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Ruthanne Lum McCunn
The extraordinary biographical novel about a Chinese-American woman who fought for independence and dignity in the American West
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A Chinese man’s struggle to survive the little-known Pacific slave trade.
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Tells the true story of Hong Kong born Thomas Sylvanus (Ah Yee Way), an orphan brought to America for schooling in the mid-1850s, but enslaved in Baltimore. Only sixteen at…
Trilingual English, Spanish, and Chinese. In the nineteenth century, a young Chinese comes to the United States to work on the railroad and develops a fondness for pies that becomes…
On November 23, 1942, German U-Boats torpedoed the British ship Benlomond and it sank in the Atlantic in two minutes. The sole survivor was a second steward named Poon Lim…
Lalu Nathoy’s father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his thousand pieces of gold, yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as…
The author of the classic Thousand Pieces of Gold returns with an uplifting novel of the real heroines of China’s Pearl River Delta–young girls who, in the 19th century, fought…
Focuses on Lue Gim Gong, a real-life Chinese pioneer, who seized the opportunity to go to America’s Gold Mountain. This book presents the story of his attempt to assimilate the…
