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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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[2022]., Adolescent, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MYSTERY F CHE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this facade, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances. Now, twenty years later, Winnie is looking to reconnect with her old friend. But the shy, awkward girl Ava once knew has been replaced with a confident woman of the world, dripping in luxury goods, including a coveted Birkin in classic orange. The secret to her success? Winnie has developed an ingenious counterfeit scheme that involves importing near-exact replicas of luxury handbags and now she needs someone with a U.S. passport to help manage her business, someone who'd never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava. But when their spectacular success is threatened and Winnie vanishes once again, Ava is left to face the consequences.
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By Kwan, Kevin2014., Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC Call No: REALISTIC F KWA Edition: First Anchor Books edition, May 2014. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: Historical Fic Lee Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan's day job is doing maid work for the spoiled daughter of one of Atlanta's wealthiest men; by night, Jo writes as Miss Sweetie for a news paper advice column. When Jo's "Dear Miss Sweetie" articles become popular, she begins to use her pen-power to address society's ills, particularly challenging ideas about gender and race, drawing a backlash and attempts to uncover her real identity. Then, Atlanta's most notorious criminal gets on Jo's trail, and she will have to decide on standing up for her beliefs or remaining in the shadows of anonymity.
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By Kwok, Jean2010., Riverhead Books Call No: Teen Fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.
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By Kwok, Jean2010., Riverhead Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC KWOK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.
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By Kwok, Jean2011., Riverhead Books Call No: Realistic FIC Kwok Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: When eleven-year-old Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate to New York from Hong Kong, they hope for a better life but end up barely surviving working in a Chinatown sweatshop. Kim decides that school success is her ticket to a better life but, when she falls for a boy at the factory, she is torn between him and her dream of a better life.
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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, 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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2022., Adolescent, Simon & Schuster Call No: DYSTOPIA F CHA Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a year at a newly-created institution, where she practices parenting with bad mothers from all over the county. There, she learns to love an uncannily life-like toddler girl doll in order to demonstrate her maternal instincts and prove to her family court judge that she deserves a second chance. Frida is an outsider in every way: better educated, more affluent, and the only Asian. The mothers, whose transgressions range from benign to horrific, are under constant surveillance. If they don't pass all the school's tests, their parental rights will be terminated. Inspired by dystopian classics such as 1984, Never Let Me Go, and The Handmaid's Tale, the novel eviscerates the dominant American parenting culture, while highlighting the tragedy of state-sponsored family separation. Is there one right way to mother? Can a bad mother ever be redeemed? With warmth, heart, and dark humor, the novel tells a timeless story of a mother fighting to win back her child, and her struggle to hold onto her integrity while being indoctrinated"--Provided by the publisher.
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2022., Simon & Schuster Call No: DYSTOPIA FIC CHA Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a year at a newly-created institution, where she practices parenting with bad mothers from all over the county. There, she learns to love an uncannily life-like toddler girl doll in order to demonstrate her maternal instincts and prove to her family court judge that she deserves a second chance. Frida is an outsider in every way: better educated, more affluent, and the only Asian. The mothers, whose transgressions range from benign to horrific, are under constant surveillance. If they don't pass all the school's tests, their parental rights will be terminated. Inspired by dystopian classics such as 1984, Never Let Me Go, and The Handmaid's Tale, the novel eviscerates the dominant American parenting culture, while highlighting the tragedy of state-sponsored family separation. Is there one right way to mother? Can a bad mother ever be redeemed? With warmth, heart, and dark humor, the novel tells a timeless story of a mother fighting to win back her child, and her struggle to hold onto her integrity while being indoctrinated"--
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2020., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: FANTASY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Rising high school juniors Jocelyn Wu and Will Domenici fall in love while trying to save the Wu family restaurant, A-Plus Chinese Garden.
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2020., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: CLASS SET FIC GRE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:146 of 147 At Location(s) Summary Note: Rising high school juniors Jocelyn Wu and Will Domenici fall in love while trying to save the Wu family restaurant, A-Plus Chinese Garden.
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2020., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: Young adult FIC GREGORIO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Rising high school juniors Jocelyn Wu and Will Domenici fall in love while trying to save the Wu family restaurant, A-Plus Chinese Garden.
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By Yang, Susie2020., Simon & Schuster Call No: MYSTERY F YAN Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "From prizewinning and first generation Chinese American author Susie Yang comes a delicious debut novel about a young immigrant woman's obsession with her privileged male classmate--and the lengths she'll go to win his love"--Provided by the publisher.
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2007., Greenhaven Press Call No: 813 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social issues in literatureSummary Note: A collection of essays that explores how women's issues are presented in Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club;" provides information on the author's life and the writing of the text; and looks at contemporary perspectives on various women's issues. Includes discussion questions, a list of suggested reading, and a bibliography.
