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2022
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English
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Uprooted from her life in New York City and relocated to her father's villa in Seoul, sixteen-year-old Melody soon discovers the alluring aspects of living in Korea as well as family secrets as she struggles to reconcile her identity in a place she is expected to call home.
2) Wicked fox
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Gumiho volume 1
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English
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After eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung, a nine-tailed fox surviving in modern-day Seoul by eating the souls of evil men, kills a murderous goblin to save Jihoon, she is forced to choose between her immortal life and his.
Gu Miyoung is a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. The modern city of Seoul is the perfect place to hide and hunt. After feeding one full moon, Miyoung crosses paths with Jihoon, a human...
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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". . . A sweeping historical debut for fans of Lilac Girls, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Kristin Hannah that brings to life the heartbreaking history of Korea through the deeply moving and redemptive story of two sisters separated by World War II"--
Korea, 1943, under Japanese occupation: As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, Hana enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day she saves her younger sister from a Japanese...
4) XOXO
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"Jenny never had much time for boys, Kpop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. But when she finds herself falling for a Kpop idol, she has to decide whether their love is worth the risk"--
Cello prodigy Jennys goal is to get into a prestigious music conservatory. When she meets Jaewoo in her uncles Los Angeles karaoke bar, its clear he is the kind of boy who would uproot her careful plans. In a moment of spontaneity...
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Series
Gumiho volume 2
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English
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Gu Miyoung is a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. She violated the rules of survival to rescue Jihoon and lost her fox bead, her gumiho soul. Following the deaths of Miyoung's mother, Yena, and Jihoon's grandmother, they might have a shot at normalcy with the support of their friend Lee Somin, and their frenemy, Junu. But Miyoung is getting sicker and sicker by the day: her lost fox bead has caused a...
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Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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When Henry Childs is threatened by his first love's father, he enlists in the Marines to escape.
Mercy's father disapproves of their love, so she and Henry flee to New Orleans to play out their passionate affair. When her father hunts them down and takes his daughter home, Henry enlists in the Marines and is thrown into a decisive moment of the Korean War-- the brutal battle of the Chosin Reservoir. Returning home scarred and haunted, he will meet...
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English
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"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
9) Pachinko
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"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 tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
10) Idol gossip
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Offered a spot at the Star Academy, one of the biggest K-pop companies, seventeen-year-old singer Alice Choy must navigate culture clashes, egos and extreme training practices to come out on top, despite the efforts of an influential blogger trying to tear her down.
Every Friday after school, dressed in their South Korean prep-school uniforms Alice Choy and her little sister, Olivia, head to Myeongdong, brave a dank, basement-level stairwell full...
11) Brother's keeper
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English
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Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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June 1950. The North Korean army, a formidable force backed by Soviet arms and training, invades South Korea, with the intent of 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...
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"An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter"--
1917. Deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. Over the course of half a century, in a world where friends become...
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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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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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"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 in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds...
16) Zero hour
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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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. When a wave of violence perpetrated by North Korean operatives grips South Korea's capital, Jack races to discover the meaning behind an ominous one-word...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"March 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, its petitions ignored by heads of state as Korea's nationhood is erased. After Japan's defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split that remains today. But what if the KPG still existed now, today--working toward...