Author: Amy Tan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: club, luck, joy
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1990-06-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0804106304
ISBN-13: 9780804106306
"Brilliant....Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at 12, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich man’s concubine secures her daughter’s future by killing herself, and where a woman can live on, knowing she has lost her entire life."WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDA stunning literary achievement, THE JOY LUCK CLUB explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their
Author: Amy Ta
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: club, luck, joy
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-09-21
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143038095
ISBN-13: 9780143038092
A stunning literary achievement, The Joy Luck Club explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don’t know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don’t know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.
Author: Max Brand
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: luck
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1997-07-28
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0803212771
ISBN-13: 9780803212770
Pierre Ryder has been forged by the sternest of frontier Jesuits for the hard life of a missionary priest in the frozen wastes of the Far North. Although a novice short of his vows, he is a young David, mighty in faith and learning, able to ride any horse, to run a hundred miles a day behind a dog-team, to fight skillfully, and to shoot unerringly. Yet he remains gentle and unaffected, his thoughts as clear as spring water. Into this life a thunderbolt descends: a letter from his father, long thought dead, who lies dying of a bullet wound. Ignoring the pleas of the good priests, Pierre rides
Author: Amy Tan
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: club, luck, joy
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 1991-06-24
List price: $12.04
ISBN-10: 0749399570
ISBN-13: 9780749399573
A first novel which became a major US film. From the wealthy homes of pre-Revolutionary China to downtown San Francisco, this is the story of four mothers and their first-generation Chinese-American daughters; two generations of women struggling to come to terms with their cultural identity.
Author: Gert Hofmann
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: luck
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811216071
ISBN-13: 9780811216074
A heartwrenching tale of a family’s dissolution told from a child’s crystalline perspective. Luck is the beautiful, bittersweet, and very funny novel about a nuclear family living in a small German town—wonderfully translated by Gert Hofmann’s son, acclaimed translator and poet Michael Hofmann. It begins and ends on the same day, the "last day" of the narrator’s childhood as he prepares to leave home with Father, because Mother is waiting for her new man to arrive, and his sister will stay behind. Or will they really leave? Mother sits in her room, squirting hersel
Author: Joan Barfoot
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: novel, luck
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-02-14
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0786716460
ISBN-13: 9780786716463
One woman is an ex-beauty-queen, one is a recovering addict to virtue, and one is an artist. The man of the big old house on the hill, Philip Lawrence, is suddenly dead and his departure is bound to have dramatic effects. The abruptly widowed Nora, whose recent works of biblical art have caused a fundamentalist furor in their town, is unexpectedly confronted by solo life in a place she despises. Beth, her wispy, beautiful model, faces losing a haven from her own eerie history, while housekeeper Sophie, a former overseas aid volunteer shattered by trauma, will have to find new ways to resist ol
Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Keywords: cat, luck
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0152321977
ISBN-13: 9780152321970
Some cats are good luck. You pet them and good things happen. Woogie is one of those cats. But as Woogie gets into one mishap after another, everyone starts to worry. Can a good luck cat’s good luck run out? The first children’s book from an acclaimed poet whose honors include the American Book Award and the William Carlos Williams Award Celebrates the special relationship between a young girl and her cat •A modern Native American story from a member of the Muskogee-Creek tribe
