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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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 ISHCao, Wenxuan
Summary: Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAOQiu, Xiaolong
Summary: In line for the top position of the Shanghai Police Department, Chief Inspector Chen Cao is drawn into the investigation of a major party member's son, whose suspicious suicide in the face of corruption charges forces Chen to make a difficult choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QIUDrake, Temple
Summary: "One night in 2012, Zhang Guo Xing takes a group of European clients to a fashionable high-end nightclub in Shanghai. While there, he meets a strikingly beautiful young Western woman called Naemi Vieno Kuusela. The physical attraction between them provesirresistible, and they embark on an intoxicating affair. But Naemi is not what she appears to be... To Zhang's surprise, she veers between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRAQiu, Xiaolong
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QiuBallard, J. G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALDeWoskin, Rachel
Summary: Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, published by Penguin Group 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction DeWoskin 2019Manning, Kirsty
Summary: In 1939 Romy and her family leave Austria to settle in Shanghai as Jewish refugees and Romy forms a deep friendship with Li, and in 2016, Romy's granddaughter Alexandra transfers to Shanghai to search for clues about her mother's history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Manning 2019Mones, 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 MONPon, Cindy
Summary: "Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu ... play a treacherous cat and mouse game in the labyrinthine streets of Shanghai, determined on taking back what Jin had stolen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PONKwan, Kevin
Summary: "Kevin Kwan, ... author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a ... new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kwan 2015Xu, Ruiyan.
Summary: Injured by a gas explosion that renders him incapable of speaking Chinese, Shanghai businessman Li Jing struggles to communicate using faltering English phrases learned during his childhood years in Virginia and finds his marriage strained by a growing bond with an American neurologist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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Summary: Mourning her twin's death, a young woman leaves Rome for Shanghai and befriends a mysterious girl with a turbulent past and the pair discover a new dimension where the citizens practice extreme erotic rituals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DI GAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLTan, Lucy
Summary: Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION TANAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ADLMcLeay, Alison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCLTan, Lucy
Summary: "After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have returned to a radically transformed city. One morning, in the eighth tower of Lanson Suites, Lina discovers that her treasured ivory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TANPearson, Ridley.
Summary: When a Chinese National working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off the streets of Shanghai in broad daylight and his one-man security detail goes missing, the security firm Rutherford Risk hires two unique outsiders to locate the two hostages ahead of the deadline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEASee, Lisa.
Summary: Two sisters leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles in this fresh, fascinating adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEEXiaobai
Summary: Tale of espionage and international intrigue set in Shanghai in 1931--an electrifying, decadent world of love, violence, and betrayal filled with femmes fatales, criminals, revolutionaries, and spies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC XIACaldwell, Bo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Heinemann 2002