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Amah Faraway

Author : Margaret Chiu Greanias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1547608722
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Amah Faraway written by Margaret Chiu Greanias and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful story of a child's visit to a grandmother and home far away, and of how families connect and love across distance, language, and cultures. Kylie is nervous about visiting her grandmother-her Amah-who lives SO FAR AWAY. When she and Mama finally go to Taipei, Kylie is shy with Amah. Even though they have spent time together in video chats, those aren't the same as real life. And in Taiwan, Kylie is at first uncomfortable with the less-familiar language, customs, culture, and food. However, after she is invited by Amah-Lái kàn kàn! Come see!-to play and splash in the hot springs (which aren't that different from the pools at home), Kylie begins to see this place through her grandmother's eyes and sees a new side of the things that used to scare her. Soon, Kylie is leading her Amah-Come see! Lái kàn kàn!-back through all her favorite parts of this place and having SO MUCH FUN! And when it is time to go home, the video chats will be extra special until they can visit faraway again. Backmatter includes author and illustrator notes and a guide to some of the places and foods explored in Taiwan.

The Hidden Blade

Author : Sherry Thomas
Publisher : Sherry Thomas
ISBN 13 : 1631280066
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Blade written by Sherry Thomas and published by Sherry Thomas. This book was released on 2014-07-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the waning days of the last dynasty, in a quiet, beautiful corner of imperial Peking, a young girl's blissful ignorance is shattered when she learns that she is the illegitimate daughter of an English adventurer and a Chinese courtesan. What future is there for such a girl? But a mysterious figure steps forward and offers to instruct her in the highest forms of martial arts--a path to a life of strength and independence. Half a world away in England, a young boy's idyllic summer on the Sussex downs implodes with the firing of a single bullet. Torn from his family, he becomes the hostage of a urbanely sadistic uncle. He dreams of escaping to find his beloved friend--but the friend is in China, ten thousand miles away. The girl trains to be deadly. The boy flees across continents. They do not know it yet, but their lives are already inextricably bound together, and will collide one fateful night when they least expect it. CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON meets DOWNTON ABBEY, this remarkable tale of friendship, danger, and coming of age will stay with you long after you have finished the last page. A prequel to MY BEAUTIFUL ENEMY.

A Thousand Pearls

Author : H.G. Hutting
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452041520
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Pearls written by H.G. Hutting and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-11-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the twilight turned into night, the pyramids lay deserted. The Tuaregs on silent horses were flying across the desert around the pyramids and the great Sphinx, making sure that what was about to take place was unobserved. A cortege of torches was winding its way down the tall dune towards the great Sphinx. Phillipa, holding the silver Urn with the Heidrichs ashes, rode at the center of the cortege. Reaching the Sphinx, the torchbearers broke into two columns to form an honor guard of light through which Phillipa rode to meet the matriarch standing between the Sphinx’s mighty paws. Phillipa slowly handed the urn to her. A deep hole had been chiseled into the Sphinx’s chest where one would think the heart might be. The urn was pushed gently into the cool depth of the Sphinx. The opening disappeared in front of Phillipa’s eyes under the skilled hands of a stonemason. No one would suspect that the Sphinx had been tampered with. One by one the Tuareg torchbearers rode up the passage between the mighty paws of the Sphinx and dropped their torches in front of the Heidrichs secret burial chamber––a final salute to the man who had translated their tablets. That night they slept outside under the stars. The matriarch’s stallion came to greet Phillipa. She rubbed his forehead and velvety nose and then kissed it, as she had done long ago when she had been here with Udah Singh. “He likes you and wishes you well,” said the matriarch behind her. “ You have a gift with horses that I have not seen before.” She continued, “You still love both equally, and that confuses you profoundly. Give yourself permission to love and be loved. Don’t let conventions and western customs dictate your life. Live happy and free.”

Worth Any Cost

Author : Brenna Aubrey
Publisher : Silver Griffon Associates
ISBN 13 : 1940951143
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Worth Any Cost written by Brenna Aubrey and published by Silver Griffon Associates. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are cordially invited to the wedding of the decade. Adam Drake and Emilia Kimberly Strong have chosen a date to solidify their love in the bonds of matrimony. Join them on their exotic destination wedding. Visit with their friends and loved ones. But hold the champagne toast. Fate has a few last tests for our couple on their way to the altar. Natural 20 or natural disaster?

