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Language
English
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Description
San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads LuLing's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China-- where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Shan Tao Yun, an exiled former investigator from Beijing, rushes across the Tibetan plateau in the aftermath of a venerated schoolteacher's murder--meanwhile, young boys who were the teacher's students are murdered one by one.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Kwan moves from China to live with her family in San Francisco and develops a relationship with her half sister Olivia. She confides in Olivia about the ghosts she hears telling her about love. Years later Kwan and her ghosts advise Olivia about her marriage.
20) Thirteen orphans
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Thirteen Orphans, who represent the twelve animals of Chinese zodiac, plus the Cat, return to Earth where they must use their magical abilities to defend themselves and their loved ones from unseen enemies.
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