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"Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in this lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will Chen plans to steal...
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Celestial kingdom volume 2
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English
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After winning her mother's freedom from the Celestial Emperor, Xingyin is forced to flee again and venture to the Immortal Realm where she and her companions encounter legendary creatures and shrewd monarchs.
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"As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, ignored middle child Elle was destined to be a doctor. Instead, she is underemployed as a mediocre magical calligrapher at the fairy temp agency. Nevertheless, she challenges herself by covertly outfitting Luc, her client and crush, with high-powered glyphs. Half-elf Luc, the agency's top security expert, has his own secret: he's responsible for a curse laid from an old assignment. To heal them, he'll...
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Winston Chu duology volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When San Francisco adults forget who they are and mysterious exotic birds flock to the city, twelve-year-old Winston Chu and friends team up to investigate the strange occurrences and face off against Mr. Pang's older magpie-turned-human brother, Mr. Gu.
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Bear Run Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Teague Alexander Waterbury Sullivan, a "normal" 11-year old boy, slides into a Chinese mythological world to free not only his brother, but also himself, from Gong Gong, the evil white dragon of Chu, the bearer of grief and ice."--Publisher's description.
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Twelve (Lin) volume 2
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English
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"Usagi's quest to save her younger sister, Uma, and save Midaga from the Dragonlord continues in this sequel to The Twelve"--
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"This richly told adult fantasy teems with Chinese deities and demons cavorting in jazz age Shanghai. Half vampire. Half fox-spirit. All trouble. Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit and all sasshole. As the King's ward, she has spent the past ninety years running errands, dodging the taunts of the spiteful hulijing courtiers, and trying to control her explosive temper - with varying...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Preorder now and receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last--featuring a gold foiled cover, gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork, as well as exclusive metallic ink patterned endpapers and unique foiled front and back case stamps. This breathtaking collectible is only available on a limited first print run, a must-have for any book lover. "Exquisite and devastating. It won't fail to move you." --Shelley Parker-Chan, #1...
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
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Overlook Hardcover
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a low-level bureaucrat, employed by the government of Mongol conquerors established by the Kublai Khan. Though he wonders about his own complicity wit this regime-the Mongols, after all, are invaders-he prefers not to dwell on his official duties, choosing instead to live the life of the mind. Wang is an extraordinarily gifted artist. His paintings are at once delicate and confident;...
15) Dim Sum Palace
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Tundra Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A picture book about a girl and her love of food, set in a restaurant."--
16) Ebony gate
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Phoenix hoard volume 1
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English
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"Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she's drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodies and the scent of blood and human waste as a lethal perfume. The Butcher...
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Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2024.
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Español
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"El amor no estaba en el menú. Dylan Tang se ha propuesto ganar el concurso de pasteles de luna del Festival del Medio Otoño en memoria de su madre. Con ello, también podrá publicitar Guerreros del Wok, el local de comida china de su tía en Brooklyn, al que no le está yendo demasiado bien. Pero Dylan no estaba preparado para conocer a Theo Somers, un joven encantador y con una sonrisa de infarto que decide hacer una donación considerable a...
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"When her beloved lăolao can't attend the Spring Lantern Festival, Lili is taken on a Chinese mythology-inspired adventure as she drifts off to sleep, where she finally gets to see the one person she wants to see most"-- Provided by publisher.
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"In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. What Junie doesn't know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he must make one last desperate attempt to reunite all three...
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