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Saving Fish from Drowning [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Amy Tan
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A provocative new novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter On an ill-fated art expedition into the southern Shan state of Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas-morning tour-and disappear. Through twists of fate, curses, and just plain human error, they find themselves deep in the jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of the leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the rav... more info>>
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The Bonesetter's Daughter [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Amy Tan
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The first time Amy Tan--The New York Times best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, and The Hundred Secret Senses--learned her mother's real name as well as that of her grandmother was on the day she died. It happened as Tan and several siblings--unified by a need to feel helpful instead of helpless--gathered to discuss their dying mother's past and prepare her obituary. Tan was stunned when she realized she had not known her own mother's birth name. It was just one of s... more info>>
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The Hundred Secret Senses [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Amy Tan
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The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivia's sarcasm, and sees the dead with her "yin eyes." Even as Olivia details the particulars... more info>>
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The Kitchen God's Wife [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Amy Tan
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"Riveting...the book rings with distinctive voices, and it's laden with those details that make readers feel that they've gained a toehold on another world." -USA TodayWinnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past?including the terible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's s... more info>>
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The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Amy Tan
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In her first book of nonfiction, bestselling novelist Amy Tan shares her personal philosophy of fate. Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny. She discovers answers in everyday actions and attitudes-from writing stories, decorating her house with charms, learning to ski, and living with squirrels, to dealin... more info>>
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