A Gryphon Year

Author : Priscilla Thomson Jackson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781467873116
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book A Gryphon Year written by Priscilla Thomson Jackson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic year is vividly pictured as a young American surgeon and Canadian wife dare to enter exotic Manchu (Ching) Empire only a decade after the Empress Dowagers Boxers massacred foreigners. Admired as missionaries, deeply in love, Nell on the ocean liner - begins to doubt James judgment. James, eager to bring modern medicine to antique China, is shocked by the shabbiness of his assigned Hospital-of-Last-Resort with only male apprentices as aides. He faces poor patients with monstrous tumors, plague, stones, does operations never observed, is opposed by unbelievable superstitions. Astonishingly, the foreign doctor (true) is called to Military Headquarters where the Vice-roy of the two Kwang Provinces -- as large as Germany -- has called brilliantly robed Mandarins Ministers of Army, Navy, Law, Treasury, Literary chancellor. Why? Unknown anarchists tried to assonate the Tartar General! Is Revolution brewing? On return, James sedan chair is waylaid by Ming Secret Society dissidents. Different Chinese factions seek James USA support. Pretty teacher, impetuous Stephanie, sponsors returned student radicals. Medical assistants-- for Republic therefore anti-Manchu (very dangerous) -- hide a rebel in his neutral Hospital. Chinese Officials in Manchu Administration expect support for their Self-Strengthening moderates. Meanwhile Nell struggles with her new house knowing no Cantonese, then with intelligent cook-helper knowing no English. Sir Gladwyn, British diplomat, takes her to ancient pagoda; she climbs inside! Shocked at primitive child-birthing in this medieval village, shes chased as Blue-Eyed Witch! Visiting the British Yamn they hear a threatening rocket. Returning to Hospital, James is captured by the Manchu General, is horrified at cruel but brilliant strategy, watches Manchus win historic Battle of Seventy-Two Heroes. Mr.Colocott, Hong Kong tea exporter, Mr.Paronel, British consul, M.Zint, disillusioned but fluent French liaison, Mr. Fa, Hospital pharmacist, argue with the North Americans, fearful and fascinated, as this tumultuous year -1910 - will change World History.

Children of the Dawn

Author : Patricia Rowe
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446569399
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Dawn written by Patricia Rowe and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine thousand years ago, the horses died, leaving the band of people called the Shahala hungry. Their Moonkeeper, Ashan, led them across the Tabu land, but ahead waited a woman with secrets that would destroy the love between Ashan and her mate.

The Death of Me: A Heloise Chancey Mystery

Author : M.J. Tjia
Publisher : Legend Press
ISBN 13 : 1789550475
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Me: A Heloise Chancey Mystery written by M.J. Tjia and published by Legend Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fans of Carole Nelson Douglas’s Irene Adler series will be pleased'Publishers Weekly'Victorian atmosphere abounds in a twisty, exciting tale of danger and lost love' Kirkus'A terrific adventure'Northern ReaderThe Continent, 1864: Two bomb attacks, three deaths.Clues to an elaborate assassination plot are intercepted in Paris and the authorities believe the assassin’s lair lies in Soho, London. Heloise Chancey, courtesan and professional detective, must go undercover to spy upon the nest of suspects and end their murderous conspiracy.Meanwhile, her Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen finds herself trapped in a deadly nightmare of deceit and madness. Will she be able to escape before time runs out?Danger keeps Heloise close company as she hunts evil down to its devilish source.BOOKS BY M.J. TJIAShe Be DamnedA Necessary MurderThe Death of Me

Freddy's War

Author : Judy Schultz
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
ISBN 13 : 1897142552
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Freddy's War written by Judy Schultz and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "A dozen questions for further discussion" at the end of the book.

Shanghai Diary

Author : Ursula Bacon
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1621154327
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Shanghai Diary written by Ursula Bacon and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late 1930s, Europe sat on the brink of a world war. As the holocaust approached, many Jewish families in Germany fled to one of the only open port available to them: Shanghai. Once called "the armpit of the world," Shanghai ultimately served as the last resort for tens of thousands of Jews desperate to escape Hitler's "Final Solution." Against this backdrop, 11-year-old Ursula Bacon and her family made the difficult 8,000-mile voyage to Shanghai, with its promise of safety. But instead of a storybook China, they found overcrowded streets teeming with peddlers, beggars, opium dens, and prostitutes. Amid these abysmal conditions, Ursula learned of her own resourcefulness and found within herself the fierce determination to survive.

A Covenant in Shanghai

Author : David Brailovsky
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1583487581
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book A Covenant in Shanghai written by David Brailovsky and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Covenant in Shanghai is about survival and alienation. We follow Daniel and his three friends as they grow from childhood to adolescence and to early manhood. We share their tensions, frustrations, and their anxieties, as they struggle to survive by overcoming the temptations that this sybaritic and decadent city offers at every corner. It is about alienation, of not accepting and of not being accepted by an ancient and proud culture. The four friends do not feel at home in the East, nor are they comfortable in the West. They have to learn how to live and survive in this limbo. The four boys of different backgrounds: American, English, French and Russian, accentuate the kaleidoscopic nature of a fascinating, yet often ominous and tragic lifestyle. This is also the story of the survival of a majestic and resilient city that suffers with dignity the humiliations of shortages, the ravages of epidemics, the conflict of political ideologies, and refuses to be conquered by desecrations of wars. This multi-ethnic, multicultured metropolis is neither Western nor Chinese. Like its population it is alien to both. It is a tragic hybrid grafted on the map of China.

