Gwendoline Yeo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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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. With wit and sensitivity, 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,...
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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...
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"In this debut set in near future NYC--where lives last 300 years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming--Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever. Lea Kirino is a "Lifer," which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever--if she does everything right. And Lea is an overachiever. She's a successful trader on the New York exchange--where instead of stocks, human organs...
5) Broken trail
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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English
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A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abondoned Chinese girls. Their rivals intend to kidnap the girls while the two are delivering a herd of horses.
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Skinny Bitch created a movement when it exposed the horrors of the food industry and inspired people across the world to stop eating "crap." The authors followed that New York Times bestseller with a cookbook. And the "bitches" are back yet again-this time with advice to pregnant women. And just because their audience is in a "delicate condition" doesn't mean they deliver a gentle message. With the same sassy tone that made Skinny Bitch laugh-out-loud...
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When two drifters hear rumors of a Chinese railroad worker hiding stolen gold at an isolated ranch, the desperate men put a conspiracy into motion to steal the Chinaman's gold themselves -- before other interested parties close in. Saul, one of the drifters, uses his charm and his horse skills to get hired as a ranch hand, while partner Bill lurks in the shadows waiting. To betray his new Chinese boss Zhen into revealing the treasure's location, Saul...