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1) Flower net
Author
Language
English
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Description
A Los Angeles district attorney travels to China to join forces with a Chineses detective to investigate a series of gory high-profile murders.
3) Jade Island
Author
Series
Language
English
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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
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.
Author
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.
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Former Beijing investigator Shan Tao Yun, an exiled Chinese national on parole from a Tibetan gulag, witnesses the death of the Chinese Minister of Tourism who was shot while in her car, and is promptly arrested for the crime, but he convinces authorities to release him only to be forced to go in search of the real killer after Colonel Tan, a man Yun needs to secure the release of his imprisoned son, is arrested in his place.
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
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.
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