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The Family Chao

Lan Samantha Chang - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant’s delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. Whether or not Big Leo Chao is honest, or his wife, Winnie, is happy, their food...

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The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder

Sarah J Harris - Touchstone
Format: Book

A captivating mystery about a boy with synesthesia—a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds—who tries to uncover what happened to his beautiful neighbor, and if he was ultimately responsible.

Thirteen-year-old Jasper Wishart lives in a world...

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Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they...

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How Lucky

Will Leitch - Harper
Format: Book

A first novel as suspenseful and funny as it is moving, How Lucky is the unforgettable story of a fiercely resilient young man living with a physical disability, and his efforts to solve a mystery unfolding right outside his door. 

Daniel leads a rich life in the university...

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The Unpassing

Chia-Chia Lin - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book

A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska

In The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father,...

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Searching for Sylvie Lee

Jean Kwok - William Morrow
Format: Book

A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York...

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Miracle Creek

Angie Kim - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Book

In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine: a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for "dives", used as an alternative therapy for conditions including autism and infertility. But when the Miracle...

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The Last Thing He Told Me

Laura Dave - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child....

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Remember Me Like This

Bret Anthony Johnston - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Book

A gripping novel with the pace of a thriller but the nuanced characterization and deep empathy of some of the literary canon’s most beloved novels, Remember Me Like This introduces Bret Anthony Johnston as one of the most gifted storytellers writing today. With...

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