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Paperback:
9780807083178 | Reissue edition (Beacon Pr, April 1, 1991), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the life of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl--sold as a slave and brought to America--where, later, as Polly Bemis she struggles and survives as a pioneer in the West
New York police detective April Woo and psychoanalyst Jason Frank work together to stop an artistic killer leaving a trail of twisted letters
Hardcover:
9780385469333 | Doubleday, October 1, 1993, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: New York police detective April Woo and psychoanalyst Jason Frank work together to stop an artistic killer leaving a trail of twisted letters
Paperback:
9780553561722 | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, August 1, 1995), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: New York police detective April Woo and psychoanalyst Jason Frank work together to stop an artistic killer leaving a trail of twisted letters
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781588070609 | Abridged edition (Americana Pub Inc, May 1, 2001), cover price $25.00
Hardcover:
9780446518291 | Grand Central Pub, September 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Maibelle Chung, daughter of a Chinese man and a Caucasian woman, seeks her place in the world while being tormented by her past
Paperback:
9780446671354 | Grand Central Pub, October 1, 1995, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Growing up as an outsider among her people, Chinese-American photographer Maibelle Chung is offered an assignment in New York's Chinatown, and her successful pictures expose a dark side of a world she is trying to forget.
Hardcover:
9780525939276 | E P Dutton, May 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The story of Lue Gim Gong, a Chinese immigrant to nineteenth-century America, who rose from virtual indentured servitude in New England to fame as a botanist, is told through the voices of three generations of Chinese women who cared for him
Paperback:
9780295987149 | Univ of Washington Pr, September 30, 2007, cover price $25.00
9780807062296 | Beacon Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Ruthanne Lum McCunn, author of the acclaimed THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD, introduces the fascinating life story of Gim Gong Lue, a nineteenth-century horticultural pioneer.
9780452273467 | Plume, May 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | also contains L'affaire Gachet: L'audace Des Bandits | About this edition: The story of Lue Gim Gong, a Chinese immigrant to nineteenth-century America, who rose from virtual indentured servitude in New England to fame as a botanist, is told through the voices of three generations of Chinese women who cared for him.
Product Description: Amy Tan's latest effort unfolds a series of family secrets that questions the connection between fate, beliefs, and hopes, memory and imagination, and the natural gifts of our hundred secret senses. Years after her Chinese half-sister assails her with ghost stories set in the mysterious world of Yin, a young woman finds herself in China, looking for a way to reconcile the ghosts of her past with the dreams of her future...read more
Hardcover:
9780788192043 | Reprint edition (Diane Pub Co, June 1, 2000), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Amy Tan's latest effort unfolds a series of family secrets that questions the connection between fate, beliefs, and hopes, memory and imagination, and the natural gifts of our hundred secret senses.
9780745137742 | Largeprint edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1996), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Stunning reissue of an international bestseller, from the author of `The Joy Luck Club' and `The Bonesetter's Daughter'.
9780745179650 | Largeprint edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1996), cover price $25.01 | About this edition: Stunning reissue of an international bestseller, from the author of `The Joy Luck Club' and `The Bonesetter's Daughter'.
9780786205981 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 1996), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Kwan, a seventeen-year-old half-sister from China, turns young Olivia's world upside-down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination, until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts ofthe past with her dreams of the future
9780399141140 | Putnam Pub Group, October 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Kwan, a seventeen-year-old half-sister from China, turns young Olivia's world upside-down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination, until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts ofthe past with her dreams of the future
Paperback:
9780375701528 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1998), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Kwan, a seventeen-year-old half-sister from China, turns young Olivia's world upside-down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination, until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts ofthe past with her dreams of the future
9780786205974 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 1, 1997), cover price $26.95
9780804111096 | Reprint edition (Ivy Books, December 1, 1996), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Kwan, a seventeen-year-old half-sister from China, turns young Olivia's world upside-down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts of t
9780804115025 | Ivy Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Stunning reissue of an international bestseller, from the author of `The Joy Luck Club' and `The Bonesetter's Daughter'.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780787105662 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, October 1, 1995), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Kwan turns her young half-sister Olivia's world upside-down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination.
