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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SONG
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FICTION SONG
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"Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep,...
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"What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B ZAUNER
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B ZAUNER
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
792.7028 WON
4 available
792.7028 WON
4 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Nonfiction
792.7028 WON
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792.7028 WON
1 available
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"In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so heavily that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. The sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she's...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION SEE
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CD FICTION SEE
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"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MIRZA
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FICTION MIRZA
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MIRZA
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FICTION MIRZA
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION MIRZA
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LT FICTION MIRZA
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"The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity and belonging A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding - a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites...
7) Pachinko
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION LEE
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CD FICTION LEE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION LEE
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CD FICTION LEE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION LEE
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CD FICTION LEE
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"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
791.4302 WU
1 available
791.4302 WU
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Nonfiction
791.4302 WU
1 available
791.4302 WU
1 available
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"A collection of personal and powerful stories by an influential actress exploring her experiences dealing with representation, sexism, and advocacy. Through stories that are raw, fascinating, and revealing, she describes the expectations, pressures, and feelings--both negative and positive--that women, fairly and unfairly, experience while navigating the world"-- Provided by publisher.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
305.895 YAN
1 available
305.895 YAN
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Nonfiction
305.895 YAN
1 available
305.895 YAN
1 available
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"'RISE' is a love letter to and for Asian Americans--a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which [their] culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped [their] community into who [they] are today"--Provided by publisher.
10) Age of vice
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION KAPOOR
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FICTION KAPOOR
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KAPOOR
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FICTION KAPOOR
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"This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION THAI
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FICTION THAI
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION THAI
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FICTION THAI
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION THAI
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FICTION THAI
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"When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life-a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste-but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CHEN
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FICTION CHEN
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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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Crazy rich Asians volume 1
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION KWAN
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CD FICTION KWAN
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION KWAN
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CD FICTION KWAN
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Overview: Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives...
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Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private fitness trainers, daily massages--and all of it for free. In fact, you're paid big money to stay here--more than you've ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds; your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. Jane, an immigrant...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION KATSU
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FICTION KATSU
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"From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KIM
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FICTION KIM
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION KIM
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FICTION KIM
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KIM
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FICTION KIM
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"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION FORD
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FICTION FORD
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION FORD
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FICTION FORD
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When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION TAN
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FICTION TAN
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
428.6 TAN
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428.6 TAN
1 available
eAudiobook
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There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innoncence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutionary China, and life in downtown San Francisco; women struggling to find a...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOANG
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FICTION HOANG
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION HOANG
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FICTION HOANG
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION HOANG
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CD FICTION HOANG
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"A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases--a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. It doesn't help that Stella...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION KIM
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FICTION KIM
1 available
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"Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the facts of Mina's life as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother"--Dust jacket flap.
