Ruthanne Lum McCunn

• Apr-1998
• / Fantasy
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Based on real characters in the 1800s, Hoi, a young Chinese immigrant, was left to his own devices after the Continental Railroad was finished. With the help of Spanish Louis, he turned his creativity into success by way of good-old American pies. In...

• Oct-2001
• / General Fiction
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In the tradition of Thousand Pieces of Gold comes The Moon Pearl, the story of Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju, who become fast friends while members of a girls’ house, where young daughters are taught to become daughters-in-law. These girls, however, ...

• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction
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The extraordinary biographical novel about a Chinese-American woman who fought for independence and dignity in the American West -- “an important contribution to the history of pioneer women” (Ms. Magazine) Lalu Nathoy’s father called his ...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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“ Held me captive right from the start.” -- Alan Cheuse, NPR, All Things Considered “Her clear voice and simple but elegant style easily turns this work into a real page-turner.” -- Library Journal “A vivid tale of a faraway time.” -- A...

• Sep-2007
• / Historical
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“Wooden fish songs” were the laments sung by Chinese women left behind by husbands, sons, and brothers who, in the nineteenth century, sailed to America in quest of the good life �" and found instead years of indentured servitude and racial disc...

• Nov-2014
• / Historical
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Chinese Yankee by Ruthanne Lum McCunn tells the true story of Hong Kong born Thomas Sylvanus (Ah Yee Way), an orphan brought to America for schooling in the mid-1850s, but enslaved in Baltimore. Only sixteen at the outbreak of war, Thomas ran nort...