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Author
Series
Penguin drop caps volume T
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Macy Sorensen works hard as a new pediatrics resident, plans a wedding to an older, financially secure man, and keeps her heart tucked away. When she runs into Elliot Petropoulos, the first and only love of her life, the careful bubble she's constructed begins to dissolve. As teenagers, Elliot and Macy spent lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and...
Author
Series
Andy Mills mystery volume 2
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices above the Ruby, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edicion Vintage Espanol en tapa blanda.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"A los veintidoʹs ąos, sospechando que te̕nan el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras m̀s intentaban agotarlo, m̀s imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hap pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun a̕s quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da o̕xgeno." -- Page [4] cover.
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