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Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization

by Liel Leibovitz, Matthew Miller

Published: 2011-02-14

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The epic story of the American-educated boys who changed China forever.At the twilight of the nineteenth century, China sent a detachment of boys to America in order to learn the ways of the West, modernize the antiquated empire, and defend it from foreigners invading its shores. After spe...

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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

by Jennifer 8. Lee

Published: 2008

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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

by Jennifer 8 Lee

Published: 2008-03-03

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Fortunes of War (The Sentinels Series Book One) (Sentinels (Greenleaf))

by Gordon Zuckerman

Published: 2009-07-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In this riveting amalgam of political intrigue, poignant romance, and bare-knuckled action, six friends risk everything to thwart an international Nazi conspiracy. In the financial devastation of the 1930s, a greedy, power-hungry group of German industrialists plot to usher in the Nationa...

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Fortune's Children

by Arthur T. Vanderbilt 2nd

Published: 1991-02-20

Paperback: 512 pages

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Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among th...

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Fortune's Daughter

by Alice Hoffman

Published: 1999-12-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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This novel from the bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon tells the story of two women--one young, unmarried, and far from home as she awaits the birth of her first child, the other a mother who lost her daughter long ago...

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Fortune's Fool (Star-Cross'd)

by David Blixt

Published: 2012-04-26

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Star-Cross'd - Book Three. Italy, 1326. While the brilliant and wily Cesco is schooled in his new duties at the hand of a hard master, Pietro Alaghieri travels to Avignon, current seat of the Papacy, to fight his excommunication and plead for Cesco's legitimacy. He doesn't know an old foe has been...

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Fortune's Rocks

by Anita Shreve

Published: 1999-11-23

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5 CDs / approx. 5 hoursIn a summer community on the coast of New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a girl is drawn into a passionate affair with a man nearly three times her age.  Fortune's Rocks is the story of Olympia Biddeford, proveleged, well-educated, and mature beyond her...

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Fortune's Rocks

by Shreve Anita

Published: 2000-11-01

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The Fortune's Rocks Quartet: Fortune's Rocks, Sea Glass, The Pilot's Wife, Body Surfing

by Anita Shreve

Published: 2010-11-01

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THE FORTUNE'S ROCKS QUARTET collects four of Anita Shreve's most beloved novels-Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, Sea Glass, and Body Surfing-for the first time. The novels highlight Shreve's ability to illuminate women's lives across different eras and share a delightful detail: they...