Emily Woo Zeller
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English
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A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.
2) Those girls
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English
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When tragedy strikes, the Campbell sisters, who once lived on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they worked hard and tried to stay out of the way of their father's fists, are forced to confront a horrific event from their past that left them with no choice but to change their names and create new lives.
3) Bottomland
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English
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A German family in the Iowa plains tries to fight the rising tide of anti-German sentiment in the years following World War I while searching for their two youngest daughters who vanished suddenly in the middle of the night.
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2021.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
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When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.
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The story of a vigorous life refracted through the prism of imminent death. Motherhood, marriage, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, grief, jealousy, anger, comfort, pain, disease--there is simply nothing this book is not about. Growing out of a blog Julie has kept through the past four years of her life (undertaken because she couldn't find the guidance she needed through her disease), this is the story of a life lived so well, and cut too short....