9780787105655 | Dove Entertainment Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Kwan turns her young half-sister Olivia's world upside-down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination.
Prebinding:
9780613032094 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Kwan, a seventeen-year-old half-sister from China, turns young Olivia's world upside-down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts of the past with her dreams of the future
Hardcover:
9780553097122 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Investigating the murder of a woman who was hung in a fashionable boutique, her body costumed with garish makeup and frilly clothing, NYPD detective April Woo teams up with psychiatrist Jason Frank for a second difficult case
Paperback:
9780553571912 | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, September 1, 1996), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Investigating the murder of a woman who was hung in a fashionable boutique, her body costumed with garish makeup and frilly clothing, NYPD detective April Woo teams up with psychiatrist Jason Frank for a second difficult case
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781588070593 | Abridged edition (Americana Pub Inc, May 1, 2001), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Investigating the murder of a woman who was hung in a fashionable boutique, her body costumed with garish makeup and frilly clothing, NYPD detective April Woo teams up with psychiatrist Jason Frank for a second difficult case.
Hardcover:
9780060186814 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A young Chinese-American woman's mental breakdown sends her into her past and the world of her ancestors--from her grandmother, the family's aristocratic matriarch, to her beautiful but fearful sister--in search of her own identity
Paperback:
9780060928933 | Perennial, January 1, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A young Chinese-American woman's mental breakdown sends her into her past and the world of her ancestors--from her grandmother, the family's aristocratic matriarch, to her beautiful but fearful sister--in search of her own identity
Hardcover:
9780786704149 | Carroll & Graf Pub, July 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Propelling readers through fifty years of turbulent history, an epic story follows Mei-Ling, who is born in China in 1949, flees to Europe and then America in 1969, and in 1997 returns to Hong Kong to find herself once more
Returning to her family's home in Queens after graduating from Columbia University, twenty-two-year-old Ruby Lee must confront her emotions, her parents, and her burgeoning sexual maturation as she comes to grips with post-college life and her future. A first novel. 40,000 first printing. Tour. BAKER & TAYLOR
Hardcover:
9780684814162 | Scribner, January 1, 1998, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Returning to her family's home in Queens after graduating from Columbia University, twenty-two-year-old Ruby Lee must confront her emotions, her parents, and her burgeoning sexual maturation as she comes to grips with post-college life and her future
Hardcover:
9780525944607 | E P Dutton, February 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: NYPD Detective Sergeant April Woo becomes caught up in the middle of a high-profile case involving the disappearance of a child, a case that takes a nasty turn when the child's wealthy parents become the prime suspects in the crime
Paperback:
9780451199652 | Reissue edition (Signet, February 1, 2000), cover price $7.50 | About this edition: NYPD Detective Sergeant April Woo becomes caught up in the middle of a high-profile case involving the disappearance of a child, a case that takes a nasty turn when the child's wealthy parents become the prime suspects in the crime
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781588070555 | Abridged edition (Americana Pub Inc, June 1, 2001), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: With her mastery of police procedure and unflinching take on race relations, Leslie Glass is one of today's most original female suspense writers.
9780792723844 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, August 1, 2000), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: With her mastery of police procedure and unflinching take on race relations, Leslie Glass is one of today's most original female suspense writers.
Paperback:
9780312244798 | Revised edition (Griffin, December 1, 1999), cover price $16.99 | also contains The Joy Luck Club | About this edition: Features over 2,500 travel bargains on accommodations, restaurants, shopping, and attractions in the city
Hardcover:
9781587241086 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, October 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: It's a foggy early September evening when Dr.
9780525944690 | E P Dutton, October 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The disappearance of a young doctor in Central Park brings Detective Sergeant April Woo and her canine unit into the case, but the crime-fighting team sniffs out another body instead, complicating an already difficult murder investigation.
Paperback:
9780451202284 | Reissue edition (Signet, October 1, 2001), cover price $7.50 | About this edition: The disappearance of a young doctor in Central Park brings Detective Sergeant April Woo and her canine unit into the case, but the crack crime-fighting team sniffs out another body instead, complicating and already difficult murder investigation.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781588070579 | Abridged edition (Americana Pub Inc, October 1, 2000), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: It's a foggy early September evening when Dr.
