The Phoenix Crown, a novel, Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
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The Phoenix Crown, a novel, Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
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eng
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fiction
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The Phoenix Crown
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Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
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a novel
Summary
San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing?s fallen Summer Palace. His patronage offers Gemma and Suling the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating earthquake rips San Francisco apart and Thornton disappears, leaving behind a mystery reaching further than anyone could have imagined . . . until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later at a sumptuous Paris costume ball, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice
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- Rich people -- Fiction
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Art patrons -- Fiction
- Novels
- Earthquakes -- Fiction
- Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction
- Paris (France) -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Historical fiction
- Women singers -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Antiques -- Fiction
- Crowns -- China -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- Sopranos (Singers) -- Fiction
- Chinese American women -- Fiction
- Needleworkers -- Fiction
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Fiction
- Romans
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- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre5
- Subject20
- Rich people -- Fiction
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Art patrons -- Fiction
- Novels
- Earthquakes -- Fiction
- Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction
- Paris (France) -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Historical fiction
- Women singers -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Antiques -- Fiction
- Crowns -- China -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- Sopranos (Singers) -- Fiction
- Chinese American women -- Fiction
- Needleworkers -- Fiction
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Fiction
- Romans
- Content1
- Author2