The Puzzle of the Paper Daughter

by Kathryn Reiss

Author	: Kathryn Reiss
Publisher	: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2010
Genre	: Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
ISBN	: 9781593696665

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When Julie discovers a mysterious note written in Chinese, she brings it to her friend Ivy to translate. The note promises great treasure, but it doesn't quite make sense - and Julie suspects it may be written in a secret code. Then the girls? beloved dolls are stolen, and Julie can't shake the feeling that there's a connection between the stolen dolls and the mysterious note.

Paper Daughter

by Jeanette Ingold

Author	: Jeanette Ingold
Publisher	: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages	: 226
Release	: 2010
Genre	: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN	: 9780152055073

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Past and present collide in a Chinese-American teen's search for identity amid family secrets.

The White Devil's Daughters

by Julia Flynn Siler

Author	: Julia Flynn Siler
Publisher	: Vintage
Total Pages	: 448
Release	: 2019-05-14
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 1101875275

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During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration--from 1848 to 1943--San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. In this gripping, necessary book, bestselling author Julia Flynn Siler shines a light on this little-known chapter in our history--and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped. The Occidental Mission Home, situated on the edge of Chinatown, served as a gateway to freedom for thousands. Run by a courageous group of female Christian abolitionists, it survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic plague, and violent attacks. We meet Dolly Cameron, who ran the home from 1899 to 1934, and Tien Fuh Wu, who arrived at the house as a young child after her abuse as a household slave drew the attention of authorities. Wu would grow up to become Cameron's translator, deputy director, and steadfast friend. Siler shows how Dolly and her colleagues defied convention and even law--physically rescuing young girls from brothels, snatching them from their smugglers--and how they helped bring the exploiters to justice. Riveting and revelatory, The White Devil's Daughters is a timely, extraordinary account of oppression, resistance, and hope.

Fifth Chinese Daughter

by Jade Snow Wong

Author	: Jade Snow Wong
Publisher	: University of Washington Press
Total Pages	: 290
Release	: 2019-11-21
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 0295745916

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Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco's Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against family and societal expectations for a Chinese woman. Originally published in 1950, Fifth Chinese Daughter was one of the most widely read works by an Asian American author in the twentieth century. The US State Department even sent its charismatic young author on a four-month speaking tour throughout Asia. Cited as an influence by prominent Chinese American writers such as Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston, Fifth Chinese Daughter is a foundational work in Asian American literature. It was written at a time when few portraits of Asian American life were available, and no similar works were as popular and broadly appealing. This new edition includes the original illustrations by Kathryn Uhl and features an introduction by Leslie Bow, who critically examines the changing reception and enduring legacy of the book and offers insight into Wong’s life as an artist and an ambassador of Chinese American culture.

A Child of God

by Mauli Bonner

Author	: Mauli Bonner
Publisher	: Shadow Mountain
Total Pages	: 32
Release	: 2021-09-07
Genre	: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN	: 9781629729176

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A rhyming, read-aloud book with warm illustrations conveys a comforting, faith-filled message from a Black father and mother to their children who see visual representations of their faith, but question what it means when they don't see their skin color, their physical features, or their gender portrayed. "What about the angels, will they stop and stare, when they see that I may not have their same color hair?" asks the girl. In soothing verse, the father assures his children that everyone looks like Jesus and the angels by the things they do. As the family walks through their neighborhood, the father points out the beauty in God's creations, from flowers, all unique and different, to all the children in their community "each with skin a different shade." He reminds his children that pictures of faith such as angels were drawn by someone and encourages his children to draw their own pictures so angels look like all of us.

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown

by Heather B. Moore

Author	: Heather B. Moore
Publisher	: Shadow Mountain
Total Pages	: 384
Release	: 2021-09-07
Genre	:
ISBN	: 9781629729374

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Based on true events, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown is a powerful story about a largely unknown chapter in history and the women who emerged as heroes. In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco is a booming city with a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization-the criminal tong-buys and sells young Chinese women into prostitution and slavery. These "paper daughters," so called because fake documents gain them entry to America but leave them without legal identity, generally have no recourse. But the Occidental Mission Home for Girls is one bright spot of hope and help. Told in alternating chapters, this rich narrative follows the stories of young Donaldina "Dolly" Cameron, who works in the mission home, and Mei Lien, a "paper daughter" who thinks she is coming to America for an arranged marriage but instead is sold into a life of shame and despair. Dolly, a real-life pioneering advocate for social justice, bravely fights corrupt officials and violent gangs, helping to win freedom for thousands of Chinese women. Mei Lien endures heartbreak and betrayal in her search for hope, belonging, and love. Their stories merge in this gripping account of the courage and determination that helped to shape a new course of women's history in America.

