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  • Thousand Pieces of Gold

    Ruthanne Lum McCunn

    Paperback (Beacon Press, July 21, 2015)
    Lalu Nathoy’s father calls his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his “thousand pieces of gold,” yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloon keeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. Complete with photographs and documents, this biographical novel is the extraordinary story of a legendary pioneer’s fight for independence and dignity on the American frontier.
  • Thousand Pieces of Gold

    Ruthanne Lum Mccunn

    eBook (Beacon Press, July 21, 2015)
    Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.
  • Thousand pieces of gold: A biographical novel

    Ruthanne Lum McCunn

    Hardcover (Design Enterprises of San Francisco, Aug. 16, 1981)
    This masterful biographical novel—which has sold more than 100,000 copies—tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu struggled out of servitude to achieve a life of freedom and dignity as a pioneer woman."A valuable book that gives Chinese Americans another true heroine." —Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Thousand Pieces of Gold

    Ruthanne Lum McCunn

    Paperback (Beacon Press, Aug. 25, 2004)
    Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.
  • Thousand Pieces Of Gold

    Ruthanne Lum McCunn

    Mass Market Paperback (Laurel, April 15, 1983)
    This masterful biographical novel—which has sold more than 100,000 copies—tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu struggled out of servitude to achieve a life of freedom and dignity as a pioneer woman."A valuable book that gives Chinese Americans another true heroine." —Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Thousand Pieces of Gold

    Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Emily Zeller

    MP3 CD (Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, June 21, 2016)
    Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.
  • Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel

    Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Tisha Hooks

    Paperback (Beacon Press, May 16, 1989)
    This masterful biographical novel—which has sold more than 100,000 copies—tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu struggled out of servitude to achieve a life of freedom and dignity as a pioneer woman."A valuable book that gives Chinese Americans another true heroine." —Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Thousand Pieces Of Gold -

    Ruthanne Lum McCunn

    Paperback (Design Enterprises of San Francisco, Aug. 16, 1981)
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  • Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel

    Ruthanne Lum McCunn

    Paperback (Design Enterprises of San Francisco, Aug. 16, 1981)
    Book by McCunn, Ruthanne Lum
  • Thousand Pieces of Gold

    RuthanneLumMcCunn

    Paperback (BeaconPress(MA), Sept. 1, 2004)
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  • Thousand Pieces of Gold

    Ruthanne Lum McCunn

    Paperback (Beacon Press, Aug. 16, 1988)
    China 1871, LaLu is sold due to the famine.
  • Thousand Pieces Of Gold - A Biographical Novel

    Ruthanne Lum Mccunn

    Paperback (Beacon Press, )
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