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1) The leavers
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Language
English
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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
Author
Series
Food Assistance and Nutrition Research report volume no. 26-8
Publisher
United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
4) Memory piece
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Language
English
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"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
"A thoroughly researched and provocative revisionist study." - Wall Street Journal
"Going Dutch is elegant and thought-provoking. . . . Jardine evokes a dialogue of civilizations." - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
"She explores the fascinating Anglo-Dutch relationship to answer how and why two sworn foes became friends so seamlessly. . . . A highly original work that will appeal to fans of Simon Schama's The Embarrassment of Riches." - Publishers...
6) Stag's leap
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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In this wise and intimate telling--which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending--Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love's sight; the surprising physical bond that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from her husband's smile to the set of his hip. Olds is nakes before us, curious and brave and even generous...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE
Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world—perfect for readers of Behold the Dreamers, White Ivy, and The Leavers.
Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school"--with lessons on gentrification and respectability- and fight to create their own sense of space and self.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Maddy Donaldo, homeless at twenty, has made a family of sorts in the dangerous spaces of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. She knows whom to trust, where to eat, when to move locations, and how to take care of her dog. It's the only home she has. When she unwittingly witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator, her relatively stable life is upended. Suddenly, everyone from the police to the dead boys' parents want...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Four episodes of the very popular British detective series, with Detective Inspector Jack Frost, a policeman with a knack for trouble. Set in the town of Denton, Frost approaches each case with his characteristic dry wit and a sense of moral justice.
14) Creed
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby deserted town called Purity Springs, but in the morning they see the town is populated with a deadly cult and find themselves at the mercy of the charismatic leader, Elijah Hawkins.
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Suggests that friendship, treated as a priority, is the cure for the modern epidemic of loneliness and isolation, and explores the meaning of friendship, what it requires, how in enriches life, how it contributes to self, and how to get the most from it.
17) Sweet madness
Author
Publisher
Merit Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Bridget Sullivan, a maid in the Borden household, describes the events leading up to the murder of Andrew Borden and his second wife, and how the youngest daughter, Lizzie, was put on trial for the crime.
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