When Gold Rush fever gripped the globe in 1849, thousands of Chinese came through San Francisco to seek fortune. In The Poker Bride, Christopher Corbett uses a legend of one extraordinary woman as a
NEWBERY HONOR AWARD • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST •ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR YOUTH LITERATURE WINNER • Twelve year-old Maizy discovers her family’s Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family.Welcome to the Golden Palace!Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota . . . until now. Her mom’s plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance (where she and her family are the only Asian Americans) and at the Golden Palace—the restaurant that’s been in her family for generations—she makes some discoveries. For instance:You can tell a LOT about someone by the way they order food. And people can surprise you. Sometimes in good ways, sometimes in disappointing ways.And the Golden Palace has secrets.But the more Maizy discovers, the more questions she has. Like, why are her mom and her grandmother always fighting? Who are the people
During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental pieces and popular songs to oratorios, ballets, and operas. Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works, evocations of ethnic and cultural Otherness often mingle attraction with envy or fear, and some pieces were understood at the time as commenting on conditions in Europe itself. Locke's accessible study, which includes numerous musical examples and rare illustrations, will be of interest to anyone who is intrigued by the relationship between music and cultural history, and by
A healthy marriage is the result of much more than a stroke of good fortune, the accidental meeting of two "soul mates," or a conscious commitment to stay together no matter what. Studies have found t
Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Women’s progress since that time has been in fits and starts, exceedingly s
Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Women’s progress since that time has been in fits and starts, exceedingly s
From the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing comes a grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions―Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague―until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent
Namika和福娃娃──Good Fortune 好運My spirit brings abundance and blessings.By always seeking positive and enriching experiences, you bring the gifts of my spirit into your life. May you enjoy a full and fort
Namika和福娃娃──Good Fortune 好運My spirit brings abundance and blessings.By always seeking positive and enriching experiences, you bring the gifts of my spirit into your life. May you enjoy a full and fort
Namika和福娃娃──Good Fortune 好運My spirit brings abundance and blessings.By always seeking positive and enriching experiences, you bring the gifts of my spirit into your life. May you enjoy a full and fort
Namika和福娃娃──Good Fortune 好運My spirit brings abundance and blessings.By always seeking positive and enriching experiences, you bring the gifts of my spirit into your life. May you enjoy a full and fort
Namika和福娃娃──Good Fortune 好運My spirit brings abundance and blessings.By always seeking positive and enriching experiences, you bring the gifts of my spirit into your life. May you enjoy a full and fort
Namika和福娃娃──Good Fortune 好運My spirit brings abundance and blessings.By always seeking positive and enriching experiences, you bring the gifts of my spirit into your life. May you enjoy a full and fort
Namika和福娃娃──Good Fortune 好運My spirit brings abundance and blessings.By always seeking positive and enriching experiences, you bring the gifts of my spirit into your life. May you enjoy a full and fort
Namika和福娃娃──Good Fortune 好運My spirit brings abundance and blessings.By always seeking positive and enriching experiences, you bring the gifts of my spirit into your life. May you enjoy a full and fort
