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"Hong Kong, 1966. Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honor to her family. But as she trains to become a nurse in cold and wet England, Sook-Yin realizes that, like so many transplants, she must carve out a destiny of her own to survive. Thirty years later in London, having lost her mother as a small child, biracial misfit Lily can only remember what Maya, her preternaturally perfect older sister, has told her about Sook-Yin....
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2016]
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English
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"In 1930s England, schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home for the holidays when someone falls seriously, mysteriously ill at a family party, but no one present is what they seem--and everyone has a secret or two--so the Detective Society must do everything they can to reveal the truth ... no matter the consequences." --
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AMBER
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2006.
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Polish
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The handsome Kyle Renbourne, Viscount of Maxwell, finds himself imprisoned in China and facing death. To save his beautiful translator, Troth Montgomery -- the daughter of a Scotsman and a Chinese concubine -- he marries her in prison and sends her to his home in England.
6) The big four
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They are formidable enemies in their own rights: a French scientist, an American millionaire, a brilliant Chinese gentleman, and a master of disguise. But together they are the Big Four, a partnership with one simple goal, murder. Hercule Poirot has never come up against an opponent so vicious, or so deadly.
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Award-winning author Mary Jo Putney captivated the hearts of readers everywhere with her breathtaking hardcover debut, The Wild Child. Now, in her spectacular new novel The China Bride, she has created another brilliantly moving love story, and a very special heroine--a rare beauty torn between two cultures who valiantly struggles to discover the woman she is destined to be.
Born to a Scottish father and now living in China, Troth Montgomery...
Born to a Scottish father and now living in China, Troth Montgomery...
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"White Ivy begins as many coming-to-America stories do: Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant, grows up in a low-income apartment complex in Massachusetts desperate to assimilate with her American peers. She develops a crush on the golden boy Gideon Speyer, whose patrician New England family is the paragon of the WASP ideal. Ivy's mother is a Tiger Mom, berating Ivy regularly when she disapproves of her grades, her looks, her attitude. But that's where the...
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"Valora Luck has two things: a ticket for the biggest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world, and a dream of leaving England behind and making a life for herself as a circus performer in New York. Much to her surprise though, she's turned away at the gangway; apparently, Chinese aren't allowed into America. But Val has to get on that ship. Her twin brother Jamie, who has spent two long years at sea, is there, as is an influential circus owner,...
10) Skeleton Key
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Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...
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2015.
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"Fourteen-year-old social outcast Charlie Han, known as 'the short Chinese kid' at school, searches for a talent to improve his popularity, but when he discovers skateboarding, much to the disapproval of his overprotective mother, he also uncovers a huge family secret." --
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Spending Chinese New Year with her friend Tiger, Maisy learns about traditional symbols, shares a delicious cultural feast and exchanges lucky red hongbao envelopes before listening to a story about the holiday and staying up late to watch a fireworks display." --
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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 Silver investigates a murder that may have its roots in a new romance—or an old family feud (Manchester Evening News).
An amateur who happened on a career in theater, Tanis Lyle has just finished filming her first motion picture. The young woman has electric...
An amateur who happened on a career in theater, Tanis Lyle has just finished filming her first motion picture. The young woman has electric...
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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War
"Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out." — Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass
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...18) Nighthawking
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"Under the cover of night, a figure climbs over the wall of the Botanical Gardens. It's a dicey location in the populous city centre, but they're on the hunt--only this time, the nighthawker unearths a body. Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler and his protégé, Detective Constable Mina Rabbani, are shunted onto the murder investigation. When the victim is identified as Chinese national from a wealthy family, in the UK on a student visa, the case takes...
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Agency ; 4
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Hesitating to accept James' marriage proposal out of fear of losing her independence, Mary watches over a dying prisoner whose criminal wife holds a deadly grudge against James at the same time an unsettlingly familiar Chinese prizefighter arrives in London." --
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2020.
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English
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"A Chinese woman moves to London to start a new life. She knew she would be lonely, adrift in the city, but will her new relationship bring her closer to this land she has chosen, and will their love give her a home? A Lover's Discourse is a love story told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into post-Brexit Britain, Xiaolu Guo shows...
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