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Teenager Viola Li and her sister Roz are selling bean buns at a science fiction gathering in Seattle when she suddenly collapses--she wakes up in the hospital to find that somehow she has developed an extreme case of photosensitivity (so bad that even ordinary lights can cause blisters), and somehow, in her senior year of high school, she has to craft a new life that will still include journalism school, activism, and the new guy who caught her as...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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309 pages ; 22 cm
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"Elinor Hanson, a forty-something former model, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her mentor from grad school offers her a chance to write for a prestigious magazine about the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota. Elinor grew up near the Bakken, raised by an overbearing father and a distant Korean mother who met and married when he was stationed overseas. After decades away from home, Elinor...
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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327 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Clementine Chan believes in the power of the written word. Under the pseudonym Hibiscus, she runs a popular blog reviewing tea shops and discussing larger issues within her Chinatown community. She has a loyal, kind following, save for this one sour grape named BobaBoy888. Danny Mok is allergic to change, and the gentrification seeping into Chinatown breaks his heart. He channels his frustration into his internet alter ego, BobaBoy888, bickering with...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023
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viii, 241 pages ; 22 cm
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A new collection of stories by successful author and biographer Yiyun Li, written over the span of a decade, which articulate the cost, both material and emotional, of living: exile, assimilation, loss, and love.
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TorDotCom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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xi, 484 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle-axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshal who...
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