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The Poker Bride The Poker Bride 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… OL16799512W
A map of betrayal A map of betrayal 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… OL17719512W
China Dolls China Dolls 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 … OL17722181W
White Ginger White Ginger 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… OL17918963W
The partner track The partner track 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… OL17932739W
The woman warrior The woman warrior 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… OL1822441W
The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club 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… OL1843720W
Bend, not break Bend, not break 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. OL19961908W
Your next breath Your next breath 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… OL20007363W
Mind magic Mind magic 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… OL20014835W
Unbinding Unbinding 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… OL20020466W
Nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu Nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu 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… OL20041892W
Chopstyx Chopstyx 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 … OL24161424W
Jade rabbit Jade rabbit 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… OL24196623W
Flowers for Mei-ling Flowers for Mei-ling 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 … OL2630250W
Flood Tide Flood Tide 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… OL84880W
The Chopsticks-Fork Principle The Chopsticks-Fork Principle 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… OL8836823W