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[2024]
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English
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Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she's never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva's hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best thing: the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission, though, Alva is surprised to discover an institution...
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2024.
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English
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"When it comes to love and art, Rooney Gao believes in signs. Most of all, she believes in the Chinese legend that everyone is tied to their one true love by the red string of fate. And that belief has inspired her career as an artist, as well as the large art installations she makes with (obviously) red string--that is, until artist's block strikes and Rooney begins to question everything. But then fate leads her to the perfect guy. ... He's absurdly...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
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The novel narrates the dramatic changes in the current situation in the past two decades after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the defeat of the Nationalist government, the establishment of Communist China, the ups and downs and the fate of the characters of the Hang family, a family of tea industry in the south of the Yangtze River. Wang Xufeng wrote about the tea people's tea affairs. In the earth-shaking era, he wrote about the choices, opening,...
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Manchuria, 1908. A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes involved, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now. Meanwhile, a...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the royal family.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A playful, feminist retelling of Rapunzel with a Chinese-cuisine twist. The story of Rapunzel where she's being locked in a tower by a witch is a good one but it's not totally the truth. The real story is about a young princess in China named Ra Pu Zel who doesn't want to talk to princes or look proper. What Pu Zel wants is to cook and eat in peace, her long hair neatly braided to keep it out of her food. And when she gets tired of everyone telling...
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Series
City of dragons (Jaimal Yogis) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Grace and her friends are still recovering from the evil attacks plotted by ancient warlord Daijiang when Nate suddenly reappears and whisks Grace away to the Dragon King's lair. There, she learns that Daijiang is searching for a powerful dragon stone that will help him take over the world--and that he has enlisted a terrifyingly fierce beast called Shadowfire to capture Grace. Pursued by the Shadowfire, Grace and her friends must get to Paris and...
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