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44) Freedom swimmer
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals...But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond...
46) Necropolis
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
To stop the evil corporation Nightrise from unleashing its devastating power around the globe, fifteen-year-old Matt and three other Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong to find Scarlet, the final Gatekeeper, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nicole Mones takes readers inside the hidden world of elite cuisine in modern China through the story of an American food writer in Beijing. When recently widowed Maggie McElroy is called to China to settle a claim against her late husband's estate, she is blindsided by the discovery that he may have led a double life. Since work is all that will keep her sane, her magazine editor assigns her to profile Sam, a half-Chinese American who is the last...
52) The pea blossom
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In a garden near Beijing, five peas in a shell grow and wait to discover what fate has in store for them.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Takiko has found three of the seven Celestial Warriors, but must find the remaining four. She and her companions travel to the Oracle Anlu, hoping to locate the other warriors, but the Oracle actually makes Tariko's task more difficult when it claims that there are still five more warriors to be found.
56) Embassytown
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Mieville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Avice is torn between competing loyalties--to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place.
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 21
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When the launch of their powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang Dàyóu, is targeted as the scapegoat and arrested-unable to help his family as they are hunted down by the military. Op-Center's Lt. Grace Lee is sent to China on a solo reconnaissance mission, but when she sees an opportunity to free...
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