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"San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy 'Two Toes' Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie's Coffee Irregulars, a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir, are on the hustle: they're trying to open a driving school for Chinatown residents; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous head of the S.F.P.D. vice squad; all while Sammy's girlfriend,...
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English
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February, 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three-day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is a thirty-three-year-old private investigator who stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of Commerce wants it covered up. The cops acquiesce. All Miranda wants is justice-whatever it costs....
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011, [i.e. 2010]
Language
English
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With the help of his popular Uncle Chester, a young Chinese American boy tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954. Includes an afterword with information about the Chinese customs portrayed in the story.
4) China blues
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
"San Francisco, 1923. The heady days of Prohibition ... When headstrong heiress Elizabeth Stafford Hamilton realizes that her husband, San Francisco D.A. James Hamilton, is having an affair, she determines to get even and throws herself at the mysterious Li Kwan Won, leader of the city's shadowy Chinese underworld. What Lizzie doesn't know -- until it's too late -- is that her lover and her husband are on opposite sides of a looming gang war over...
5) Paper wife
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world. Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling's parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband's first wife--a paper wife. On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and...
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