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Pachinko
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...- $ 400.00
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Human Acts
In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing...- $ 250.00
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The Vegetarian
Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband led an ordinary, orderly life. But when violent dreams filled with blood and brutality invade her sleep, Yeong-hye resolves to cleanse herself—first by refusing meat, then by rejecting the constraints of her existence altogether. What begins...- $ 300.00
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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Yeongju had everything—on paper. A prestigious job, a successful husband, a polished life in fast-paced Seoul. But inside, she was unraveling. Burned out and aching from an unshakable sense of emptiness, she makes a bold, terrifying choice: to walk away from it all. Trading...- $ 600.00
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A Crane Among Wolves
In a kingdom ruled by fear, hope is rebellion—and love could be the deadliest weapon of all. Joseon, 1506. Under the bloodstained reign of King Yeonsan, the people are silenced. Books are burned. Girls are stolen. And no one dares defy the crown—until seventeen-year-old...- $ 250.00
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Almond
This is a story about a monster meeting another monster.One of them is me. Yunjae was born with a rare brain condition called Alexithymia—he doesn’t feel emotions the way others do. Fear, anger, joy—they're concepts he understands but can’t quite experience. His world is...- $ 350.00
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
To save her brother, she sacrificed herself. To save her world, she must awaken a sleeping god—and survive the pull of her own heart. For generations, deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland. Her people believe the Sea God, once a guardian, has cursed them...- $ 300.00
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Crying in H Mart
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene,...- $ 350.00
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her-what to call it?-depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work,...- $ 550.00
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Greek Lessons
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon...- $ 300.00
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Counterattacks at Thirty
From the bestselling author of Almond comes a witty, humane, and quietly radical novel about young workers who push back against the status quo, now available in a compact, pocket-sized Nomad Edition. Jihye is thoroughly ordinary, and she knows it. In her administrative role...- $ 350.00
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The Midnight Shift
A razor-sharp vampire mystery that sinks its teeth into loneliness, grief, and forbidden desire. When four elderly patients fall to their deaths from the sixth floor of the same hospital in rapid succession, rookie officer Su-Yeon refuses to accept the official explanation: suicide, brought...- $ 520.00
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The Midnight Timetable
A Novel in Ghost Stories From the author of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize–shortlisted Cursed Bunny, this new novel-in-ghost-stories unfolds inside a strange research institute devoted to housing cursed objects, where the rules of reality are unstable, and a door left...- $ 400.00
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The Young Will Remember
In the brutal winter of 1950, twenty-eight-year-old Chinese American journalist Ellie Chang is on her way to report from the front lines of the Korean War when her military transport plane is shot down over enemy territory. Stranded deep in North Korea and surrounded...- $ 550.00
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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Yeongju had everything—on paper. A prestigious job, a successful husband, a polished life in fast-paced Seoul. But inside, she was unraveling. Burned out and aching from an unshakable sense of emptiness, she makes a bold, terrifying choice: to walk away from it all. Trading...- $ 350.00
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Hunger
A word-of-mouth sensation and bestselling cult classic in Korea, Hunger is a visceral, psychologically audacious novel about love, loss, and the brutal systems that shape both. One ordinary afternoon, a woman watches her partner murdered in the street. In the moment that follows, time...- $ 450.00
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The Old Woman with the Knife
At sixty-five, Hornclaw is beginning to slow down. She lives modestly in a small apartment, with only her aging dog, a rescue named Deadweight, to keep her company. There are expectations for people her age—that she'll retire and live out the rest of her...- $ 450.00
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The Floating World
A lighthearted romantic fantasy that reimagines the Korean legend of the Celestial Maidens. Sunho lives in the Under World, a land shrouded in perpetual darkness. An ex-soldier with no memory of his life before two years ago, he wakes alone with only his name...- $ 400.00
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The Red Palace
To step inside the palace is to enter a world paved with secrets—and stained with blood. Joseon Korea, 1758. Opportunities for an illegitimate daughter are scarce, yet eighteen-year-old Hyeon has carved out a quiet place for herself as a palace nurse. She wants nothing...- $ 300.00
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Flashlight
One night, ten-year-old Louisa walks the beach with her father. He carries a flashlight. He cannot swim. By morning, Louisa is found barely alive on the shore. Her father is gone. In Flashlight, Susan Choi traces the ripples of that night through a fractured...- $ 600.00
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The Best American Short Stories 2023
“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A...- $ 350.00
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Blowfish
For readers of Han Kang and Sheila Heti, Blowfish is a haunting, meditative novel about a celebrated sculptor who plans her own death by mastering the preparation of a deadly blowfish dish. Told in four interlaced sections, the story moves between the lives of...- $ 500.00
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Free Food for Millionaires
The debut novel of the bestselling author of Pachinko, now with a reading group guide. Casey Han has a Princeton degree, expensive taste, and no clear plan. The daughter of Korean immigrants, she’s caught between two worlds: the disciplined, tradition-bound expectations of her Queens...- $ 450.00
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BTS: A Little Golden Book Biography
BTS’s rise to fame has exceeded everyone’s wildest expectations. This boy band’s incredible journey comes alive—from their early days in South Korea, to becoming one of the world’s biggest music sensations with hits, to delivering speeches at the United Nations. For BTS, it’s all...- $ 110.00
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The Hole
A Bestseller in Korea, a Psychological Thriller about Loneliness and the Dark Truths We Try to Bury. In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Ogi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his...- $ 350.00
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Mater 2-10
Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, MATER 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of ordinary working Koreans, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation, and right up to the twenty-first...- $ 550.00
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The Court Dancer
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 traditional Dance of the Spring Oriole. Though...- $ 650.00
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Please Look After Mom
When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did...- $ 450.00
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