Wang, Andrea
Summary: "The legendary Nian monster has returned at Chinese New Year. Nian is intent on devouring Shanghai, starting with young Xingling! But Xingling is clever and thinks quickly to outwit him with Chinese New Year traditions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WANLescure, Aube Rey
Summary: 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 the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Matula, Christina
Summary: Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MATCao, Xueqin
Summary: Beloved by generations of Chinese readers, The Dream of the Red Chamber is China's touching equivalent of the Romeo & Juliet story. In addition to being a tale of star-crossed lovers, this epic novel also follows the story of five generations of one Chinese family giving modern readers a multi-layered dramatic plot to get lost in at the same time as it offers up key insights into Chinese culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAOChen, Wendy
Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Hong is born into a loving family in the southern China countryside, but as Communism consumes her older brothers, it threatens her stability-and her love affair with the son of a wealthy landlord. The line of women who later descend from Yun Hong share the burden of a family birthmark and are also each forced to reckon with both dramatic political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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Summary: "The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith--and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLETang, Andrea
Summary: "When Zhong Ning’er takes the job, she expects a smash-and-grab burglary she’s doing to make rent and help out a friend. What she doesn’t expect: a sad-eyed army boy who dreams of insurrection, a former rebel leader trapped inside a secret lab, a group of aspiring revolutionaries who are first collaborators, then compatriots, and then, perhaps, friends. But this is Beijing, nearly a hundred and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC TANMo, Yan
Summary: The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOLa Valley, Josanne.
Summary: Life has been hard for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul, a member of the Uyghur tribal group scorned by the Chinese communist regime, so when an American offers to buy all the baskets she can make in three weeks, Mehrigul strives for a better future for herself and her family despite her father's opposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LAVWang, Yage
Summary: "Zhao Di and her friends are excited to go out at night with their paper lanterns and celebrate Chinese New Year. Each holding a unique colorful lantern with a lit candle inside, they admire the breathtaking colors while doing their best to avoid the wind and the sneaky boys in the village. Every night, until the fifteenth day of New Year, Zhao Di and her friends take part in this fun...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YAGTreffinger, Carolyn.
Summary: Because of his fear of the sea, a young Chinese boy is sent to a distant mountain where he proves his bravery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TREBunn, T. Davis
Summary: Seeking calm after a personal tragedy, attorney Marcus Glenwood moves to Rocky Mount, N.C., where his clients Alma and Austin Hall come to him for help concerning "their daughter Gloria [who] has disappeared in China while investigating the slavelike labor practices of a factory owned by the international giant New Horizons, the world's largest manufacturer of sports shoes and athletic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUNChung, Eve J.
Summary: "A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story. Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUParis, Harper.
Summary: Separated from their parents in Beijing, China's Forbidden City, second-grade twins Ethan and Ella luckily find an ancient map that helps them find their way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PARLiang, Ann
Summary: "Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school...When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIAJun, Nie
Summary: "Four short stories set in a hutong, or residential alleyway, of Beijing, China. Yu Er, her grandfather, and their eccentric neighbors and experience the magic of everyday life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 JUNGapper, John.
Summary: "The body of a woman who worked the overnight shift at the factory of a massive American tech company near Hong Kong is found in the marshes, bearing odd markings. Mei, an inspector for the Guangdong Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, is called out in the middle of the night to investigate--only to confront the most shocking discovery imaginable: the dead woman's face is identical to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAPChen, Da
Summary: Falling passionately in love with his headmaster's daughter, Samuel Pickens is devastated by her untimely death a month later and becomes convinced that her spirit will not rest until it is returned to her childhood home in nineteenth-century imperial China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEMay, Peter
Summary: The media and the terror-stricken public are demanding the arrest of the Beijing Ripper and Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad, has been put in the spotlight. American pathologist Margaret Campbell is invited to perform an autopsy on one of the victims and her results send shockwaves through the investigation. Then Li begins receiving personal letters from the killer, and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poison Pen Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYLiang, Ann
Summary: Eliza Lin's essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes viral, she gains the approval of her classmates at her new international school in Beijing, and a career-launching internship opportunity at her favorite magazine. Unfortunately, Eliza's essay is completely fiction. All good writing is lying, right? To hide the truth, Eliza strikes a deal with an actor in her class, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIACaldwell, Bo.
Summary: "Will Kiehn is an 'ordinary man,' seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest, when, having felt a call from God, he moves to the vast North China Plain in 1906. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary, Katherine, who is also a dedicated nurse. Early in their marriage Will and Katherine find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALMay, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS MAYIshiguro, Kazuo
Summary: "England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realizes that the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood and at last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISHGong, Chloe
Summary: Rosalind Lang has suffered the worst possible fate for a national spy: she’s been exposed. With the media storm camped outside her apartment for the infamous Lady Fortune, she’s barely left her bedroom in weeks, plotting her next course of action after Orion was taken and his memories of Rosalind wiped. Though their marriage might have been a sham, his absence hurts her more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry 2023