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Hardened survivor Aiden Lynch's luck continues to serve him when he wins a ship in a high-stakes poker game. The ship is well-fitted and ready for trade, and so Aiden becomes a trader between California and Peru. However, nothing in his past prepared Aiden for the cruelty and savagery he sees in Peru, particularly in the mines--and when Aiden meets a Chinese miner who claims to be a captured nobleman, his loyalties come into question.

Firsthand accounts of daily life in contemporary China in the midst of rapid social change and political unrest.

When Emily includes her new friend Mei Yuk in her social life but finds things changing with her best friend Alice and must discover the importance of staying true to herself.

A little girl describes what a day is like in her parents' Chinese store in Guatemala City.

Captured by pirates on her way to marry a prince, a Chinese princess is sold to a Mexican captain, who she serves faithfully until his death, then enters a convent to teach children and help the poor.

Despite the odds facing her decision to become a doctor in 1920's Nanking, China, teenaged Yanyan leaves her family to study at Cornell University where, along with hard work, she finds prejudice and loneliness as well as friendship and a new sense of accomplishment.

Paperback book and 14 tracks on CD of basic Chinese.

In a small Ontario town in the 1960s, a young girl's life is forever changed after she learns a dark family secret and learns the power of forgiveness.