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The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes
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Jamyang Norbu |
In 1891, the British public was horrified to learn that Sherlock Holmes had perished in a deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Then, to its amazement, he… |
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Beijing coma
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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… |
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Little Red
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Pearl S. Buck |
In China during World War II, a young boy makes a daring rescue attempt to free his father, a captured prisoner of the Japanese army. |
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Typhoon
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Charles Cumming |
Hong Kong 1997 - only a few short months of British rule remain before the territory returns to Chinese rule. It's a febrile place. And in that claustrophobic environment of uncertainty and fear the … |
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Jin Jin the dragon
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Grace Chang |
Jin Jin the dragon does not know what kind of creature he is, so he embarks on a journey, assisted by other animals he meets along the way, to find Old Turtle and Crane, who will help him learn his i… |
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Nanjing 1937
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Zhaoyan Ye |
"Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded the historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing 1937 is a tender and humor… |
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Spirit bound
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Cindy Pon |
With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of … |
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Woman from Shanghai
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Xianhui Yang |
In Woman from Shanghai, Xianhui Yang, one of China's most celebrated and controversial writers, gives us a work of fact-based fiction that reveals firsthand--and for the first time in English--what l… |
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Little Leap Forward
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Guo Yue |
In Communist China in 1966, eight-year-old Leap Forward learns about freedom while flying kites with his best friend, by trying to get a caged wild bird to sing, and through the music he is learning … |
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Ocean of Words
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Ha Jin |
*Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award*
The place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. And the characters in … |
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Waiting
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Ha Jin,Ha Jin |
For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives… |
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The Lord of Death
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Eliot Pattison |
Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. He is ferrying a corpse on muleback over th… |
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Lisa See |
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer in Yongming County, and to her family is just another mouth to feed until she can be married off. But when she is six years old she is brought before the ambit… |
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The Kite Rider
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Geraldine McCaughrean |
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite r… |
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Under heaven
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Guy Gavriel Kay |
An epic historical adventure set in a pseudo 8th century China, from the author of the 2008 World Fantasy winner, Ysabel. Under Heaven is a novel of heroes, assassins, concubines and emperors set aga… |
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
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Peter Telep,Tom Clancy |
The U.S. Army’s Special Forces are known for their highly specialized training and courage behind enemy lines. But there’s a group that’s even more stealthy and deadly. It’s comprised of the most fea… |
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Subway girl
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Peter Jacob Converse |
In Hong Kong, Chan Tze Man, called Simon Chan, leaves high school because he cannot master English, but when he befriends Amy, a Chinese American who knows little Chinese, their unlikely bond gives h… |
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Time Slide
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Marie Godley |
An adventure set in China involving two children on an archaeological dig that turns into much more when they are sent back in time. |
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The Bear and the Dragon (Jack Ryan Novels)
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Tom Clancy |
The #1 New York Times bestseller in hardcover, on the list for 24 weeks!President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known, in Tom Clancy's extraordinary new novel....A high-level … |
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Dragon of Seas (Century #4)
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Pierdomenico Baccalario |
SHANGHAI, SEPTEMBER 19.
As the equinox approaches, Sheng, Elettra, Harvey, and Mistral know they must come together one last time. Armed with only a map and a top that seem to be broken, a collectio… |
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