Bell, Ted
Summary: December 8, 1941, Washington, D.C: The new Chinese ambassador to the United States, Tiger Tang, meets with President Roosevelt one day after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. China and the U.S. are wartime allies, but the Chinese ambassador may be playing his own treacherous game, including an assassination plot that could well change the course of history. Present day, the Bahamas: Alex Hawke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELMones, Nicole.
Summary: ""Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. A rich and thoroughly captivating read."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, and from the classical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONCollins, Ailynn
Summary: "After a summer of nine typhoons in 1931, the dams on the Yangtze River in China broke, completely flooding nearby towns and farms. Twelve-year-old Ting wakes up to a house full of water and her parents nowhere to be found. It's up to her to lead her younger brother and others to safety, battling high waters and greedy characters along the way. Will the children survive to be reunited with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023