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(0)Young Kim
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English
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A controversial but highly acclaimed memoir by writer Young Kim, A Year on Earth with Mr. Hell, traces her intense relationship with pioneering punk rocker Richard Hell. An erotic account that retains sensitivity and taste, Kim's memoir has been celebrated by luminaries including Bret Easton Ellis and has received plaudits in GQ and The Times. Noted journalist Matthew D'Ancona likened the text to the work of Nin and Bataille.
Set in a Warholian...
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English
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From one of Korea's literary stars, a novel about two orphans from the streets of Seoul: one becomes the head of a powerful motorcycle gang, and the other follows him at all costs
In South Korea, underground motorcycle gangs attract society's castoffs. They form groups of hundreds and speed wildly through cities at night. For Jae and Dongyu, two orphans, their motorcycles are a way of survival.
Jae is born in a bathroom stall at the Seoul Express...
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English
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This collection from the acclaimed South Korean author is "filled with the kind of sublime, galvanizing stories that strike like a lightning bolt" (Nylon).
Diary of a Murderer captivates and provokes in equal measure, exploring what it means to be on the edge-between life and death, good and evil. In the titular novella, a former serial killer suffering from memory loss sets his sights on one final target: his daughter's boyfriend, who he...
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English
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This book introduces a formula for safe stock investment.
Do you think investing in stocks is gambling?
Or do you think simply good luck will make a profit, and bad luck will make a loss?
There\'s a formula for safe stock investment.
The forces that move the sport do not simply manage the sport by luck, nor do they decide whether the sport goes up or down like gambling.
There may be a deviation from one stock to another, but the power does not...
5) Black Flower
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English
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"Can a nation disappear forever?' . . . [In] a tale of collective loss, political revolution and the individual quest for self-determination . . . Kim brings us the souls caught up on the ground of this larger drama." - Minneapolis Star Tribune In 1904, facing war and the loss of their nation, more than a thousand Koreans leave their homes for the promise of land in unknown Mexico. After a long sea voyage, these emigrants - thieves and royals, priests...
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English
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In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same woman-Se-yeon-who tears at both of them as they all try desperately to find real connection in an atomized world. A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the edges of their lives as he tells of his work helping the lost and hurting find escape through suicide. Dreamlike and beautiful, the South Korea brought forth in this novel is cinematic in...
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English
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A foreign film importer, Gi-yeong is a family man with a wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi, he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Suddenly he receives a mysterious email, a directive seemingly from the home office. He has one day to return to headquarters. He hasn't heard from anyone in over ten years. Why is he being called back now? Is this message really from Pyongyang?...
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Korean
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To a private investigator Woo Su-han, who will take on any job if it pays the bill, a secret agent Yoo Da-hee comes along with $10,000 in cash. She proposes a joint operation to investigate an arms trafficking case. They attract more attention when they're together and as the scope of this case increases by the minute, they leave behind evidence that put them on police's target list...
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Yen Press
Pub. Date
©2010
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English
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When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
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Series
The weirn books volume 1
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JY, an imprint of Yen Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In the Night Realm, vampires, shifters, weirns, and other night things passing for human prowl the streets... but they still have to go to school! Ailis and Na'ya are pretty average students (NOT losers), but when a shadow starts looming and a classmate gets all weird, they are the first to notice. It gets personal, though, when Na'ya's little brother D'esh disappears--It's time to confront the secrets of the forbidden mansion in the Silent Woods!...
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Korean
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During the summer of his junior year in high school, Woo-Yeon (Kim Young-Kwang) spends his time getting time into fights. He isn't interested in studying. He then meets new transfer student Seung-Hee (Park Bo-Young) and falls in love with her at first sight. Seung-Hee though isn't interested in Woo-Yeon. To avoid the other male students, Seung-Hee and Woo-Yeon pretend to date. Seung-Hee also asks him to stop fighting. He keeps his promise and their...
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