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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced, Iris Prince moves to a new neighborhood where she, a proud second-generation Mexican American, is plunged into a climate of fear and hate-fueled violence after the launch of a mandatory identification wristband, forcing her to confront how far she’ll go to protect what matters to her most when second-generation immigrants become second-class citizens.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from a family tragedy, seventeen-year-old Mark finds his escape in a purple, sequenced, puff-sleeved princess dress, which becomes an unexpected outlet for his grief as well as a path towards love and self-expression.
4) August blue
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
At the height of her career, piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance. Now she is in Athens, watching a woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses at flea market. Elsa wants the horses, too, but there are no more for sale. She travels across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Tamsin Rivers, when a door opens in her basement to reveal an exact copy of her, one that’s sweet and biddable where she’s calculating and cruel, must hold herself together long enough to figure out what the double wants from her—and where the mysterious door leads.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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, Bucky is forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life. One mishap leads to another, and he has to fall back on not just his raw physical strength, but resources...
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Language
English
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"Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who we meet at age nine and follow through adulthood, and who grapples with the expectations of a first generation American and her own personal desires. Finally, there's...
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