Catherine Ho
1) Jinxed
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Jinxed (McCulloch) volume 1
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"After fourteen-year-old Lacey Chu repairs a highly advanced smartphone/robotic pet companion, or baku, called Jinx, the baku gets her into her dream school, Profectus, where she is exposed to dangerous secrets." --
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2023 Read Widely: Southeast Asia
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (WPL-ADULT)
Asian American Authors
OBD Best Books of 2021 (BookPage) - Adult
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (WPL-ADULT)
Asian American Authors
OBD Best Books of 2021 (BookPage) - Adult
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"A reluctant medium is about to discover the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power. . . . When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, she chalks it up to stress. Closeted, broke and jobless, she's moving back to Malaysia with her parents - a country she last saw when she was a toddler. She soon learns the new voice isn't even hers, it's the ghost of her estranged grandmother. In life, Ah Ma was a spirit medium, avatar of a mysterious...
3) Frostfire
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"Chosen for the honour of bonding with a frostsliver, a fragment of the sentient glacier that crests her icy home, Sabira embarks on the dangerous pilgrimage to the top of the mountain. But when a huge avalanche traps her on the glacier and destroys the pass, Sabira is determined to find another way home. In order to survive, she must face up to the merciless mountain, but there are dark and fiery secrets hiding in its depths..."--Page [2] of cover....
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Ink in the blood series volume 1
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Celia and Anya, friends who use tattoo magic to send divine messages, must rely on one another to survive when they discover the fake deity they serve is very real--and very angry.
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"A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker...
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They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen's Gambit in this "stunning...unforgettable" (Publishers Weekly) thriller set in the world of competitive Scrabble, where a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.
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CATALYST
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noun: a substance that speeds up a reaction without itself changing
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"Cara Tang doesn't want to be haunted. Look, the dead have issues, and Cara has enough of her own. Her overbearing mother insists she be the "perfect" Chinese American daughter--which means suppressing her ghost-speaking powers--and she keeps getting into fights with Zacharias Coleson, the local golden boy whose smirk makes her want to set things on fire. Then she stumbles across Zach's dead body in the woods. He's even more infuriating as a ghost,...
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Daughters of the dynasty volume 1
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Gemma Huang acting career has a big break: she's asked to play a lead role in an update of M. Butterfly filming for the summer in Beijing. At the airport she is stopped by paparazzi, and realizes she may as well be the twin of Alyssa Chua, one of the most notorious young socialites in Beijing. It becomes a summer of revelations, as Gemma uncovers a legacy her parents have spent their lives protecting her from. -- adapted from jacket
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Lintang series volume 1
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Lintang's dream of adventure on the high seas comes true when Captain Shafira invites her to join her pirate crew, but Lintang's best friend, Bayani, has stowed away and is keeping secrets.
10) Dragonfly Eyes
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Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah Mei and her grandmother suffer, but they are resourceful...
11) Gearbreakers
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Gearbreakers volume 1
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In an age of 100-foot-tall mechanical deities run by a tyrannical regime, two teenaged girls on opposite sides of a war discover they are figting for a common purpose--and falling for each other.
12) The obsession
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After freeing her mother from an abusive relationship, Delilah Wong refuses to play a part in Logan's delusional romance -- but how can she convince him to let her go?
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Ink in the blood series volume 2
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Return to the world of inklings, tattoo magic, and evil deities as Celia uncovers the secrets of the ink in order to stop Diavala once and for all.
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Wells of Sorcery volume 1
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Isoka, an eighteen-year-old ward boss in the great port city, Kahnzoka, is sent on an impossible mission to steal Soliton, a legendary ghost ship, or her sister will be killed.
15) Godslayers
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Gearbreakers volume 2
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"Eris and Sona are pitted against each other in the ongoing war between Godolia and the Badlands"--
16) Kindling
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After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings - elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives - must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.
17) Shatter the sky
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Shatter the sky volume 1
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Maren, desperate to save her kidnapped girlfriend, plans to steal one of the emperor's dragons and storm the Aurati stronghold, but her success depends on becoming an apprentice to the emperor's mysterious dragon trainer, which proves to be a dangerous venture.
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"Na has always been in the shadow of her younger brother, Bao-bao, her parents' cherished son. But when Bao-bao dies suddenly, Na realizes how little she knew him. And he wasn't the only one with secrets"--
Na has always lived in the shadow of her younger brother, Bao-bao, her parents' cherished son. When Bao-bao dies suddenly, Na realizes how little she knew him. Did he really kill himself because of a low score on China's all-important college...
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Wells of Sorcery volume 3
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Siege of Rage and Ruin is the explosive final adventure in Django Wexler's The Wells of Sorcery trilogy, an action-packed epic fantasy saga. With her crew of mage-bloods, including the love of her life Princess Meroe, Isoka returns to the empire that sent her on her deadly mission. She's ready to hand over the ghost ship as ransom for her sister Tori's life, but arrives to find her home city under siege. And Tori at the helm of a rebellion. Neither...
20) Star-crossed
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"Princess Vela's people are starving. Stranded on a planet that lacks food, Vela makes the ultimate sacrifice and becomes an Aegis for her people. Accepting a genetic modification that takes sixty years off her life, she can feed her colony via nutrition pills. But her best friend is still getting worse. And she's not the only one. Now the king is dying, too. When the boy she's had a crush on since childhood volunteers to give his life for her father's,...