getting paid, and blogging about the deserted city. Eventually, though, Candace will have to leave--putting her at the mercy of a power-hungry IT specialist named Bob.
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NOVEL CASTILLO
[2018] Viking
408 pages ; 24 cm
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NOVEL CASTILLO
408, 11 pages ; 21 cm
2018. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
661 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
How many lives fit in a lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America--haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents--she's already on her third. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her past. His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. But their daughter--the first American-born daughter in the family--can't resist...
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2016. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
354 pages ; 24 cm
2017. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
364 pages ; 21 cm
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CD NOVEL CHANG
[2016] Recorded Books
Unabridged.
12 audio discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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CD NOVEL CHANG
eAudiobook
2016 Recorded Books, Inc
Unabridged
OverDrive
Available Online
eBook
2017. Center Point Large Print
Center Point Large Print edition.
558 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent--and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together"--
Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China...
19) Exhalation
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SCI-FI CHIANG
2019. Alfred A. Knopf
First edition.
350 pages ; 22 cm
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SCI-FI CHIANG
2019 Books on Tape
Unabridged
OverDrive
Available Online
2019 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
2019 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
OverDrive
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
2019. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
513 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of...
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2019. Henry Holt and Company
First edition.
257 pages ; 25 cm
2020. A Holt Paperback, Henry Holt and Company
First Holt paperbacks edition.
257 pages ; 21 cm
2019. Macmillan Audio
Unabridged.
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2019 Macmillan Audio
Unabridged
OverDrive
Available Online
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL CHOI
2019. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
435 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL CHOI
Description
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving "Brotherhood of the Arts," two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed--or untoyed with--by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting...