Ghosts of Shanghai: Shadow of the Yangtze, Paperback - Julian Sedgwick

Second in a trilogy with boy/girl appeal. Ruby and Charlie search for a missing friend through the troubled heartland of China - where its hard to ...

Tsunami Girl is a powerful coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Yuki Hara Jones who gets caught up in the March 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake a...

A lyrical story of two brothers at odds with each other against a backdrop of Second World War-ravaged London. Distinctive two-colour printed artwork.

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Reducere. Batalia pentru Shanghai din 1937 este una dintre marile batalii uitate ale secolului al XX-lea, prevestitoare a conflagratiei mondiale care urma sa...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

For half a century, cultural production in Colombia has labored under the weight of magical realism--above all, the works of Gabriel Garc a M rquez...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1922, white colonialists in Shanghai see themselves as an impregnable supreme race. But then Russians come and ruin the perfect world...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes an exciting new short story collection that follows Jem Carst...

A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son. In 1939, Jonathan Lichtens...

Solstice and Edgar, the sulky raven, go ghost-hunting, and pit their wits against the obnoxious Captain Spookini, in the second quirky mystery by B...

A hardback collection of all eight Ghosts of the Shadow Market stories, along with two brand new ones, about characters from Cassandra Clare's inte...

A classic funny and moving coming-of-age story.Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Karen WallaceNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2013Dim...

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory - Isa

Reducere. Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3, 900 miles of rugged country before debouch...

"If I were, upon dying, to come back as a ghost, I can think of no more beautiful a city to haunt than M rida" - Carlos Fuentes. What is it about t...

New insight into a famous incident, based on the latest research. Highly readable account by an experienced journalist.

Reducere. DescriptionDaisy Kwok's life spanned old Shanghai and modern Shanghai, old China and "New" China, in a way that no other did. This book presents st...

Dr Irving Finkel, curator at the British Museum, explores why the belief in ghosts is what makes us human.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): I...

Reducere. Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, l...

A timely novel challenging ideas around health - our own and our planet's - and the stigma that persists around illness.

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in...

Examining the rise of Pudong and its role in re-creating Shanghai as a global city, Global Shanghai Remade utilises this important case study to sh...

A dark and gothic novel of vampires and Venice, filled with mystery and intrigue. A captivating story of love and loss, THE KISS OF DEATH is a stun...

From the shadow of that Avondale mountain, Jerry Doyle shares his telling and touching journey through the streets of Dublin, the mines of Labrador...

Reducere. Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in Franc...

Reducere. She is destined to kill a demon. He is sent to protect her. One of them is about to fail ...He spent centuries in the dark ...After 300 years spent...

Reducere. The most engaging and complete collection available of this 14th century English mystic The Revelations of Julian of Norwich is the first book writ...

DescriptionThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revol...

Reducere. Are ghosts real? Are there truly haunted places, only haunted people, or both? And how can we know? Taking neither a credulous nor a dismissive app...

Reducere. DescriptionNow one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of the Year" From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking--winne...