Years of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai, Paperback - Qiu Xiaolong

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...

High hopes for this crime novel set in Shanghai in 1990. Chief Inspector Chen is a detective and a poet. When called upon to investigate the death ...

Reducere. Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young national model worker, renowned for her adhere...

The 8th novel in the Chinese crime series featuring Shanghai detective Chief Inspector Chen Cao. He is caught between Party politics and his princi...

Reducere. A serial killer is stalking the young women of Shanghai. The killer's calling card is to leave the victims' bodies in well trafficked locations, ea...

The third in the acclaimed Inspector Chen series set in 1990s Shanghai - 'Sublime . . . complex and riveting' Washington Post

Minutes before he is asked to investigate a murder involving renowned poetress and courtesan Xuanji, Judge Dee receives a cryptic note attached to ...

Reducere. Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is assigned a high-profile anti-corruption case, one in which the principal figure has long si...

Kings of Shanghai is at once the intimate story of two families and a sweeping account of how modern Shanghai was born.

Reducere. Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is often assigned cases considered politically "sensitive, " and now the Minister of Pub...

Reducere. "Dark, gorgeous...feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two CitiesIn Don't Cry, Tai Lak...

Reducere. Inspector Chen is excluded from a poetry case as he awaits possible disciplinary action, leaving him to reflect on his career . . . but does his pa...

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...

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 ...

In the 1930's, great rolling walls of dust swept across the Great Plains. The storms buried crops, blinded animals, and suffocated children. It was...

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 ...

A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter who'd long been unable to communicate--until a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young w...

To Nini Karpel, growing up in Vienna during the 1920s was a romantic confection. Whether schussing down ski slopes or speaking of politics in coffe...

This debut collection from Nebula-nominated author Beth Cato brings together works that span history and space, a showcase of vividly imagined spec...

Publisher: Wrecking Ball PressAuthor(s): Niall GriffithsNumber of pages: 382Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 148 x 211 x 25Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. History of automobile racing on dirt tracks in the southern United States. Focuses on the first Dirt Cars of the late 1950's, the "late models, " t...

A young Chinese man recounts his disillusionment with the Communist system, and his extraordinary journey around China in search of himself, and of...

Reducere. Where you come from isn't who you are Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 193...

'What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn't make it up.'Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Jackie KayNumb...

Reducere. Vinyl 1Side A: Let Us Prey / Call For The Priest - 6: 14You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise - 5: 03Fever - 5: 21Eat Me Alive - 3: 34Side B: All Gun...

Reducere. The story highlights different families and their diverse traditions as they observe Zhong Qiu Jie, Tết Trung Thu, and Tsukimi! In all three storie...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Jonathan SpencerNumber of pages: 480Collection: The William John Hazzard seriesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x ...

Reducere. It is dark and dreary, and you are all alone. Alone with your subconscious. The rain keeps falling, and you can't help but feel a void in your soul...

This is a storybook collection of twenty-two anecdotes reflecting the memories throughout the life of a ninety-eight-year-old Christian gentleman. ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe secret CIA papers that prove that the government has been tracking UFOs and extraterrestrials for over 50 yearsIn autumn 2016 the CI...

Written in the musical speech of the poet's home region of Kiltartan, County Galway, this collection of stories centers on country schoolmaster Red...

Sidewalk Tales is a compilations of seventeen short stories about events that happened in my life and were centered around happening on sidewalks. ...

Reducere. Stories of the Red-Tailed Hawk is inspired by the author's shamanistic connection to the natural world. When attention is given to the truth of spi...

For five decades the RAF's Red Arrows have amazed and entertained millions of people right around the world with their breathtaking formation aerob...

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 ...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times Bestseller Return to the world of His Dark Materials--now an HBO original series starring Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, James McAv...

Reducere. The FIRST BOOK written of actual ghost encounters of American Indians written by an American Indian Each page is filled with personal experiences b...

Reducere. One of the most sought-after criminals of the Depression era, Ralph Fults began his career of crime at the improbable age of fourteen. At nineteen ...

Reducere. DescriptionEncompassing 2, 000 years of history, myth, legend, and local stories, Tales of the Wicklow Hills offers a selection of Irish stories th...

Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as the leading Arabic-English translator ...

Reducere. Australian Aboriginal, Japanese, Celtic, Israeli, Native American, and other spiritual leaders from around the world share their stories of extrate...

Reducere. Diamond Dust: Stories, Paperback

Reducere. O. Henry's short stories brim with lively wit and wisdom, sudden twist endings and amusing characterizations, plus memorable moral lessons. An icon...

Sometimes a war's greatest heroes are its survivors, those who manage to forge new lives despite the tragedy they have experienced. For the sixteen...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2021* 'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a l...

A deep-cover American agent in China is given a new brief: Infiltrate the Chinese Secret Police, Work Alone.

Reducere. Vantage Point: 50 Years of the Best Climbing Stories Ever Told, Paperback

In his follow-up to "Gold Dust: Stories of Oregon's Mining Years", Oregon mining historian and prospector, Kerby Jackson, brings you another treasu...