Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, Paperback - Adeline Yen Mah

Reducere. Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed ra...

Reducere. A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s. A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to...

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Reducere. Jung-ling's family considers her bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her. They discriminate against her and make her feel unwanted yet...

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When Adeline Yen Mah's mother dies giving birth to her, the family rejects Adeline. In this vivid autobiography, the author describes her, life, st...

Historical fantasy adventure, transporting readers back to an accurate representation of China in AD 960. Following a fall in the Shanghai market, ...

Reducere. Jim was a South African railway inspector in the late 1800s who lost his legs in an accident while at work. Unable to perform all his tasks with hi...

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From the author of The Gran Tour, a portrait of an intergenerational friendship.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Ben AitkenNumber of pages: 336Publi...

***NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2015*** A POIGNANT STORY OF LOSS AND SURVIVAL In the midst of a sugar cane field, within sight of skyscraper...

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***NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2015*** A POIGNANT STORY OF LOSS AND SURVIVAL In the midst of a sugar cane field, within sight of skyscraper...

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Reducere. #4 in the Young American Immigrants (nonfiction) children's series. Eleven-year-old Samuel is excited to sail with his family from South Africa to ...

Reducere. #1 in the Young American Immigrants (nonfiction) series. Experience a true American adventure through the eyes of a child who walked it. Nine-year-...

Reducere. The Acerra family had sixteen children, including twelve ball-playing boys. It was the1930s, and many families had lots of kids. But only one had e...

Reducere. DescriptionThe almost unbelievable, but true story of a teen-age boy's survival and triumph over hardship in a Russian slave labor camp -- ending i...

DescriptionA warm-hearted tale of wartime survival against a backdrop of evacuation and bombs. In June 1940, 10-year-old Pam Hobbs and her sister I...

The stranger-than-fiction case that has gripped Iceland for four decades.

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Reducere. He escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rud...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Keith O'BrienNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 243 x 43Cover type: HardbackRede...

After losing her mother, shy Natumi is rescued by a team from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an orphanage for baby elephants. At the shelter, ...

The heartbreaking yet inspiring account of a young girl who suffered horrifically at the hands of nuns in the Nazareth House Convent in Northern Ir...

Reducere. In March, 1944, the German army marched into Hungary, followed soon after by Adolf Eichmann and his SS Sondercommando. His single goal was to elimi...

In the early 1970s, two young filmmaking brothers unloaded their camera and recording equipment on the collapsing front porch of a dilapidated mano...

Reducere. A historical novel based on a true story about an amazing early twentieth-century woman. She stood out in a crowd of friends and relatives from Cas...

Reducere. Nine months after their traditional Amish wedding, Joe and Esther left family and friends forever to live openly for Christ, and endured shunning a...

When author Victor Rash visited a bird rescue and encountered the bird that would eventually become Freddie Mercury, a blue-and-gold-scarlet macaw ...