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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KWAN
1 available
FICTION KWAN
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New Books
FICTION KWAN
2 available
FICTION KWAN
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KWAN
1 available
FICTION KWAN
1 available
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"Bo knows she should leave. Almost everyone else has fled San Francisco as years of rain drowned it. Her mother was carried away in a storm surge and ever since, Bo has been alone. Grief-stricken, an artist unable to make art, a daughter unable to give up the hope that her mother may still be alive. She half-heartedly allows her cousin to plan for her escape, but as the departure day approaches, she finds a note slipped under her door from Mia, an...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION TANG
1 available
FICTION TANG
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION TANG
1 available
FICTION TANG
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION TANG
1 available
FICTION TANG
1 available
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"Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? Your husband? In Kat Tang's exciting and resonant debut, a "Rental Stranger"--a companion hired under various guises--walks the line between personal and professional in surprising new ways. Five-Star Stranger follows a man who is a top-rated performer on the "Rental Stranger" app, where users can hire a pretend fiancé, Referred to only as Stranger, the narrator navigates...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION NEE
1 available
FICTION NEE
1 available
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"London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his quiet life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and narrow escapes. Dee has come to London to investigate the murder of a man he'd known during World War I when serving with the Chinese Labour Corps. No sooner has Dee interviewed the grieving widow than another dead body turns up. Then another. All stabbed to death with a butterfly sword. Will...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CHOO
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FICTION CHOO
1 available
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"Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION LI
1 available
FICTION LI
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION LI
1 available
FICTION LI
1 available
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"Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li's haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families fighting to inherit it. They say what you don't know can't hurt you. But silence can be deadly. Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties,...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SAEED
1 available
FICTION SAEED
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - Cozy Mysteries
FICTION SAEED
1 available
FICTION SAEED
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SAEED
1 available
FICTION SAEED
1 available
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"Business has never been better for Nura Khan, a third-generation matchmaker in Atlanta. Her exclusive clientele benefits from her impeccable track record. And while a single thirty-one-year-old matchmaker would normally raise some perfectly threaded eyebrows in the community, Nura's childhood best friend, Azar, is willing to double as her pretend fiancé at her clients' weddings-even though Nura's feelings for him might not be so pretend. But all...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New Books
FICTION BAKER
1 available
FICTION BAKER
1 available
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"Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner . . . in Chinatown. The bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer whispered two words: bat eater. Months pass, the killer is never caught, and Cora can barely keep herself together. . . . Cora tries to ignore the rising dread in her stomach, even when she and her weird co-workers...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New Books
FICTION VUONG
3 available
FICTION VUONG
3 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION VUONG
1 available
FICTION VUONG
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION VUONG
2 available
LT FICTION VUONG
2 available
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Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New Books
FICTION GREWAL
1 available
FICTION GREWAL
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION GREWAL
1 available
FICTION GREWAL
1 available
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"In the waning months of George W. Bush's presidency, Neel Chima, a former Naval officer and federal prosecutor, is recruited to join a new federal intelligence agency-one with greater-than-usual powers and fewer-than-usual restrictions. Neel soon finds himself intimately involved in the surveillance of domestic terrorism suspects and the selection of foreigners for drone assassination-men who often look just like his Sikh family members. As both...
10) Mina's Matchbox
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION OGAWA
1 available
FICTION OGAWA
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION OGAWA
1 available
FICTION OGAWA
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION OGAWA
1 available
FICTION OGAWA
1 available
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"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home-and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company-are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CHEN
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FICTION CHEN
3 available
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Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this facade, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHURCHIL
1 available
FICTION CHURCHIL
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CHURCHIL
1 available
FICTION CHURCHIL
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHURCHIL
1 available
FICTION CHURCHIL
1 available
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Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, an emotionally engaging literary debut about a grandmother and granddaughter who connect over a beloved lost place and the secrets they both carry. It's spring 1999, and 25-year-old Lia Cope and her prickly 73-year-old grandmother, Mineko, are sharing a bedroom in Curtain, Texas, the ranching town where Lia grew up and Mineko began her life as a Japanese war bride....
13) Rental house
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION WANG
5 available
FICTION WANG
5 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION WANG
1 available
FICTION WANG
1 available
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"Keru and Nate first meet in college, brought together by a joke at a Halloween party (would a "great white" costume mean dressing like a shark or a privileged Ivy League student?) and marrying a few years later. Misfits in their own families, they find in each other a feeling of home. Keru is the only child of strict, well-educated Chinese immigrant parents who hold her to impossible standards even as an adult ("To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,"...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - Historical Fiction
FICTION WANG
1 available
FICTION WANG
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION WANG
1 available
FICTION WANG
1 available
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Follows Josiah Chang, a Chinese Canadian who, barred from military service, works in a shipyard and falls in love with Poppy; as their romance blossoms, Josiah seeks to prove his worth to her family and himself, leading him to enlist in Toronto amid the changing dynamics of wartime Canada.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION KOH
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FICTION KOH
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KOH
1 available
FICTION KOH
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"At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho's overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come. From the Gwangju Massacre to the...
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"From the award-winning author of Flux comes a dazzling novel about love, family, and the art of sushi that asks: What if you could return to the point of a fateful choice, wiser than before, and find the courage to forge a new path?"-- Provided by publisher.
A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is gone, and the love of his life has left him...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION YUN
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FICTION YUN
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For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind a desk as a coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specializing in vacation packages to destinations devastated by disaster and climate change. Her work life is uneventful until trouble arises in the form of a predatory colleague. To forestall any disruption of business-as-usual, Jungle makes Yona a proposition: a paid "vacation" to the desert island of Mui. But Yona must pose as a tourist and assess whether...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION PARK
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FICTION PARK
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"Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993. Hannah, who comes from a strict Korean home, meets Angel, a free and beautiful boy, at a quinceañera: Beyond flushed, sweating bodies pushed, pushing like cattle below black & buzzing speakers, under a torn pink streamer loose as a tendril of hair--lush-- his eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blush floods her. Hannah sucks...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION HAN
1 available
FICTION HAN
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION HAN
1 available
FICTION HAN
1 available
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"In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between...
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"From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart. In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges they know will face them, Najin and Calvin make the difficult...
