"The war between the Fox family and the Luciano Mafia is in the past. But when the decade-long truce is broken, history threatens to repeat itself. Effie Luciano is the throwaway daughter. To her power-hungry father, her hand in marriage is her only value. When her father gives h...
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Abandoned on the steps of a Chinese orphanage and adopted by a Canadian family, Grace Parker is haunted by the cold fact that she was unwanted, and spurns her Chinese heritage. When she witnesses the massacre of student protesters in Tiananmen Square on television, she is moved...
A young Chinese Canadian woman, haunted by the fact that she was unwanted and abandoned at a Chinese orphanage, spurns her heritage, until she witnesses the Tiananmen Square massacre on television, and begins a personal journey that takes her to China in search of her birth paren...
A dramatic and moving YA novel by Ting-xing Ye, the internationally acclaimed author of A Leaf in the Bitter Wind , working with her husband, William Bell, author of the award-winning novels for young adults Forbidden City , Zack , and Stones . . Throwaway Daughter tells th...
"Who steals a dog from a shelter after receiving a dream message from their grandmother? Hazel Lesage never expected it to be her. Then again, she didn't plan on becoming an unlicensed PI, helping the 'throwaway people.' However much has changed in Amiskwaciy, the problem of poor...
When the exotic stranger Vianne Rocher arrives in the old French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique called "La Celeste Praline" directly across the square from the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock. It is the beginning of Len...