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The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes 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… OL1074218W
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
Little Red Little Red 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. OL1140238W
Typhoon Typhoon 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 … OL11621227W
Jin Jin the dragon Jin Jin the dragon 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… OL11802962W
Nanjing 1937 Nanjing 1937 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… OL11823404W
Spirit bound Spirit bound 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 … OL12036694W
Woman from Shanghai Woman from Shanghai 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… OL13336152W
Little Leap Forward Little Leap Forward 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 … OL13843795W
Ocean of Words Ocean of Words 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 … OL14552W
Waiting Waiting 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… OL14557W
The Lord of Death The Lord of Death 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… OL14924899W
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 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… OL14927217W
The Kite Rider The Kite Rider 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… OL15051624W
Under heaven Under heaven 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… OL15092185W
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 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… OL15181136W
Subway girl Subway girl 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… OL15631959W
Time Slide Time Slide 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. OL15640677W
The Bear and the Dragon (Jack Ryan Novels) The Bear and the Dragon (Jack Ryan Novels) 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 … OL159282W
Dragon of Seas (Century #4) Dragon of Seas (Century #4) 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… OL16183983W
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