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Shanghai Girls
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Lisa See
From the author of the bestsellers "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" and "Peony in Love" comes a stunning new novel about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles.
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Peony in Love
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Lisa See
Immersed in the richness and magic of the Chinese vision of the afterlife, transcending even death, See's novel beautifully explores the many manifestations of love and addresses the age-old desire of women to be heard.
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Grapes of wrath
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John Steinbeck lived and worked with a group of migrant workers in California, from whom he drew the material for his great Dust Bowl saga of a wandering Okie family, the Joads. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel awakened the American reading public to the plight of migrant workers and made Steinbeck famous worldwide. One of the most popular novels ...
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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L See
In 19th-century China, when wives and daughters live in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county develop their own secret code for communication. This work offers a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful.
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Iliad
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Homer
Pope spent his formative years as a poet translating Homer, beginning with "The Iliad", his translation of which Samuel Johnson called "the greatest version of poetry the world has ever seen". This edition makes available for the first time in paperback Pope's notes in their entirety, enabling us to listen in as one poetic genius illuminates the ...
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
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Lisa See
See, the West Coast columnist for "Publisher's Weekly," spent five years collecting the details of her family's history. She interviewed close to 100 relatives, and researched documents at the National Archives, Immigration Offices, and from personal collections in order to accurately present the story of her Chinese-American origins.
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Crucible
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Arthur Miller
Set during the Salem witchcraft trials, this play is most famous for its metaphor for McCarthyism--in fact, three years after the play was produced, Miller himself was called before HUAC. In the play, Miller used colonial language to near-poetic effect; the plot involves characters who have to make certain moral choices concerning their ...
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Flower Net
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Lisa See
A story of murder, suspense, and lost love, set in China. When first the son of the American ambassador to China, and then the son of a powerful Chinese entrepreneur are found murdered, an international investigation is set up, which reunites American attorney David Stark and his former mistress, the Chinese investigator Liu Hulan. A "New York ...
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Dragon Bones: A Red Princess Mystery
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Lisa See
In a magnificent land where myth mixes treacherously with truth, one woman is in charge of telling them apart. Liu Hulan is the Inspector in China’s Ministry of Public Security whose tough style rousts wrongdoers and rubs her superiors the wrong way. Now her latest case finds her trapped between her country’s distant past and her own ...
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On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of a Chinese American Family
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Lisa See
See, the West Coast columnist for "Publisher's Weekly," spent five years collecting the details of her family's history. She interviewed close to 100 relatives, and researched documents at the National Archives, Immigration Offices, and from personal collections in order to accurately present the story of her Chinese-American origins.
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The interior
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Lisa See
A sequel to "The Flower Net". As Hulan Liu becomes more involved in her life in China - back in the village that had such a pivotal effect on her past - a continent away, David Stark feels her slipping from him. And he struggles to persuade Hulan to emigrate, with their unborn child, to America.
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Dragon Bones
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Lisa See
"Dragon Bones" combines ancient myth and contemporary fears of religious fanaticism and terrorism to tell a story of love, betrayal, history, ecology, greed, and gory murder.
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Ty Cobb
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Norman L Macht, Jim Murray (Introduction by)
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James Baldwin
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Lisa Rosset, Nathan I Huggins (Editor)
A biography of an American author noted for his books on racial conflict in the United States.
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Crooked shadow
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Lisa See
Beijing police detective Liu Hulan sets out to find the truth about the suicide death of her friend's daughter. The case takes Hulan into her own buried past, and into the heart of a dangerous mystery--and brings her and her American lover, attorney David Stark, closer than they ever imagined.
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Michael Jackson
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Lois Nicholson
Biography of the self-proclaimed king of pop.
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Babe Ruth (Baseball)(Oop)
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Norman L Macht, Jan Murray (Introduction by)
Presents the life and career of George Herman Ruth, perhaps the most talented and popular player in baseball history.
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Christy Mathewson (Baseball)(Oop)
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Norman L Macht, Jim Murray (Introduction by)
Follows the life and career of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson.
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Maya
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Lawana Hooper-Trout
Examines the history, changing fortunes, and current situation of the Maya Indians. Includes a picture essay on their crafts.
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Jimmie Foxx (Baseball)(Oop)
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Norman L Macht
Examines the life of the baseball player who was active with several teams, including the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951.
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Lit O/T Amer Indian (Pbk) (Z)
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A LaVonne Ruoff, See Editorial Dept
Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.
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Pacific(Oop)
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Virginia L Aylesworth, Thomas G Aylesworth
Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of California and Hawaii.
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Frank Robinson (Baseball)(Oop)
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Norman L Macht
Follows the life and career of baseball star Frank Robinson, who became the first black manager in the major leagues.
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Violence as Seen Through a Prism of Color
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Marvin D Feit, John S Wodarski, PH.D., Letha A See
So many parts of society target citizens of color for violence--what can be done? Violence as Seen Through a Prism of Color examines violence from a structural perspective, including violence in prisons, schools and colleges, churches, homes, and within political/corporate structures.This unique, hard-hitting book argues that individual violence ...
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Satchel Paige (Baseball)(Oop)
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Norman L Macht
Surveys the life of the first baseball player in the Negro Leagues to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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