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1) Water ghosts
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English
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"Locke, California, 1928. Three bedraggled Chinese women suddenly appear out of the mist one afternoon in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River...As the lives of the townspeople become inextricably intertwined with the newly arrived women, the premonitions of Poppy, the psychic madam of the local brothel, begin to foretell a deep unhappiness for all involved. And when a flood threatens the livelihood of the entire town, the frightening...
2) Green Island
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385 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"As [this] novel sweeps across six decades and two continents, the life of the narrator shadows the course of Taiwan's history from the end of Japanese colonial rule to the decades under martial law and, finally, to Taiwan's transformation into a democracy. But, above all, [it's a] story of a family and a nation grappling with the nuances of complicity and survival, raising the question: how far would you be willing to go for the ones you love?"--Dust...