Author: Isaac Taylor Headland
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368253042
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Reproduction of the original.

Author: Isaac Taylor Headland
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95

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The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland is about Mr. Headland and his friend Mrs. Yin as they investigate Mother Goose's beloved nursery rhymes. Excerpt: "It is a mistake to suppose that any one nation or people has the exclusive right to Mother Goose. She is an omnipresent old lady. She is Asiatic as well as European or American. Wherever there are mothers, grandmothers, and nurses there are Mother Gooses,—or; shall we say, Mother Geese—for I am at a loss as to how to pluralize this old dame. She is in India, whence I have rhymes from her, of which the following is a sample: Heh, my baby! Ho, my baby! See the wild, ripe plum..."

Author: Isaac Taylor Headland
Publisher:
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Barbara Steadman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486293530
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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32 traditional outfits include wedding apparel for a Manchu bride and groom, ornate costumes for the Peacock, a dance of the Dai people, wardrobe accents, and much more.

Author: Arlene Mosel
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466815523
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo- chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo! Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo. Tikki Tikki Tembo is the winner of the 1968 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books.

Author: Yiyun Li
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679604065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of The New Yorker’s top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student’s true affections. A lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. Six women establish a private investigating agency to battle extramarital affairs in Beijing. Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl introduces us to worlds strange and familiar, creating a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.

Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Oscar Chrisman
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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"The Historical Child" by Oscar Chrisman. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author: Kim Fu
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0544032403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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A son of Chinese immigrants discovers his true self in a “sharply written debut . . . a coming-of-age tale for our time” (Seattle Times). Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Winner 2015 PEN/ Hemingway Award, Finalist Lambda Literary Award, Finalist Longlisted for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection for Spring 2014 A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize At birth, Peter Huang is given the Chinese name Juan Chaun, “powerful king.” To his parents, newly settled in small-town Ontario, he is the exalted only son in a sea of daughters, the one who will finally fulfill his immigrant father’s dreams of Western masculinity. Peter and his sisters grow up in an airless house of order and obligation, though secrets and half-truths simmer beneath the surface. At the first opportunity, each of the girls lights out on her own. But for Peter, escape is not as simple as fleeing his parents’ home. Though his father crowned him “powerful king,” Peter knows otherwise. He knows he is really a girl. With the help of his far-flung sisters and the sympathetic souls he finds along the way, Peter inches ever closer to his own life, his own skin, in this darkly funny, emotionally acute, stunningly powerful debut. “Sensitively wrought . . . “For Today I Am a Boy” is as much about the construction of self as the consequences of its unwitting destruction—and what happens when its acceptance seems as foreign as another country.” —The New York Times Book Review “Subtle and controlled, with flashes of humor and warmth.” —Slate “Keeps you reading. Told in snatches of memory that hurt so much they have the ring of truth.” —Bust