Query: what are some Novels by Tong Hua (writer), Chinese alternate history, or Interracial romance novels?
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Back to Life (novel)
Bu Bu Jing Xin
Romiette and Julio
Eleanor & Park
Out of Darkness (novel)
Strange Fruit (novel)
Illumine Lingao
The Russian Concubine
White Teeth
She Who Became the Sun
Ballad of the Desert
An Extraordinary Union
Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
Song in the Clouds
The Lover (Duras novel)
Evidence from documents: Bu Bu Jing Xin: '''''Startling by Each Step''''', also known as '''''Bubu Jingxin''''' (), was Tong Hua's debut novel.
Romiette and Julio: Interracial romance: When Julio gets home that afternoon, he logs into a chatroom with the screen name "spanishlover" and starts to chat anonymously with "afroqueen," who he later finds is Romiette. Meanwhile, Romiette excitedly tells Destiny, her best friend, about her online chat with "spanishlover." Romiette and Julio continue to chat online, have a lunch date, and eventually fall in love with each other.
novels?: is a young adult novel by Sharon Draper, published in 1999 by Atheneum Books. It is an updated version of ''Romeo and Juliet'' by William Shakespeare. Many of the characters in Draper's novel closely parallel those in Shakespeare's play. The plot updates the family feud between the Capulets and Montagues to reflect modern racial tensions between African-Americans and Hispanics in the United States.
Eleanor & Park: ''''Eleanor & Park''''' is the first young adult novel written by Rainbow Rowell. Published in 2012, the story follows dual narratives by Eleanor and Park, two misfits living in Omaha, Nebraska from 1986 to 1987. Eleanor, a chubby 16-year-old girl with curly red hair, and Park, a half-Korean, 16-year-old boy, meet on a school bus on Eleanor's first day at the school and gradually connect through comic books and mix tapes of '80s music, sparking a love story.
Out of Darkness (novel): '''''Out of Darkness''''' is a 2015 historical young adult novel by Ashley Hope Pérez. The novel chronicles a love affair between a teenage Mexican American girl and a teenage African-American boy
Strange Fruit (novel): '''''Strange Fruit''''' is a 1944 bestselling debut novel by American author Lillian Smith that deals with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance.
Illumine Lingao: n the story, more than 500 people from early-21st-century China intentionally travel back in time via wormhole to the Chongzhen-era late Ming dynasty in 1628 AD. Settling in Lingao County on the island of Hainan, the time travelers set out to establish an industrialized society and change the course of history.
The Russian Concubine: . Set in Russia and China, it is a love story between Lydia Ivanova and Chang An Lo
White Teeth: On New Year's Day 1975, Archie Jones, a 47-year-old Englishman whose disturbed Italian wife has just walked out on him, is attempting to take his own life by gassing himself in his car when a chance interruption causes him to change his mind. Filled with a fresh enthusiasm for life, Archie flips a coin and then finds his way into the aftermath of a New Year's Eve party. There he meets the much-younger Clara Bowden, a Jamaican woman whose mother, Hortense, is a devout Jehovah's Witness. Clara had been interested in the unattractive, anti-social Ryan Topps, but their relationship falls apart after Ryan becomes a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses and becomes close to her mother. Archie and Clara are soon married and have a daughter, Irie, who grows up to be intelligent but with low self-confidence.
She Who Became the Sun: a 2021 fantasy novel by Shelley Parker-Chan. Parker-Chan's debut novel, the novels tells a re-imagining of the rise to power of the Hongwu Emperor in the 14th century.
Ballad of the Desert: a two-volume Chinese Han dynasty romance novel written by author Tong Hua
An Extraordinary Union: ''Entertainment Weekly'' named it to their best romances of 2017 and said Cole "paints masterfully in shades of gray" a story of interracial romance that "interrogates slavery, systemic racism, and more, while still remaining utterly swoon-worthy."
Bridge of Scarlet Leaves: Interracial romance novels: a 2012 novel by Kristina McMorris, set during the Japanese American internment of World War II. McMorris has stated that she was inspired to write the book due to her own mixed heritage and decided to call the book ''Bridge of Scarlet Leaves'' after reading a Japanese haiku.
Interracial romance: However, TJ does not know that Maddie has a secret—she is dating his best friend, Lane Morimoto, the Japanese-American son of a bank executive. Against the wishes of Lane's family, who want him to marry a Japanese woman, the pair elope and marry.
Song in the Clouds: '''''Song in the Clouds''''', also known as '''''Yun Zhongge''''' (), is a novel by Tong Hua.
The Lover (Duras novel): Set against the backdrop of French Indochina, ''The Lover'' reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese-Vietnamese man.