Jean Kwok
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Dominion - The Silk and Iron Trilogy 1
A woman with no past. A warrior with no future. Their love could save the world-or burn it down.
In a world divided into four rival Dominions, power is everything-and Rubi Morningtail has almost none. Three years after the Annihilation destroyed her homeland and shattered her memories, she lives as an Azure refugee in the Dominion of the Silver Tyger, scraping by as a ribbon dancer and hiding her little bit of singing magic. When she wounds a massive battle-tyger on her doorstep, she draws the notice of Blake Axefire- supreme metal mage, leader of the royal tyger warriors, and the last man an Azure should trust. His sentence? Cast her into the Bonding, a brutal trial where tygers choose their riders and slaughter the rest. Surviving is unthinkable.
But survive she does. Now she's stuck on Blake's elite team racing to reseal the Anchors to the demon realm. With rebels striking, demons rising, and the Dominions at each other's throats, Rubi must unlock the truth of her magic and her past...while resisting her dangerous attraction to the ruthless warrior who could be her redemption-or her ruin.
The Leftover Woman
From The New York Times bestselling author Jean Kwok comes an evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women.
* FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL IN TRANSLATION *
'I will find my daughter. No matter the cost...'
Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China's one-child-policy. Fleeing her rural Chinese village, Jasmine arrives in New York City with nothing except a desperate need to find her daughter. But with her husband on her trail, the clock is ticking, and she's forced to make increasingly risky decisions if she ever hopes to be reunited with her child.
Meanwhile, Rebecca Whitney seems to have it all: a high-powered career, a beautiful home, a handsome husband, and an adopted Chinese daughter she adores. But when an industry scandal threatens to jeopardise not only Rebecca's job but her marriage, this perfect world begins to crumble.
Two women in a divided city, separated by wealth and culture, yet bound together by their love for the same child. And when they finally meet, their lives will never be the same again...
Hledání Sylvie Lee
Amy se vydává pátrat po své milované starší sestře. Netuší však, že ji zdaleka nezná tak dobře, jak si myslela. Manželé Leeovi se přestěhují z Číny do Ameriky, avšak po narození dcery zjistí, že si její výchovu nemohou dovolit. Pošlou ji tedy do Nizozemska k příbuzným, a když se Sylvie po letech vrátí domů, kromě rodičů na ni čeká i plachá mladší sestra Amy. V dospělosti má Sylvie vše, co si mladá žena může přát prestižní studia, dobrou práci, pohledného a bohatého manžela. Když se dozví, že její babička umírá, odletí do Nizozemska, aby se s ní naposledy rozloučila a vzápětí zmizí. Vyděšená, ale odhodlaná Amy se rozhodne vydat po sestřiných stopách a vypátrat ji. Jenže místo jednoduchých odpovědí narazí na něco mnohem důležitějšího: na pravdu. Dokonalá Sylvie totiž ukrývala několik bolestivých tajemství
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Hledání Sylvie Lee
Amy se vydává pátrat po své milované starší sestře. Netuší však, že ji zdaleka nezná tak dobře, jak si myslela.
Manželé Leeovi se přestěhují z Číny do Ameriky, avšak po narození dcery zjistí, že si její výchovu nemohou dovolit. Pošlou ji tedy do Nizozemska k příbuzným, a když se Sylvie po letech vrátí domů, kromě rodičů na ni čeká i plachá mladší sestra Amy.
V dospělosti má Sylvie vše, co si mladá žena může přát — prestižní studia, dobrou práci, pohledného a bohatého manžela. Když se dozví, že její babička umírá, odletí do Nizozemska, aby se s ní naposledy rozloučila — a vzápětí zmizí. Vyděšená, ale odhodlaná Amy se rozhodne vydat po sestřiných stopách a vypátrat ji. Jenže místo jednoduchých odpovědí narazí na něco mnohem důležitějšího: na pravdu. Dokonalá Sylvie totiž ukrývala několik bolestivých tajemství…
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Mambo in Chinatown
From the bestselling author of Girl in Translation, a novel about a young woman torn between her family duties and her secret escapes into a more Western world. The elder daughter of a ballerina and a noodle-maker, immigrants from Beijing, Charlie Wong grew up in Manhattan's Chinatown. Although she is an ABC (American-born Chinese), at twenty-two she has hardly left that neighbourhood, her entire world fitting within its familiar boundaries. She still lives in the only apartment she has ever known, a tiny one-bedroom she shares with her father and sister, and works as a dishwasher at the local noodle shop. When Charlie somehow lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio uptown, her expectations are upended. Far from the streets of Chinatown, she is introduced to an entirely new world, one that encourages her to imagine a bigger life than what she has known. Keeping it an elaborate secret from her father, she spends more and more time at the dance studio, and awkward Charlie's natural talents – and dreams – begin to emerge. But as a local witch has told her, 'What one sister gains, shall the other lose,' and soon enough, Charlie's blossoming coincides with the appearance of chronic illness in her younger sister. Charlie is forced to try to reconcile her two selves and her two worlds – Eastern and Western, old and new – to rescue her sister without sacrificing her newfound confidence and identity.
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