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“pam chun”

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  • The Perfect Tea Thief

    by Pam Chun ...
    Robert Fortune detests the Celestial Kingdom and its people the minute he lands in China after the devastating Opium Wars in 1843. Under the guise of a plant hunter for the British Horticultural Society, his secret mission is to steal China's secrets of tea production, a brazen act of industrial espionage that will devastate China's 5,000-year-old civilization. He audaciously ventures into ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Money Dragon

    by Pam Chun ...
    In this stunning work of Chinese-American fiction, Pam Chun brings to life the story of Lau Ah Leong, the Money Dragon, the legendary founder of Honolulu's Chinatown. The great-granddaughter of Ah Leong, Chun reaches deep into her family history to deliver an account that depicts the tumult and opportunity that occurs when the deep-rooted traditions of the Chinese people conflict with the new ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Seagull's Gardener: My Father's Last Odyssey

    by Pam Chun ...
    In the early 1900s Woody grew up running barefoot in the lush valleys of Territorial Hawaii. From camping at Kailua Beach with his buddies to raising his family, he's immersed in the dynamic changes of the Paradise of the Pacific. As he approaches ninety, he insists he's too busy to die. A tale told within tales with photos of Old Hawaii, signature dishes, and unforgettable dreams, Pam Chun's ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Strange Gods Call

    by Pam Chun ...
    Ka Palapala Po`okela Award Winner 2005 for Excellence in "Aloha from beyond Hawai`i"--Hawaii Book Publishers Association"Pam Chun writes lovingly of Hawai`i—a land of beauty and tradition, where the scent of plumeria fills each page and a love once lost can be found again."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of "Samurai's Garden," "Women of the Silk," and "Night of Many Dreams""Good family epic enlivened ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Money Dragon

    A Novel

    by Pam Chun ...
    In this stunning work, Pam Chun brings a new and powerful voice to the traditions of Chinese-American fiction. The Money Dragon brings to life the saga of L. Ah Leong, the Money Dragon, one of the legends of Hawai`i and the founder of Honolulu's Chinatown. At the turn of the twentieth century, Ah Leong rules over his Hawai`ian home, a legendary man so proficient in the martial arts he has brought ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Black Isle

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  • Two Trees Make a Forest

    In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts

    by Jessica J. Lee ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2021 Banff Mountain Book Prize in Adventure TravelWINNER of the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction PrizeShortlisted for the 2021 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-FictionShortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureShortlisted for Canada Reads 2021On CBC’s list of “the best Canadian nonfiction of 2020”An exhilarating, anti ... Read more

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  • All That Matters

    by Wayson Choy ...
    Set in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1930s and 1940s, Choy continues the story of the Chen family household, this time narrated by First Son, Kiam-Kim. We first meet Kiam-Kim at the age of eight, staring at the yellowed photograph of his mother, who died in China when he was just a baby. Kiam-Kim, Poh-Poh (his larger-than-life grandmother) and Mr. Chen, his demure and honest father, journey to a ... Read more

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    by Pearl S. Buck ...
    The author of The Good Earth tells a poignant story about two boys whose friendship and courage help them survive an overwhelming tragedyOn a mountainside in Japan, two boys enjoy a humble life governed by age-old customs. Jiya belongs to a family of fishermen; his best friend, Kino, farms rice. But when a neighboring volcano erupts and a tidal wave swallows their village—including Jiya’s family ... Read more

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  • The Year of Finding Memory

    A Memoir

    by Judy Fong Bates ...
    In the tradition of The Concubine's Children and Paper Shadows, a probing memoir from the author of the acclaimed novel Midnight at the Dragon Cafe.An elegant and surprising book about a Chinese family's difficult arrival in Canada, and a daughter's search to understand remarkable and terrible truths about her parents' past lives.Growing up in her father's hand laundry in small town Ontario, Judy ... Read more

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