Min Jin Lee
1) Pachinko
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English
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"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. 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....
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Meet Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed in a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she can't afford. Casey is eager to make it on her own, away from the judgements of her parents' tight-knit community, but she soon finds that her Princeton economics degree isn't enough to rid her of ever-growing credit card debt and a toxic boyfriend. When a chance encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's...
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Korean
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A revised Korean edition of [Pachinko] by Min Jin Lee. A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist. Winner of the Medici Book Club Prize. An extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. Korean edition translated by Shin Seung Mi. Vol 1 of 2.
5) Pachinko
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Polish
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"Głęboko poruszająca i napisana z wdziękiem powieść śledzi losy koreańskiej rodziny na przestrzeni pokoleń, poczynając od początku XX wieku. Sunja, dziewczyna z biednej, ale dumnej rodziny, zachodzi w nieplanowaną ciążę, co może okryć jej bliskich hańbą. Odepchnięta przez zamożnego kochanka znajduje ratunek w ramionach młodego ministra, który oferuje jej małżeństwo i nowe życie w Japonii. Tak zaczyna się wciągająca saga...
Author
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Korean
Description
A revised Korean edition of [Pachinko] by Min Jin Lee. A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist. Winner of the Medici Book Club Prize. An extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan. Korean edition translated by Shin Seung Mi. Vol 2 of 2.
7) Bai qing ge
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中文（繁體）
Description
"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. 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....
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English
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Adult Summer Reading and Activity Challenge 2025 List of Banned Books
All About That Jazz (WPL-ADULT)
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"F. Scott Fitzgerald's captivating classic is available now in a striking, new edition with illustrations of iconic scenes from the novel. Hailed as one of the Great American Novels, The Great Gatsby delves into the dark corners of the Jazz Age to tell a tragic tale of obsession, love, and the gritty underbelly of the American Dream. Through the eyes of unassuming narrator Nick Carraway, the story follows the enigmatic Jay Gatsby as he chases the...
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English
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A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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English
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"For the centennial of its publication, a new edition of one of the most iconic of American novels, including four of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories about wealth and class from his collection All the Sad Young Men and an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A Penguin Classic Young, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have...
