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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Victor Chin's life is turned upside down at the tender age of 15. Diagnosed with leprosy, he's forced to leave the familiar confines of the Bronx - the only home he's known since emigrating from China - to quarantine alongside patients from all over the country at a federal institution. Between treatments he dreams of escape. But soon he finds a new sense of freedom far from home - one without the pull of obligations to his family. Here, in the company...
Author
Series
Pets rule! volume 3
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Kalmyk
Description
Despite being warned that kittens are monsters, Ember the Chihuahua (who still aims for world domination) agrees to babysit a family of kittens for three days after the mother cat offers him an army in return.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"To save the Clarktown Community Center, which houses her parents' Chinese school, Lily and her fellow students must master a traditional Chinese dance in time for the center's first showcase and receive some unexpected help from her rival, Max Zhang"--
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school. She's the only scholarship student-- and now her parents can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship. Alice hatches a plan: she has actually started to develop the power to turn completely, physically invisible, and will monetize her new power by discovering the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know-- for a price. As the tasks escalate...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Attending a new K-pop workshop hoping to reconnect with her ex-BFF and groupmate, 18-year-old former popstar Sunny Lee instead finds herself haunted by ghostly visions while someone inflicts bodily harm on her competitors, forcing her to confront the demons of her past to survive.
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