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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
The acclaimed food writer offers an insider's look at Taiwanese cooking from home-style dishes to authentic street food in “this appetizing collection” (Publisher Weekly, starred review).
While certain dishes from Taiwan are immensely popular, like steamed buns and bubble tea, much of the cuisine still remains relatively unknown in America. In The Food of Taiwan, Taiwanese-American Cathy...
While certain dishes from Taiwan are immensely popular, like steamed buns and bubble tea, much of the cuisine still remains relatively unknown in America. In The Food of Taiwan, Taiwanese-American Cathy...
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 15
Language
English
Description
"While working as a contractor at an Australian F 35 facility, former Taskforce member Clifford Delmonty, callsign Dunkin, saw something he shouldn't have, and now he is on the run from Chinese agents. Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill discover that Dunkin's attackers are part of a much larger scheme that could launch a full-on war between China and Taiwan. The Chinese have a devious plan to bait the small island nation into all-out war by destabilizing...
4) Want
Author
Series
Want volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and save his city.
Author
Language
English
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month
JEF - Audiobooks YA (June)
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
NPM - YA AAPI Authors
JEF - Audiobooks YA (June)
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
NPM - YA AAPI Authors
Description
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
7) Amah faraway
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Nervous about visiting her grandmother in Taipei, Taiwan, a young girl soon adjusts to her unfamiliar surroundings and enjoys the adventure.
Author
Series
Pacy Lin books volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Pacy, her two sisters, and their parents go to Taiwan to celebrate Grandma's sixtieth birthday, the girls learn a great deal about their heritage.
13) The shark mutiny
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
An oil tanker mysteriously explodes in the Persian Gulf. Then a second... and a third. To the President's National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan it is more than a tragic coincidence-it is a brazen act of aggression that must not stand. In partnership with Iran, the Chinese navy has mined the Strait of Hormuz, intending to hold the world's oil supply hostage. Now eighty percent of America's active sea power is being mobilized-including U....
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Austronesian
Description
During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the Seediq were forced to lose their own culture and give up their faith. Men were subject to harsh labor and kept from traditional hunting; whereas women had to serve the Japanese policemen and their families by doing the household work and giving up their traditional weaving work. Above all, they were forbidden to tattoo their faces. And these tattoos were seen as the Seediq's traditional belief to transform themselves...
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
4.5 hour international version.
Language
Multiple
Description
After Japan invades Taiwan in 1930, the native Seediq people are in danger of losing their culture and way of life. The men are taken from their traditional lives as hunters and forced to perform hard labor at low wages. The women are taken away to be household workers for the Japanese. The Seediq are also forbidden to tattoo their faces, which many believe is necessary to cross the 'Rainbow Bridge' after death. The Seediq men plan to go to war against...
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