Pearl S Buck
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Classics - St. Charles Public Library
OBD Oprah's Book Club - ADULT
Tuesdays With Friends
Women's History Month
OBD Oprah's Book Club - ADULT
Tuesdays With Friends
Women's History Month
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When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from...
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Adapted from a classic Christmas short story by Nobel Prize–winning author Pearl S. Buck, this beautiful gift book allows readers of all ages to share a heartwarming story about awakening the simple joy of Christmas.
Remembering a special Christmas from his childhood, Rob wants to get his father a Christmas gift that would truly show his love and appreciation. But it's Christmas Eve, and living on a farm far away from stores limits his...
Remembering a special Christmas from his childhood, Rob wants to get his father a Christmas gift that would truly show his love and appreciation. But it's Christmas Eve, and living on a farm far away from stores limits his...
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The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last Empress in China. In this audio book, Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rules during a time of intense turbulence. Tzu Hsi was born into one of the lowly ranks of the Imperial dynasty. According to custom, she moved to the Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to become one of hundreds of concubines. But her singular beauty and powers of manipulation quickly moved her into...
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Set in China during the early twentieth century, Pearl S. Buck's timeless trilogy is the powerful story of a family-and a nation-in transition The Good Earth is Buck's classic, Pulitzer Prize–winning story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple's fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in...
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"On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame Wu will not be dissuaded and arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed." -- Amazon.com...
6) The big wave
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His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.
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Oriental novels of Pearl S. Buck volume 8th
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East Wind: West Wind is the debut novel of Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize-winning author and one of the most celebrated interpreters of Chinese life for Western audiences. First published in 1930, this beautifully illustrated edition brings new visual depth to a deeply human story about cultural transformation, personal growth, and the clash between tradition and modernity in early 20th-century China.
The novel follows the life of Kwei-lan, a young Chinese...
8) Peony
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A young Chinese woman falls in love with a Jewish man in nineteenth-century China in this evocative novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth.
In 1850s China, a young girl, Peony, is sold to work as a bondmaid for a rich Jewish family in Kaifeng. Jews have lived for centuries in this region of the country, but by the mid-nineteenth century, assimilation has begun taking its toll on their small enclave. When Peony and the family's...
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From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth: the New York Times–bestselling novel of a Chinese-American family separated by war.
Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author
Elizabeth and Gerald MacLeod are happily married in China, bringing up their young son, Rennie. But when war breaks out with Japan, Gerald, who is half-Chinese, decides to send his wife and son back to America while he stays behind. In Vermont, Elizabeth longingly awaits...
11) Dragon seed
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One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII.
12) Fighting angel
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This novel tells the story of Andrew, a man whose dedication to his Christian mission in China, consumed his life.
14) The time is noon
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A college graduate returns to her hometown in Pennsylvania. Then "an unfortunate love affair, a mother's long illness, the aloof and meditative figure of her father, all cast their shadows. But Joan Richards, in her successive roles as daughter, sister, wife and mother, survives [and] grows stronger ... with fulfillment just ahead."
16) Sons
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Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet also promising emancipation to China's oppressed millions who are groping for a way to survive in a modern age.
17) A house divided
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Oriental novels of Pearl S. Buck volume 9th
Oriental novels of Pearl S. Buck volume 9
Buck Pearl S volume 3
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Oriental novels of Pearl S. Buck volume 9
Buck Pearl S volume 3
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A man returns to his native China to find upheaval in both his homeland and his family in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author.
On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country. Fleeing the turmoil, Wang Yuan, the son of a famous general and grandson of the patriarch of The Good Earth, leaves for America to study agriculture. When he returns to China six years later, he encounters...
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"The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea that will change his life forever--and, ultimately, to love. Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives in Paris with her Chinese father and has no contact with her American mother,...
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A widow's New England peace is interrupted by her feelings for two men, one much younger and the other quite older—and the dilemma of choosing between them.
At forty-three, Edith has lost a husband, and has children who have children of their own. Living in a large Vermont house, her days are spent idly reading and playing music. But all of this is to change when two candidates for her affection arrive on the scene. The first is thirty years her...
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Four Chinese-American siblings make an emotional journey to their ancestral home in this novel from the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author.
Dr. Liang is a comfortably well-off professor of Confucian philosophy who fled China because of the government's crackdown on intellectuals. Now, settled in 1940s New York, he believes in the notion of a pure and unchanging homeland. Under his influence, Liang's four grown children make the momentous decision...









