Mary H. K. Choi

From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives—even if it means swapping identities. Jayne and June Baek are nothing alike. June’s three years older, a classic first-born, know-it-all narc with a problematic finance job and an equally soulless apartment (according to Jayne). Jayne is an emotionally stunted, self-obsessed basket case who lives in squalor, has egregious taste in men, and needs to get to class and stop wasting Mom and Dad’s money (if you ask June). Once thick as thieves, these sisters who moved from Seoul to San Antonio to New York together now don’t want anything to do with each other. That is, until June gets cancer. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her. Flung together by circumstance, housing woes, and family secrets, will the sisters learn more about each other than they’re willing to confront? And what if while helping June, Jayne has to confront the fact that maybe she’s sick, too?

Yolk

“Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow Rowell From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.

Emergency Contact

A New York Times bestseller! “Smart and funny…warm and rewarding.” —Booklist (starred review) “A compelling and quirky tale of love and negotiating early adulthood in New York City.” —School Library Journal From the New York Times bestselling author of Emergency Contact, which Rainbow Rowell called “smart and funny,” comes a “captivating” (The New York Times) romance about how social media influences relationships every day. On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn’t have a whole lot going for him. His graveyard shift at a twenty-four-hour deli in Brooklyn is a struggle. Plus, he’s up to his eyeballs in credit card debt. Never mind the state of his student loans. Pop juggernaut Leanna Smart has enough social media followers to populate whole continents. The brand is unstoppable. She graduated from child stardom to become an international icon, and her adult life is a queasy blur of private planes, step-and-repeats, aspirational hotel rooms, and strangers screaming for her just to notice them. When Leanna and Pablo meet at 5:00 a.m. at the bodega in the dead of winter it’s absurd to think they’d be A Thing. But as they discover who they are, who they want to be, and how to defy the deafening expectations of everyone else, Lee and Pab turn to each other. Which, of course, is when things get properly complicated.

Permanent Record

Nineteen-year-old Pablo Neruda Rind is working in an upscale health food store in New York CIty when pop star Leanna Smart rushes in and turns his life upside-down.

DJ Khaled

An autobiography and guide to success from the Snapchat personality, business mogul, music producer, and recording artist.

The Keys

Eles mal se conhecem. São apenas dois jovens trocando mensagens de texto. Mas cada palavra vai mudar suas vidas para sempre Essa é a história de Penny e Sam. Ela tem dezoito anos e acabou de sair de casa rumo à universidade. Longe da mãe expansiva e do namorado sem graça, vai finalmente se dedicar ao sonho de ser escritora. Só não contava que essa nova vida traria também novos obstáculos: pessoas, o maior pesadelo de qualquer introvertido. Ele, por sua vez, está perdido na vida. Em todos os níveis. Aos vinte e um anos, os poucos dólares na conta, a mãe alcoólatra e a ex-namorada complicada não o ajudam a se manter são. Só lhe resta fazer os doces mais mirabolantes para o café onde trabalha (e mora), concluir sua faculdade a distância e tentar (sem muito sucesso) não surtar. Por um acaso do destino — também conhecido como um ataque de pânico no meio da rua —, eles passam a trocar mensagens de texto inofensivas. Mas o que começa como um simples contato de emergência salvo no celular se torna a conexão mais importante da vida deles. Aos poucos, esses jovens introvertidos e problemáticos se tornam dois amigos dividindo angústias, sonhos, piadas e inspirações. Duas pessoas que quase nunca se veem, mas que estão juntas o tempo inteiro. Dois solitários que, finalmente, não estão mais sozinhos. Com perspicácia, humor e grande sensibilidade, a estreante Mary H. K. Choi traça o retrato de uma geração cujos relacionamentos se entrelaçam à evolução tecnológica. Uma história capaz de causar nos leitores o frio na barriga que só as melhores comédias românticas podem proporcionar.

Contato De Emergência

P E N N Y terminó la preparatoria y encuentra que su paso por ella fue irrelevante. Tenía amigos, sus calificaciones eran buenas y tuvo un novio, pero esa relación no significó gran cosa. Ahora se va a la universidad para estudiar literatura y convertirse en escritora. Está a ciento once kilómetros y millones de años luz de todo lo que le urge dejar atrás. S A M está atrapado: literalmente, figurativamente, emocionalmente. Trabaja en un café y duerme ahí, en un colchón en el piso de arriba. Él sabe que solo está atravesando por un mal momento y que en unos años esto le servirá como inspiración cuando sea un famoso director de cine, pero justo ahora, su inexistente cuenta de banco y su moribunda laptop lo están poniendo a prueba. S A M Y P E N N Y un día se encontraron. Y el encuentro fue todo, excepto romántico, fue más bien un momento de insoportable incomodidad. Aun así, intercambiaron números de teléfono y empezaron a enviarse mensajes de texto. Muy pronto se volvieron digitalmente inseparables, compartiendo sus miedos más profundos y sus sueños secretos, sin tener que pasar por la vergüenza, ya sabes, de mirarse a la cara.

Mary H. K. Choi

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