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1) The fortunes
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Inhabiting four lives--a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor; Hollywood's first Chinese movie star; a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community; and a biracial...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2009, c1999
Edition
Special anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all. Includes a recipe.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1984
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
169 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Trumpet Club Special Edition. In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Nominee, 1985-1986. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award collection--look for DCF spine label.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities...
Author
Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private detectives Lydia Chin and Joel Pilarsky investigate the theft of jewelry that once belonged to a young Austrian refugee who fled to Shanghai from Hitler's Europe during World War II; but things turn deadly when a man is murdered and Lydia learns that the valuable gem, Shanghai Moon, may be part of the same stash.
Author
Publisher
A Public Space Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
141 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others is a dazzling collection about people confronted with being outsiders-as immigrants, as revolutionaries, and even, often, within their own families.
In New York City, an art student finds an unexpected subject when she moves in with a grandmother from Xi'an, and boundaries are put into question. When a newlywed couple moves to Arizona, adapting to unfamiliar...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school...When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it's worth losing her conscience--or...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity"--
Author
Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Lydia Chin is hired by Grandfather Gao, one of the most respected figures in Chinatown, for what appears to be a simple task. Lydia, along with her professional partner, Bill Smith, is to fly to Hong Kong to deliver a family heirloom to the young grandson of a recently deceased colleague of Grandfather Gao. But before they can deliver the heirloom, the grandson is kidnapped and two separate ransom demands are made.
11) My year abroad
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the award-winning author of NATIVE SPEAKER and ON SUCH A FULL SEA, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure"--
Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing...
14) Paper son
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Informed that an unknown cousin is in jail, Chinese-American private detective Lydia Chin and her partner, Bill Smith, travel to the Mississippi Delta, where they confront river-levee disputes, computer scams, and questions about her cousin's innocence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations, 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Katie is delighted when her Aunt Patty asks her to be a flower girl--but then she starts thinking about everything that could go wrong and worries that she will spoil her aunt's wedding.
Author
Series
Zodiac legacy volume 3
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
430 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a catastrophe threatens the lives of every Zodiac in the world, sixteen-year-old Steven Lee is forced to decide how far he will go to protect his fellow superpowered friends.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
x, 117 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows perceptive, astute Anna as she strives to grow a perfect garden -- only to realize that the garden she grows with her new friend is more than good enough, weeds and all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
24 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Katie, her father, JoJo, and Pedro are on a special sleepover at the museum; but at night the dark halls are spooky, and it is easy to imagine that the dinosaurs are ghosts haunting the museum--and when Mr. Woo disappears the children become frightened.
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