Books with author Gwendoline Yeo

Ten-year-old Amber grew up with Collection Day clouding her childhood just as every other labor class child. Nothing prepared her for what it actually meant to be sold to the royals. As she watches the other girls’ punishments, alarms sound, giving her the cover to run. But where can she hide? Is there any hope for freedom now that she belongs to the servant class?Ten-year-old Prince Steel doesn’t want to take part in his first Collection Day gala. The last thing he needs is to pick a friend from a group of girls. They can’t even throw balls right or climb trees. While hiding from the festivities, he finds a playmate who is also running from the celebration. A girl. A girl who is brave enough to run away with him on the roof.Neither understands what it means when Prince Steel picks her at the gala as his chosen playmate. Will the bonds they form as children withstand the strain of what they really are to each other as they grow into their roles?*This story contains dark themes

In 1949, four Chinese women -- drawn together by the shadow of their past -- begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and “say” stories. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother's lifelong wish -- and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation of this secret unleashes an urgent need among the women to reach back and remember... In this extraordinary first work of fiction, Amy Tan writes about what is lost -- over the years, between generations, among friends -- and what is saved. Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1952, two and a half years after her parents immigrated to the United States. She visited China for the first time in 1987 and found it was just as her mother said: “As soon as my feet touched China, I became Chinese.” Gwendoline Yeo was born in Singapore and moved to America as a tween. She graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a diploma in piano, and received her bachelors from UCLA. She won Miss Chinatown USA in 1998 which led to commercials, hosting and eventually a film and television career. She's best known as Eva Longoria's naughty maid, Xiao-Mei on Desperate Housewives, and was submitted for an emmy nomination as best female guest star. She was nominated for a NAMIC best actress award starring alongside Robert Duvall in AMC's emmy-winning western Broken Trail. TV credits include recurring on 24, NYPD Blue, JAG, General Hospital, Hannah Montana and Chuck. Film credits include The Magic of Ordinary Days, A Day Without a Mexican and The Jane Austen Book Club. She also loves the voice-over world having done many cartoons and games

Helen, convinced that she is dying of a terminal illness, decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths; her own and Winnie's and also the dreadful news that Winnie's daughter Pearl has been keeping from her Mother. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss and trust, about the things a mother cannot tell her daughter the secrets daughters keep, and the miraculous resiliency of love.

Excerpt from The Roman RoadMrs. Groot, the lady that seemed so to have misadventured over and through the sound laws that should govern good primogeniture. If it had ever occurred to Mrs. Groot in an unwary moment of introspection to sum up herself by the light of her past, she would have said that she was a good woman who had made one little mistake but the seven deadly sins sprung from one root could not have shown signs of bearing a finer crop than did the little mistake Mrs. Groot had grafted on to the tree of her fortunes. By nature Mrs. Groot belonged to those infinitely wise people who never indulge in skirmishes with their own thoughts for the pleasure of fighting, but events pressed hard, and think she must whether she would or no. She sat now in the yellow drawing-room at Groot Hall, waylaid by an army of thoughts. Roland, meditative and amused, watched her from the terrace, then he flung away his cigar and entered the room.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Roman RoadMrs. Groot, the lady that seemed so to have misadventured over and through the sound laws that should govern good primogeniture. If it had ever occurred to Mrs. Groot in an unwary moment of introspection to sum up herself by the light of her past, she would have said that she was a good woman who had made one little mistake but the seven deadly sins sprung from one root could not have shown signs of bearing a finer crop than did the little mistake Mrs. Groot had grafted on to the tree of her fortunes. By nature Mrs. Groot belonged to those infinitely wise people who never indulge in skirmishes with their own thoughts for the pleasure of fighting, but events pressed hard, and think she must whether she would or no. She sat now in the yellow drawing-room at Groot Hall, waylaid by an army of thoughts. Roland, meditative and amused, watched her from the terrace, then he flung away his cigar and entered the room.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.