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Kyung-ah Choi, Sarah Dyer · 192 pages
The Snow Drop nursery is So-Na's safe haven, but when the young girl's father forces her to enroll in a new high school, she is reminded that life in the outside world is no Garden of Eden. Luckily for her, her bad-boy friend, Ha-Da will be there to keep her company. But when So-Na sets eyes on the hunky Hae-Gi, her world gets turned upside down. As beautiful as he is moody, Hae-Gi might either be
Bride of the Water God, Volume 6
Mi-Kyung Yun · 180 pages
Cursed to live in the form of a little boy during the day, only reverting to his true adult self at night, Habaek yearns to treat Soah as a proper husband would. Now he is being pursued by an unknown, shape-shifting tormentor and is led to believe that his previous human bride is still alive.
Chocolat, Volume 1
Ji-Sang Shin, GEO · 180 pages
Kum-Ji's trip to Miami Beach ends up being a stay in the country. She's attacked by water snakes and passes out. When she opens her eyes, she's in E-Wan's arms. Her heart beats fast with embarassment while E-Soh gets jealous.
Hello, I Love You
Katie M. Stout · 298 pages
Grace Wilde is running from the multi-million dollar mansion her record producer father bought, the famous older brother who s topped the country music charts five years in a row, and the mother who blames her for her brother s breakdown. Grace escapes to the farthest place from home she can think of, a boarding school in Korea, hoping for a fresh start.
Silvern
Christina Farley · 373 pages
After escaping death at the hands of an assassin sent by Kud, god of darkness, Jae Hwa Lee joins forces with the Guardians of Shinshi on a quest to find the White Tiger Orb before Kud can steal it.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 560 pages
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision
Forgotten Country
Catherine Chung · 304 pages
Learning on the night of her sister's birth that a daughter has been lost in every generation of her Korean family, Janie assumes a protective role over her sister while learning more cautionary stories from her optimistic father and mythology-minded mother.
The Red Queen
Margaret Drabble · 352 pages
"Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package - a memoir by a Korean crown princess, written more than two hundred years ago. A highly appropriate gift for her impending trip to Seoul. But from whom?" "The story she avidly reads on the plane turns out to be one of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinary detail the ways of
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
Hyeonseo Lee, David John · 320 pages
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure t
If I Perish
Esther Ahn Kim · 350 pages
Ahn Ei Sook stood alone among thousands of kneeling people in bold defiance of the tyrannical command to bow to a pagan Japanese shrine. After months on the run, she was captured and condemned to a living death in the filth and degradation of a Japanese prison. Although she was imprisoned and tormented for many years, her determination and fortitude never diminished. In spite of the brutality, opp
Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland · 288 pages
"An incredible memoir of North Korea by a woman who defied the government to keep her family alive. Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household--her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rationed rice and a small garden. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. But it was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine resulting in
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Sook Nyul Choi · 170 pages
A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea. It is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to the family, but he cannot break their spirit

