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2) Pachinko
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"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. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through...
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have...
4) In Paradise
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2014.
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In the late autumn of 1996, more than a hundred people gather at the site of a former death camp. Throughout that week, they offer prayer and witness at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform. They eat and sleep in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews to their deaths. Clements Olin, an American academic of Polish descent, is there to complete research on the...
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2013
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Two witches from Cherokee folklore come to life in this epic tale. Young Ugidahli Unega (White Feather) must plunge into the dark world of witchcraft and become the first Raven Mocker to save his aging mentors from an agonizing death.With Book 1 of the Cherokee Chronicles series, Courtney Miller begins the story of a fictional Cherokee family as they face the challenges of their time in history.
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Cherokee chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
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As Spirit Dancer seeks to protect his loved ones, will he survive? Can he stay true to himself, especially given his background? Or will the malevolent Tsisgili prevail and destroy all?
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Cherokee chronicles volume 3
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2018
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After thirteen years of peace and harmony, a Cherokee village is shaken when three young girls are kidnapped by three ruthless, Tagwa savages while, at the same time, there is evidence that a dreaded killer witch, has claimed a victim. When Chief Gihli arrives to protect the village, his name is the key to his intentions. What is his secret? Will the village chiefs figure it out in time?Set in a time when the Cherokee were at their peak and before...
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2017.
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"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground....
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[2022]
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A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.