Paperback:
9781586603977 | Barbour Pub Inc, February 1, 2002, cover price $9.95
Paperback:
9781559362221 | Theatre Communications Group, May 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: ÂI loved this show so much!
9780142002186, titled "The Flower Drum Song" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Living in San Francisco's Chinatown, with his widowed father, who mourns the loss of the old way of life in China, and younger brother, who just wants to be a normal American teenager, Wang Ta searches for true love and the American dream, in a classic novel of the Chinese-American experience.
Hardcover:
9780758202161 | Kensington Pub Corp, October 1, 2002, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: When an emotional breakdown forces her to hospitalize her mother, forever shaming the family, Ruby Lin, torn between two different cultures, tries to help her mother heal, which leads her on a journey through her family's history.
Paperback:
9780758202178 | Reprint edition (Kensington Pub Corp, October 1, 2003), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: When an emotional breakdown forces her to hospitalize her mother, forever shaming the family, Ruby Lin, torn between two different cultures, tries to help her mother heal, which leads her on a journey through her family's history.
Paperback:
9780811216685 | Reprint edition (New Directions, June 1, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Restored to print after its original run in 1968, a modernist tale on the Asian-American experience finds Fourth Jane struggling with her developing sense of self in spite of frequent family relocations throughout four continents and a loving but oppressive father.
Hardcover:
9780754015949, titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter" | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2001), cover price $55.01
9780786229529, titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $32.95
9780399146855, titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter" | Slp edition (Putnam Pub Group, March 1, 2001), cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.
9780399146435, titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter" | Putnam Pub Group, February 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.
Paperback:
9780345457370, titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter" | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
9780786229512, titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $29.95
9780804114981, titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter" | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 2002), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
9780754024538, titled "The Bonesetter''s Daughter" | Largeprint edition (Chivers, June 1, 2001), cover price $22.01
Reinforced:
9780606242776, titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter" | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.80 | About this edition: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
Prebinding:
9781435297807, titled "The Bonesetter's Daughter" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $23.95 | also contains The Bonesetter's Daughter
9781417669981, titled "Bonesetter's Daughter" | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $28.20 | About this edition: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
9780613426671, titled "Bonesetter's Daughter" | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.
Paperback:
9780310274001 | Zondervan, September 1, 2008, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Drake Yu.
Paperback:
9780060560751 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 2004), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A thoroughly modern young American woman living in San Francisco, Lindsey Owyang has little in common with her Chinese heritage, until an unexpected event forces her to reexamine her family's history and the need to meld the old culture with the new.
A sequel to The Dim Sum of All Things finds Lindsey Owyang continuing the struggle to bridge cultures in her Chinese-American family, in a tale marked by such challenges as two part-time jobs, a love triangle, twins separated at birth, and her ongoing relationship with Michael. Original. 40,000 first printing.
Paperback:
9780060753221 | Harpercollins, September 1, 2005, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Lindsey Owyang continues to struggle to bridge cultures in her Chinese-American family, as she deals with such challenges as two part-time jobs, a love triangle, twins separated at birth, and her relationship with Michael.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441773579 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 5, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: ''It was like having twins.
9781441773562 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 5, 2010), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: ''It was like having twins.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441773555 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 5, 2010), cover price $109.00 | About this edition: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: ''It was like having twins.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781441773548 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 5, 2010), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: ''It was like having twins.
Paperback:
9780141043524 | Gardners Books, March 3, 2011, cover price $25.35
9780393331455 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 21, 2009, cover price $13.95
Hardcover:
9781594202490 | Penguin Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Looking to reconnect with their ancestral home and with one another, three generations of women tour mainland China on a journey that will change their family forever.
Paperback:
9781885030900 | Revised edition (Kaya, February 29, 2012), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: It's 1980s New York, and though the coke flows freely, money and glamour are the more powerful intoxicants.
9781885030245 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, November 1, 1997, cover price $13.95
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