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1) First snow
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A tiny girl awakens in the night and quickly dons her boots, coat, scarf, and hat before quietly slipping outside to form a snowball. She rolls the snowball out of town, into the countryside, and past woodland creatures before reaching her destination--an open area where dozens of children are creating snowmen"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invasive images of blood and brutality--torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It's a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law, and her sister each fight to reassert their...
Author
Series
Qi huan ai qing volume 031-035
Publisher
Chun guang chu ban
Pub. Date
2016
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Lee Hanjo is an artist at the peak of his fame, envied and celebrated. Then, on his forty-third birthday, he awakens to find that his devoted wife has disappeared, leaving behind a soon-to-be-published novel she'd secretly written about the sordid past and questionable morality of an artist with a trajectory similar to Hanjo's. It's clear to him that his life is about to shatter and the demons from his past will come out. But why did his wife do...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a personal tragedy, a novelist goes back home in the Korean countryside to take care of her gentle father and learns, through the testimonies of his loving family and friends, how his lifelong kindness belies a past wrought in both private and national trauma"--
Author
Series
Soul xi lie volume 048
Publisher
Ji mo chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In a corner of the campus, the body of a seventeen-year-old girl lay quietly. From that day on, the shape of the truth has changed in thousands of ways─
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father's internment in a government 're-education camp'. Living in a shack and supporting himself by weeding recyclables out of the refuse, at first Bugeye's life on Flower Island is hard. But...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In an alternate-reality Seoul, South Korea, where assassination guilds compete for dominance, Reseng uncovers a scheme set into motion by a trio of young women, forcing him to decide if he will remain a pawn of the plotters who control the city's criminals.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates. Controlled by a secretive organization of ministers, Town is the safest, richest nation in the world. But it is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots, and those who have the very least--who aren't even considered citizens--live on the Saha Estates. Residents of...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"My Brilliant Life interweaves the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in even the most difficult times. Areum lives life to its fullest, vicariously through the stories of his parents, conversations with Little Grandpa Jang - his sixty-year-old neighbor and best friend - and through the books he reads to visit the places he would otherwise never see. For several months, Areum has been working on a manuscript, piecing...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Taking a sweatshop job in Seoul to support her family, a teenaged girl endures a life of extreme exploitation that contributes to Korea's economic rise in the 1970s. She works long, sunless days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Law of Lines follows the parallel stories of two young women whose lives are upended by sudden loss. When Se-oh, an agoraphobe still living with her father, returns from an errand to find their house in flames, wrecked by a gas explosion, she is forced back into the world she had tried to shut out. The detective investigating the incident tells her that her father caused the explosion to kill himself because of overwhelming debt she knew nothing...
Author
Series
Ai xiao shuo volume 001, 002
Publisher
Cheng bang wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2009
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move into her apartment, all she wants for her is a stable and quiet existence like her own. But when Green turns up with her long-term girlfriend in tow, her mother is enraged and unwilling to welcome their relationship into her home. Having centered her life on her husband and child, her daughter's definition of family is not one she can accept. Meanwhile, the nursing...
16) At dusk
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Park Minwoo is, by every measure, a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighborhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of development in a rapidly modernizing society. Now the director of a large architectural firm, his hard work and ambition have brought him triumph and satisfaction. But when his company is investigated for corruption, he's forced to reconsider his role in the transformation of his country. At the same time, he receives...
17) The court dancer
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Based on a remarkable true story, the New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mom brilliantly images the life of Yi Jin, an orphan who would fall under the affections of the Empress and become a jewel in the late Joseon Court. When a novice French diplomat arrives for an audience with the Emperor, he is enraptured by the Joseon Dynasty's magnificent culture, then at its zenith. But all fades away when he sees Yi Jin perform the delicate...
18) Sha shou jia zu
Author
Series
Publisher
Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Series
Soul volume 051
Publisher
Ji mo chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文(繁體)
20) Almond: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger. He lives with his mother and grandmother above their used bookstore which is decorated with colorful post-it notes that remind him when to smile, when to say "thank you," and when to laugh. When a shocking act of random violence shatters his world, it leaves him alone and on his own. Yunjae retreats into silent isolation, until...
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