Family Life in China, Paperback

Reducere. It's a Christmas miracle The Golden Girls are back by popular demand in a holiday Mad Libs fit for a queen... or four. Merry Christmas from sunny M...

This book should be of interest to most kungfu enthusiasts. It is both an historical account of the heritage of the relatively unknown Gulun Kungfu...

Reducere. My Two Dads is about a boy named Jacob who is raised by two fathers. It displays life from Jacob's point-of-view and also how some of his friends' ...

Reducere. In this stunning, lyrical memoir that includes a curriculum guide, author Chun Yu recalls the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of a...

Peacocks for Kids Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Fascinating Peacocks Chapter 2 Peacock's Features Chapter 3 A Peacock's Life Conclusion ...

Reducere. DRAWN BY A CHINA MOON, Introducing Lottie Moon -- "Dear Mollie, You can't believe what is happening here in China. . . ." Actually, what Mollie can...

Reducere. Fatima's life seems beset by one disaster after another. Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrecked and cast ashore a...

Reducere. R to L (Japanese Style) Carefree Megumi Kuroishi was living a life of luxury until the day a girl named Suzuka Kogami walked into his life. All of ...

Reducere. A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s. A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to...

Reducere. Uncle Three is nowhere to be found and to make matters worse, there s convincing evidence that he may be a liar and a killer. Exhausted and discour...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sister M. Alfreda ElsensohnPolly Bemis was a Chinese American pioneer in the rugged river country of North Central Idaho. S...

Description"An essential book for anyone invested, not only in Vietnamese literature, but the historic power of the national epic...and its perenni...

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confuci...

Reducere. Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another. Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrec...

Reducere. The first in the I See the Sun Series, readers follow a young girl as she travels from a small town in China to the city of Shanghai to spend time ...

Reducere. DescriptionPeter H. Dominick was a war hero prior to becoming a respected U.S. congressman, senator, and ambassador. "Flying the Hump" over the Him...

Yangchen and her family are Tibetan refugees living a simple life in Nepal. Often, her High Lama grandfather would tell her stories of the wonders ...

Reducere. It's 1928 in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne ...

Reducere. The third time is a charm for Zoey, a little Chinese Crested puppy. It has taken three attempts to find her forever home. She's thrilled when David...

In The Hidden Place, Vickie takes you on a rare journey behind the walls of a communist orphanage and the harsh realities of everyday life as an or...

Reducere. The complete twenty books of philosophic discussion by the superb Chinese sage Confucius are presented here anew. Originally, these sayings and con...

Reducere. Natalie Chin-Williams might be a cranky professor of climatology who thinks the world is doomed, but she believes in lasting love...just not for he...

From the bestselling author of Girl in Translation, an inspiring novel about a young woman torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her esca...

Reducere. Eleven-year-old Luolan Xia never expected her family to move across the world. But now she is in America, trying to fit in and get used to the new ...

Reducere. In this action-adventure fantasy, young Prince Sing must overcome monstrous obstacles to help his clan return to their homeland.The Wong Clan must ...

Reducere. From the founder of This Gathered Nest YouTube channel, an uplifting story of Angela Braniff's unusual path to becoming the mother to seven childre...

Reducere. Before I heard of Pathways, my mental illness defined me. When I started the workbook, I realized my recovery defined me. By the time I finished it...

DescriptionThe Ninja Daughter is an action-packed thriller about a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja with Joy Luck Club family issues who fights t...

DescriptionThe conclusion to Eldo Yoshimizu's stunning manga story. The final book which explores the shocking life of Ryuko, a tough woman of the ...

DescriptionThrough the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20...

Reducere. "We were a family of three girls. By Chinese standards, that wasn't lucky. In Chinatown, everyone knew our story. Outsiders jerked their chins, loo...

Reducere. Notable literary figures pay tribute to poet/writer Justin Chin with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books.Justin Chin's fea...

Reducere. DescriptionSet in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy famil...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: D. J. MollesKeep your head down. Do what you're told. It's easier that way. Walter Lawrence Baucom is used to the troops th...

