A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China, Hardcover - Pin Ho

Reducere. The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Par...

DescriptionA discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferent China's rise has upse...

Reducere. From Carl Hiaasen and the distinguished foreign correspondent Bill Montalbano comes a relentless novel of treachery and murder set in the clenched ...

Reducere. Midnight treasure hunts, fancy-dress parties, and a blue-blooded murder . . .November, 1923. Olive's school chum, Gigi, invites Olive to London bec...

Reducere. LARGE PRINT HARDCOVER EDITIONMidnight treasure hunts, fancy-dress parties, and a blue-blooded murder . . .November, 1923. Olive's school chum, Gigi...

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...

The first in a charming Scarborough-set cosy crime series, starring amateur sleuth Helen Dexter and her trusty greyhound Suki.Publisher: Headline P...

The first in a charming Scarborough-set cosy crime series, starring amateur sleuth Helen Dexter and her trusty greyhound Suki.Publisher: Headline P...

Reducere. Midnight treasure hunts, fancy-dress parties, and a blue-blooded murder . . .November, 1923. Olive's school chum, Gigi, invites Olive to London bec...

Reducere. A hotel clerk prone to panic attacks turns amateur detective in this elegant and atmospheric murder mystery. If you want to spend a night amid the ...

Reducere. When Lexy Baker makes it to the finale of America's most prestigious bakery contest, Bakery Battles, she thinks her biggest dream has finally come ...

Reducere. A unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the highest realms of power and money in China and whose wife was disappeared, Red ...

Reducere. A room with a view... to murder June 1933. Independent young Kitty Underhay has been left in charge of her family's hotel, The Dolphin, on the tran...

"I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi--it's a river already badly polluted, and now ...

Reducere. Louis Armstrong has been called the most important improviser in the history of jazz. Although his New Orleans neighborhood was poor in nearly ever...

The US dollar has been the global reserve currency since the end of the Second World War. If the dollar fails the entire international monetary sys...

In Carlene O'Connor's seventh installment of her USA Today bestselling Irish Village Mystery series, the grand opening of a new bookstore in Kilban...

Reducere. SHOCKING MONTANA COLD CASE!On April 18, 1940, Theresa Evans was brutally beaten at the Empire Hotel in Butte, Montana. She never regained sufficien...

Reducere. The other side of #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts... Futuristic cop Eve Dallas is back on the job. This time it's Christmas in Ne...

A Death in Oxford - Richard Macandrew (Starter/Beginner)

DescriptionWhy does authoritarian China provide a higher level of public goods than democratic India? Studies based on regime type have shown that ...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the stage is set for a local village play in a beautiful countryside manor, Melissa Craig plays the role of detective once again when...

Reducere. From the metropolis city of Beijing to the rural countryside of Hunan to the warm coast of Zhuhai, this book will take you on an adventure through ...

IN 1925, the peaceful Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa found itself involved in mystery and horror. Eight-year-old Arthur Buddy Schumacher Jr. was las...

Reducere. Religion, politics, and money. Three things you're never supposed to discuss in polite company. But what if you're a pastor? Forget red state/blue ...

When a local art shop owner is murdered, Jessica Fletcher is surprised to once again be working alongside her old friend MI-6 agent Michael Haggert...

Reducere. The building culture of China is currently one of the most innovative and most adventurous in the world because of the bold ways architects approac...

DescriptionHow a Black woman from Texas became the most prominent civil rights activist in Minnesota, detailing seven remarkable decades of fightin...

A novel by Steven Schaefer tracing the life and death of Vincent van Gogh, and exploring whether van Gogh's death might have been murder. An Americ...

Reducere. Ten thrilling and intriguing tales of space travel, war, and alien encounters from the multiple Hugo Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction....

Reducere. In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking murder that fits the pattern of the infamous Boston Stra...

DescriptionOver the past decade, a wave of Chinese international undergraduate students--mostly self-funded--has swept across American higher educa...

A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: Newsweek * Refinery29 "Timely and urgent . . . Pang is a dogged investigator." --The New York Times Book Revie...

In the new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series, Lt. Eve Dallas is about to walk into the shadows of her husband's dangerous past...

Publisher: Galaxy PressAuthor(s): L. Ron HubbardNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 139 x 203 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. DescriptionSHANGHAI, 1935. The Most Alluring and Most Dangerous City in the WorldSomeone is murdering flower-seller girls in Shanghai's Flowery Kin...

Tally Ho! Yankee in a Spitfire is the action-packed account of American fighter pilot Art Donahue's time flying with Great Britain's R.A.F. during ...

Lieutenant Eve Dallas returns in the new novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense, and takes on a case of death imitating art....

Reducere. "Whether or not you're a history buff, you'll be fully immersed in Vaill's chronicle of the band of journalists--including Ernest Hemingway and Mar...

Reducere. You'll laugh out loud when Mac and Mac try to hatch a kitten. . . out of a watermelon. This easy-to-read intro to graphic novels is perfect for "fa...

The struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades continues to shake the world economy, dictate the outcome of wars, and transf...

Reducere. "The Gilgamesh Epic is the most notable literary product of Babylonia as yet discovered in the mounds of Mesopotamia."The Gilgamesh Epic recount th...

A dollar is a dollar--or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that i...

The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that there's...

Reducere. Everyone has secrets... but some are fatal. 1932, London. Late one December night Simon Sampson stumbles across the body of a woman in an alleyway....

Reducere. Who knew a New Year's trip to Budapest could be so deadly? The tour must go on - even with a killer in their midst...Recent divorcee Lana Hansen ne...

DescriptionHan-centrism, a virulent form of Chinese nationalism, asserts that the Han Chinese are superior to other peoples and have a legitimate r...

Reducere. George Washington is remembered for leading the Continental Army to victory, presiding over the Constitution, and forging a new nation, but few kno...

DescriptionIn this gritty and gripping new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas fights to save the innocent--and serve jus...