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Jade Chang

Jade Chang has covered arts and culture as a journalist and editor. She is the recipient of a Sundance Fellowship for Arts Journalism, the AIGA/Winterhouse Award for Design Criticism, and the James D. Houston Memorial scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. 

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Lauren Weisberger

Lauren Weisberger is the author of The Devil Wears Prada, which spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists. The film version, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, won a Golden Globe Award and grossed over $300 million worldwide. 

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The Garden Party

Grace Dane Mazur - Random House
Format: Book

A rehearsal dinner brings together two disparate families in this sparkling, witty novel. The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals - academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal-reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis....

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Last Tang Standing

Lauren Ho - G.P. Putnams Sons
Format: Paperback

Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Joness Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving ones thirties intact, and opening oneself up to love. At thirty-three, Andrea Tang is living the dream: She has a successful career as a lawyer, a posh condo,...

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The Windfall

Diksha Basu - Thorndike Press
Format: Library Binding

A heartfelt comedy of manners, Diksha Basu's debut novel unfolds the story of a family discovering what it means to "make it" in modern India. For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors, and the small...

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What We Were Promised

Lucy Tan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book

Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling...

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Family Trust

Kathy Wang - Head of Zeus
Format: Book

Stanley Huang is a father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable temper, and aficionado of bargain luxury goods. He's just been diagnosed with cancer, and his family are dealing with the fall-out. His son Fred, a banker who never has enough money; daughter Kate, juggling a difficult...

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China Rich Girlfriend

Kevin Kwan - Doubleday
Format: Book

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor,...

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Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

Sonali Dev - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco...It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered...

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Number One Chinese Restaurant

Lillian Li - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book

An exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people working in everyone's favorite Chinese restaurant.The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world,...

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Eligible

Curtis Sittenfeld - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

This version of the Bennet family - and Mr. Darcy - is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood...

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Millionaire Wives Club

Tu-Shonda Whitaker - One World/Ballantine
Format: Paperback

In Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker’s steamiest novel yet, we meet the four deliciously dramatic, designer-clad divas from prime time’s new hit reality show, The Millionaire Wives Club. Evan: Married to a pro-football star who isn’t in love with her anymore, Evan is digging her freshly...

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Unmarriageable

Soniah Kamal - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

Alys Binat has sworn never to marry - until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor concerning the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five...

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Destination Wedding

Diksha Basu - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

When Tina Das finds herself at a crossroads both professionally and personally, she wonders if a weeklong trip to Delhi for her cousin's lavish wedding might be just the right kind of escape. Maybe a little time away from New York will help get her mind straight about her stalled...

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His Only Wife

Peace Adzo Medie - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback

Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. Smart and pretty, she has also been convinced by her mother to marry a man she doesn't know: a wealthy businessman named Elikem. His family has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from a current relationship they disapprove...

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The Bourbon Kings

J.R. Ward - Signet Book
Format: Book

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood delivers the first novel in an enthralling new series set amid the shifting dynamics of a Southern family defined by wealth and privilege - and compromised by secrets, deceit, and scandal. Upstairs on the sprawling...

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