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What We Were Promised

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Author : Lucy Tan
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-07-10

What We Were Promised written by Lucy Tan and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-10 with Fiction categories.

Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have returned to a radically transformed city. One morning, in the eighth tower of Lanson Suites, Lina discovers that a treasured ivory bracelet has gone missing. This incident sets off a wave of unease that ripples throughout the Zhen household. Wei, a marketing strategist, bows under the guilt of not having engaged in nobler work. Meanwhile, Lina, lonely in her new life of leisure, assumes the modern moniker taitai -a housewife who does no housework at all. She is haunted by the circumstances surrounding her arranged marriage to Wei and her lingering feelings for his brother, Qiang. Sunny, the family's housekeeper, is a keen but silent observer of these tensions. An unmarried woman trying to carve a place for herself in society, she understands the power of well-kept secrets. When Qiang reappears in Shanghai after decades on the run with a local gang, the family must finally come to terms with the past and its indelible mark on their futures. From a silk-producing village in rural China, up the corporate ladder in suburban America, and back again to the post-Maoist nouveaux riches of modern Shanghai, What We Were Promised explores the question of what we owe to our country, our families, and ourselves.

All We Were Promised

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Author : Ashton Lattimore
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2024-04-02

All We Were Promised written by Ashton Lattimore and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-02 with Fiction categories.

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia. The rebel . . . the socialite . . . and the fugitive. Together, they will risk everything for one another in this “beguiling story of friendship, deception, and women crossing boundaries in the name of freedom” (Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends). Philadelphia, 1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she’d expected freedom to feel different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. After all, Philadelphia is supposed to be the birthplace of American liberty. Instead, she’s locked away playing servant to her white-passing father, as they both attempt to hide their identities from slavecatchers who would destroy their new lives. Longing to break away, Charlotte befriends Nell, a budding abolitionist from one of Philadelphia’s wealthiest Black families. Just as Charlotte starts to envision a future, a familiar face from her past reappears: Evie, her friend from White Oaks, has been brought to the city by the plantation mistress, and she’s desperate to escape. But as Charlotte and Nell conspire to rescue her, in a city engulfed by race riots and attacks on abolitionists, they soon discover that fighting for Evie’s freedom may cost them their own.

We Were Promised Honey

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Author : Sam Ward
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-12-05

We Were Promised Honey written by Sam Ward and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-05 with Drama categories.

The show that we're about to do is a story about the future. The story that we're going to tell is the story of us; the story of our future. It's a story that we are going to tell together. I hope that sounds okay. From the makers of Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist and the accident did not take place comes an act of communal storytelling. There's a baby born in a lighthouse, a man on fire in the middle of the desert, two lovers reunited in a ruined city, there's a dying spaceship on the edge of a black hole. we were promised honey! is a hopeful, hopeless prophecy for humankind. A meditation on inevitability, despair and how we tell a story when we already know the end. This new edition includes a foreword written by Katie Hawthorne. This edition was published to coincide with the production at London's Soho Theatre in November 2022, following a successful run at Edinburgh Fringe 2022.

We Were Promised Spotlights

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Author : Lindsay Sproul
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-03-24

We Were Promised Spotlights written by Lindsay Sproul and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with Young Adult Fiction categories.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post meets Everything Leads to You in this queer young adult novel. Hopuonk, Massachusetts, 1999 Taylor Garland's good looks have earned her the admiration of everyone in her small town. She's homecoming queen, the life of every party, and she's on every boy's most-wanted list. People think Taylor is living the dream, and assume she'll stay in town and have kids with the homecoming king--maybe even be a dental hygienist if she's super ambitious. But Taylor is actually desperate to leave home, and she hates the smell of dentists' offices. Also? She's completely in love with her best friend, Susan. Senior year is almost over, and everything seems perfect. Now Taylor just has to figure out how to throw it all away. Lindsay Sproul's debut is full of compelling introspection and painfully honest commentary on what it's like to be harnessed to a destiny you never wanted.

We Were Promised The Moon

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Author : Vicky Spratt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025-08-14

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Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs To The Secretary Of The Interior

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Author : United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872

Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs To The Secretary Of The Interior written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with Indians of North America categories.

Report Of The Department Of The Interior With Accompanying Documents

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Author : United States. Dept. of the Interior
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869

Report Of The Department Of The Interior With Accompanying Documents written by United States. Dept. of the Interior and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with categories.

Report Of The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs

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Author : United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1858

Report Of The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1858 with Indians of North America categories.

House Documents Otherwise Publ As Executive Documents

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Author : United States. Congress. House
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870

House Documents Otherwise Publ As Executive Documents written by United States. Congress. House and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with United States categories.

Senate Documents Otherwise Publ As Public Documents And Executive Documents

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate
language : en
Publisher:
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