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Thousand Pieces of Gold is a 1981 historical novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn and based on the life of Polly Bemis, a 19th-century Chinese immigrant woman in the American Old West. In 1991, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name .
A Million Little Pieces is a book by James Frey, originally sold as a memoir and later marketed as a semi-fictional novel following Frey's admission that many parts of the book were fabricated. [1] It tells the story of a 23-year-old alcoholic and abuser of other drugs and how he copes with rehabilitation in a twelve steps -oriented treatment ...
This novel was later adapted into the 1991 film Thousand Pieces of Gold, starring Rosalind Chao (as Polly) and Chris Cooper (as Charlie). Polly Bemis: A Chinese American Pioneer, written by Priscilla Wegars and published in 2003, is a noted elementary classroom history book.
A Thousand Boy Kisses (2016) is a young adult romance novel by Tillie Cole. It tells the tragic romance of childhood sweethearts whose lives are shaped by terminal illness and death. After gaining attention on TikTok, the book became a bestseller. It is followed by a sequel, A Thousand Broken Pieces (2024), with a film adaptation underway.
Yaowang in the Tianfei Palace, Nanjing. Sun wrote two books—Beiji qianjin yaofang ("Essential Formulas for Emergencies [Worth] a Thousand Pieces/Catty of Gold") and Qian Jin Yi Fang [] ("Supplement to the Formulas of a Thousand Gold Worth")—that were both milestones in the history of Chinese medicine, summarizing pre-Tang dynasty medicine. [1]
Published in 2001, her third book, Watching the Tree, is about Chinese philosophy and traditional beliefs (including Traditional Chinese Medicine). A Thousand Pieces of Gold was published in 2002, and looks at events under the Qin and Han dynasties through Chinese proverbs and their origins in Sima Qian's history, Shiji.
In 1977, Éric Gaubert murders Olivier, the child of Nicole Parmentier. Twenty-five years later, this broken-hearted mother makes an appointment with the murderer of her son, who has just been released from prison.
A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. It was premiered as an opera by the Des Moines Metro Opera during their 2022 season.