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(0)Wendy Lee
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Michael Tang and his sister, Emily, have both struggled to forge a sense of identity in their parents' adopted homeland. Emily, an immigration lawyer in New York City, baffles their mother, Ling, by refusing to have children. At twenty-six, Michael is unable to commit to a relationship or a career-or come out to his family. And now their father, after a lifetime of sacrifice, has passed away.
When Michael finds a letter to his father from a long-ago...
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When Hua Wu arrives in New York City, her life seems destined to resemble that of countless immigrants before her. She spends her hectic days in a restaurant in Chinatown, and her lonesome nights in a noisy, crowded tenement, yearning for those she left behind. But one day in a park in the West Village, Hua meets Jane Templeton and her daughter, Lily, a two-year-old adopted from China. Eager to expose Lily to the language and culture of her birth...
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"I suppose I did it because I wanted something to show for the thirty years-longer than I had lived in my homeland-that I had been here in America. Something that was properly appreciated, even if someone else got all the credit."
Liu Qingwu doesn't set out to commit a crime. He only wants to sell a painting-something more substantial than the Impressionist knockoffs he flogs to tourists outside New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the lucrative...
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This book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English novel's uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eighteenth-century studies has focused on cultural histories of sympathy. In...
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Friends of Heartlake City volume 7
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When Emma accidentally causes Olivia to lose an important science prize, a furious Olivia breaks off her friendship with Emma and the other Friends. But after a New Year's Eve dream, in which a living, breathing Zobo takes her on a tour of her past, present and potential future, Olivia is reminded that friendship is the most valuable prize of all.
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Friends of Heartlake City volume 5
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Confined to a wheelchair after a failed Halloween attempt to prove herself a reporter, What's At Heart photographer Emma sees strange goings-on through her hospital window. She's convinced the neighbors are jewel thieves, but no one believes her – till the bad guys come after her!
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Friends of Heartlake City volume 2
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It's Stephanie vs. Tanya on a TV Bake-Off to end all bake-offs! Stephanie concocts a fabulous cake, and Sneaky Tanya steals the recipe -- but neither knows that pet bunny Daisy has added a secret key ingredient. Will Stephanie's frantic efforts to win at all costs end her friendship with her BFF's?
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Friends of Heartlake City volume 1
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When ruthless dog nappers steal Mia's dog Toffee from the Heartlake City Dog Talent Show, it's up to the Friends to play detective and track down the culprits, with the help of an unlikely hero: Stephanie's borrowed sad-sack bloodhound, Benchley.
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Friends of Heartlake City volume 3
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When Stephanie's mom leaves her in charge of their house for a few days, it's finally Stephanie's chance to prove she can handle responsibility alone. Naturally, everything that can go wrong does go wrong – especially when the entire house disappears!
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Friends of Heartlake City volume 4
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Working summer jobs at the new Heartlake City Pool, Restaurant and Sports Center is fun and games for the Friends – until singing mermaid Andrea gets her very first teenage crush. The Friends each try to help, with disastrous results.
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Friends of Heartlake City volume 6
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Practicing for the local snow lodge's big snowboard race, Mia has an accident and hurts her ankle. She insists it's no biggie, but when she tries to resume practice, the normally fearless Mia finds she's now terrified of snowboarding!