![]() ![]() Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. In China, Qian’s parents were professors in America, her family is “illegal”, and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country”. ![]() Consider this remarkable memoir a new classic." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts listeners in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This new edition is more than a dictionary. The English Hawaiian section, a complement and supplement to the Hawaiian English section, contains more than 12,500 entries and can serve as an index to hidden riches in the Hawaiian language. Other additions and changes in this section include: a method of showing stress groups to facilitate pronunciation of Hawaiian words with more than three syllables indications of parts of speech current scientific names of plants use of metric measurements additional reconstructions classical origins of loan words and many added cross-references to enhance understanding of the numerous nuances of Hawaiian words. More than 3,000 new entries have been added to the Hawaiian-English section, bringing the total number of entries to almost 30,000 and making it the largest and most complete of any Polynesian dictionary. Now this indispensable reference volume has been enlarged and completely revised. For many years, Hawaiian Dictionary has been the definitive and authoritative work on the Hawaiian language. ![]() |