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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Wang Lang, a simple peasant farmer takes as a wife a battered slave girl who becomes a indomitable, loyal woman. Working the land together they prosper and increase their holdings, yet Wang eventually betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshipped.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The bonesetter's daughter is an excavation of the human spirit : the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have lost in grief. Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, between one season of falling stars and...
4) Nine dragons
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Coveted mystery writer Michael Connelly presents the fifteenth installment of his Harry Bosch series. Investigating the murder his friend John Li, a Chinese store owner, Detective Harry Bosch links Los Angeles' latest crime wave to a syndicate working out of Hong Kong. As Bosch gets closer to the case, his daughter is kidnapped by the syndicate, leading Bosch on a one-man mission of personal vengeance
5) Jian
Author
Series
China Maroc novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four pieces of jade hold the key to unlocking the grand scheme of the Jian. The prize is Hong Kong.
Author
Publisher
John Day Company
Pub. Date
1946
Language
English
Description
"Nobel Prize-winning American author Pearl Buck's 1946 novel about a Chinese woman who decides to leave her marriage on her fortieth birthday, choosing a concubine for her landed-class husband and moving on to a life of freedom."
Author
Language
English
Description
Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family is betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera. Peony attends the production, watching from behind a screen, but catches sight of a handsome man and begins a journey of love and sorrow
9) Kinfolk
Author
Publisher
John Day Company
Pub. Date
©1949
Language
English
Description
Scenes are modern Manhattan and China. The story stresses biracial problems and binational cultures.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians
Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of...
Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of...
Author
Series
Jake Grafton novels volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
This time, for Admiral Jake Grafton, the stakes are chillingly personal... Admiral Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the American consul-general is embedded in political money raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and the consul-general is a friend from those days. The Graftons quickly discover, however,...
Author
Series
Asian saga volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Publisher: It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler-Tai-Pan!
14) Peony
Author
Publisher
John Day Company
Pub. Date
[1948]
Language
English
Description
The life of a bondservant is inextricably related to the Jewish family she serves in this historic novel of K'aifeng Jews in the early 1800s.
Author
Series
Publisher
John Day Company
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
A novel of China. After her husband takes a concubine, Madame Liang sets out on her own, starting an upscale restaurant and sending her daughters to America to be educated. At the restaurant, the leaders of the People's Republic wine and dine and Madame Liang must keep a low profile for her daughters' sake. Soon her two eldest daughters are called back to serve the People's Republic. Her oldest daughter, Grace, now a doctor, finds meaning through...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c1956
Language
English
Description
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.
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