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown

by Heather B. Moore

Author	: Heather B. Moore
Publisher	: Shadow Mountain
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2023-04-11
Genre	: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN	: 9781639930944

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Based on the true story of two friends who unite to help rescue immigrant women in the most dangerous corners of San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1890s. When Tai Choi leaves her home in the Zhejiang province of China, she believes she'll be visiting her grandmother. But in truth, despite her mother's opposition, her father has sold her to pay his gambling debts. Alone and afraid, Tai Choi is put on a ship headed for San Francisco, known among the Chinese as Gold Mountain. When she arrives, she is forced to go by the new name listed on her paper documents: Tien Fu Wu. Her new life as a servant at a gambling den is hard. She is told to stay hidden, to stay silent, and to perform an endless list of chores, or else she will be punished. Tien Fu thinks her life couldn't get any worse, until she is sold again to an abusive shopkeeper and tasked to care for a young boy. If she is to survive, Tien Fu must persevere, and learn who to trust. When Dolly Cameron arrives in San Francisco to teach sewing at a mission home for orphaned Asian girls, she meets Tien Fu, who is willful, defiant, and unwilling to trust anyone. Dolly quickly learns that all the girls at the home were freed from lives of servitude and maltreatment. Dolly immediately joins the group of women dedicated to saving more of these "paper daughters" because some in authority have turned a blind eye to the situation. Despite many challenges, Dolly and Tien Fu forge a powerful friendship as they mentor and help those in the mission home and work to win the freedom of thousands of immigrant women and girls.

Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops

by Allison Hong Merrill

Author	: Allison Hong Merrill
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages	: 355
Release	: 2021-09-20
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 164742190X

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Allison Hong is not your typical fifteen-year-old Taiwanese girl. Unwilling to bend to the conditioning of her Chinese culture, which demands that women submit to men’s will, she disobeys her father’s demand to stay in their faith tradition, Buddhism, and instead joins the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Then, six years later, she drops out of college to serve a mission—a decision for which her father disowns her. After serving her mission in Taiwan, twenty-two-year-old Allison marries her Chinese-speaking American boyfriend, Cameron Chastain. But sixteen months later, Allison returns home to their Texas apartment and is shocked to discover that, in her two-hour absence, Cameron has taken all the money, moved out, and filed for divorce. Desperate for love and acceptance, Allison moves to Utah and enlists in an imaginary, unforgiving dating war against the bachelorettes at Brigham Young University, where the rules don’t make sense—and winning isn’t what she thought it would be.

Just Kisses

by B. E. Baker

Author	: B. E. Baker
Publisher	: Purple Puppy Publishing
Total Pages	: 1470
Release	: 2024-08-07
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	:

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A charming and swoon-filled boxset with six full-length books from bestselling authors that you won’t want to put down. Mansion to inn renovation, small town romances, brother's best friends, billionaires, and fake marriages. . .this collection has it all. Seed Money, written by B. E. Baker: When Dave, a potential buyer for Seren’s movie star grandmother’s mansion, mistakes Seren for a squatter, they get off to a rough start. But after Dave realizes his slipup, he suggests they turn the home into an inn! And that’s not the only surprise coming… The Day He Drove By, written by Elana Johnson: Ten years ago, Andrew delivered Gretchen’s baby on the side of the highway. Now that she’s a widow and single mom, her feelings for the handsome paramedic are stronger than ever. But is she ready to open her heart to love again? A sweet small-town romance from USA Today bestselling author, Elana Johnson! Assisting my Brother’s Best Friend, written by Judy Corry: Billionaire Drew Burrows joins a reality TV show to find love but struggles when he realizes his heart still belongs to his best friend's sister, Kate. Hired by the show, Kate must push Drew toward an engagement while hiding their past and her divorce. With the world watching, Drew and Kate must decide whether to follow the rules or let their hearts lead the way. The Billionaire Love Match, by Emma St. Clair: Does real love stand a chance on reality TV? The odds are NEVER in your favor. But when Casey accidentally makes a real connection with the show's star bachelor just before filming, it leaves her wondering exactly how much is scripted after all... A Thousand Words, written by Mandi Blake: Sissy isn’t one to turn down an adventure, especially not a blind date with a reportedly handsome doctor. When the blind date turns out to be her brother’s friend, Tyler, she’s not at all disappointed. Can she convince him to go with the flow for once? Just Add Romance, written by Heather B. Moore: Everly Kane’s life might be on a Plan B track, and she certainly doesn’t need to be reminded over and over that her sister is, well, engaged to Everly’s ex. Spending time with the visiting architect in town is the distraction that she needs. A fling? She can do that.