Five Pieces of Jade
| Author | : John Ball |
| Publisher | : Speaking Volumes |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1612329756 |
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Five Pieces of Jade
| Author | : John Ball, Tdc |
| Publisher | : Speaking Volumes LLC |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
| Genre | : African American police |
| ISBN | : 9781612329765 |
Virgil Tibbs finds himself in the middle of a deadly situation when the body of an elderly Chinese importer of rare jade is found. Narrowing down the suspect list which includes communist Chinese agents, other jade customers, and drug trafficking , he coolly tracks down the murderer.
Pieces of Jade
| Author | : Lani Woodland |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-07-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781732390515 |
Sentenced to death by the man she loves . . .Jade has no control over her future. She is the Emmía, the girl whose magical blood keeps her kingdom's cursed soil fertile and ensures the survival of her people. But her destiny is ruined when pirates take her magical medallion, the loss of which is treasonous, and the prince she loves is honor-bound to sentence her to death.?Forced to flee to the pirate she hates . . .Jade escapes from prison, but her sister is captured and will die in her place unless Jade returns with the medallion still on the pirates' ship. In disguise, she joins the pirate crew where she finds herself drawn to the first officer, William, and his claims of the crown's hidden brutality in the kingdom. But when Jade learns the fate of every Emmía before her, she is finally forced to choose her own destiny: die a martyr or live a rebel.
The Cool Cottontail
| Author | : John Ball |
| Publisher | : Speaking Volumes |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1645400816 |
Sun Valley Lodge, run by Forrest Nunn and his wife Emily, with the assistance of their three children—Linda, a most attractive teenager, her twenty-four-year-old brother George, and small Carole—was in a nudist park which had an excellent reputation (except with a few people) and a most careful screening of members, so that sudden and murderous death had certainly never intruded upon it before. Though the body floating in the pool was nude, it was not the body of one of the members. The dead man was well-to-do, perhaps even prominent. But not only was he nude; his clothing was nowhere to be found; and someone had tried to prevent his being identified. And, oddly enough, no one came forward to identify him, or to report that a man like the dead man was missing. It was going to be a hard murder to solve. But Virgil Tibbs, moving expertly and patiently, was determined to solve it—and even to get used to carrying on his investigations in the midst of a nudist park, which added certain problems of its own. Tibbs is a detective who won friends and admirers immediately—and will go on to win more.
The City Trilogy
| Author | : Shi Kuo Chang |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 427 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0231128525 |
Forced into the war to save their remaining territory, the indigenous peoples join the Huhui in their continuing struggle against the Shan.".
Fifth Chinese Daughter
| Author | : Jade Snow Wong |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2019-11-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0295745916 |
Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco's Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against family and societal expectations for a Chinese woman. Originally published in 1950, Fifth Chinese Daughter was one of the most widely read works by an Asian American author in the twentieth century. The US State Department even sent its charismatic young author on a four-month speaking tour throughout Asia. Cited as an influence by prominent Chinese American writers such as Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston, Fifth Chinese Daughter is a foundational work in Asian American literature. It was written at a time when few portraits of Asian American life were available, and no similar works were as popular and broadly appealing. This new edition includes the original illustrations by Kathryn Uhl and features an introduction by Leslie Bow, who critically examines the changing reception and enduring legacy of the book and offers insight into Wong’s life as an artist and an ambassador of Chinese American culture.
Piecing Me Together
| Author | : Renée Watson |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2018-02-08 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1408897334 |
2018 Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner: a beautiful, powerful coming of age story 'Important and deeply moving' JOHN GREEN 'Timely and timeless' JACQUELINE WOODSON Jade is a girl striving for success in a world that seems like it's trying to break her. She knows she needs to take every opportunity that comes her way. And she has: every day Jade rides the bus away from her friends to a private school where she feels like an outsider, but where she has plenty of opportunities. But some opportunities Jade could do without, like the mentor programme for 'at-risk' girls. Just because her mentor is black doesn't mean she understands where Jade is coming from. Why is Jade always seen as someone to fix? But with a college scholarship promised at the end of it, how can Jade say no? Jade feels like her life is made up of hundreds of conflicting pieces. Will it ever fit together? Will she ever find her place in the world? More than anything, Jade just wants the opportunity to be real, to make a difference. NPR's Best Books of 2017 A 2017 New York Public Library Best Teen Book of the Year Chicago Public Library's Best Books of 2017 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2017 Kirkus Reviews' Best Teen Books of 2017 2018 Josette Frank Award Winner
Jade Is a Twisted Green
| Author | : Tanya Turton |
| Publisher | : Dundurn |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2022-09-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 145974862X |
For readers of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life’s pleasures after loss. Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman living in Toronto, must find a way to pick up the pieces and discover who she is following the mysterious death of her twin sister. Grappling with her grief, Jade seeks solace in lovers and friends during an array of hilarious and heartbreaking adventures. As she investigates some of life’s most frustrating paradoxes, she holds tight to old friends and her ex-girlfriend, lifelines between past and present. On the journey to turning twenty-five, she finally sees that she belongs to herself, and goes about the business of reclaiming that self. Through a series of whirlwind love affairs, parties, and trips abroad, Jade stumbles toward relinquishing the weight of her trauma as she fully comes into her own as a young Black woman and writer. A RARE MACHINES BOOK
