Jesse Q Sutanto
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady-ah, lady of a certain age-who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her college-aged son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing-a dead man in the middle of her tea...
Author
Series
Aunties volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her entire extended family. Chinese New Year, already the biggest celebration of the Lunar calendar, gets even more festive when a former beau of Second Aunt's shows up at the Chan residence bearing extravagant gifts-he's determined to rekindle his romance with Second Aunt and the gifts are his way of announcing...
Author
Series
Aunties volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day has arrived, and she can't wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away...
Author
Series
Aunties volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate--especially when it is accidentally shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding that Meddy, her Ma, and her aunties are working, at an island resort on the California coastline....
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. She can't help but be totally herself... except when she's online. Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Even her online best friend--a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays under the username Sourdawg--doesn't know her true identity. Which is fine, because Kiki doesn't know his real name either, and it's not like they're...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sharlot Citra is whisked from Los Angeles to her mother's native Indonesia, where she finds herself fake dating the son of one of the wealthiest families in Indonesia, and she is surprised when she actually starts to fall in love with the boy, the country, and the big family she never knew before.
8) The new girl
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A transfer student and scholarship recipient, sophomore Lia Setiawan is angered when she discovers a cheating ring, but by the time she finds a dead body and shuts down the campus drug dealer, she fears she might be the biggest snake in the Draycott Academy nest of vipers.
Author
Series
Theo Tan volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After learning that his brother's spirit is trapped in Diyu, twelve-year-old Theo and his snarky fox spirit, Kai, encounter demons, Kings of Hell, and Princess Iron Fan as they try to reach Jamie's spirit before it faces judgement on the solstice.
10) The obsession
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When high school junior Logan bumps into Delilah, he immediately knows she is the love of his life, and soon he's scrolling through her social media accounts and scoping out her house to learn everything he can about her. Meanwhile, Delilah is struggling, trying to hide the fact that she and her mother are regularly beaten by her mom's cop boyfriend, Brandon, while desperately looking for a way to get them out of the situation. One day she snaps,...