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Shanghai [sound recording] : a novel / by Kanon, Joseph,author.; Davis, Jonathan(Narrator),narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Jonathan Davis."Shanghai begins when Daniel Lohr, sensing the Nazis closing in on the Jews of Berlin, leaves his dying father and agrees to flee to Shanghai on an Italian passenger ship. His passage is dependent upon him agreeing to deliver a package to his shady uncle upon arrival. Aboard the ship he will meet a woman, Leah, also a Jew fleeing the Nazis. They conduct a passionate but brief shipboard affair and then the passenger ship arrives. Will Dan ever see her again? He is met by his uncle--who has changed his name--and soon Dan is plunged into his uncle's world, specifically a big new nightclub, the best and most glitzy in town. Within minutes, violence breaks out as someone tries to assassinate his uncle, and with that, Dan is drawn deep into the underworld that is wartime Shanghai"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Jews; Man-woman relationships; Nightclubs; Organized crime; Uncles;
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Cat's claw / by Albert, Susan Wittig.;
"Sheila Dawson has made history as the first female police chief in Pecan Springs, Texas. She's also cracked many a mystery in collaboration with local sleuth China Bayles--that's why everyone thinks she's such a smart cookie. Now, Sheila puts those smarts to work, sifting through secrets to find a killer on the prowl ... Larry Kirk, Pecan Springs' computer guru, has been shot dead in his kitchen. At first Police Chief Sheila Dawson believes it to be suicide, perhaps triggered by his painful divorce. Further investigation reveals that Kirk's death wasn't self-inflicted. And the truth is reinforced by her friend China Bayles' news--Larry recently asked her for legal advice in regards to a stalker. As a police chief in a male-dominated force, Sheila meets many challenges, especially when her theories rock the boat in high-profile cases like that of George Timms. He was caught breaking into Larry's computer shop to steal his own computer back because of dangerous personal information it contained. Now that Larry is dead, she's sure it's connected to the burglary. And she's also sure she'll get plenty of resistance on her assessment ... Timms' time to turn himself in to the police comes and goes, and he's nowhere to be found. In her investigation, Sheila uncovers secrets, terrible secrets that would drive anyone to kill. So who then? It's up to Sheila to prove she's got what it takes to hunt down the predator that's loose on the streets of Pecan Springs ..."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Bayles, China (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Women police chiefs;
© 2012., Berkley Prime Crime,
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If we ever meet again / by Huang, Ana,author.;
"Blake Ryan is--was--a college football star who shocked the sports world when he quit after his third national championship. Instead of dealing with the fallout, he escapes to Shanghai, where he vows to keep life simple. No football. No commitments. No romance. But no matter how hard he tries, he can't keep a certain beautiful brunette off his mind ... or out of his heart. What starts as a physical attraction develops into something much deeper as Blake and Farrah get swept up in the magic of Shanghai--and each other. But they only have one year, and there are forces outside their control that threaten to rip them apart. Can their relationship survive the test ... or was it just not meant to be?"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Asian American women; Asian Americans; Football players; Man-woman relationships;
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The jungle war : mavericks, marauders, and madmen in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II / by Astor, Gerald,1926-;
Includes bibliography and index.
Subjects: ; World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - China; World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Burma; World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - India; World War, 1939-1945 - Jungle warfare;
© c2004., John Wiley,
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Winston Chu vs. the whimsies / by Lee, Stacey(Stacey Heather);
Winston Chu saves the owner of a curiosities shop from a robbery only to be gifted a broomstick and a dustpan for his trouble--items that turn out to be more a curse than a blessing when they sweep away important stuff, like his baby sister.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Folklore; Magic; Changelings; Families;
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Shanghailanders / by Min, Juli,author.;
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time--beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past--exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Family secrets; Intergenerational relations; Interpersonal relations; Time travel;
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Fist of Legend. by Chan, Gordon,film director.; Chow, Billy,actor.; Li, Jet,actor.; Chun, Paul,actor.; Nakayama, Shinobu,actor.; Chin, Siu-Ho,actor.; Kurata, Yasuaki,actor.; Shout Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Billy Chow, Jet Li, Paul Chun, Shinobu Nakayama, Siu-Ho Chin, Yasuaki KurataOriginally produced by Shout Studios in 1994.In 1937, a Chinese martial artist returns to Shanghai to find his teacher dead and his school harassed by the Japanese.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; War films.; Historical films.; Motion pictures--China.; Martial arts.; Nineteen thirties.; Motion pictures--Asia.; Action films.; Revenge in motion pictures.; Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong.; Action and adventure films.;
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The light of Eternal Spring / by Di Zhang, Angel,author.;
"Angel Di Zhang's intensely cinematic debut novel travels from the streets of New York City to northeast China, on the trail of a young photographer who needs to reconcile with her dead mother before she is able see the world again. Amy Hilton, born Wu Aimee in the tiny Chinese village of Eternal Spring, has been living and working as a photographer in New York City for so long she's started to dream in English. When in the fall of 1999 she receives a letter from her sister, written in her birth tongue of Manchu, she needs to take it to a Chinatown produce vendor to get it translated. And so it is this stranger who tells Amy that her mother has died of a broken heart. Amy blames herself. How could she not? Her mother has never recovered from her oldest daughter leaving her, first for school, then to pursue her art, and finally to marry a white man. Vowing to be there for her mother in death as she hasn't been in life, she books a flight to China. Haunted by the folk stories her mother told her about a shaman's journey to the underworld to retrieve her child, Amy undertakes a quest that strips away all the elements of her new identity, leaving her ready to make amends. But when she finally reunites with her family, things are far different than she remembers, and her loved ones are less than thrilled to welcome their prodigal daughter home. Interwoven with indelible scenes from Amy's childhood, The Light of Eternal Spring is a tenderly told story about leaving home and returning again, and about forgetting where you come from until you can't forget any longer. Blending playful magical realism with the family balancing acts all immigrants and artists know so well, Angel Di Zhang creates a nuanced portrait of family lost and family found, of the transformative power of art and of the need to transform yourself in order to make art that's true."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Families; Mothers; Quests (Expeditions); Women photographers;
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Playing with lanterns / by Wang, Yage(College teacher); Zhu, Chengliang.; Wang, Helen,1965-;
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Subjects: Festivals; Holidays; Paper lanterns; Chinese New Year;
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Where the mountain meets the moon / by Lin, Grace.;
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Poor children; Dragons; Quests (Expeditions); Magic; Folklore;
© 2011, c2009., Little, Brown and Co.,
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