Reducere. This commentary on Padampa Sangye's classic verses of advise to Tibetan villagers of Tingri--by renowned and beloved meditation master Dilgo Khyent...

Reducere. Gene Luen Yang was the fifth the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known...

Reducere. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman strugg...

Reducere. Professor Francis Kauffman has unwittingly landed himself in prison where he's faced with an insurmountable task: execute a fellow inmate. Charged ...

Reducere. Award NameAlex AwardsAward categoryAdult/For Young AdultsDescriptionThe life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divid...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the Chinese Ministry of State Security unleashes a bold plan to sink a massive freighter in the Panama Canal as part of an elaborat...

Reducere. Why is there evil in a world created by a good and all-powerful God? Ethan Roser, a 19-year-old studying to be a pastor at Wheaton, raised in Afric...

Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the...

Reducere. Characters: 3 male, 3 femaleComedyThe Wongs are American as apple pie. Desdemona dreams of Princeton but could use some help with her calculus. Her...

Reducere. In the waning days of the last dynasty, in a quiet, beautiful corner of imperial Peking, a young girl's blissful ignorance is shattered when she le...

Reducere. ``In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old.``...

Reducere. "Olen Steinhauer's Milo Weaver novels are must-reads for lovers of the genre." --The Washington PostWith An American Spy, Steinhauer delivers a sea...

Reducere. Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. For Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, it doesn...

Reducere. The Girl Who Became a Goddess is more than just a book of fables, it is a tribute to the childhood stories of someone who has experienced multiple ...

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Div...

DescriptionFrom rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging ...

Reducere. "I Did Not Miss the Boat" is the coming of age story of an adolescent girl who struggled to help her family's assimilation into a new country while...

Reducere. Lily Wong--a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja--has more trouble than she was bargaining for when controlling grandparents arrive in Los Angeles f...

Reducere. On June 24, 2012, Dr. Shane Truman Todd, a young American engineer, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment, just a week before his scheduled ...

Reducere. For thousands of years the Chinese have had a secret. A secret that has allowed them to treat illness in its earliest stages, a secret that allows ...

Reducere. More than a thousand years ago a Chinese Zen Master wrote: Magical Power, Marvelous Action Chopping Wood, Carrying Water... The message is as true ...

Reducere. In this touching and informative memoir about foraging for food in New York City, Ava Chin finds sustenance...and so much more. Urban foraging is t...

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Div...

The remote town of Broome, the desert and the Kimberley coast - Australia's last frontier and a land of ancient beauty - are the backdrop for "Kimb...

Reducere. A spellbinding novel from the internationally bestselling author A Secret Worth Dying For. Jac L'Etoile is plunged into a world she thought she'd l...

Reducere. DescriptionPart biography/spiritual memoir, part adventure tale, Her Name Was Elizabeth, by Eva M. Brewster is the inspiring story of Elizabeth Fis...

Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones's Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving one's thirties i...

Reducere. Ingrid Yung's life is full of firsts. A first-generation Chinese American, the first lawyer in her family, she's about to collect the holy grail of...

This book looks at the origins of Hap and Ki as they are found in Hapkido. Going back to 660 B.C., the roots of the art are traced from ancient Kor...

Reducere. June (Noske) Temme was born in Tarrington, Victoria, Australia just a few years before the start of World War II. "Led by God, the Blessed Journey ...

Reducere. When I was a child, I thought my destiny was to live and die on the banks of the Xiangjiang River as my family had done for generations. I never im...

Reducere. Discover the China that before now was only whispered about in the dark.In this collection, award-winning writers and translators Yi Izzy Yu and Jo...

Reducere. In this classic British mystery starring a sleuth "who has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot, " Miss ...

DescriptionThe Crimson Lotus, Lobster Johnson's greatest adversary, has her origins revealed in this heart-pounding story of intrigue and magic The...

Benefit from the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui Take a look around you. What do you see? Whether or not you're aware of it, your environment prof...

NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman strugg...