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Amah Faraway

Author : Margaret Chiu Greanias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1547608730
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.

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?

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.

A Grammar of Maybrat

Author : Philomena Hedwig Dol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Maybrat written by Philomena Hedwig Dol and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybrat is a Papuan language which is spoken in the central area of the Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia. Despite the fact that it is one of the larger local languages in Papua Province in terms of numbers of speakers, a comprehensive grammar on this language has hitherto not been published. This book aims to give an overview of the phonology, morphology and sy n tax of the Maybrat language as it is spoken by the people of Ayawasi. Ideally, this work can be used as a reference grammar: it gives information about the most important structural and typological aspects of Maybrat. With this in mind, the grammar is full of illustrative examples centred around contrasts in form and meaning, which are discussed in the text.

Willow Tree Village

Author :
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:

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.

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.

Someone is Coming

Author : T.A. Morton
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 1915310059
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Someone is Coming written by T.A. Morton and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories come thick and heavy like the rains that fall in the jungle. Dense droplets wash the leaves and soak into the ground, cleansing the acrid smell of rubber, cleansing the jungle of its sins. I hear my mother’s voice. No more secrets, Philip, I promise. Someone is coming, get ready. Philip Goundry is 93 and living out his days quietly in a care home in England when a young researcher from Singapore arrives, wanting to learn more about his former life in Malaya for the Singapore archives. His memory growing fitful, Philip is torn between wanting to unburden himself and staying silent, as he has done all these years, about the sinister and shocking events of his childhood on a Malayan rubber plantation. The truth, however, has a habit of winning.

Dark Moon over Burma

Author : Maurice P Gaynor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546286063
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Dark Moon over Burma written by Maurice P Gaynor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allison Reyleigh, seventeen, leaves the convent in England to return to her father who is at the Government House in Rangoon. It is 1941, and she escapes the start of WW2 in Europe only to find the Japanese on the outskirts of Burmah. Her father puts her on a boat bound for Calcutta in India while he retreats with the British forces to Mandalay. The boat is bombed and turns back to Rangoon, where Allison is stranded. She is saved by the old Amah and her granddaughter, Lete, as they hide out in the deserted city and send word to her father who comes to find her. Helped by a young clerk from her fathers office, Mathew Ranger, they escape before the advancing army, pursued by the relentless Japanese Captain Moto, and flee into the forest and mountains as they make their way to the border and safety of India. They are accompanied by an American flyer, Bud Wesley, who is with the American volunteers, flying over the Hump for General Stillwell as they help the Chinese repel the Japanese, and the beautiful Chinese interpreter Mei Ling, also the Chin fighter Amusan, who is known as the Tiger of the Hills.

Rain for My Roots

Author : Naomi Ainslie
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595479111
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Rain for My Roots written by Naomi Ainslie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a lonely childhood spent in rural Canada, idealistic Ann Morgan goes in search of her own identity as a young woman. In the mid-1950s she embarks on a trek that takes her to Asia as an employee of UNICEF in Bangkok and a British Intelligence Agency in Singapore. Her travels take her to Thailand, India, Burma, Indonesia, South Vietnam, Borneo, Malaya and other exotic locales, where she makes a contribution to reduce poverty and disease, as well as exposing subversive and illegal activities. Ann's adventures include treating a child with yaws, uncovering a smuggling ring, communing with Mt. Kanchenjunga near Mt. Everest, and riding local transportation. They also include an episode with a cobra and a meeting with a "bandit" in the Cambodian jungle. Ann gains insights into Asian culture, finds friendship, and in Bangkok has a brief love affair with an American doctor. She gradually discovers that she is a strong and independent young woman. Ann has found the rain for her roots. "With her painterly prose Naomi takes us down crowded urban streets and into the jungle, introducing us to exotic lands and fascinating people as she weaves her magical tales."-Lee Freehling, Librarian

A Necessary Murder

Author : M. J. Tjia
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1787198782
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book A Necessary Murder written by M. J. Tjia and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A string of murders cuts close to home for the Victorian courtesan and professional sleuth in this mystery thriller set in 19th century London. London, 1863: Little Margaret Lovejoy is found brutally murdered in the outhouse at her family’s estate. A few days later, a man is cut down in a similar manner on the doorstep of Heloise Chancey’s prestigious address. But the courtesan detective has other troubles to attend to. Heloise’s maid, Amah Li Leen, has just discovered that events from her past have resurfaced to threaten her present life. Once again, Heloise is caught in a maelstrom of murder and deceit that threatens to dismantle her carefully crafted existence. But she has always been adept at deceiving the dishonest. Pursuing two investigations at once, Heloise is about to demonstrate just how skilled she truly is.

Last Days of the Morning Calm

Author : Tina Jimin Walton
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814841951
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Last Days of the Morning Calm written by Tina Jimin Walton and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korea, 1895: court intrigue and foreign powers threaten the centuries-old “hermit kingdom”. In a prominent manor, Ji-nah, the sheltered fourteen-year-old ward, and Han, the seventeen-year-old servant, are left in the tight grip of Tutor Lim when Master Yi travels to Peking. The tutor strips Ji-nah’s privileged life and crushes Han’s future. When the two young people uncover the tutor’s broader conspiracy with the Japanese to overthrow Queen Min, they determine to save the queen, whose fate seems tied to their master. Their plans go awry when the tutor sells them off as slaves: Ji-nah to the palace and Han to the missionaries. When Ji-nah learns her real identity as the master’s daughter and the queen’s kinsman, she stakes her life at the palace. Meanwhile, Han adapts to Westerners, learning strange customs that clash with his traditional world views. Ultimately, Han faces the tutor, Ji-nah, the queen, and the two reunite with their master, but Queen Min is assassinated. Despite the fallen kingdom, the two young people find hope in their new roles, determined to rebuild their lives and nation.