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A classic story of love and sacrifice Description Mei Chan, a beautiful damsel from a poor background in China, has the opportunity of a lifetime to travel abroad and work in New York City. Her first job as a maid lands her in the house of a wealthy family where she meets Jason Jones, the third child of the 11th-richest man in the world. Soon, Mei and Jason fall in love. But one evening, a romantic trip to Letch Park turns into a race to save Jason’s life. Whatever befalls Jason in the abandoned house in the park is mysterious, and the cure to his ailment is not scientific. Desperate to find a solution, Jason’s father is offering the highest reward ever to any woman who will risk her life to save his son. About Cataphrase: Think of Cataphrase as a movie script designed to look like a book. We use the word “movie” to describe a Cataphrase book because the genre focuses on writing movies alone. Like one Cataphrase reader said, “When a good novel loses all its unnecessary weight, it becomes a Cataphrase.” The concept of writing a book that gives a reader the experience of watching a movie is what gave birth to Cataphrase. Simplified, Cataphrase is a book that summarizes what happens in a movie without sacrificing the interesting parts. Cataphrase doesn’t use a table of contents or chapters; instead, the pages are Cataphrased into scenes. A Cataphrase book does not exceed 200 pages. The reason is because most book readers believe a book that is written to entertain people shouldn’t exceed 250 pages, as, with the schedule of most people today, it could take up to a month or more to finish reading it. And let's say you have ten favorite authors and you've bought all their new books, and each is 300 pages or more. Imagine how long it will take you to read all the books. I’m not saying it’s impossible to read ten 300-page books in a month, but let’s be realistic. Unless you are unemployed, how many people have the time to read ten books in a month? However, the truth is, if a book is interesting, regardless of the size, we can always find time to read it. Often, when we are on a bus, train, or plane or just waiting for an oil change, we read one or two pages of a newspaper or that big novel we’ve been carrying about for a month. Have you ever heard someone say, “Anytime I need to fall asleep, I’ll pick up a Bible and start reading”? A book shouldn’t be a sleeping pill. This is why Cataphrase is designed to entertain readers and not help them fall asleep. The logic of Cataphrase is similar to that of a newspaper. The first thing that attracts most people to a newspaper is the headline and the fact that the news is short yet interesting. This logic is what Cataphrase intends to deliver.
Maid for Television examines race, class, and gender relations as embodied in a long history of television servants from 1950 to the turn of the millennium. Although they reside at the visual peripheries, these figures are integral to the idealized American family. Author L. S. Kim redirects viewers' gaze towards the usually overlooked interface between characters, which is drawn through race, class, and gender positioning. Maid for Television tells the stories of servants and the families they work for, in so doing it investigates how Americans have dealt with difference through television as a medium and a mediator.The book philosophically redirects the gaze of television and its projection of racial discourse.
Asian American literature dates back to the close of the 19th century, and during the years following World War II it significantly expanded in volume and diversity. Monumental in scope, this encyclopedia surveys Asian American literature from its origins through 2007. Included are more than 270 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, major works, significant historical events, and important terms and concepts. Thus the encyclopedia gives special attention to the historical, social, cultural, and legal contexts surrounding Asian American literature and central to the Asian American experience. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and cites works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography of essential print and electronic resources. While literature students will value this encyclopedia as a guide to writings by Asian Americans, the encyclopedia also supports the social studies curriculum by helping students use literature to learn about Asian American history and culture, as it pertains to writers from a host of Asian ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including Afghans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Iranians, Indians, Vietnamese, Hawaiians, and other Asian Pacific Islanders. The encyclopedia supports the literature curriculum by helping students learn more about Asian American literature. In addition, it supports the social studies curriculum by helping students learn about the Asian American historical and cultural experience.
Stella Kendrick is an all-American heiress who can’t be tamed. But when the lively aspiring equine trainer tangles with British aristocracy, she meets her match—and a murderer . . . Like the Thoroughbreds she rides across the Kentucky countryside, Stella takes adventure by the reins when she’s asked to attend a mysterious wedding in rural England. But once she arrives at the lush Morrington Hall estate, her cold, ambitious father reveals that he has arranged to give away his daughter as bride to the Earl of Atherly’s financially strapped son . . . Stella refuses to be sold off like a prized pony. Yet there’s something intriguing about her groom-to-be, the roguish Viscount “Lyndy” Lyndhurst. The unlikely pair could actually be on the right track with each other . . . until they find the vicar who was to marry them dead in the library. Now, Stella and Lyndy must put their marriage on hold to prevent an unbridled criminal from destroying their new life together right out of the gate . . . “Delightful . . . Eccentric, humorous characters add to the intrigue . . . Fans of historical cozies will be enchanted.” —Publishers Weekly “Well-drawn characters, a richly described historical setting with details of horse racing, and a tentative romance distinguish this agreeable cozy.” —Booklist