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81) Disorientation
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
84) Sarah Canary
Author
Publisher
A Plume Book
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort "the ugliest woman he could imagine" away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in...
85) My year abroad
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure"--
Author
Series
Harry Bosch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in an apparent robbery. Joined by members of the department's Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word that his young daughter Maddie, who lives in Hong...
Author
Series
Pacy Lin books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
It's the Chinese year of the dog! When Pacy's mom tells her that this is a good year for friends, family, and "finding herself," Pacy begins searching right away. As the year goes on, she struggles to find her talent, deals with disappointment, makes a new best friend, and discovers just why the year of the dog is a lucky one for her after all.
Series
Publisher
Transparent Language
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 computer flash drive : sd., col. ; 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An interactive language instruction program that focuses first on vocabulary and second on using words and phrases in an immersive, whole-language learning experience.
89) Heidi
Author
Publisher
Bardon-Chinese Media Agency
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
189 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
中文(繁體)
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Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Author
Series
Pacy Lin books volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown Company
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
182 p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The Year of the Rat brings big changes: Pacy must deal with Melody moving to California, find the courage to forge on with her dream of becoming a writer and illustrator, and learn to face some of her own flaws. She encounters prejudice, struggles with acceptance, and must find the beauty in change.
Author
Publisher
Groundwork Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Grandmother lives with Grace's family. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day. Then, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to her room stays closed. One day, Grandmother's room is empty. And one day, Grandmother is buried. After the...
Author
Series
Catherine Ling novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When CIA operative Catherine Ling's old friend Hu Chang creates something so deadly, and completely untraceable, the chase is on to be the first to get it. With rogue operative John Gallo also on the hunt, Catherine finds herself pitted against a group so villainous and a man so evil that she may not survive the quest to protect those she cares about.
94) Loveboat reunion
Author
Series
Loveboat Taipei volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After their disastrous summer in Taipei, Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh must come together once more to help each other pursue the futures they want.
Author
Series
Ming's adventures volume 2
Publisher
Better Link Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on a visit to the Forbidden City in Beijing, Ming travels back in time, meets the young emperor, and the two of them fly around the sky on the back of a bronze dragon.
96) The foreigner
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After his only daughter gets killed in a terrorist attack, a former Vietnam War special forces operator begins the search for the terrorists' identities to get his revenge.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xi, 286 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a crucial period from the 1860s to about 1980, Chinese painting was transformed into a modern expression of its classical heritage. This book draws on a selection of modern Chinese paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to explore this period, discussing issues of modernity and creativity in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Chinese painting. Wen C. Fong deals with both traditionalist...
Series
Publisher
distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A con man impersonates a monk and sneaks into a Shaolin Temple, where he trains to become an unstoppable fighting force. He uses these skills to fight a corrupt labor boss.
Author
Language
English
Description
Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate -- the first automobile any of them have seen -- and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced...
Author
Series
Annie Szabo mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Annie Szabo has discovered a miracle: Jimmy Qi, a kid from Chinatown with the power to heal using music. He's dazzling, he's a scoundrel, he's wise, and he makes a great newspaper article.But now everyone wants Jimmy: an evangelist; a tong society; a CDC doctor; a dolphin fanatic; and an FBI agent who seems too good to be true. Feeling responsible for creating San Francisco's latest hot commodity, Annie enlists her mother-in-law, the audacious fortune-teller...
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