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The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion

9 best books like The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion (Jim Irvin): Saving Fish from Drowning, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Bonesetter's Daughter, Animal Dreams, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Women of the Silk, The Painter From Shanghai, Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction, A History of Narrative Film

Saving Fish from Drowning
AuthorAmy Tan
San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses,...
The Kitchen God's Wife
AuthorAmy Tan
ISBN0143038109
Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does...
The Bonesetter's Daughter
AuthorAmy Tan
ISBN0345457374
Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . .

In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule,...
Animal Dreams
AuthorBarbara Kingsolver
ISBN0060921145
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach....
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
AuthorAmy Tan
ISBN0142004898
Delve into the stories from Amy Tan's life that inspired bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir, Where the Past Begins

Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy....
Women of the Silk
AuthorGail Tsukiyama
ISBN0312099436
Sent by her family to work in a silk factory just prior to World War II, young Pei grows to womanhood, working fifteen-hour days and sending her pay to the family who abandoned her.

In "Women of the Silk" Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood...
The Painter From Shanghai
AuthorJennifer Cody Epstein
ISBN0393065286
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers
Pan Yuliang was a girl with no dreams. Her parents were taken from her at a young age, then her uncle sold her into prostitution; it was enough for many years just to cope and survive. One day, fate places a kind gentleman
in her path, and she begins to...
Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
AuthorJessica Hagedorn
ISBN0140231110
The writers included in this ground-breaking anthology are exhilarating in their differences: cultural backgrounds, age range, literary styles. From Jose Garcia Villa's minimalist "Untitled Story, " first published in 1933, to Meena Alexander's "Manhattan Music, " with its razor-sharp look...
A History of Narrative Film
AuthorDavid A. Cook
ISBN0393978680
رغم أني أعطيته النجوم الخمس ...إلا أنني لا أظن أن الجميع سيستمتع به بقدر استمتاعي ...
ببساطه الكتاب يحكي عن السينما منذ بدايتها...منذ أول شريط سينمائي عرض...
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