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English
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After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have returned to a radically transformed city. One morning, in the eighth tower of Lanson Suites, Lina discovers that a treasured ivory bracelet has gone missing. This incident sets off a wave of...
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Publisher
Zoland Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Shao Bin, a worker at the Harvest Fertilizer plant in a small Chinese factory town, sets off a storm of controversy when he composes a satirical cartoon criticizing his superiors for unfair practices and sends it to the provincial newspaper.
4) Flower net
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English
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A Los Angeles district attorney travels to China to join forces with a Chineses detective to investigate a series of gory high-profile murders.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s...
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s...
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known...
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit-revealing deep wounds and profound hopes. Over the course of...
11) U.S.S. Seawolf
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HarperCollins
Language
English
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When Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President's National Security Adviser, learns that the Chinese army has developed a submarine that has the capability to launch a nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean, he sends out America's most lethal weapon, a 9,000 ton submarine, to destroy the threat.
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English
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Kwan moves from China to live with her family in San Francisco and develops a relationship with her half sister Olivia. She confides in Olivia about the ghosts she hears telling her about love. Years later Kwan and her ghosts advise Olivia about her marriage.
13) The good earth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.
14) A Death in China
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen-now available as an ebook A man's mission to solve a friend's murder makes him the next target in a deadly Chinese conspiracy Art history professor Tom Stratton hasn't seen his former mentor David Wang for years-until they unexpectedly run into each other while Stratton is on a guided tour of China. But the trip quickly turns sinister when Wang is found dead. After the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A mid-twentieth-century widow struggles to manage her farm and raise her children while reflecting on the intertwined experiences of her farm wife mother, her missionary aunt, and a Chinese student whose lives were shaped by the Boxer Rebellion.
17) Jade Island
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Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Gem hunter Kyle Donovan joins forces with gemologist Lianne Blakely in an attempt to prove that the young woman is not responsible for the theft of the legendary treasures of the Jade Emperor's Tomb.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Jake Grafton and his wife Callie travel to Hong Kong to determine how deeply the U.S. consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal, but when Callie is kidnapped, Jake's mission takes a more sinister turn.
19) Chinese whispers
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2004
Language
English
Description
A man calling himself the Beijing Ripper leaves a trail of dead prostitutes in his wake, and criminal investigator Li Yan calls in help from his lover, American pathologist Margaret Campbell, whose autopsy reports yield shocking results.
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