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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan : A Novel
Published: 2005-06-28
Hardcover: 272 pages
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Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived...
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
Published: 2006-02-21
Paperback: 288 pages
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In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, ?old same,? in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she's painted a poem in nu shu,...
Snow In April
Published: 1997-01-15
Mass Market Paperback: 245 pages
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When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A wor...
Snow in August
Published: 1998-03-01
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
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In the year 1947, Michael Devlin, eleven years old and 100 percent American-Irish, is about to forge an extraordinary bond with a refugee of war named Rabbi Judah Hirsch. Standing united against a common enemy, they will summon from ancient sources a power in desperately short supply in modern Brooklyn-a...
Snow in August: Play by Gao Xingjian
Published: 2004-10-06
Paperback: 88 pages
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From Gao Xingjian, a winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, comes a "major drama about life." Snow in August is based on the life of Huineng (AD 633-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Tang Dynasty China. Packed with the myriad sights and sounds of both the Eastern and Wes...
The Snow Spider (Magician Trilogy)
Published: 2006-09-01
Hardcover: 160 pages
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On Gwyn's 9th birthday, his grandmother tells him he may be a magician, like his Welsh ancestors. She gives him five gifts to help him--a brooch, a piece of dried seaweed, a tin whistle, a scarf, and a broken toy horse. One blustery day, unsure what to do with his newfound magic, Gwyn throws the brooch...
The Snow Spider
Published: 1991-01
Paperback: 136 pages
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Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his tenth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.
Snow Treasure
Published: 2006-10-05
Paperback: 208 pages
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Snow White: A Survival Story
Published: 2009-10-01
Paperback: 288 pages
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Published: 2008-09-29
Hardcover: 960 pages
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