Author: Jennifer J. Chow
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781790866496
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Honorable Mention, 2015 San Francisco Book FestivalFinalist, 2013 Foreword Reviews' Book of the Year Award Three generations in an all-female Taiwanese family living near Los Angeles in 1980 are each guarding personal secrets. Grandmother Silk finds out that she has breast cancer, as daughter Lisa loses her job, while pre-teen granddaughter Abbey struggles with a school bully. When Silk's mysterious past comes out--revealing a shocking historical event that left her widowed--the truth forces the family to reconnect emotionally and battle their problems together. A novel of cultural identity and long-standing secrets, THE 228 LEGACY weaves together multigenerational viewpoints, showing how heritage and history can influence individual behavior and family bonds.
Author: DiAnn Mills
Publisher: Mission Books
ISBN: 9781618431288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Best-selling author, DiAnn Mills, has created a compelling, historical romance set in Texas during the late 1800s. In this second book of the Texas Legacy series, heroine Jenny Martin believes the one thing that will guarantee her happiness is to remove her deceased sister’s daughter from the home of Dr. Grant Andrews. But she is caught off-guard when she discovers the doctor is single and attractive. Then when danger stalks Jenny and those around her, she wonders if she is doing more harm than good by staying in Kahlerville.
Author: Abdul Talib bin Mohd. Hassan
Publisher: ITBM
ISBN: 9830684865
Category : Malay fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 655
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Author: Jennifer J. Chow
Publisher: Booktrope Editions
ISBN: 9781513704531
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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From Jennifer J. Chow, author of the award-winning The 228 Legacy, comes a young adult novel about immigrant struggles and family conflict. It's 1880 in Fresno, California when 17-year-old Topaz Woo dies after giving birth. She can get an extension in a non-physical body-if she uses The Ten Commandments to influence her newborn. Over the course of ten years, she finds herself stymied in parenting by intergenerational drama and spiritual battle. Will she adjust to an otherworldly existence and give her daughter a solid foundation? Or will she become mired in family disputes and forfeit her soul to evil?
Author: Dr Neven Andjelic
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135757143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The author of this study takes Bosnian affairs seriously, taking the decade immediately prior to the war into account, and in so doing makes it much easier to grasp why the war occurred.
Author: Jo Lauria
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811843744
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Increasingly receptive world, and showcased objects that still influence craft and design today. Book jacket.
Author: Stacia Deutsch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442498714
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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Third graders travel through time to keep history on track! Abigail loves Mondays, and so does the rest of class 305. That's the day Mr. Caruthers asks them cool questions about history. Today Mr. C asks, "What if Abraham Lincoln never freed the slaves?" Abigail and her friends are ready to put their thinking caps on. But this time Mr. C wants them to do more than put their heads together-he wants them to travel back in time! Turns out the "What If?" questions are real, and Mr. C has just come back from a visit to the past. He needs their help because it looks like President Lincoln might quit and never free the slaves! With a time-travel gadget and only two hours to spare, Abigail and her friends are going back to the past. But even though time traveling isn't hard, convincing Abraham Lincoln not to give up isn't going to be easy.... With a dollop of The Magic Tree House, a dash of Back to the Future, and pinch of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Blast to the Past is a recipe for fun!
Author: William G. Tapply
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935052227
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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Originally published: New York, NY: Lyons & Burford, c1993.
Author: A. B. Bosworth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198153066
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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This study examines the colourful and turbulent period after the death of Alexander the Great and the extraordinary people who created the Successor monarchies. It explains how and why Alexander's empire was split up and investigates the fate of the Macedonian army of conquest.
Author: Shawna Yang Ryan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101874260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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“Shawna Yang Ryan’s propulsive storytelling carries us through a bloody time in Taiwanese history, its implications still reverberating today. The story is haunted by questions about whether Taiwan is a part of China or its own country, what the costs are of standing up for one’s beliefs and by the choices made by one father and his daughter. Green Island is a tough, unsentimental and moving novel that is a memorial not only to the heroes, but also to the survivors.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer A stunning story of love, betrayal, and family, set against the backdrop of a changing Taiwan over the course of the twentieth century. February 28, 1947: Trapped inside the family home amid an uprising that has rocked Taipei, Dr. Tsai delivers his youngest daughter, the unnamed narrator of Green Island, just after midnight as the city is plunged into martial law. In the following weeks, as the Chinese Nationalists act to crush the opposition, Dr. Tsai becomes one of the many thousands of people dragged away from their families and thrown into prison. His return, after more than a decade, is marked by alienation from his loved ones and paranoia among his community—conflicts that loom over the growing bond he forms with his youngest daughter. Years later, this troubled past follows her to the United States, where, as a mother and a wife, she too is forced to decide between what is right and what might save her family—the same choice she witnessed her father make many years before. As the novel sweeps across six decades and two continents, the life of the narrator shadows the course of Taiwan’s history from the end of Japanese colonial rule to the decades under martial law and, finally, to Taiwan’s transformation into a democracy. But, above all, Green Island is a lush and lyrical story of a family and a nation grappling with the nuances of complicity and survival, raising the question: how far would you be willing to go for the ones you love?
