Seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson is thrilled when his father, a cameraman for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, asks Alex to join him on assignment in China.  Not only will he get some time off from school, but Alex, who's a Chinese history buff, know this trip is the chance of a lifetime.  But Alex and his dad cannot know that they will becomes part of the great historical events that sweep China in the spring of 1989.  As students and civilians demonstrate in Tian An Men Square for changes in the government, Alex feels the thrill of being a reporter.  But his excitement turns to horror and dismay as the movement turns violent and he witnesses the death of his Chinese friend. Alex and his father know they must communicate the story to the rest of the world, but at what cost to their own lives?

Forbidden City: A Novel of Modern China

Teen & Young Adult

William Bell

Literature & Fiction

Follett Bound

A dramatic and moving YA novel by Ting-xing Ye, the internationally acclaimed author of A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, working with her husband, William Bell, author of the award-winning novels for young adults Forbidden City, Zack, and Stones. . Throwaway Daughter tells the dramatic and moving story of Grace Dong-mei Parker, a typical Canadian teenager until the day she witnesses the Tiananmen massacre on television. Horrified, she sets out to explore her Chinese ancestry, only to discover that she was one of the thousands of infant girls abandoned in China since the introduction of the one-child policy, strictly enforced by the Communist government. But Grace was one of the lucky ones, adopted as a baby by a loving Canadian couple. With the encouragement of her adoptive parents, she studies Chinese and travels back to China in search of her birth mother. She manages to locate the village where she was born, but at first no one is willing to help her. However, Grace never gives up and, finally, she is reunited with her birth mother, discovering through this emotional bond the truth of what happened to her almost twenty years before. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Throwaway Daughter

Ting-Xing, Ye

Children's Books

Doubleday of Canada

Death Wind

Bt Bound

Surgical Correction of Dentofacial Deformities, Vol. 2

William R. Proffitt

Raymond P. White

Medical Books

W.B.Saunders Co.

Stones

Seal Books

A Canadian teenager, staying in China with his journalist father, witnesses the massacre at Tiananmen Square.

Forbidden City

Perfection Learning

ELEMENTARY METHOD FOR Eb, C AND Bb TUBAS.

Foundation to Tuba And Sousaphone Playing (German Edition)

Carl Fischer Music

A comprehensive collection of William Bell s classic compositions for solo tuba are finally available in one volume from Carl Fischer Music. This collection contains nearly every solo Bell ever wrote for tuba, including some pieces that were previously out of print. Also included is a piano accompaniment CD, making practice more enjoyable and effective. A great value!

WF79 - William Bell Tuba Solo Collection

Arts & Photography

Music

Carl Fischer Music Publisher

William BellLiberty University Press11/17/2016140Binding Paperback0.41lbs8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d9780997682830This title is not returnable

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Liberty University Press

River, My Friend

Ken, Campbell

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