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The Poker Bride
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Christopher Corbett |
During the Gold Rush, a young Chinese concubine arrived by horse in Idaho gold country, where a white gambler soon won her in a poker game. She became Polly Bemis, the winner's legal, beloved wife. P… |
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A map of betrayal
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Ha Jin |
"From the award-winning author of Waiting: a spare, haunting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries--China and the United Stat… |
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China Dolls
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Lisa See |
"The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story … |
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White Ginger
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Thatcher Robinson |
"Fierce loyalties, staunch compassion, and a weakness for strays lead Bai Jiang--San Francisco's best known 'souxun, ' or people finder--into violent conflicts that test her pacifist beliefs in the b… |
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The partner track
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Helen Wan |
"A young attorney must choose between the prestige of partnership and the American Dream that she--and her immigrant parents--have come so close to achieving in this riveting debut. In the eyes of he… |
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The woman warrior
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Maxine Hong Kingston |
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the… |
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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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Bend, not break
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Ping Fu |
In her autobiography, Ping Fu tells her story as she lived it--from child soldier and political prisoner to a CEO and "Inc." magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year. |
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Your next breath
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Iris Johansen |
Catherine Ling is one of the CIA's most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get… |
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Mind magic
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Eileen Wilks |
"Thanks to the mindspeech lessons she's receiving from the black dragon, Lily is temporarily benched from Unit Twelve--until her brain acclimates and the risk of total burnout passes. At least she ha… |
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Unbinding
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Eileen Wilks |
"In the newest Novel of the Lupi, the human and elven worlds are both about to come under attack ... After questing through the sidhe realms with her ex-hellhound lover, Nathan, Kai Tallman Michalski… |
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Nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu
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Valerie Bodden |
Experimental physicist Chien-Shiung Wu has been called the "Queen of Nuclear Research." Born in China in the early 20th century, Wu moved to the United States to study physics after graduating from c… |
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Chopstyx
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Sophia Mah |
It is 2000, the Year of the Golden Dragon, has turned into a disaster for Jessica Chou. Her career is in shambles. Unemployed for eleven months, she, her boyfriend, and 18 month-old daughter move in … |
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Jade rabbit
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Mark Matthews |
"A female infant is abandoned by her birth-mother in a small Chinese village and spends her first ten months in an orphanage. She is adopted and raised in the United States where she becomes a social… |
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Flowers for Mei-ling
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Lorraine Lachs |
Chinese by birth, Eurasian by blood, Mei-ling Wang's extraordinary life is a mirror of our time. Born in 1949, the year of the Red Army's entry into Beijing, she is the daughter of an English mother … |
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Flood Tide
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Clive Cussler,J. Charles |
Following the runaway success of his first nonfiction book, The Sea Hunters, Clive Cussler returns with his legendary fictional hero Dirk Pitt" - in a masterfully crafted tale of villainy on the high… |
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The Chopsticks-Fork Principle
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Cathy Bao Bean |
Rooted in the telling of one family's life, The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual by Cathy Bao Bean is a story for all families. In this humorous and poignant memoir, the author, an immi… |
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