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Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
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Roaring twenties volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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When she has a haunting vision about a yacht's disappearance, feisty flapper Astrid Magnusson, home from college, is plunged into an underground world of old money and dark magic along with her notorious bootlegging brother's second-in-command.
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When George, the man with whom she had brief fling several years earlier, unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, newly engaged Lucie Churchill is drawn to him again and spins a web of deceit in an attempt to block him from her life, and her heart.
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In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator's new job is a coveted one among New York's beauty-obsessed, and it affords her entry into a new world of privilege. She becomes transfixed by Helen-a model, and the niece of Holistik's charismatic owner-and the two strike...
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A Chinese American art history major at Harvard, Will Chen is offered an illegal chance to reclaim five priceless treasures China lost centuries ago and assembles a team of fellow students, chosen for their skills and loyalty, to help him on his mission—and make history.
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Inheriting her grandmother's restaurant in a crumbling San Francisco Chinatown neighborhood, Natalie receives some advice from the local seer that will help her struggling community, but she isn't sure she wants to help them try to turn things around.
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Earning just enough in America that they hope to reclaim the son they left behind in China, Patty and Liang Cheng find their fragile stability complicated by their daughter's sleepwalking activities, which expose complicated family secrets.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A young woman returns home to Illinois from Manhattan to introduce her Chinese immigrant parents to her white fiancé, in a disastrous weekend where she runs into her unrequited high school crush and complicates matters further.
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2023.
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English
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"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the super rich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"--
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English
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An ICU physician at a busy NYC hospital, 30-something Joan, a workaholic with little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, is required to take mandatory leave until the day she must return to the city to face a crisis larger than anything she’s encountered before.
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Stuck in a rut working at her parents' donut shop, Jasmine Tran finds help in the form of an old college crush, but when their relationship doesn't work out, she must scheme to find a solution and get herself out of the donut trap.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Fighting his way across the West to rescue his wife and exact revenge on the men who destroyed him, while settling old scores along the way, Ming Tsu is aided by a blind clairvoyant and a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural powers.
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English
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Offered patronage by Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate, in 1906, Gemma, a silver-voiced soprano, and Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, when Henry disappears, along with the fabled Phoenix Crown, are brought together five years later in one last desperate quest for justice.
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