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First Second
Pub. Date:
©2024
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate, family, and falling in love. Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed--no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance...
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Publisher:
Porscha Sterling Enterprises, LLC
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Olivia Jackson thought she had it all until she caught her fiancè giving 'it all' to their accountant. To make matters worst, the man she thought would be her forever was not only cheating, but robbing her blind and giving her hard-earned money to support his new woman. After nursing a broken heart over the holidays, Olivia's best friend finally tells her that it's time to pick herself back up and suggests that she returns home for her New Years...
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English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Set in Berlin just after the end of World War II, Joseph Kanon's The Good German, now a major motion picture, is a brilliant thriller about the end of one war and the beginning of another, by the bestselling author of Los Alamos. Berlin, 1945. Hitler has been defeated, and Berlin is divided into zones of occupation. Jake Geismar, an American correspondent who spent time in the city before the war, has returned to write about the Allied triumph while...
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English
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Although Apollo 11 made Aldrin a famous person as he described the "alien world" of moon and space as "magnificent desolation," his celebrity status led to both personal trials and triumphs back on earth. "The twin demons of depression and alcoholism emerged -- the first of which Aldrin confronteed early and publicly, and the second of which he met with denial until it nearly killed him." He describes the failure of two marriages and renewal once...
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Publisher:
Rise x Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date:
2024
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 870L
Language:
English
Description:
"Diwali, Solstice, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Bodhi Day, and Lunar New Year are visually depicted in turn, accompanying a stunning, read-aloud text that speaks of the traditions that link them all together. The warm yet accurate imagery is explained in simple secondary text on each page, and further in the backmatter. Beloved author Jane Yolen and daughter, author Heidi Stemple, have crafted a loving and poignant story with true reverence for our...
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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"A gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for release. This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine,...
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Nearly twenty years ago, Sam Leto left her small hometown of Tybee Island, Georgia, to pursue her dreams of becoming a pilot. While she’d prefer to keep flying away from her painful childhood memories, her beloved grandmother Pearl decides it’s time to sell the family home. Reluctantly, Sam is summoned back to pack up the house. The 2000s nostalgia from Sam’s old bedroom hits immediately: Fall Out Boy posters, drawers of roll-on body glitter...
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Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
In a world where magic can be bottled and power sipped, seventeen-year-old Ingrid Ellis tries to rise in society on the arm of Lindon Holt, but when she agrees to spy on his father's political opposition in exchange for his approval, she begins to question where her true allegiances lie.
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Publisher:
James C. Kei
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
My granny passed away last year after a long battle with lung cancer. She was dearly beloved by all of her grandchildren. When we were kids, we used to love listening to her stories, especially those about her childhood in China before she came to the United States. This book series is an anthology of her stories, my tribute to her memory. Part 1 revolves around the Lunar New Year, which is considered to be the most important traditional festival...
10. So Much More
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Publisher:
Isla Chiu
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
This collection contains 3 sexy friends-to-lovers stories featuring obsessed alpha males who want so much more. Includes Ringing in the Lunar New Year, Sparks Fly, and My Best Friend Forever. RINGING IN THE LUNAR NEW YEAR College freshman Simone Chang is feeling homesick. For the first time, she's spending Chinese New Year without her family. But fortunately, she has her best friend by her side, Will Higa...aka the boy she has wanted since pretty...
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Publisher:
JMS Books LLC
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Seven friends, seven different personalities. They work and play together, never actively searching for love. However, love comes when one least expects it to. Follow the love journey of these seven friends as they navigate their way through romantic and familial relationships, friendships, and everything else life throws their ways. Contains the stories: Falling for His Best Friend: Keenan and Pablo are reunited after years of being separated. They...
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Publisher:
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
A collection of 15 classic Chinese folk stories-passed down from generation to generation-presented in both Chinese and English. Welcome to the fascinating world of Chinese folklore. The fifteen stories in this book address universal converns such as the origins of humankind, the impact of wars and natural disasters, the great deeds of cultural heroes, the struggle for dignity and justice for the common man, and the yearnings of the human heart. For...
13. Little Dumplings
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Publisher:
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
A mouth-watering, multicultural board book for little foodies and their loved ones, celebrating dumplings from kitchens all over the world! There are so many different kinds of dumplings to love! In this sweet rhyming board book, the youngest of readers are introduced to traditional dumplings eaten all over the world, from bao to pierogi, samosa, and more! Featuring more than thirty different dumplings, plus an illustrated guide to pronunciation and...
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Publisher:
New Leaves
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Editorial: A Movie Is Not a Movieby Chu Dongwei2020 will be remembered in history as a very special year. For much of the first half of the Chinese lunar year, cinemas were closed in the country due to the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic. Filmmakers and cinemas ready to make another big harvest with the annual Chinese New Year blockbusters found their fortune gone in a day. A few smart movie producers quickly switched to online video platforms and...
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Publisher:
John P. Hornung
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
This is the autobiography of John P. Hornung, a rocket scientist during the early years of NASA's Apollo Mission to the moon. The writing describes four chapters in his life. Three of them were selected for their significance in U.S. history; early school integration in the deep south, a period of brutality in the US Marine Corps, and landing a man on the moon. A fourth chapter includes short stories of John's Sea Scout adventures.Chapter 1 - The...
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Series:
Amy Wu volume 2
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 500L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Amy loves craft time at school. But when her teacher asks everyone to make their own dragon, Amy feels stuck. Her first dragon has a long, wingless body, stag-like horns, and eagle claws, but her friends don't think it's a real dragon. Then she makes dragons like theirs, but none of them feels quite right...None of them feels like hers. After school, a story from Grandma sparks new inspiration, and Amy rounds up her family to help her. Together, can...
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Publisher:
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
Description:
Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
Do you ever really know a person? I mean know down to the core and back, through the heart and deepest layers of hidden secrets. Some say it's impossible. Human nature is a lunar landscape full of mysteries and unknown spaces that never see the light of day, or truth. We hide intentions and manipulate our way through life, getting our needs and wants met as best we can, sometimes at a terrifyingly high price with no regard for so called loved ones....