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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Beijing coma Beijing coma Jian Ma Dai Wei lies in a coma after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier. As the minute-by-minute chronicling of the lead-up to his shooting becomes even more intense, t… OL11240388W
Archangel's Kiss (Guild Hunter #2) Archangel's Kiss (Guild Hunter #2) Nalini Singh Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux wakes from a year-long coma to find herself changed—an angel with wings the colors of midnight and dawn—but her fragile body needs time to heal before she can take fligh… OL15168472W
The runner The runner Peter May In this fifth China Thriller, Chinese detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell are back in Beijing confronting a sinister sequence of murders which threatens to destroy the future … OL15387675W
The red chamber The red chamber Pauline Chen When the orphaned Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to seek shelter with her cousins in Beijing, she is drawn into a world of opulent splendor presided over by the ruthless, scheming Xifeng and … OL16531967W
Night heron Night heron Adam Brookes Former British spy Peanut reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering military secrets in return for extraction from Beijing. OL19980021W
骆驼祥子 骆驼祥子 老舍 First published in China in 1937, *Rickshaw Boy* is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in Beijing. A man of simple needs whose greatest ambition is… OL51427W
Chinese Whispers Chinese Whispers Peter May The media and the terror-stricken public are demanding the arrest of the Beijing Ripper and Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad, has been put in the spotlight. American pathologist Marg… OL6655633W
Kitchen Chinese Kitchen Chinese Ann Mah Isabelle Lee thinks she knows everything about Chinese cuisine. After all, during her Chinese-American childhood, she ate it every day. Isabelle may speak only "kitchen Chinese"—the familial chatter … OL9177393W