China Fiction

China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual ''Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop", always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder.

In this 16th entry in Susan Wittig Albert’s long-running mystery series, China is finally on the verge of finding out the truth about her father’s death. But her reservations about letting her half-brother Miles hire her husband prove all too accurate when she discovers Miles has a hidden agenda.

Un chino en bicicleta, inspirada en el caso del pirómano Fosforito, ganó el Premio de Novela "La otra orilla" en 2007, se publicó en España y en América Latina y fue traducida a seis idiomas. Crónica, con su particular modo de informar, se hizo una fiesta con el caso de Li, el chino pirómano que incendió varias mueblerías en el barrio de Caballito allá por el año 2004. Hasta le pusieron el apodo de "Fosforito".

Neil Thompson had promised his grandmother that he would wait for his grandfather to bring him to see the great oceangoing ships at the docks in Liverpool, England. But when he convinced himself that it was okay to go alone, he did not know the danger he would face on that bright morning in September 1853. The docks were no place for a 12-year-old boy who was alone. Stopping to admire a small clipper ship, the Dumfries, Neil is suddenly grabbed and dragged aboard the ship, then locked in a small, dark room until the ship is on its way to sea.

In the past 30 years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on Earth. This remarkable transformation has required, and will continue to demand, massive quantities of resources. Like every other major power in modern history, China is looking outward to find them.

In post-Cultural Revolution China, in the fading village of Freshwind, the fates of two households are shifting. The Bais, once the most powerful family in the region, have fallen from status. Their beautiful daughter, Snow Bai, an embodiment of tradition, pursues a career in a vanishing art form. The Xias, enthusiastic members of the Party, are on the rise. Their favorite son, Wind Xia, is a citified politician whose marriage to Snow Bai could unite the two families. But in a village casting about for a new road to prosperity, fortunes can change.

El cartógrafo Rodrigo Silva se ve obligado a asistir al ahorcamiento público de su padre por la pérdida de un galeón a manos de los piratas ingleses. Rodrigo jura vengarse por esa gran injusticia, pero el destino le tiene preparada una sorpresa. Gracias a sus conocimientos en el arte de navegar y trazar cartas náuticas, acabará formando parte de uno de los planes más ambiciosos de Felipe II: la conquista de China.

Kai Ting is the only American-born son of a Shanghai family that fled China during Mao’s revolution. Growing up in a San Francisco multicultural, low-income neighborhood, Kai is caught between two worlds - embracing neither the Chinese nor the American way of life. After his mother’s death, Kai is suddenly plunged into American culture by his stepmother, who tries to erase every vestige of China from the household.

The high-school principal asks China to secretly investigate the popular football coach who led the Panthers to six state championships. Soon after China confirms the coach's predilection for teenage girls, one of his victims turns up dead and suspicion falls upon the lecherous coach.

Hundreds die in a fiery train crash in northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is lost to calm seas off the Libyan coast. Entire villages in Ghana are abandoned overnight.

They were married with a small family. They were happy. They knew their present and worked hard for their future. The God of this reality or the makers of this simulation pulled them 24 years in the past. Now they must relive their adult lives and attempt to get back the children they have lost.

Smart and sassy bookkeeper China Bohannon is a modern 1890s career woman who'd rather sleuth than type. China is in charge of the Doyle & Howe Detective Agency office on the day a 14-year-old girl shows up seeking the detectives' help in a case of what she's calling murder.

"Wir brauchten ein Werkzeug. Also rief ich die Götter an." Schon immer hat es Gerüchte über ihn gegeben. Legenden. Tausende Zivilisationen hat er erstarken und fallen sehen. Ein Krieger, der nicht getötet werden kann. Er trägt viele Namen: Unute, Kind des Blitzes, sogar als Tod wurde er bezeichnet. Heutzutage kennen wir ihn als "B". Und er wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als sterben zu können. In einer Welt nah an unserer Realität lässt sich "B" auf ein Angebot einer geheimen Einheit des US-Militärs ein, die verspricht, ihm dabei zu helfen, das Rätsel seiner Unsterblichkeit zu lösen.

Esta arrolladora novela cuenta dos milenios de historia de una de las ciudades más fascinantes del mundo: Londres. Desde la fundación de un pequeño asentamiento celta a los bombardeos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pasando por la invasión por parte de las legiones de César en el año 54 a.d, las Cruzadas, la conquista normanda, la creación del teatro Globe en el que Shakespeare estrenaría sus obras, las tensiones religiosas, el Gran Incendio, la época victoriana.

Hundreds die in a fiery train crash in northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is lost to calm seas off the Libyan coast. Entire villages in Ghana are abandoned overnight. Contracted by an apocalypse prepper group to investigate a series of seemingly disconnected global tragedies, a young medical investigative reporter, Angelique de l'Enfantine, uncovers a disturbing pattern to the tragedies. Are they harbingers of an impending biblical catastrophe?

From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to US occupied Tokyo, and, finally, to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Ian Buruma's masterful novel about the intoxicating power of collective fantasy follows three star-struck men driven to extraordinary acts by their devotion to the same legendary woman. A beautiful Japanese girl born in Manchuria, Yamaguchi Yoshiko is known as Ri Koran in Japan, Li Xianglan in China, and Shirley Yamaguchi in the US, and her past is a closely guarded secret.

Der letzte Tag der Menschheit ist angebrochen. Eine gewaltige Strahlenwolke, ausgelöst durch eine Sternexplosion acht Jahre zuvor, wird schon bald alle Menschen über dreizehn Jahren töten. Seit acht Jahren läuft der Countdown, und seitdem werden die Kinder und Jugendlichen der Welt auf eine Zukunft allein vorbereitet. Einige von ihnen jedoch wollen gar nicht so weitermachen wie zuvor. Sie träumen von einer neuen, einer besseren Zukunft für sich und ihren Planeten. Dies ist ihre Geschichte.

A woman wades into the waters of Morecambe Bay in a drunken bid to commit suicide. She finds herself instead saving the life of a young Chinese cockle picker, a survivor of a tragic mass drowning. Wen and Angie share neither language nor experience, but she agrees to let him stay with her and disappear. Within a short time their unlikely pairing blossoms into something darkly passionate.

Jack Flashhardt is back! Still a Captain in the Marine Corps, he has been classified as a deserter and wants to sneak across the Mexican border into America to fight his criminal status. But after Jack makes it to America, he is arrested and told by a General of a secret government entity that they want him to fake a climb of Mt Elbrus of the Caucasus Mountains, where he and his team will eliminate a Chinese hacking gang that is stealing American technology. Jack is offered freedom from his deserter status if he completes the mission. Jack forms a combat team and the adventure begins.

September 2021: Das Internationale Olympische Komitee tagt in Shanghai, um die Sommerspiele 2032 zu vergeben. Kurz vor der Abstimmung wird der mosambikanische IOC-Funktionär Charles Murandi tot aufgefunden. Prompt wird der deutsche Journalist Thomas Gärtner festgenommen, denn er hat sich zuletzt im Hotelzimmer des Toten aufgehalten. Doch der will sich an nichts erinnern können. Und während die Polizei auf Ungereimtheiten stößt, die Kanzlerin im Flugzeug nach Shanghai von dem Mord erfährt und ein anderer Journalist die Chance auf eine große Story wittert, ahnt niemand, wo der Schlüssel zur Lösung des Falls wirklich liegt.