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Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The North Korean government has agreed to host the test for the Russia's ultimate weapon, a nuclear-powered cruise missile. When the test goes catastrophically wrong, the North Korean dictator is severely injured. His coma triggers a dead-man's switch activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea.
Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus. After surviving an attack by one of these sleeper teams, he meets with...
2) Y/n: a novel
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When her K-pop idol Moon suddenly retires, vanishing from the public eye, the narrator, a Korean American woman living in Berlin, acts on her obsession, arriving in Seoul where she searches for the object of her love until she finds him at long last as art and real life converge.
3) Violets
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"San, a neglected young woman, experiences the violence and isolation of late twentieth-century Korean society."--
4) XOXO
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jenny never had much time for boys, K-pop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. But when she finds herself falling for a K-pop idol, she has to decide whether their love is worth the risk."--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeong-Ju, in a leap of faith, opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, and, welcoming new friends and visitors to her circle, builds an inviting space for hurt and lost souls to rest, heal and learn how to write their own stories.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"--
8) 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...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing / Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default. For Dae Joon - also known by his American name of Shane, after the cowboy movie his father so loved - the stakes are personal. Raised in the US and Harvard Business School-educated, Dae Joon...
10) K-Pop revolution
Author
Series
K-pop confidential volume 2
Publisher
Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"In the sequel to K-Pop Confidential, Candace is a Rookie idol. Her life is suddenly filled with the fans, cameras, and glamor of stardom: She and her boyfriend, YoungBae, are a K-Pop power couple; she's a walking icon at Brandt Foreign School; and her new girl group, known simply as THE GIRLS, is poised to break records across the industry. With her status as the industry's K-Pop Warrior, she has all the clout at her disposal to make waves. Right?...
Author
Series
K-pop confidential volume 1
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Candace Park knows a lot about playing a role. For most of her life, she's been playing the role of the quiet Korean girl who takes all AP classes and plays a classical instrument, keeping her dreams of stardom--and her obsession with SLK, K-pop's top boyband--to herself. She doesn't see how a regular girl like her could possibly become one of those K-pop goddesses she sees on YouTube. Even though she can sing. Like, really sing. So when Candace...
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