Wendy Chen
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Kate is enjoying being engaged-even if it's actually a hoax. To succeed in her finance job at her ultra-conservative company, she needs to reform her flighty party-girl reputation, and a good old-fashioned marriage of convenience should help her get closer to the promotion of her dreams. But when Adam, Kate's best friend from high school, arrives for a visit, her perfect arrangement suddenly isn't so perfect anymore. The nerdy boy she remembers from...
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Wedding planner Cassandra Hanley is in the business of making other people's dreams come true. But for some reason, whenever she meets a potential mate of her own, she finds herself telling little (and not so little) white lies. She's not trying to sabotage her relationships on purpose: as a people pleaser, she just naturally tells men what she thinks they want to hear. When Cassandra meets Nick, she's determined to be herself this time-until she...
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Wendy Chen Books
Pub. Date
2015
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Asthma is treatable. Asthma is controllable. Asthma doesn't have to be scary. These are the lessons the boy in this story learns, with the help of his parents, his doctor, and his imagination. For any child with a classmate, friend, or relative with asthma, I Have Asthma, What Does That Mean? shows asthma is nothing to be embarrassed or shy about. It explains what happens during an asthma attack, and how keeping asthma under control can be a manageable...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
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"At the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Hong is born into a loving family in the southern China countryside, but as Communism consumes her older brothers, it threatens her stability--and her love affair with the son of a wealthy landlord. The line of women who later descend from Yun Hong share the burden of a family birthmark and are also each forced to reckon with both dramatic political change and the ghosts of the past."--