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Joy Luck Club
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When June's mother dies, she is invited to join a long-standing club of Chinese women who urge her not only to take her mother's place at the mah-jongg table, but also to carry the news of her mother's death to her step-sisters in China. Through the stories of the women and their daughters, the values of different generations are articulated. June ...
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Bonesetter's Daughter
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Ruth Young and Art Kamen live together in San Francisco, and the deterioration of their relationships renders Ruth unable to speak. Her Chinese mother, LuLing, who now has Alzheimer's, is another complicating factor in her life, but the diary she kept as a young woman still exists, and when Ruth reads it she comes to a better understanding of her ...
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Kitchen God's Wife
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Pearl gradually comes to understand her mother Jiang Weili (Winnie) as a heroic survivor, not a troublesome anachronism, as they begin to reveal secrets about themselves to one another. Winnie tells the story of how she escaped a horrible marriage to a cowardly fighter pilot in the Sino-Japanese war and how he may or may not be Pearl's father. ...
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Saving Fish from Drowning
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Amy Tan's fifth novel takes a group of travelers and strands them in the jungles of Myanmar when a bridge they are crossing collapses. There, they tangle with a local tribe who declare one of their party a god who can save them from the ruthless militarist regime. The tourists include an expert on tropical plants, a famous dog trainer, a teenage ...
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Hundred Secret Senses
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Olivia is 3 years old when she discovers she has a half-sister, Kwan, who lives in China. When Kwan arrives to join the family, she reveals her secret to Olivia--she has visions and communicates with ghosts. Many years later, Kwan tries to encourage Olivia not to give up on her marriage to Simon and convinces them both to travel to China with her. ...
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The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
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Amy Tan leaves the realm of fiction in this collection of essays about her own life--and, specifically, about the part fate has played in it. In the process, she covers her Chinese-American childhood, her writing, and her travels with the all-writer rock band, the Rock Bottom Remainders. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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The Moon Lady
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An excerpt from the novel THE JOY LUCK CLUB presented in picture-book format. A Chinese grandmother now living in America shares a story with her three grandchildren about her youth in China. While celebrating at the Moon Festival, 7-year-old Ying-ying becomes separated from her family. She has many adventures, but when she meets the magical Moon ...
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What the Dormouse Said: Lessons for Grown-Ups from Children's Books
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Amy Gash (Compiled by), Pierre Le-Tan (Illustrator), Judith Viorst (Foreword by)
A collection of 300 quotations from well-loved children's books, this work brings together the wisdom of classics such as "Charlotte's Web", "Peter Pan", "Eloise", "Goodnight Moon", and others.
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The Chinese Siamese Cat
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An original folktale explaining the origin of Siamese cats. It seems that all Siamese cats are descendents of Sagwa, a Chinese cat once owned by a Foolish Magistrate. The magistrate used cats to write out his edicts by dipping their tails in ink and then using their tails as pens. When Sagwa accidently falls in an ink pot and then walks across the ...
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The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
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Internationally bestselling novelist Amy Tan's first work of nonfiction reveals personal stories of her life and family, and of faith and fate. A "New York Times" Notable Book. Photos throughout.
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Mother: Mother
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Claudia O'Keefe (Editor), Faye Kellerman, Amy Tan
An anthology of fiction, essays and poetry on the theme of motherhood. From a woman's choice to become a mother to the inner working of a mother's relationship with her children, the full cycle of motherhood is covered in works by authors such as Maya Angelou and Amy Tan.
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Mid-Life Confidential: 2the Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude
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Dave Marsh (Editor), Stephen King, Amy Tan
In 1992, 15 famous baby-boomer writers formed a band for the American Booksellers Association convention in Anaheim, CA. Known as the Rock Bottom Remainders, the band included Dave Barry (lead guitarist), Stephen King, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Roy Blount, Jr. They wound up doing a two-week East Coast tour. This book contains the memoirs of ...
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Mei Mei Little Sister: Portraits from a Chinese Orphanage
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Richard Bowen (Photographer), Karin Evans (Afterword by), Amy Tan (Introduction by)
Presents a poignant glimpse of just a few of China's thousands of children primarily girls, growing up without families to take care of them in China's state run welfare agencies.
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The Opposite of Fate
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Amy Tan leaves the realm of fiction in this collection of essays about her own life--and, specifically, about the part fate has played in it. In the process, she covers her Chinese-American childhood, her writing, and her travels with the all-writer rock band, the Rock Bottom Remainders. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
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To explain the markings on their faces and tails, Ming Miao tells her kittens the story of their ancestor, Sagwa of China, and how the kitten's antics foiled the Foolish Magistrate. This fairy tale is the inspiration of a new PBS animated series debuting in fall 2001. Full-color illustrations.
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El Club de La Buena Estrella
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Red Ivy, Green Earth Mother
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AI Bei, Professor Howard Goldblatt (Translator), Amy Tan (Foreword by)
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Un Lugar Llamado Nada
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Amy Tan
Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China and heads south into the jungles of Burma. After the mysterious death of their tour leader, the carefully laid plans fall apart. On Christmas morning, 11 of the travelers boat across a misty lake for a sunrise cruise and disappear.
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Literary Outtakes [False Starts, Loose Lines, Dropped Dialogue, and Other Fragments From 101 Renowned Writers]
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Larry (Edited By) [Foreword By Harold Bloom] [Allen Ginsberg Dark, Amy Tan, Peter Benchley, John Updike, William T. Vollman,...
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Tochter Des Himmels
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The Hundred Secret Senses (Open Market Edition): Ivy 09/96
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Amy Tan
Olivia is 3 years old when she discovers she has a half-sister, Kwan, who lives in China. When Kwan arrives to join the family, she reveals her secret to Olivia--she has visions and communicates with ghosts. Many years later, Kwan tries to encourage Olivia not to give up on her marriage to Simon and convinces them both to travel to China with her. ...
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Mid-life confidential : the Rock Bottom Remainders tour America with three chords and an attitude
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Dave Marsh, Tabitha King, Dave Barry
This is the story of one of the strangest journeys in the history of rock and roll. The Rock Bottom Remainders barnstormed the East Coast playing clubs where the customers brandished books, and clubs where the listeners brandished clubs, and massacring rock'n'roll classics everywhere.
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The Changing Realities of Work and Family: A Multidisciplinary Approach
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Amy Marcus-Newhall (Editor), Diane F Halpern (Editor), Sherylle J Tan (Editor)
"Changing Realities of Work and Family" is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the multiple realities of work and family from academic, commercial, and political perspectives. The book brings together works by an extraordinary list of contributors, including Jane Swift, former governor of Massachusetts; practitioners from industry; the ...
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La Esposa del Dios del Fuego
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Uc the Hundred Secret Senses, Limited Edition
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