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c2007
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Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family betrothed to a suitor she has never met. In the garden of the Chen family villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from the epic opera, Peony Pavillon. Peony attends the production, watching from behind a screen, but catches sight of a handsome man and begins a journey of love and sorrow.
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In [this book], Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century. Though more than eighty years...
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These violent delights volume 2
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"Though secrets and lies keep Juliette and Roma apart, a monster still prowls the city of Shanghai, and the two are going to have to put aside their differences to end this threat once and for all"--
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Foul lady Fortune volume 1
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It’s 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue. Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging—and allows her to heal from any wound. In short, Rosalind cannot die. Now, desperate for redemption for her traitorous past, she uses her abilities as an assassin for her country. Code name: Fortune. But when the Japanese...
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Starry River of the Sky volume 3
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"Pinmei, a storyteller's granddaughter, must find the Luminous Stone that Lights the Night to rescue her grandmother, who has been kidnapped by the Tiger Emperor"--
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