Book Description
Set in the 1960s, Judy Fong Bates’s much-talked-about debut novel is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a small Ontario town’s solitary Chinese family, whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the burden of secrets. Through Su-Jen’s eyes, the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Café unfolds. As Su-Jen’s father works continually for a better future, her mother, a beautiful but embittered woman, settles uneasily into their new life. Su-Jen feels the weight of her mother’s unhappiness as Su-Jen’s life takes her outside the restaurant and far from the customs of the traditional past. When Su-Jen’s half-brother arrives, smouldering under the responsibilities he must bear as the dutiful Chinese son, he forms an alliance with Su-Jen’s mother, one that will have devastating consequences. Written in spare, intimate prose, Midnight at the Dragon Café is a vivid portrait of a childhood divided by two cultures and touched by unfulfilled longings and unspoken secrets.
Customer Reviews:
Touching "Midnight at the Dragon Cafe".......2007-02-11
I am a fourth generation Chinese American living in California. I loved this well written, lyrical and engaging book, and recommend it to all. I have not read much about the Chinese-Canadian immigrant experience, and this book was very rewarding in terms of telling the story of the Chinese in Canada in the background of the main story line. The characters are extremely vivid in the book, and one really cares about Su-Jen (aka Annie) right away. The author does a very good job of sketching the lonely life of this isolated Chinese family in this small Canadian town. I particularly felt she handled incidents of racial discrimination experienced by the sensitive Annie during elementary school very poignantly. You really feel for this little Chinese girl, stuck between this lovely unhappy mother, a frustrated and good looking half brother, a traditional but kindly father, and her Canadian white classmates. It is a great read.
Loved it. Now what?.......2006-09-11
I recently finished this book and loved the way it was written, the use of language, the lessons of enduring truths of humanity, etc. It was very touching and I loved it. I read it aloud to my 16-year-old son. We have read a lot of books but now I'm stuck and need a recommendation on what to read next.
Lack of detail.......2006-03-26
What can I say, this book lacked all the details I wanted to read, and was pretty darn predictable to boot. I could tell that it was written by a foreigner because it never contained any "advanced" vocabulary. Always just kept mentioning the same food and the same feelings and the same blah blah blah...Enough. I'm done with this thing!
The people behind the faces of the local Chinese-Canadian greasy spoon.......2005-12-04
With a quiet, unassuming elegance, Canadian-Chinese author Judy Fong-Bates sets the scene for her highly applauded debut novel, 'Midnight at the Dragon Cafe'.
Perhaps this story touched me more acutely than most of its readers, as it called to mind what my father and his parents must have experienced during and after their immigration from Hong Kong to a little town in Canada in the mid-1950s. Every word to me was genuine, haunting, compelling...
Little Su-Jen Chou (at the tender age of six), along with her beautiful yet bitter mother, immigrates to Canada from Communist China, to meet the father she has never known. A father who is the proprietor of the local Canadian-Chinese "greasy spoon". With Su-Jen mother constantly haunted with yearnings for her homeland, unpleasant family secrets uncovered, and the trials and challenges they face in a new and often-times unwelcoming land, Fong-Bates weaves a story full of heartbreak, tribulation and acceptance.
Poignant in its simplicity and yet weighty in its inner complexities, 'Midnight at the Dragon Cafe' explores many social issues of the time, along with the disappointments, the pride, the sacrifices, and the triumphs of those who immigrated to Canada in search of something "better". Compelling and well written, Fong-Bates stunning first novel deserves a heaping spoonful of praise.
well writtem but leaves the reader hanging.......2005-09-02
while i really enjoyed Ms. bates' writing style - both pace and choice of words, i could not get over the fact that the author leaves the reader hanging at the end. there are too many loose ends and far too many characters who left without any resolution. i think that a better ending would have been for the adult su-jen to have quickly narrated over the next 10 or 20 years of her own life so the reader gets a sense of how the events in the books, affected her own life.
Book Description
"Kaminsky gets his details exactly right....Tightly plotted...The best mysteries work on multiple levels, and this one is no exception."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Detective Sergeant Abe Lieberman is about to wake up to every policeman's nightmare--an out-of-control colleague hell-bent on revenge. After gunning down his wife and her lover, a fellow cop, Bernie Shepard has retreated to a makeshift bunker atop his high-rise apartment buliding, armed with a high-powered rifle and enough explosives to destroy a neighborhood. Holding his former comrades Lieberman and Bill Hanrahan desperately at bay, he issues his single demand: a confrontation with police captain Alan Kearney--or else, widespread slaughter. Either way, Leiberman knows, it's a choice that can only end in disaster.
