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FireWife: A Story Of Fire and Water

Disabled children are bought as slaves and forced to beg on the streets while their owners take the money. Women are used a dining tables in some countries. Pre-teen girls are sold for sex. Impoverished women lease their bodies for ad space. All of these things changed this author's life as she researched her book - FireWife.

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Asian Women's Sorrows - The Joy Luck Club

In San Francisco's Chinatown -- The stories of this book cluster around first Chinese American Jing-mei (June) Woo's journey of discovery to China to meet her half-sisters left by a roadside: the twins Chwun Yu and Chwun...

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The Woman Warrior: White Tigers and Ghosts

Every 500 years, dragon becomes tiger in order to learn more and prepare; tiger becomes the dragon in order to do more. This system of change patternd after the chancing of the north/south pole every several 1000 years, and the dance of male and female, or the circling around of God's hands. Back and forth bewteen worlds is where the author lives.

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