YVONNE FAIR TESSLER - Braille Institute of America

TAN, AMY
The Joy Luck Club
RC 29021
In 1949 four Chinese women living in San Francisco founded the Joy
Luck Club where they met to play mah jong, tell stories, and "feast" on
scraps. Forty years later one of the women dies, her daughter takes her
place at the club, and a secret is revealed that unleashes in each person
the need to reach back and remember.
THAYER, NANCY, 1943-
Everlasting
RC 33019
Christmas night 1960. That is the night Catherine Eliot, eighteen,
realizes she can no longer stay with her family; she just does not
belong. When she graduates from Miss Brill's School for Girls in 1961,
she refuses to follow the life plan her parents have worked out, moving
to New York instead. There a spur-of-the-moment decision to buy
some flowers changes the pattern of her life forever.
THOMAS, ROSIE
The White Dove
RC 23916
As the daughter of a British lord and a wealthy American steel heiress,
Amy Lovell must reconcile her youthful dreams of living daringly with
practical realities and ties to her family. After becoming romantically
involved with a married Welsh miner and union organizer, she trains as
a nurse and joins him in Spain to fight fascism.
A Woman of Our Times
RC 31967
The discovery that her husband is having an affair, boredom with
running a London clothing shop, and a desire to find her roots brings
Harriet Peacock into contact with Simon Archer. Simon, attracted to
Harriet, offers her a game he has developed called "Meizu." Marketing
the game provides Harriet with an entrepreneurial opportunity, but at a
high cost.
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