Pek, Jane
Summary: Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls--and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PEKJin, Meng
Summary: On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jin 2020Chou, Elaine Hsieh
Summary: "A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHO1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC CHO
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Tan, Amy.
Summary: After being drawn together by the shadows of their past, four women start meeting every week in San Francisco to engage in hobbies they all enjoy. After one of the four members dies, her daughter takes her place to fulfill her mother's dying wish. After the revelation of a secret, the women are forced to think back to their pasts and remember the sometimes painful events of their lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Audio 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TANChen, Kirstin
Summary: Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this faȧde, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEKwok, Jean.
Summary: Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong, having grown up in New York's Chinatown as the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker, is torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KWOTan, Amy.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANChan, Jessamine
Summary: "Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ChanCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF CHAPek, Jane
Summary: "Claudia is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls--and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PEKSee, Lisa.
Summary: "In 1938, Ruby, Helen and Grace, three girls from very different backgrounds, find themselves competing at the same audition for showgirl roles at San Francisco's exclusive "Oriental" nightclub, the Forbidden City. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family who have deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2014
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Johansen, Iris.
Summary: Catherine Ling is instructed by assassin and master poisoner Hu Chang before being recruited by the CIA and pitted against a rogue operative in a race to obtain a deadly poison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Johansen 2012Johansen, Iris.
Summary: When CIA operative Catherine Ling's old friend Hu Chang creates a formula so deadly, and completely untraceable, the chase is on to be the first to get it. With rogue operative John Gallo also on the hunt, Catherine finds herself pitted against a group so villainous and a man so evil that she may not survive the quest to protect those she cares about.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHJohansen, Iris.
Summary: "Your Next Breath from New York Times best selling author Iris Johansen Catherine Ling is one of the CIA's most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: her son Luke and her mentor Hu Chang. Luke was kidnapped at age two, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Johansen 2015Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS JOHKwok, Jean
Summary: A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KWOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KWOJin, Ha
Summary: When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father, Gary, convicted decades ago of being a mole in the CIA, was the most important Chinese spy ever caught. But his diary--an astonishing chronicle of his journey from 1949 Shanghai to Okinawa to Langley, Virginia--reveals...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JINSee, Lisa
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story of secrets and sacrifice, love and betrayal, prejudice and passion, China Dolls reveals a rich portrait of female friendship, as three young women navigate the "Chop Suey Circuit"--America's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction See 2014Keltner, Kim Wong.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Trade 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELChau, C. K.
Summary: "When Elizabeth Chen's ever-hustling realtor mother finally sells the beloved if derelict community center down the block, the new owners don't look like typical New York City buyers. Brendan Lee and Darcy Wong are good Chinese boys with Hong Kong money. Clean-cut and charismatic, they say they are committed to cleaning up the neighborhood. To Elizabeth, that only means one thing: Darcy is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Tan, Amy.
Summary: In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Jin, Ha
Summary: "From the award-winning author of Waiting: a spare, haunting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries--China and the United States--and two families as it explores the complicated terrain of love and honor. When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JINTan, Amy.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1995
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Yang, Susie
Summary: Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar--but you'd never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, she is taught how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops by her immigrant grandmother. Thieving allows Ivy to accumulate the trappings of a suburban teen--and, most importantly, to attract the attention of Gideon Speyer, the golden boy of a wealthy political family. But when Ivy's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANYang, Kelly
Summary: The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade she needs to earn a spot at journalism camp. But as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Liang, Ann
Summary: Eliza Lin's essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes viral, she gains the approval of her classmates at her new international school in Beijing, and a career-launching internship opportunity at her favorite magazine. Unfortunately, Eliza's essay is completely fiction. All good writing is lying, right? To hide the truth, Eliza strikes a deal with an actor in her class, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023