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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling

by Wai Chim ...

An authentic novel about growing up in an Asian immigrant family with a mother who is suffering from a debilitating mental illness.Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome ... Read more

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An authentic novel about growing up in an Asian immigrant family with a mother who is suffering from a debilitating mental illness.Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome
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Freedom Swimmer

by Wai Chim ...

A powerful story of friendship, bravery, and a desperate bid for freedom, inspired by true events.Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields.When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new ... Read more

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A powerful story of friendship, bravery, and a desperate bid for freedom, inspired by true events.Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields.When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new
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Shaozhen: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones

by Wai Chim, Lyn White ...

Series Book 2 - THROUGH MY EYES - NATURAL DISASTER ZONES
An evocative and compelling story about one boy living through the 2014 drought in Henan, China.WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019Shaozhen has no intention of staying in his remote Henan village and becoming another poor farmer: he'll finish school, and then, hopefully, work in a factory in one of the major cities, just like his father. But when Shaozhen returns home for the summer ... Read more

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An evocative and compelling story about one boy living through the 2014 drought in Henan, China.WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019Shaozhen has no intention of staying in his remote Henan village and becoming another poor farmer: he'll finish school, and then, hopefully, work in a factory in one of the major cities, just like his father. But when Shaozhen returns home for the summer
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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling

by Wai Chim ...

Narrated by Christina Ho ...

Unabridged

8 hours 3 min

An authentic novel about growing up in an Asian immigrant family with a mother who is suffering from a debilitating mental illness.Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome ... Read more

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An authentic novel about growing up in an Asian immigrant family with a mother who is suffering from a debilitating mental illness.Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome
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Freedom Swimmer

by Wai Chim ...

Narrated by Telly Leung ...

Unabridged

5 hours 30 min

A powerful story of friendship, bravery, and a desperate bid for freedom, inspired by true events.Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields.When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new ... Read more

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A powerful story of friendship, bravery, and a desperate bid for freedom, inspired by true events.Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields.When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new
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Follow the Stars Home

by Diane C. McPhail ...

Narrated by Jessica Marchbank ...

Unabridged

11 hours 5 min

It's a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October 20th, 1811, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt—daughter of one of the architects of the United States Capitol—fearlessly boards the steamship New Orleans in Pittsburgh. Eight months pregnant and with a toddler in tow, Lydia is fiercely independent despite her youth. She's also accustomed to defying convention. Against her father's wishes, ... Read more

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It's a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October 20th, 1811, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt—daughter of one of the architects of the United States Capitol—fearlessly boards the steamship New Orleans in Pittsburgh. Eight months pregnant and with a toddler in tow, Lydia is fiercely independent despite her youth. She's also accustomed to defying convention. Against her father's wishes,
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Flames of Wrath

by J.L. Campbell ...

Narrated by Dani Woodson, Tony Isabella ...

Unabridged

8 hours 14 min

A mother’s quest for justice turns into a race against time to stop insidious murders that mysteriously begin populating throughout the city. Fans of Lisa Jewell and Ruth Ware will be enthralled by this emotionally chilling thriller!The need to right a wrong against an innocent victim triggers a hailstorm of revenge!In less than twenty-four hours—before Alexia Leighton is scheduled to return to ... Read more

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A mother’s quest for justice turns into a race against time to stop insidious murders that mysteriously begin populating throughout the city. Fans of Lisa Jewell and Ruth Ware will be enthralled by this emotionally chilling thriller!The need to right a wrong against an innocent victim triggers a hailstorm of revenge!In less than twenty-four hours—before Alexia Leighton is scheduled to return to
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Little Souls

A Novel

by Sandra Dallas ...

Narrated by Carly Robins ...

Unabridged

8 hours 19 min

"The narration by Carly Robins is exceptional." - The Reading Frenzy on Little SoulsSandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver mid America’s last deadly flu pandemic.Colorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but it’s the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver’s schools are converted into hospitals, ... Read more

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"The narration by Carly Robins is exceptional." - The Reading Frenzy on Little SoulsSandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver mid America’s last deadly flu pandemic.Colorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but it’s the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver’s schools are converted into hospitals,
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Nothing but the Truth

by Robyn Gigl ...

Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

Series series Erin McCabe
Unabridged

13 hours 28 min

In this propulsive and timely thriller about murder, prejudice, and corruption in the highest of places, Erin McCabe, transgender attorney of the Garden State, discovers that getting to the truth can be deadly …New Jersey State Trooper Jon Mazer has been charged with killing Black investigative reporter Stewart Marshall in a racially charged, headline-making murder. The evidence against criminal ... Read more

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In this propulsive and timely thriller about murder, prejudice, and corruption in the highest of places, Erin McCabe, transgender attorney of the Garden State, discovers that getting to the truth can be deadly …New Jersey State Trooper Jon Mazer has been charged with killing Black investigative reporter Stewart Marshall in a racially charged, headline-making murder. The evidence against criminal
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What We Become

A Novel

by Arturo Perez-Reverte ...

Narrated by Pete Simonelli ...

Unabridged

15 hours 10 min

Set against the backdrop of sweeping historical eras and breathtaking international locales, What We Become is a captivating tale of love, espionage, and daring adventure from master storyteller Arturo Pérez-Reverte.**“Pérez-Reverte summons the romantic spirit of an old black-and-white movie: impossibly glamorous, undeniably wistful.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“An intoxicating entertainment, ... Read more

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Set against the backdrop of sweeping historical eras and breathtaking international locales, What We Become is a captivating tale of love, espionage, and daring adventure from master storyteller Arturo Pérez-Reverte.**“Pérez-Reverte summons the romantic spirit of an old black-and-white movie: impossibly glamorous, undeniably wistful.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“An intoxicating entertainment,
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A Jewel in the Crown

by David Lewis ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Series series Secret Churchill Files
Unabridged

8 hours 13 min

1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless Britain. To safeguard the Crown Jewels from the Nazis, Winston Churchill devises a daring gamble to have them shipped overseas. The priceless artifacts will be secretly removed from the Tower of London and driven north to Scotland by two operatives posing as a young married couple, to be taken from there to ... Read more

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1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless Britain. To safeguard the Crown Jewels from the Nazis, Winston Churchill devises a daring gamble to have them shipped overseas. The priceless artifacts will be secretly removed from the Tower of London and driven north to Scotland by two operatives posing as a young married couple, to be taken from there to
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When the Tamarind Tree Blooms

by Elaine Russell ...

Narrated by Jill Smith ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

Geneviève (Vivi) Dubois, a métisse, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage in Vientiane where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. With only a distant memory of being torn from her mother’s arms at age four, she is determined to uncover what happened to her parents and locate her missing twin brother. But where to start? Orphanage and government officials ... Read more

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Geneviève (Vivi) Dubois, a métisse, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage in Vientiane where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. With only a distant memory of being torn from her mother’s arms at age four, she is determined to uncover what happened to her parents and locate her missing twin brother. But where to start? Orphanage and government officials
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