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By Tan, Amyc2001., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Call No: FIC TAN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.
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c2004., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC MCM Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Berrybender narratives Volume: bk. 4Summary Note: Englishman Lord Berrybender's excursion into the American frontier lands him in the custody of Mexican authorities who decide to move the group across the desert to Vera Cruz, while Berrybender's oldest daughter Tasmin, having finally made it to civilization in New Orleans, tries to decide whether she wants her husband, mountainman Jim Snow, to be part of her future.
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c2003., Adults, Zondervan Call No: FIC HAT Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Series Title: Coming to America Volume: bk. 4
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By Kwok, Jean[2019]., Adults, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC KWO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women--two sisters and their mother--in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother-- and vanishes. Amy is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie, who was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place. Amy flies to the last place Sylvie was seen, retracing her sister's movements. It seems Sylvie kept painful secrets that reveal more about Amy's family than she ever could have imagined.-- Adapted from dust jacket.
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2012., Adult, WaterBrook Press Call No: FIC KIR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A fictionalized account of the life Hulda Klager, a German immigrant and farm wife with only an eighth-grade education and a burning desire to create something beautiful, who turns her hobby into a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with her family and community.