Customer Reviews:
Would make a nice two TV hour movie to watch on a quiet Sunday.......2006-05-16
This is the first sequel in the Lieberman series by Kaminsky. He is working on four of them at this time. If you keep in mind that Kaminsky has been writing TV scripts since the sixties (he wrote for the "Man from U.N.C.L.E.") and currently writes for the CSI series, you'll recognize his style. There is little narrative and the dialogue is always crisp, and few if any extraneous characters. If you read real carefully, you can even guess where the commercial breaks would be.
All this said, it's still an enjoyable series to read. It isn't terribly profound, nor are there any great surprises, everything goes pretty linear. But if you are looking for something fun to read, that doesn't ask for anything intellectually from you, except of course for your time, this is what your looking for. I am looking forward to the next episode, eh...installment.
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- Excellent biography
- Interesting, but very brief
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Joe Lieberman: The Historic Choice
Stephen Singular , and
Paul Dinas
Manufacturer: Pinnacle
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Excellent biography.......2004-09-03
Besides info on his personal life (Pgs 34-39) :1st wife Betty Haas; 2nd wife Hadassah Freilich (whose parents fortunately survived the Holocaust, and the ages of his son & daughters, the book concentrates mainly on the political ideology and career of Senator Lieberman.Its end of the biography in prose on pg 133, reminds the reader that the book was published 3 months prior to the 2000 election.The book (paperback) contains 4 appendix(s) :I.The Lieberman Chronicles (birth 2/24/42-year 2000 publishes "In Praise of Public Life" II.What People Have Said(Quotes from both Democratic & Republican Politicans(e.g. Former Senator of Georgia Sam Nunn)and other Notable Figures III.Selected Statements by the Senator himself IV. Selections from Senator Lieberman's Voting Record(listed alphabetically from "Abortion(9/11/1991/H.R. 2707,Amendment 1108) to Voter Registration(March 17,1993 H.R.2).The book also contains a biliography of books(pg 239-240) and a bibliography of periodicals(Pgs241-249),a leaf pg 250 and a bibliography of transcripts (Pg 251),a leaf page 252 and a page of useful websites (Pg 253(e.g. www.cnn.com)
Interesting, but very brief.......2002-04-20
Although this friendly paperback is about 250 pages, 120 of these are just summaries of the bills he worked on.
This was a nice reference about Lieberman when he was first announced to be Gore's choice in 2000 for running mate, but now the world needs to see a more in-depth portrait of him. Still, this book is interesting in that it gives us a brief idea of Lieberman's strong moral standards and integrity.
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Privatization and Educational Choice
Myron Lieberman
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Public School Choice: Current Issues, Future Prospects
Myron Lieberman
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Sex and Morality
Louis Lieberman
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Social Choice (Monographs and texts in the behavioral sciences, v. 1)
Bernhardt Lieberman
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Book Description
Everything you need to teach and motivate your students is here--in one comprehensive, skills-based health program. Glencoe Health combines print, audio, and technology resources in an integrated program of health education sure to engage and challenge every student.
With its short lessons, interactive format, increased emphasis on skill-building, and exciting new visual approach, Glencoe Health is the health program that helps students find answers to today's perplexing health issues.
Book Description
BUILD THE SKILLS THAT LEAD TO A HEALTHY LIFE!
Everything you need to teach and motivate your students is here--in one comprehensive, skills-based health program. With this edition,
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, the leading publisher of health education materials and
CNN/Turner Broadcasting, the world's news leader have teamed up to create this dynamic feature and video as a new way to look at and study health issues.
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CNN Health News articles expand on chapter topics to help students better understand their own health and the health of those around them.
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CNN Health News Videos introduce students to professionals in the scientific community who provide their expertise and offer new information on important topics. Young people will share their viewpoints about relevant health news today.
Glencoe Health combines print, audio, and technology resources in an integrated program of health education that is certain to engage and challenge every student. With its short lessons, interactive format, increased emphasis on skill building, and exciting new visual approach, Glencoe Health is the health curriculum that helps students find answers to today's perplexing health issues.
Help your students assess their health and improve their health skills. Glencoe Health covers the entire spectrum of high school health issues--from personal health to injury prevention; from community health to nutrition and fitness; and from alcohol, tobacco, and drugs to personal development and family living--in a high-interest, interactive style your students will respond to and enjoy.
Student Modules
. Abstinence
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. Education in Sexuality
. The Reality of Drugs
Customer Reviews:
Glencoe Health a Guide to Wellness.......2005-08-22
This was a text book for my daughter . It arrived in the best shape of any of her text books I ordered on line. That is all I can rate.
Version out of Date.......1999-08-29
My daughter needed this for school, but they are using the 6th edition. 4th ed must be way out of date.
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Glencoe Health, A Guide to Wellness, Modules, HIV/AIDS and Society
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