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"What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then, toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! 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...
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"The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe--even the mafia--in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties. 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 her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day...
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Obsession volume 1
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Logan thinks he and Delilah are meant to be. Delilah doesn't know who Logan is. Logan believes no one knows Delilah like him. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can by watching her through a hidden camera. Some might call him a stalker. Logan prefers to be called "romantic". Delilah is keeping secrets though, deadly ones. There's so much more to her than meets the eye. Logan is determined to make Delilah the heroine in his twisted fantasy...
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"A heartfelt and exciting debut...a wise and honest story of how it feels to be a young woman in search of yourself."--Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Timesbestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugoand Malibu Rising The Bookish Life of Nina Hillmeets Youngerin a heartfelt debut following a young woman who discovers she'll have to ditch the "dream job" and write her own story to find her happy ending. Meet Nora Hughes--the overworked, underpaid,...
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Kirkwood Public Library Podcast volume 122
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Kirkwood Public Library
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2019-
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English
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In this week's episode, the KPL podcast hosts interview Jesse Q. Sutanto about her new book Four Aunties and a Wedding. The book is a sequel to Dial A for Aunties. Our recommendation segment takes a deeper dive into the author's other books, especially her dark and twisty young adult titles.
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2024.
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"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...
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Hu done it mystery volume 1
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"The body in the closet was going to be a problem. Kathryn Hu knew it. Yes, Tucker Jones was a cheating scumbag, and yes, she'd agreed to meet Olivia and Elle -- Tucker's other girlfriends -- to exact revenge for all he'd put them through... But then they found him. Dead. To clear their names, Kat, Olivia, and Elle team up to find the real killer. But as they go undercover and lie to everyone... they realize that every person in their ex's life had...
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2023.
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"Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. 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...
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Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned every aspect of her mother's seventieth birthday weekend on her own. As the Okafors slowly begin to arrive, Mama Mary goes to take a nap. But when the grandkids go to wake her, they find that she isn't sleeping after all. Refusing to believe that her sister is gone-gone, Auntie Nancy declares that she has...
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Mira
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[2024]
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"After a bad breakup, Maggie wants to find her prince charming, but all she's finding are frogs. When her best friends, Savvy and Joan, apply pressure and demand she find a date worthy of attending their respective weddings, she agrees to take her own advice and try online dating. Since she's the maid of honor for both weddings, her bridal party duties are massive, but both brides insist that Maggie prioritize finding a date. After an onslaught of...
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HQ Digital
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2023.
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"A deliciously dark, hilariously twisted story about friendship, love, and murder. meet Kitty Collins. friend. lover. killer. when a guy from a nightclub follows her home, and won't leave her alone-- she kills him. not intentionally, of course. but she isn't sorry, and she appears to have got away with murder. that's where here addiction started. she's developed a taste for revenge."--publisher.
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Blonde identity volume 2
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"Ten years ago, they joined the CIA. Six years ago, he left the game. Five years ago, they fell in love. One year ago, she ran out into the cold with absolutely no intention of ever coming back. And two minutes ago, they woke up, bloody and bruised and handcuffed together in the dark. They don't know where they are. They don't know how they got there. And they have absolutely no idea who is after them or what this nameless, faceless villain wants....
13) Nisha knows best
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Dial Books for Young Readers
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2026.
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"A warm and reassuring picture book about listening to your heart and advocating for yourself, even to the people you love most. Nisha's aunties and uncles love to show love. They're always swooping her up into big, squishy hugs or squeezing her cheeks. But Nisha is used to it -- they're family! So when Nisha's Ammamma and Appappa arrive from India, everyone is surprised when Nisha is suddenly shy. Nisha loves her grandparents, and she's excited they're...

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