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(0)Amy Tan
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Series
Penguin drop caps volume T
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, gather to play mah jong, remember the past, and gossip into the night. United in unspeakable loss and new hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. . . . Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, memories that reveal these women's strength, worries, and determination, which their American-born daughters reject as irrelevant. The daughters, in turn, recall pivotal moments...
Author
Language
English
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Description
For decades-in China and in San Francisco-Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept each other's confidences, but those secrets are about to be revealed. Convinced that she is dying, Helen decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of hidden truths-not only hers, but those of Winnie and of Winnie's daughter, Pearl. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss, and trust-about the...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
On an ill-fated art expedition into Burma, 11 Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas-morning tour--and disappear. Through twists of fate, they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of a leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages of the Myanmar military regime. Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a facade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd...
Author
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The bonesetter's daughter is an excavation of the human spirit : the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have lost in grief. Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, between one season of falling stars and...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
x, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory"--
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Years after her Chinese half-sister assails her with ghost stories set in the mysterious world of Yin, Olivia - a young woman from San Francisco - finds herself in China. Looking for a way to reconcile her past with dreams for her future, Olivia's American assumptions are shaken by Chinese ghosts, but she also finds reasons to hope.
Read by author Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses unfolds a series of family secrets that question the connections...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater--an opportunity to savor quiet moments during...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of A Kind of Paradise comes a beautiful and heartfelt middle grade novel for fans of Ali Standish and Sally J. Pla, about a girl who finds comfort in the warm traditions and unexpected friendships of summer camp.
Vic Brown did not want to go to camp this summer.
Even though it's nice being back with her friends at Meadow Wood, Vic still can't forget about the secret reason her mom wanted
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jamie must spend her summer volunteering at Foxfield Public Library, but quickly grows to love the people there and enthusiastically joins the fight to save the library. --
13) The Moon Lady
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
ix,281 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm`
Language
English
Description
Expanding on the philosophy and methods of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren have developed the first-ever comprehensive book devoted to helping educators use nature journaling as an inspiring teaching tool to engage young people with wild places. In their workshops Laws and Lygren are often asked the how-tos of teaching nature journaling: how to manage student groups in the outdoors, teach drawing skills...
15) Princess Sheegwa
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 volume unpaged : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Everyone thinks Sagwa's little sister, Sheegwa, is a princess, and she's getting lots of attention. Sagwa is jealous, but she can't admit it until someone reminds her the new Princess Sheegwa may have to go far away to live. Suddenly Sagwa realizes she is going to miss her sister a lot. Can she make it up to Sheegwa before she leaves? And is there any way to keep her at home?
Pub. Date
200u
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.