Ali Ahn
1) Wrecked
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Offers a kaleidoscopic view of a sexual assault on a college campus that will leave readers thinking about how memory and identity, what's at stake, and who sits in judgment shape what we all decide to believe about the truth"--
3) Aurora
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board. But the journey has brought unexpected changes and their best laid plans may not be enough to survive"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a small mining town near Colorado's majestic Tenmile Range, as nine children walk home from school, a spring avalanche thunders down from Jubilee Mountain burying everything in its path. This novel of survival, redemption, and faith skillfully reveals the backstory of each family affected by this tragedy.
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
Publisher
Monarch Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story is about a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present. Forced to face difficult memories and make bold decisions, she ultimately overcomes her demons, allowing her to find love and rediscover her creative voice.
7) Honolulu
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Regret, a young woman in early twentieth-century Korea, agrees to become a mail-order bride to a prosperous man in Hawaii for the chance at an education, but arrives to find her situation less than what she was promised, and soon joins with others like her to make her own way in her adopted city of Honolulu.
Author
Series
To all the boys I've loved before volume 3
Language
English
Description
Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad?s finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot?s coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding. But change is looming on the horizon. And while Lara Jean is having fun and keeping busy helping plan her father?s wedding, she can?t ignore the big life decisions she has to...
Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 6
Language
English
Description
The seventh graders and their Star Wars-inspired Origami finger puppets go on a field trip to Washington, D.C., on what proves to be a very long trip full of shifting alliances, betrayals, carsickness, and sugar rushes.
11) Tokyo dreaming
Author
Series
Tokyo ever after volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages;21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set on the island of Okinawa today and during World War II, this deeply moving and evocative novel tells the entwined stories of two teenage girls-an American and an Okinawan-whose lives are connected across 70 years by the shared experience of both profound loss and renewal. Luz, a contemporary U.S. Air Force brat, lives with her no-nonsense sergeant mother at Kadena Air Base. Luz's older sister, her best friend and emotional center, has died in...