Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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By Adams, Alice. Roses, rhododendron Updike, John. Separating Rossner, Judith. 116th Street Jenny Wolff, Tobias. Rich brother Oates, Joyce Carol. Swimmers Conroy, Frank. Midair Doerr, Harriet. Edie, a life Baxter, Charles. Fenstad's mother Tan, Amy. Rules of the game Sayles, John. Halfway Diner Colwin, Laurie. Another marvelous thing Smiley, Jane. Lily Cisneros, Sandra. One h1992., Hyperion Call No: Literature FIC ARTESEROS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Short fiction by contemporary authors.
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By Tan, Amyc2001., G.P. Putnam's Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, between one season of falling stars and the next, mother and daughter find what they share in their bones through heredity, history, and inexpressible qualities of love.
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By Tan, Amy2002, c2001., Ballantine Books Call No: 813 .54 Edition: 1st Ballantine Book Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.
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By Tan, Amy2001., G.P. Putnam's Call No: Realistic FIC Tan Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother Luling's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China, where Luling's mute and disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking man.
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By Tan, Amyc1989., Putnam's Call No: Realistic FIC Tan Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1949 four Chinese women began meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong. They called their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Forty years later they look back and remember.
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By Tan, Amyc1989., Putnam's Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
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By Tan, Amyc1989., Putnam's Call No: HISTORICAL F TAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.
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By Tan, Amy1989., Putnam's Call No: Literature FIC TAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This story tracks four Chinese women who in 1949 fled warfare in their homeland and came to San Francisco, where they instituted a weekly ritual: gathering--even in the midst of sorrow--to celebrate life, play mah-jongg, and tell "stories.".
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By Tan, AmyÃ1989., Penguin Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: Penguin orange collection.Summary Note: The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
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By Tan, Amy1991., Putnam Call No: Literature FIC TAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This story delves into mother-daughter relationships, the vagaries of luck, and the will to survive. The catalyst for the tale is a longtime friend's demand that Winnie finally reveal the whole truth about her life in China to her grown, American-born daughter, Pearl. As Tan traces the many twists and turns of Winnie's saga, she dramatizes the inhumanity of arranged marriages and the subjugation of women.
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By Rochman, Hazel McCampbell, Darlene Z Cisneros, Sandra. House of my own Soto, Gary. Saturday at the canal Jones, Edward P. First day Sears, Vickie. Dancer Sherman, Allan. Gift of laughter Tan , Amy. Rules of the game Jiménez, Francisco. Circuit Cofer, Judith Ortiz. Bad influence Wynne-Jones, Tim. Dawn Cisneros, Sandra. Beautiful & cruel Sanford, Annette. Trip in a summer dr1997., Juvenile, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Young adult FIC ROCHMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An international anthology that reflects the thoughts and feelings of young people as they make their own ways into the world.
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By Tan, Amy1992., Macmillan Oublishing Co. Call No: 398 TAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Nai-Nai tells her grandaughters the story of her outing, as a seven year old girl in China, to see the Moon Lady and be granted a secret wish
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By Cassill, R. V. (Ronald Verlin), 1919- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Adams, Alice. Barcelona Alvarez, Julia. Rudy Elmenhurst story Atwood, Margaret. Man from Mars Barthelme, Donald. Indian uprising Baxter, Charles. Snow Beattie, Ann. Cinderella waltz Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Descent of man Carlson, Ron. Blazo Carver, Raymond. Cathedral Cisneros, Sandra. One holy night Coover, Rob1998., Norton Call No: Literature FIC CASSILL Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of contemporary fiction that contains forty-five short stories by various authors.
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By Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle Austin, William. Missing man Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Wives of the dead Melville, Herman. Paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids Poe, Edgar Allan. Tell-tale heart Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Ghost in the mill Clemens, Samuel. Cannibalism in the cars Jewett, Sarah Orne. White heron Chopin, Kate. Storm Chesnutt, Charles. Sheriff's children Gi1992., Oxford University Press Call No: Literature FIC OATES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of short stories by American writers.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Harper Call No: FIC TAN Genre: Realistic fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Even though it's nice being back with her friends at Meadow Wood, a seven week summer camp, Vic Brown didn't want to go this year. She can't forget the reason her mother sent Vic and her brother away to camp. With her home life imploding, Vic doesn't want to spend the summer canoeing. But as Vic starts helping with the new farm elective and gets to know her counselor and her camp sister, she discovers that maybe summer at Meadow Wood is just what she needed.
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By Allison, Dorothy. River of names Bausch, Richard. All the way in Flagstaff, Arizona Beattie , Ann. Vintage Thunderbird Bly, Carol. Talk of heroes Bradfield, Scott. Darling Braverman, Kate. Tall tales from the Mekong Delta Carver, Raymond. Cathedral Dubus, Andre. Fat girl Dybek, Stuart. Chopin in winter Ford, Richard. Rock springs Gaitskill, Mary. Romantic weekend Gurganus, A1994., Vintage Books Call No: Literature FIC WOLFF Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of contemporary short stories.
