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Venduta dalla madre al Re dell’Inferno quando era bambina, Lady Jing è mezza vampira, metà hulijing, uno spirito volpe. In quanto protetta del Re, ha passato gli ultimi novant’anni a svolgere commissioni, evitare le frecciatine delle maliziose cortigiane hulijing e cercare di controllare la sua esplosiva irascibilità. Con risultati altalenanti. Quando Jing scopre che alcuni cortigiani tramano per rubare una preziosa perla di drago al Re, coglie l’occasione per smascherarli, una volta per tutte.

Hacia el año 1937, Shanghai está considerada el París del continente asiático. En la sofisticada y opulenta ciudad, donde conviven mendigos, millonarios, gángsters, jugadores y artistas, la vida sonríe a las hermanas Pearl y May Chin, hijas de un acaudalado hombre de negocios.

En la Barcelona de 1984, el capitán Blay, con su cabeza vendada y sus suspicacias sobre los escapes de gas que están a punto de hacer volar toda la ciudad, se pasea por el barrio sacudido aún por los estertores de la guerra perdida y acompañado por los espectros gimientes de sus hijos muertos. El pequeño Daniel le escolta a través de aquellas calles póstumas, en las que conocerá a los hermanos Chacón, quienes custodian la verja de entrada de la casa en la que convalece Susana, una niña enferma de los pulmones, hija de la señora Anita, bella y ajada taquillera de cine.

1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi’s club once again the hottest spot in Shanghai. Soon they realize they share more than a passion for jazz - but their differences seem insurmountable....

Meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations, from vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity and loss against the epic backdrop of a country in turmoil.

When 15-year-old Jack Sligo runs away from his loving Boston-Irish family, he hopes to get a summer job on a cruise ship. His dream becomes a nightmare when two strangers give him mysterious drinks in a waterfront saloon. Jack wakes up, far at sea, shanghaied aboard an African freighter. The ship’s first call is a remote jungle port in Venezuela where there’s plenty of thieves, rum and women, but no opportunity for escape. 

Una scelta può cambiare per sempre il corso di una vita 1941. Durante un'afosa serata nel quartiere di Kowloon, uno dei di­stretti più caratteristici della co­lonia di Hong Kong, la dottores­sa Rowena Rossiter è in cerca di un po' svago dopo il duro lavoro. Ancora non sa che il suo mondo è sull'orlo del collasso. Quella sera, Rowena incontrerà due uomini che si batteranno per il suo cuore negli anni seguen­ti. Connor O'Connor, un soldato irlandese ribelle, che la corteggerà con determinazione e piglio scan­zonato; e Kim Pheloung.

Chris Collins is an ex-CIA agent with a history of rogue missions. His enemies took away everything he had, and now it's time to pay. He knows his adversaries will stop at nothing to remove those who stand in their way - including himself. But they move in the shadows, and smoking them out means taking himself to some dark places.

Fleeing the Holocaust in Europe, Marcus moves with his family from Berlin to Shanghai, where he doubts this unfamiliar city will ever feel like home. But with help from his new friend Liang, and the answers to a rabbi's riddle, Marcus sets out to build a unique sukkah in time for the harvest festival of Sukkot.

Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the more she explores the residential lanes and courtyards behind Shanghai’s busy shopping streets, the less she wants to return to the country as a dutiful wife. As Fu Ping wavers over her future, she learns the city through the stories of the nannies, handymen, and garbage collectors of postwar Shanghai....

In Edward Whittemore’s masterful and surreal alternate history, a man’s search for answers about his vanished parents propels him on an odyssey from the present into the past, from a bar in the Bronx to Tokyo and Shanghai during the Second World War. Quin, born in China and raised in the Bronx, is orphaned in the closing days of the Second World War when his parents go missing and are presumed dead in Shanghai.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city, she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises.

日本鬼子乡下种大烟，城里开烟馆，流毒天下；刺刀和烟枪一起对着中华民族……日本鬼子鄉下種大煙，城裡開煙館，流毒天下；刺刀和煙槍一起對著中華民族…… 

Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Half-Chinese and half-American, Violet grapples with her place in the worlds of East and West - until she is able to merge her two halves, empowering her to become a shrewd courtesan who excels in the business of seduction and illusion, though she still struggles to understand who she is.