Kevin Chong
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English
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Kevin Chong has grand plans. He draws up a to-do list of major milestones that will give him the life he always wanted-and the life that will inspire awe and envy in his friends. Things like settling down and starting a family; learning a foreign language; getting a tattoo. But these grand plans go out the window when Chong makes an unconventional decision: he's going to buy a racehorse. Not the whole thing-he'll become part-owner of the horse. Just...
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English
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This comprehensive guide provides practical tips for decluttering specific areas of your home and offers strategies for decluttering your digital life.What sets this guide apart is its focus on the emotional and sustainable aspects of decluttering.If you desire to reduce stress, improve focus, and increase productivity while creating a more organized, beautiful environment and experiencing a greater sense of peace and well-being, "Decluttering Transformed"...
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English
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In this tragicomic, modern immigrant's tale, Malcolm Kwan is a twenty-something Asian American embarking on a modeling career whose life is derailed when his father dies and his fiancée leaves him. When he meets the half-sister he never knew existed-the result of his father's extramarital affair-he must work through his lifelong ambivalence as one trapped between two cultures and between two parents holding intolerable secrets. Kevin Chong is the...
4) The Plague
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English
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At first it was the dead rats. They started dying in cataclysmic numbers, followed by other city creatures. Then people begin experiencing flu-like symptoms as well as swellings in their lymph nodes. The citizenry reacts in disbelief when the diagnosis comes in and later, when a quarantine is imposed on the increasingly terrified city. Inspired by Albert Camus' classic 1948 novel, Kevin Chong's The Plague follows Dr. Bernard Rieux's attempts to fight...
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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In every sport there are a select few competitors that come to define the excellence that all others must forever aspire to. In "the sport of kings, "there is one that stands alone. Northern Dancer is not only a Canadian legend, but the cornerstone of his breed. It has been estimated that 70 percent of the thoroughbreds alive today are his descendants, which includes the majority of the horses running in the biggest races around the world. His offspring...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A unique work of metafiction follows Benson Yu, a writer, who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown.
In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his strange neighbor Constantine, a man who believes he's a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is hospitalized, Benny manages to survive on his own until a social worker...