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Peter Huang, a Chinese Canadian and only son in his family, struggles with his inner desires to be a girl while his father tries to map out his future in a very masculine way. Peter deals with various types of people as they react to his desires and choices, while he struggling to live the life his father expects of him.
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Ava Lee novels volume 12
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A triad war breaks out while Ava is visiting Shanghai. Her enemy, Sammy Wing, wants to reclaim power from her friend, the mountain master Xu. As tension and violence mounts, Ava devises a plan that will bring her face to face with her enemy.
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"The hilarious and heartbreaking story of two William Pings in Newfoundland--the lost millennial and the grandfather he knows nothing about. William Ping's millennial life revolves around eating at restaurants, posting online about eating at restaurants, then overanalyzing it. This changes unexpectedly when a dinner with his Chinese girlfriend's family goes sideways and his insecurity about his biracial identity and his ignorance of his own Chinese...
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Ava Lee novels volume 11
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Ava travels to Beijing for the premiere of her secret lover Pang Fai's latest film, Mao's Daughter. After the screening, a distraught Fai tells Ava that she is being blackmailed by senior officials of the China Movie Syndicate. The Syndicate seeks sexual favours in return for their continued support of Fai's career and films. When Fai resists, the threats become increasingly violent and far-reaching, including the release of scandalous videos of the...
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A young Chinese Canadian woman, haunted by the fact that she was unwanted and abandoned at a Chinese orphanage, spurns her heritage, until she witnesses the Tiananmen Square massacre on television, and begins a personal journey that takes her to China in search of her birth parents.
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Ava Lee novels volume 10
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"Ava is contracted by a senator in the Philippines to quietly investigate a college on an island province that he suspects is training terrorists. While working with a CIA agent to uncover an international plot, horrific in size and scope, Ava's judgement and morals are tested like never before."--Provided by publisher.
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Ava Lee novels volume 8
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Ava is in Shanghai and she finds herself caught in a labyrinth of political corruption.
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Ava Lee novels volume 7
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After dealing with the loss of Uncle's passing, Ava travels to Shanghai to hear about a new investment possibility within the fashion industry. While there, Ava meets with a young man who reveals that he's planning on running for chairmanship of the Triad Societies, and he wants her as his advisor.
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Toby Wong Vancouver Island mysteries volume 1
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After returning to her quiet hometown to care for her ailing mom, Chinese-Canadian divorce lawyer Toby Wong is hired by Josh Barton, who broke her heart as a teen at summer camp. Now a wealthy entrepreneur, Josh wants to divorce Tonya, the mean girl who made Toby's life hell all those years ago. When Tonya is found murdered. Josh becomes the prime suspect. Together with her fortune-teller mom and her pregnant best friend, Toby sets out to clear Josh....
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"After the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed in 1885-construction of the western stretch was largely built by Chinese workers-the Canadian government imposed a punitive head tax to deter Chinese citizens from coming to Canada. The exorbitant tax strongly discouraged those who had already emigrated from sending for wives and children left in China-effectively splintering families. After raising the tax twice, the Canadian government eventually...
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Ava Lee novels volume 9
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Ava travels to London for Fashion Week to promote the fashion line she and her partners in the Three Sisters have invested in. When the company comes under attack, Ava uncovers the complex dynamics of the global fashion industry, eventually leading to a confrontation between two of the world's biggest crime syndicates.
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