ASIAN AMERICAN
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Contemporary Fiction:
 
Rom-Com
 
Mimi Lee Gets a Clue

by Jennifer J. Chow

Mimi Lee is in over her head. There's her new Los Angeles pet grooming shop to run, her matchmaking mother to thwart, her talking cat Marshmallow to tend to -- oh, and the murder of a local breeder to solve.
The Dating Plan
 
by Sara Desai

A marriage of convenience will get Daisy's matchmaking relatives off her back and fulfill the terms of Liam's late grandmother's will.  Sparks fly when Daisy and Liam go on a series of dates to legitimize their fake relationship.
 
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Recipe for Persuasion

by Sonali Dev

Chef Ashna Raje thinks that joining the cast of Cooking with the Stars will help save her restaurant and prove to her mother that she's not a failure, but when she's paired with her first love, Rico Silva, the kitchen begins to heat up.
 
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Accidentally Engaged

by Farah Heron

When it comes to bread, Reena Manji knows exactly what she's doing. She treats her sourdough starters like (somewhat unruly) children. But when it comes to Reena's actual family—and their constant meddling in her life—well, that recipe always ends in disaster.Now Reena's parents have found her yet another potential Good Muslim Husband.
 
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The Bride Test

by Helen Hoang

Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions -- like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective.
 
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Last Tang Standing

by Lauren Ho
 
All Andrea has to do is make partner at her law firm and she will have achieved everything she's worked for. And if she's about to become the lone unmarried member of her generation in the Tang clan -- a disappointment her meddling Chinese-Malaysian family won't let her forget -- well, who needs a husband, anyway? 
 
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Hana Khan Carries On
 
by Uzma Jalaluddin
 
 Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio.
 
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
 
by Balli Kaur Jaswal
 
Appalled that her sister, Mindi, would even consider an arranged marriage, Nikki Grewal reluctantly pins Mindi's dating profile to their Sikh temple's marriage board. But Nikki may be the sister whose life changes.
 
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Unmarriageable

by Soniah Kamal

A scandal and vicious rumor in the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages.  When an invitation arrives to the biggest wedding their small town has seen in years, Mrs. Binat excitedly sets to work preparing her daughters to fish for eligible--and rich--bachelors, certain that their luck is about to change.
Serena Singh Flips the Script

by Sonya Lalli

Serena Singh is tired of everyone telling her what she should want-and she is ready to prove to her mother, her sister, and the aunties in her community that a woman does not need domestic bliss to have a happy life.
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating

by Christina Lauren

With the energy of a toddler and the mouth of a sailor Hazel intimidates her dates, who can't recognize her heart of gold. Josh has known Hazel since college, where her zany playfulness proved incompatible with his mellow restraint. But now, ten years later, after a cheating girlfriend has turned his life upside down, going out with Hazel is a breath of fresh air.
 
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Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop

by Roselle Lim

Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottoms of their teacups. To avoid blurting out fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow the fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the lives of those around her
Make Up Break Up

by Lily Menon

Annika developed an app for "love, romance, second chances, fairy tale endings".  Hudson's app is for "high efficiency break-ups".  Her app is teetering.  His is wildly successful.  .  And now they are office mates and in a high stakes competition.  
 
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Re Jane
 
 Jane Re is a recent college graduate whose high-finance job offer evaporated when the dot-com bubble burst. Now she's stuck restocking shelves and serving irritable customers at Food, her disapproving aunt and uncle's grocery store. It doesn't help that everyone in her Korean immigrant neighborhood knows she's an orphan, and honhyol (mixed-blood) to boot. 

by Patricia Park
 
The Marriage Clock

by Zara Raheem
 
Yes, Leila Abid wants to marry, but after 26 years of singledom her parents are panicking, the neighbors are talking, and she's wondering if her expectations are too high.
 
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First Comes Like
 
Beauty expert and influencer Jia Ahmed has little time for love, and even less time for the men in her private messages -- until the day a certain international superstar slides into her DMs, and she falls hard and fast. 

by Alisha Rai

 
The Boyfriend Project

by Farrah Rochon

Samiah, London and Taylor had no idea they were all sharing the same boyfriend until a live tweet of a horrific date revealed the painful truth - they've been catfished.  
 
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Gold Diggers

by Sanjena Sathian

A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is authentic, funny, and smart. He just doesn't share the same drive as everyone around him.
 
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Faker

by Sarah Smith
 
From nine to five, Monday through Friday, Emmie is tough as nails -- the complete opposite of her easy-going real self. One thing she doesn't have to fake? Her disdain for coworker Tate Rasmussen. Tate has been hostile to her since the day they met.
Memorial

by Bryan Washington
 
They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other.
 
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