The Joy Luck Club
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 250
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: chinese american women, mothers and daughters, mother-daughter relationship [X], chinese americans, women, domestic fiction, tan, amy, chinese american literature, american literature, chinese american fiction, reminiscing in old age, loss (psychology), san francisco (calif.) [X], audiobooks, mothers, female friendship, domestic fiction, family life, electronic books
Eve & Adam
After Evening Spiker has a terrible accident, she is rushed to her mother's billion-dollar research facility.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: human genetics, biomedical engineering, mothers and daughters, traffic accidents, san francisco (calif.) [X], genetics, mother-daughter relationship [X], science fiction
Bitter Melon
Frances, a Chinese-American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she becomes a doctor when she accidentally enrolls in a speech class and discovers a hidden talent.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: mother-daughter relationship [X], self-realization, child abuse, high schools, chinese americans, san francisco (calif.) [X]
Girl, Unframed
While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: mother-daughter relationship [X], celebrities, dating (social customs), abused women, mystery fiction, san francisco (calif.) [X], detective and mystery fiction, bildungsromans, mothers and daughters, coming of age