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Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. Ji-won's life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying... yet enticing. In them, Ji-won walks through bloody...
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AS - Asian American and Pacific Islander Month
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Adults
OBD Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month - ADULT (May)
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Adults
OBD Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month - ADULT (May)
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"Mr. and Mrs. Cho run a successful chain of Hawai'ian plate lunch restaurants, and their adult children are finding their way in the world: 21-year-old Grace is graduating in a few months, and 25-year-old Jacob is teaching English in Seoul. They're set to take over the restaurants when Umma and Appa retire. But when Jacob is captured by the South Korean government for attempting to run across the DMZ, the Chos' peaceful lives are shattered. What could...
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When one of his classmates offers Nate Jae-Woo Kim a ridiculous amount of money to commit grade fraud, he knows that taking the windfall would help support his prideful Korean family. But is compromising his integrity worth it? Kate Anderson, Nate's colleague at the zombie-themed escape room where they work, has an alternate plan. A local tech company is hosting a weekend-long survivalist competition with a huge cash prize. If the two team up-- and...
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2025 Summer Reads
Adult Activity Challenge 2026: Books Published in 2025
Booker Prize Longlist 2025
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Adult Activity Challenge 2026: Books Published in 2025
Booker Prize Longlist 2025
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"One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He's carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old. In chapters that shift from one member to the next, turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Susan Choi's Flashlight chases the shockwaves of one family's catastrophe. Louisa is an only child of parents who have severed themselves from...
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Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2025
Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2025: Teens
Delicious Reads (teens)
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2025: Teens
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"A Korean American teen tries to balance her dream to become a chef with the cultural expectations of her family when she enters the competitive world of a TV cooking show"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Moon Minseok--or Moonster as this WDB fans know him--wasn't born to lead. Even as part of the world's most popular K-Pop group, he found comfort in his role as the jokester, the sidekick, the unserious one (with the cutest smile). But now WDB is drowning in dating scandals, and it's time for Moonster to take charge of the group's image. Shin Hyeri has been dealing with some scandals of her own. An up-and-coming K-Drama actress, she's been labeled...
7) Y/N: a novel
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AAPI FICTION
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2023 New York Times Book Review - Adult
OBD Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month - ADULT (May)
Weird Girl Lit
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2023 New York Times Book Review - Adult
OBD Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month - ADULT (May)
Weird Girl Lit
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"Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant--a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction."-- Dust jacket.
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OLPL: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
If you loved... KPop Demon Hunters
KPop Demon Hunters
School Stories (teen)
If you loved... KPop Demon Hunters
KPop Demon Hunters
School Stories (teen)
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Instead of going to prom, Elena Soo wants to spend her time saving the local community center. She is determined to keep her priorities straight even when her childhood best friend Robbie Choi, who is now a K-pop superstar, returns to make good on their old pact to go to prom together. But Robbie is nothing like the sweet, goofy boy she remembers-- and he comes with hordes of screaming fans, online haters, and relentless paparazzi. -- adapted from...
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GPLD Best Mystery/Thriller/Horror for Teens
If you loved... KPop Demon Hunters
K-Pop Demon Hunters: Books for Teens
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If you loved... KPop Demon Hunters
K-Pop Demon Hunters: Books for Teens
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Yellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this spine-tingling sapphic thriller that follows a disgraced teen idol who comes face-to-face with the demons of her past in a glittering, cutthroat K-pop competition.
10) Yolk
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OLPL: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
AANHPI 2024 - Teens
AAPI Celebration
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AANHPI 2024 - Teens
AAPI Celebration
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Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
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A debut novel grappling with contested American identity, masculinity, and deportation, told in one of the most memorable adolescent voices in contemporary literature. Seventeen year old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad's disappearance. His sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads to his deportation to South Korea,...
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AANHPI 2022 - Kids
AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal- if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice . . . and the courage to face a tiger. Tae Keller,...
13) Frankly in love
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OLPL: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Jeremiah or Conrad? (SCPL-YA)
2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
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Jeremiah or Conrad? (SCPL-YA)
2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
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"High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all"-- Provided by publisher.
14) Flip the script
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"As an avid watcher of K-dramas, Hana knows all the tropes to avoid when she finally lands a starring role in a buzzy new drama. And she can totally handle her fake co-star boyfriend, heartthrob Bryan Yoon, who might be falling in love with her. After all, she promised the TV producers a contract romance, and that's all they're going to get from her. But when showrunners bring on a new lead actress to challenge Hana's role as main love interest--and...
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OLPL: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
AANHPI Teen
Lunar New Year - Teens
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AANHPI Teen
Lunar New Year - Teens
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Told from two viewpoints, teens Lucky, a very famous K-pop star, and Jack, a part-time paparazzo who is trying to find himself, fall for each other against the odds through the course of one stolen day.
16) The name drop
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GPLD Best Contemporary for High Schoolers
OBD All About Romance - ADULT
OBD YA Romance - YOUTH
YA Romance
OBD All About Romance - ADULT
OBD YA Romance - YOUTH
YA Romance
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Discovering a mix-up due to their shared Korean name, interns Elijah Ri and Jessica Lee decide to stay switched so Elijah can escape his controlling father while Jessica secures college recommendations, but the one thing they didn't count on was falling in love.
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"Jia Song has always been destined for greatness. As the daughter of Korean bodega owners, she promised herself that she would have every Fifth Avenue luxury when she grew up, and it is all finally within reach. She has just made junior partner at her prestigious Manhattan law firm, she can count on her two best friends to have her back, and she is about to score the ultraluxe gold-on-gold Birkin bag of her dreams. So when her boss asks her to sit...
18) Anna K away
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After the scandal surrounding the tragic death of her first love, Alexis, Anna K's father takes her to South Korea to "connect with family" but it feels more like exile. Back in the states, all her friends are spending their summers in different ways, but also each needs to face the reality of their relationships in order to move forward in the wake of last school year.
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"A love-averse Korean royal court cuisine instructor is waylaid by a gorgeous professor-and prince in disguise-who will do anything to prove to her that love and happily ever after can be theirs. Emma Yoon dreams of opening her very own culinary school in Los Angeles. She's saving up for it by teaching young ladies the art of Korean royal court cuisine, a prerequisite to marrying into the exclusive upper crust Korean families. Thanks to her godmother,...
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"Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn't a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms--like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children's book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious or stressed. But when Katrina finds a cryptic message from Kurt that implies he's aware of her surveillance, her tenuous...
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