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Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Mayte y su amigo Pepito piensan que el vendedor de helados es el Cuco. Lo siguen a él al mercado para rescata al niño secuestrado que creen que él lleve en su bolsa.
Convinced that Don Aparicio, the ice cream seller, is really the bogeyman, Mayte and her friend, Pepito, are sure that the bag he is carrying must hold a kidnapped child, and follow him to the marketplace in hopes of rescuing the victim.
Author
Series
Taipei night market novel volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jing-nan has known Peggy Lee, a bullying frenemy who runs her family's huge corporation, since high school. Peggy's father has been kidnapped, and the ransom the kidnappers are demanding is not money but IP: a high-tech memory chip that they want to sell in China. Jing-nan feels sorry for Peggy until she starts blackmailing him into helping out. Peggy is worried the kidnappers' deadline will pass before the police are able to track down the chip....
8) Ghost month
Author
Series
Taipei night market novel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
"August is Ghost Month in Taiwan--a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and avoid unlucky situations, large purchases, and bodies of water. Jing-nan, a young man who runs a food stand in a bustling Taipei night market, doesn't consider himself superstitious, but this August is going to haunt him no matter what he does. He is shocked to the core when he learns his ex-girlfriend from high school has been murdered....
Author
Series
Taipei Night Market volume 4
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Taipei is rocked by the back-to-back murders of a petty criminal and a police captain just as the city is preparing to host the big Austronesian Cultural Festival. The celebration is set to bring in indigenous performers from all around the Pacific Rim to the island nation of Taiwan. Jing-nan, the proprietor of Unknown Pleasures, a popular food stand at Taipei's largest night market, is thrown into the intrigue. Is he being set up to take the rap,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Description
"While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London's highest circles of power. Set in London between the two world wars.
13) A song of frutas
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
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