Jennifer Sun Bell
1) The kind leader: a practical guide to eliminating fear, creating trust, and leading with kindness
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"Kindness and leadership aren't often synonymous. Ask someone to describe "good leadership" to you and you will hear many adjectives used: authentic, bold, challenging, charismatic, decisive, empowering, fearless, goal-oriented, humble, inspiring, original, passionate, role-model, strategic and transparent, to name of a few. And though there are many more that come to mind, kindness isn't one of them. And here's the problem with that. Leaders lead....
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"Hannah Steele loves living on Pelling, a tiny island near Seattle. It's a little disconnected from the outside world, but she's always felt completely safe there. Which is why when she's asked one day to babysit after school, she thinks it's no big deal. Zoe and Oscar are her next-door neighbors, and Hannah just took a babysitting class that she's pretty sure makes her an expert. She isn't even worried that she left her inhaler at home. Then the...
4) Throwback
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"Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American girl sent back to the '90s to (reluctantly) help her teenage mom win Homecoming Queen. Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You know what's harder? Being the daughter of one. Samantha Kang has never gotten along with her mother, Priscilla-and has never understood her bougie-nightmare, John Hughes high school expectations. After...
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Pippa Park volume 1
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Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself by following the "Rules of Cool." At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, an unrequited crush, and the pressure to perform academically and athletically...
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A heartfelt, magical middle grade adventure—inspired by Korean folklore and set in modern-day Seoul—about sisterhood and belonging, perfect for fans of Kelly Yang and Janae Marks.
What if an ancient ink brush, oceans away in Korea, could unlock long-buried family secrets?
It’s finally summer break, and twelve-year-old Yumi is headed to Korea with her older sister, Minji, for the very first time. She can’t...
What if an ancient ink brush, oceans away in Korea, could unlock long-buried family secrets?
It’s finally summer break, and twelve-year-old Yumi is headed to Korea with her older sister, Minji, for the very first time. She can’t...
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Pippa Park volume 2
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Korean American Pippa Park picks up right where she left off ... trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat, and fitting in. Eliot, her math tutor--and the cutest boy at school--is finally paying attention to her. And Marvel--her childhood friend--is making her required volunteering much more interesting. But things with the Royals, her new friends and teammates who rule the school, still feel a bit...
10) Deep Roots
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After solving her first case, Siobhan O'Brien faces her biggest challenge yet – Thanksgiving! With her lawyer boyfriend Craig in tow, Siobhan travels to Minneapolis to endure small talk with the extended O'Brien clan and chow down on some seriously delicious turkey and dressing. Everything's swell until her sister-in-law Gwen tells her about her brother Sven's frequent late-night meetings with his co-workers. Since Siobhan's next case is just...
11) Skin Deep
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LEFTY NOMINEE FOR BEST HUMOROUS MYSTERY NOVEL
Korean-American adoptee Siobhan O'Brien has spent much of her life explaining her name and her family to strangers, but her more pressing problem is whether to carry on the PI agency that her dead boss unexpectedly left to her. Easing into middle age, Siobhan would generally rather have a donut than a romance, but when an old friend and asks Siobhan to find her daughter who has disappeared from
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"Chloe Kwon can't stand Peter Li. It's always been that way. Their families don't get along either: their parents operate rival restaurants in the Riverwood Mall food court--Korean food for the Kwons and Chinese food for the Lis. Now it's the holiday season and Chloe's the photographer at the mall's Santa Land, and Peter works at the virtual reality North Pole experience right across the atrium. It's all Chloe can do to avoid Peter's smug, incredibly...
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When Mia's best friend won't match Mia with her "perfect" guy, Mia takes matters into her own hands with hilarious and disastrous consequences in this YA novel. Mia's best friend Robyn is Athens High's most-trusted matchmaker. When Robyn refuses to set Mia up with the guy of her dreams, Mia decides to take matters into her own hands. She uses Robyn's service to make sure popular Vince falls hard enough to ask her to homecoming. Mia needs things to...
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Peril at Christmas awaits... in these gripping “Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit” novellas
A Christmas skiing retreat turns treacherous when Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit officer Veronica Eastwood's sister is kidnapped-and only rival officer Parker Walsh can help her in Katy Lee's Yuletide Ransom. And in Sharee Stover's explosive Holiday Rescue Countdown, K-9 officers Dylan Jeong and Brandie Weller must race against the clock when they face a Christmas...
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"NXIVM meets Southern suspense.... Gripping, timely, and ominous."
—Allison Buccola, author of Catch Her When She Falls
Three women work to uncover the scorching lies and scandal behind a self-help movement, igniting a powder keg of secrets that could blow their town apart, in this suspense novel perfect for readers who love Southern mystery.
It's early morning in the small Texas town of Edenberg when the body of sixty-five-year-old...
—Allison Buccola, author of Catch Her When She Falls
Three women work to uncover the scorching lies and scandal behind a self-help movement, igniting a powder keg of secrets that could blow their town apart, in this suspense novel perfect for readers who love Southern mystery.
It's early morning in the small Texas town of Edenberg when the body of sixty-five-year-old...
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"A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center--a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me"--
In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife--a knife Eunju hasn't seen in more than thirty years,...
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Star hockey player Daniel Sacachelli wants only two things: 1) for the Falcons to win next season, and 2) for his secret-the fact he's actually the prince of Eldonia-to never make its way to Chicago. But if Daniel keeps avoiding his crown, their family will lose their kingdom forever.
Madison Myong can't believe that her will-they-or-won't-they best friend Daniel is really a prince! He's always seemed more rebel than royal. But now, he needs to clean...
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Love Inspired Suspense brings you three full-length stories in one collection! Enjoy action-packed stories in the “Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit” series featuring K-9 crime-stoppers solving thrilling mysteries that will keep you on the edge of your seat!
This box set includes:
“Undercover Operation”
by USA Today bestselling author Maggie K. Black
K-9 officer Asher Gilmore and trainer Peyton Burns have two tasks: rescue three stolen bloodhound...
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Steph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new The Best American Mystery and Suspense, with best-selling crime novelist Alafair Burke joining her as the first guest editor.
"Crime writers, forgive the pun, are killing it right now creatively," writes guest editor Alafair Burke in her introduction. "It was difficult-painful even-to narrow this year's Best American Mystery and Suspense to only twenty...