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Name of Book: Sea and Sky Author: Adrienne Leslie ISBN: 978-1-4392-4097-7 Publisher: BookSurge publishing Part of a Series: Bird and fish prequel Type of book: Korean dramas, adult, romance, 2007, interracial relationship asian male/white female Year it was published: 2008 Summary: Cancer survivor Wendy Dale has been busy healing others; her alcoholic husband, her chronically ill daughter and cantankerous mother. No wonder she took a Korean lover. But Hyun Jae Won returned to Korea leaving Wendy unable to heal herself. After discovering her good friend Libby Spring abandoned a baby in Taegu, Korea years earlier, Wendy offers to make the six thousand mile journey to locate Libby's now-grown son. Finally, she has an excuse to find her soul mate. Now, if she can only find out why she's trhowing-up every morning. The eye opening, jaw dropping second book in Adrienne Leslie's Bird and Fish Duology, is finally out. Only this time, in Sea and Sky, t...

Name of Book: Bird and Fish Author: Adrienne Leslie ISBN: 978-1-4196-9192-8 Publisher: Perhaps an Indie publisher? Booksurge Part of a Series: Bird and Fish duology; sequel Sea and Sky Type of book: interracial relationship, Asian male/white female, Korean, Korean drama, New York, 2006 Year it was published: 2007 Summary: A bird and fish may fall in love but where will they live? Wendy Dale quietly shoulders her exhausting family demands: her daughter's battle with Crohn's disease, her husband's laissez-faire approach to their crumbling marriage and a self-absorbed mother grown more demanding after a series of strokes. By becoming an aging girly-girl, Wendy stifles her authentic self in clearance rack shopping, Martha Stewart housekeeping and smoothing the daily friction between black, white and Asian students who jockey for school control. Taking no joy from teaching or homemaking, the teacher longs simply to write a children's story honoring her...