Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
Title | Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister PDF eBook |
Author | Jung Chang |
Publisher | Knopf |
Total Pages | 434 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0451493508 |
The most famous sisters in China, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power during a time of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations. Red Sister, Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen; Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame Chiang Kai-shek; Big Sister, Ei-Ling, became Chiang's unofficial main adviser, and made herself one of China's richest women.
Big Sister, Little Sister
Title | Big Sister, Little Sister PDF eBook |
Author | LeUyen Pham |
Publisher | Hyperion |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005-07-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780786851829 |
The Big one gets new clothes. The Little one gets hand-me-downs. The Big one does everything first. The Little one is always catching up But the little one can do some things well, and can even teach the older one a thing or two…. Big sisters and little sisters alike will agree: this is a sassy and touching celebration of sisterhood for all ages.
Little Sister, Big Sister
Title | Little Sister, Big Sister PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Brisson |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 76 |
Release | 1999-05-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780805058871 |
Hester and her younger sister Edna play Queen and her maid, pretend to be mermaids, eat chocolate, and experience a thunderstorm.
The Soong Sisters
Title | The Soong Sisters PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Hahn |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Total Pages | 428 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 149761953X |
“If the story of the Soong family were told as fiction, people would say it was fascinating but too improbable. . . . A dramatic human chronicle . . . engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review In the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong sisters—Eling, Chingling and Mayling—who would each marry historic figures. Told with wit and verve by New Yorker correspondent Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the biography of the Soong sisters reveals the story of China through both World Wars. It also chronicles the changes to Shanghai as they relate to a very eccentric family that had the courage to speak out against the ruling regime. Greatly influencing the history of modern China, they interacted with their government and military to protect the lives of those who could not be heard, and appealed to the West to support China during the Japanese invasion. “[A] first-rate reportorial job on three distinguished women.” —Kirkus Reviews “A spirited, well-informed book . . . a fascinating saga . . . Hahn skillfully interweaves the personal material which she has collected in abundance with some indispensable background knowledge of Chinese history.” —The Atlantic
Red Sister
Title | Red Sister PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Lawrence |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 482 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101988851 |
The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls. A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stolen from the shadow of the noose. It takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist, but under Abbess Glass's care there is much more to learn than the arts of death. Among her class Nona finds a new family--and new enemies. Despite the security and isolation of the convent, Nona's secret and violent past finds her out, drawing with it the tangled politics of a crumbling empire. Her arrival sparks old feuds to life, igniting vicious struggles within the church and even drawing the eye of the emperor himself. Beneath a dying sun, Nona Grey must master her inner demons, then loose them on those who stand in her way.
Wild Swans
Title | Wild Swans PDF eBook |
Author | Jung Chang |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 592 |
Release | 2008-06-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439106495 |
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
Kyle's Little Sister
Title | Kyle's Little Sister PDF eBook |
Author | BonHyung Jeong |
Publisher | Yen Press LLC |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2021-06-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1975335902 |
My name is Grace, not "Kyle's little sister!" Having a good-looking, friendly, outgoing older brother sucks—especially when you're the total opposite, someone who likes staying home and playing video games. Your parents like him better (even if they deny it!), and everyone calls you "Kyle's little sister" while looking disappointed that you're not more like him. I was really hoping I'd get to go to a different middle school, but no such luck. At least I have my friends...until he finds a way to ruin that, too...! Argh! What do I have to do to get out of his shadow?!