Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
By: Isabel Sun Chao
4.30
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Winner of over 20 awards including Rubery Award BOOK OF THE YEAR and Writer’s Digest GRAND PRIZE .…
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1. Life and Death in Shanghai
By: Nien Cheng
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an o… read more
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2. The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me
By: Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak
4.17
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
"A gripping tale of secrets and self-discovery." --People The Foundlingtells the incredible and ins… read more
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3. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of … read more
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4. Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945
By: Rana Mitter
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The epic, untold story of China's devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan For decade… read more
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8. The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
By: Simon Winchester
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
In illuminating detail, Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor & the Madman("Elegant & scr… read more
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9. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
By: Jung Chang
3.68
Format: 113 pages,
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and th… read more
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10. Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
By: None
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on … read more
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11. Murder at Little Minton (Miss Busby #1)
By: Karen Baugh Menuhin
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Miss Busby Murder at Little Minton. Book One in the Miss Busby Series. A picturesque Cotswolds v… read more
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12. Murder at Ashton Steeple (Heathcliff Lennox, #10)
By: Karen Baugh Menuhin
4.57
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
Murder, Mystery and a dog, and cat, of distinctionBook 10 in the Heathcliff Lennox series.A man sho… read more
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13. Big Nate: Payback Time!
By: Lincoln Peirce
4.58
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
Look out, Big Nate fans—it’s payback time!In this brand-new collection of Big Nate comics, Nate dev… read more
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14. The Thrice Named Man XV: Avenger
By: Hector Miller
4.67
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The year is 270 AD. For decades, Rome has experienced one setback after another that brought the on… read more
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15. The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
By: Jonathan Kaufman
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The Sassoons and the Kadoories--two Jewish families from Baghdad--had long been successful in busin… read more
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16. Did I Ever Tell You?
By: Genevieve Kingston
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more
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17. Shanghailanders
By: Juli Min
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more
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18. But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films
By: Kristen Lopez
3.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52… read more
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- history
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19. Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
By: Katie Gee Salisbury
3.99
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of H… read more
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20. Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
By: Helen Zia
4.47
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the… read more
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"In a world fractured by turmoil, there's much to learn from the profound human experience shared by the uprooted and displaced."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"There are many lessons to be learned from refugees and migrants that can contribute to the understanding needed to navigate the global tectonics to bring people together, not drive them into flight."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"Certainly, what was true for the refugees and exiles of Shanghai remains true for people fleeing catastrophe in contemporary times. Whether these migrants are driven from Syria, Myanmar, Bosnia, Suda…"-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"Where America's WWII generation is often lauded as its greatest, the Chinese contemporaries of that generation deny any claims to such superlatives. Especially when China's 5,000 year history spans h…"-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
21. Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
By: Jung Chang
3.89
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars,… read more
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22. The Shortest History of China
By: Linda Jaivin
4.01
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, m… read more
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23. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
By: Richard White
3.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more
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24. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
By: Sara B. Franklin
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more
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25. Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
By: Gordon H. Chang
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern A… read more
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26. Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s
By: Raphael Cormack
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
One of the world’s most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitiou… read more
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27. The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
By: Shugri Said Salh
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“I am the last nomad. My ancestors traveled the East African desert in search of grazing land for t… read more
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"The resilience I learned from surviving life in the desert carried me through the unexpected death of my young mother, being chased from my country by civil war, and defying my clan's expectations af…"-Shugri Said Salh, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
"Stories have always created understanding and connection between humans. In this era of great misunderstanding, I wish to help rein us back in to our shared humanity. The beauty of my culture was imp…"-Shugri Said Salh, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
"Survival is woven into the fabric of who I am. I never asked, 'Why did this happen to me?' bur rather, 'How can I overcome this situation?' It is easy to let past trauma or injustice rule your life f…"-Shugri Said Salh, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
28. The Lemon
By: S.E. Boyd
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Set in the intersecting worlds of fine dining, Hollywood, and the media, a darkly hilarious and ult… read more
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29. The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
By: Frank Langfitt
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. … read more
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30. Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
By: Isabel Sun Chao
4.30
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Winner of over 20 awards including Rubery Award BOOK OF THE YEAR and Writer’s Digest GRAND PRIZE .… read more
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31. Lovely One: A Memoir
By: Ketanji Brown Jackson
4.64
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more
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