The Consul's File

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141971649
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Consul's File written by Paul Theroux and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning writer Paul Theroux takes us on a journey through small town Malaysia through the eyes of the exuberant Spencer Savage in his breathtaking novel The Consul's File. Spencer Savage, a young American consul, is posted to Ayer Hitam, a small Malaysian town, in the 1970s. Told to close down this remote outpost in the sweltering jungle, he instead finds himself drawn to the many characters he meets among the Malays, Indians, Japanese, Chinese and the clubbable expat Brits. Through his eyes we see the rich tapestry of multi-ethnic life in post-colonial Malaysia, from adultery to murder, from ghost stories to the murky waters of diplomatic politics. It is a brilliant portrait of a vanished time, a lost landscape and scattered peoples. 'A cool and witty sequence. . . a polished and professional performance' Guardian 'Theroux's writing is at its most adventurous in The Consul's File. There is no book I can compare this to: Mr Theroux's artistry is individual, serene, yet also grainy with fierce truths' The Times American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, My Other Life, The Collected Stories, My Secret History, The Lower River, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro, A Dead Hand, Millroy the Magician, The Elephanta Suite, Saint Jack, The Family Arsenal, The Mosquito Coast, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.

Willow Tree Village

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Willow Tree Village written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Am the American Dream

Author : Chu M. Tang
Publisher : All Our Lives Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book I Am the American Dream written by Chu M. Tang and published by All Our Lives Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Reader, Don't chase a dream. Become the Dream itself! I Am the American Dream is dedicated to all who courageously dare to DREAM, no matter where you are in the world. This book is about two immigrants who came to America from two distinct countries and share the same American Dream. We tell the stories of how we followed our childhood dreams from Cambodia and Hong Kong. Our paths finally crossed in America decades later. “Two souls, two journeys, till their paths crossed, becoming one life…” We do not portray the American Dream as superior to any country’s dream. We write about facing bullying, racism, discrimination, loss of hope, and family challenges between two cultures (Asian and American). We share how we chose the nontraditional path to breakthrough, thinking outside the box, maintaining a positive mindset, and embracing our differences. We moved to America for freedom and opportunities. We realized no one handed us the American Dream; we had to work hard for it. For over 45 years, we never gave up. Along our journey, we discovered one profound truth: the Dream isn’t something you chase; we are the Dream! This unique blend of memoir, vivid imagery, and poetry is inspired by Chu's work in Oscar-winning films like The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Finding Dory, and Coco. Each scene is crafted as a standalone short story, capturing a spectrum of emotions that will deeply resonate with you. A picture is worth a thousand words; this book is enriched by stunning original artwork illustrated by two talented New Zealand artists. You will ponder each illustration as if admiring a painting in a museum. Four generations’ worth of stories, woven together, form the backbone of this book. The stories are a shocking yet heartwarming collection that showcases the growth and resilience of the human spirit and delivers hearty laughs along the way. This book is as real and raw as it gets. We hope you will be curious to open it and ready to be inspired :). With Love, Chu & Wayne

Reflections of My Life

Author : Betty Dawson
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398453129
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Reflections of My Life written by Betty Dawson and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in a quiet corner of rural Northern Ireland in the 50s and 60s, children had an idyllic freedom to explore plus a healthy respect for hard work and community spirit. Moving from this, to the bustle and confusion of London, enjoying a short spell living in historic Bath to then living in the Far East, was in itself a lifetime experience. But follow this on with a broken marriage, a protracted divorce and the harsh realities of living with the ‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland, was a route not experienced by everyone. Starting again, in the hitherto unknown world of a ‘word smith’ in Public Relations, which included working across the UK, Europe, Bosnia (during and post-conflict) and in Kosovo (post-conflict), was a new route. This process was an accidental rather than a deliberate choice. It flowed out of necessity, drawn by instinctive reaction to circumstances rather than by design. These experiences form the basis of this narrative.

Delphi Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Illustrated)

Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1786560690
Total Pages : 3632 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Illustrated) written by William Somerset Maugham and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 3632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: www.delphiclassics.com

Drawing Snakes and Adding Legs and Other Stories

Author : Hannah Ong Haskell
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977271308
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Drawing Snakes and Adding Legs and Other Stories written by Hannah Ong Haskell and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of 16 short stories, you are invited to listen to the conversations between brothers Luke and Charlie, their grandmother who they fondly call Amah, and their Ma and Pa. Join Luke and Charlie at their dinner table, follow them into their living room, and into their bedroom at bedtime. Enjoy learning Chinese idioms and proverbs with them and read how ancient wisdom is woven seamlessly into the fabric of a modern family; bringing this three-generation bi-racial family closer together.

Half a Lifelong Romance

Author : Eileen Chang
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 037542525X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Half a Lifelong Romance written by Eileen Chang and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghai, 1930s. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. He is determined to resist his family’s efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry her. But dark circumstances—a lustful brother-in-law, a treacherous sister, a family secret—force the two young lovers apart. As Manzhen and Shijun go on their separate paths, they lose track of one another, and their lives become filled with feints and schemes, missed connections and tragic misunderstandings. At every turn, societal expectations seem to thwart their prospects for happiness. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope—however slim—that they might one day meet again. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China.