Family Life in China, Paperback

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. 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. On the rainy afternoon of November 28, 1938, a slight 18-year-old Austrian man took in his first impressions of Shanghai. Paul Hoffmann had left hi...

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. 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...

Reducere. One night, the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was ill! So ingesting, opium based a medication; while reading a book on the Great Em...

Reducere. A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephen Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands Drawin...

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...

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

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...

Reducere. Learn Chinese as life happens Do you want your family to learn Chinese but not a native speaker or fluent?There are many parents and carers who wis...

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. 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. The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother is Pearl S. Buck's intensely moving memoir of her mother, Caroline (Carrie) Stulting Sydenstricker, who s...

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...

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. 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. 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. A New York Times-bestselling novel of the lives, loves, and foibles of five generations of a British family occupying a manor house in Wales. For n...

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

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...

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. A majority of women often suffer, without knowing it, in not having the sexual life that they wish: to be comfortable with the sensations, to be ab...

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...

Jade Snow Wong's autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco's Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her s...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book makes the self-cultivation of Daoist internal alchemy available to everyone. Avoiding predetermined academic categories, it pr...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in ...

Reducere. James Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in 1916. Lilley ...

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. 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. 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. Du Fu (712-770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry--still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now Dav...

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...

Reducere. THE COIL LEGACY COLLECTION, Three Page-turning Novels in One Volume by D.I. TELBAT, draws us into a COIL saga of practical faith and heart-pounding...

This book is a poignant story of a small-town boy, who stumbled into a lifelong flying career spanning 38 years as a pilot. Now at 99, Captain Ho W...

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...

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...

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

Reducere. An exciting debut novel set in the exotic, bustling streets of coastal China--a woman whose life is restored when she opens a small caf and gains t...

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

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

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 ...

After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and resulted from this split ...

DescriptionThe nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other...

Reducere. Description"I could feel my chin falling toward my chest, my back hunching forward. My body was acting on its own, and my mind was empty, like all ...

Reducere. Award NameNational Book Critics Circle AwardAward categoryBiographyDescriptionRead Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog The secret doubl...

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

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

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

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

Reducere. As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong Kong, young Joan and Emma Lew escape with their family to spend the war years in Macao. Wh...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shannon PollyAuthor: Kathryn H. BrittonEditor: Shannon PollyWhat are the elements of good character? The Values in Action (...

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

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. 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 ...

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...

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

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 ...

DescriptionThis book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760...

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