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The kitchen god's wife
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Amy Tan |
Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must … |
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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan,Ronald Bass,Jordi Fibla,Tsai Chin,Wayne Wang,Gwendoline Yeo |
Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet we… |
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The Moon Lady
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Amy Tan,Gretchen Schields,Sabine Lohmann |
Nai-nai tells her granddaughters the story of her outing, as a seven-year-old girl in China, to see the Moon Lady and be granted a secret wish. |
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Saving Fish from Drowing
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Amy Tan |
A provocative new novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's DaughterOn an ill-fated art expedition into the southern Shan state of Burma, eleven Americans leave thei… |
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The Chinese Siamese cat
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Amy Tan |
Ming Miao tells her kittens about the antics of one of their ancestors, Sagwa of China, that produced the unusual markings they have had for thousands of years. |
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The valley of amazement
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Amy Tan |
Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the c… |
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Where the past begins
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Amy Tan |
By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of self-doubt in her journals, and heartbreaking letters to and from her mother, bestselling author Amy Tan gives evidence to al… |
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Saving Fish From Drowning
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Amy Tan |
On an art expedition to the Southern Shan state of Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating island Resort for a Christmas morning tour and disappear. |
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Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze
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Jade Snow Wong,Alfred Noyes,Phyllis McGinley,Alan Feinstein,Robert Frost,James Stephens,Carl Sandburg,Raymond R. Patterson,Ernest Hemingway,Kyorai,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Teresa Palomo Acosta,William Saroyan,Mary O'Neill,James Ramsey Ullman,Anne Terry White,Dorothy De Wit,Gary Soto,Rod Serling,Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,Mary Austin,Emily Dickinson,Paul Annixter,Washington Irving,Joan Aiken,James Dickey,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,O. Henry,Barbara Mahone,Oliver Herford,Will Hobbs,Margery Facklam,Alice Walker,Amy Tan,Lewis Carroll,E. E. Cummings,Arthur W. Ryder,Walt Whitman,Olivia E. Coolidge,H. N. Levitt,William Jay Smith,Nikki Giovanni,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Rudyard Kipling,Edwin Way Teale,Charles Dickens,Richard Lederer,Aesop,Piri Thomas,Langston Hughes,Jack Finney,Quentin Reynolds,Inea Bushnaq,Yao-Wen Li,Wilson Rawls,Lucille Clifton,Sam Selvon,Mildred D. Taylor,Edgar Allan Poe,Denise Chavez,Chief Dan George,Vachel Lindsay,Andrew A. Rooney,James Herriot,Josephine Preston Peabody,Blanche L. Serwer-Bernstein,Pura Belpré,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Carol Kendall,Alexander McCall Smith,Israel Horovitz,Isaac Asimov,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,James Whitcomb Riley,Courlander, Harold,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Ekkehart Malotki,Buson Taniguchi,Robert Service,Mari Sandoz,Shel Silverstein,Wendy Rose,Edward D. Hoch,Ernesto Galarza,Mai Vo-Dinh,Sarah Ann Leuthner,Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett,Juliet Piggott,Russell Baker,Theodore Roethke,Sumner Braunstein,Basho,Otsuji,William Shakespeare |
Grades 7-9 |
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De vrouw van de keukengod
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Amy Tan |
Een oude Chinese vrouw in San Francisco vertelt haar dochter over haar jeugd in China in de eerste helft van deze eeuw. |
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Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
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James Hurst,John Masefield,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Ellen Harkins Wheat,Margaret Walker,Richard Connell,Sara Teasdale,Wisława Szymborska,Mark Twain,Όμηρος,Gary Soto,Anne McCaffrey,Marge Piercy,James Thurber,O. Henry,Paul Laurence Dunbar,Amy Tan,Lewis Carroll,E. E. Cummings,Rudolfo A. Anaya,Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs,Isabel Allende,Toni Cade Bambara,Martin Luther King Jr.,James C. Rettie,Leslie Silko,Sally Ride,Simon J. Ortiz,William Wordsworth,Arthur C. Clarke,Langston Hughes,William Least Heat Moon,John Updike,Thor Heyerdahl,John G. Neihardt,Edgar Allan Poe,Chief Dan George,Guy de Maupassant,Alfred Lord Tennyson,James Joyce,Derek Walcott,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,James Weldon Johnson,Paule Marshall,Yoshiko Uchida,Gordon Parks,Edgar Lee Masters,Marchette Gaylord Chute,Gabriela Mistral,Tomás Rivera,Gabriel García Márquez,Bruce Chatwin,John McPhee,Robert Browning,Margaret Atwood,Walter De La Mere,Donald Justice,Saki,Ernest Lawrence Thayer,Morley Callaghan,Frank R. Stockton,Christina Rosetti,Theodore Roethke,Chiyojo,Sumner Braunstein,Sui Wai Anderson,Basho,Grant Moss Jr.,William Shakespeare,William Gibson |
High School level |
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The Situation of the Story
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Ellen Wilbur,Ernest Hemingway,Katherine Anne Porter,Mark Twain,Virginia Woolf,Антон Павлович Чехов,David Herbert Lawrence,Edith Wharton,Charles Johnson,Henry James,William Faulkner,John Edgar Wideman,Gloria Naylor,Amy Tan,Raymond Carver,Willa Cather,Zora Neale Hurston,George P. Garrett,Toni Cade Bambara,Bernard Malamud,John Cheever,Truman Capote,William Goyen,Stephen Crane,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Diana Young,Doris Lessing,Edgar Allan Poe,Sarah Orne Jewett,Herman Melville,Louise Erdrich,James Joyce,Eudora Welty,Joyce Carol Oates,Franz Kafka,Flannery O'Connor,Elizabeth Spencer,Lee K. Abbott,Ann Beattie,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Maria Cruz Viramontes de Marin,Shirley Jackson,Anna Lee Walters,Tillie Olsen,Conrad Aiken,Alice Munro,Bharati Mukherjee,Estela Portillo Trambley,Allen Barnett,REGINALD McKNlGHT |
FLANNERY O'CONNOR, The Comforts of Home 3
ANN BEATTIE, It's Just Another Day in Big Bear City, California 22
MARK TWAIN, The $30,000 Bequest 37
EUDORA WELTY, Why I Live at the P.O. 62
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