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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate the first automobile any of them have seen and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 14
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
68 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.
4) Jackpot
Author
Series
Teddy Fay novels volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He'll soon come to find that world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and boundless wealth has a dark underbelly of crime and political intrigue . . . and that the biggest players behind the scenes may be far closer to home than anticipated. With international deals and private...
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Language
English
Description
"For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was...
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Language
English
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"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters. "Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay." An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
x, 260 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking.
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 25
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this exciting new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him... Max Mantel, the killer McQuaid put away years ago, has busted out of Huntsville Prison and appears to be headed for Pecan Springs. McQuaid knows there's only one way to stop the vengeful convict--set a trap with himself as bait. China wants to stay by her husband's side and keep him...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
116 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton, a journalist mouse in New Mouse City, has an extraordinary adventure when he travels to Mouse Everest to help out his old professor.
14) The blue lotus
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Tintin and Snowy, aided by the Sons of the Dragon, find professor Fang Hsi-Ying in an opium den where he is being held prisoner.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages : color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Xiang and Anh--ages sixteen and seventeen--hunt the South China Sea for the lost treasure of the fabled pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
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