These are a few books that I will be starting sometime tomorrow. I'm really glad that I found Mambo in Chinatown at the library because I can't wait to start reading it.
And as for the other two book, with Batman I'm hoping this second volume will be so much better than the first because that one was truly mediocre. And I figure I would just continue on with reading the third book in the Rachel Knight series.
Book: Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok
Source: Library
Description:
From the bestselling author of Girl in Translation, a novel about a young woman torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing.
Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), Charlie’s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works—miserably—as a dishwasher.
But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down. Gradually, at the dance studio, awkward Charlie’s natural talents begin to emerge. With them, her perspective, expectations, and sense of self are transformed—something she must take great pains to hide from her father and his suspicion of all things Western. As Charlie blossoms, though, her sister becomes chronically ill. As Pa insists on treating his ailing child exclusively with Eastern practices to no avail, Charlie is forced to try to reconcile her two selves and her two worlds—Eastern and Western, old world and new—to rescue her little sister without sacrificing her newfound confidence and identity.
Book: Batman: Black and White volume #2 by various writers and artists
Source: Library
Description:
THE WORLD IS SIMPLE.
THERE'S GOOD.
THERE'S EVIL.
AND THERE'S BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE.
This sequel to the Eisner Award-winning Batman Black and White collects the black-and-white Batman adventures from Batman: Gotham Knights #1-16 as well as five new, never-before-seen stories.
Book: Killer Ambition (Rachel Knight book #3) by Marcia Clark
Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review
Publication: Available now
Description:
When the daughter of a billionaire Hollywood director is found murdered after what appears to be a kidnapping gone wrong, Los Angeles Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller find themselves at the epicenter of a combustible and high-profile court case. Then a prime suspect is revealed to be one of Hollywood's most popular and powerful talent managers—and best friend to the victim's father. With the director vouching for the manager's innocence, the Hollywood media machine commences an all-out war designed to discredit both Rachel and her case.
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