| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
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| 13939 | CH1 | Falling Leaves – The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter | Adeline Yen Mah, Penguin Books, 1997 | Thought to bring bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her, Adeline Yen Mah was discriminated against by her family all her life. Falling Leaves is both the moving story of how she survived that rejection and an enthralling saga of a Chinese family, from the time of the foreign concessions to the rise of Communist China and the commercial boom of Hong Kong. | |
| 13940 | CH2 | The Ford of Heaven | Brian Power, Corgi Books, 1984 | The autobiography of Brian's childhood raised by a Chinese amah (Chinese servant) while growing up in revolutionary Tianjin China during the 1920s and 1930s. |
| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
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| 13941 | K1 | Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan | Elizabeth Kim, Doubleday, 2000 | Elizabeth Kim's mother committed the sin of sleeping with an American soldier, and producing not just a bastard, but a mixed-race child, considered worthless. Abandoned at a Christian orphanage in post-war Seoul. A childless Fundamentalist pastor and his wife in the United States adopted Elizabeth. After escaping her adoptive parents' home, only to find herself in an abusive and controlling marriage, Kim made a break for herself by having a daughter and running away. |
| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
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| 13942 | VIET1 | Mama Tina: The inspiring sequel to Bridge Across My Sorrows | Christina Noble with Greta Curran Browne, John Murray, 1998 | Christina Noble was an orphan and a Dublin street child. In 1989 she travelled to Vietnam to care for the street children of Saigon – a sad legacy of the Vietnam War. Against extraordinary odds Christina Noble opened the Christina Noble Children's Foundation, a haven of foods, beds, medical aid and schooling where the street kids can find safety and protection by Mama Tina. | |
| 13943 | VIET2 | The Unwanted – A Memoir | Kien Nguyen, Little, Brown & Company, 2001 | After the fall of Saigon to the Viet Cong in 1975 this books tells the true story of Kien born to a Vietnamese mother and an American father who spent time in a refugee camp in the Philippines. |
| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
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| 13944 | IND1 | Bitter Sweet Truth | Esther Mary Lyons, Parker Pattinson Publishing, 2000 | A revised and added version of ‘Unwanted’. See book IND2. An autobiography of the recollections of an Anglo-Indian born during the last years of the British Raj. | |
| 13945 | IND2 | Unwanted: The love child of an American Jesuit priest and an Indian Catholic nun | Esther Mary Lyons, Spectrum Publications, 1996 | The book is set in North India from the 1940s to the 1980s. It follows the dramatic story of the true story of girl who was the love child of an American Jesuit Priest and an Indian Catholic nun. Chapter 4 is about the writers’ experience in an orphanage. |