chinese
Liczba pozycji: 40
Chinese Hunting – ebook
Anni Kylemehr
The story reminds a Hong Kong action movie. It starts from a Chinese policeman coming to Prague, Czech Republic, to arrest an international Russian hitman, Kalina. He meets an Interpol agent, who tries to catch a Japanese terrorist. Complications make them co-operate, recruiting into that team the Chinese policeman's partner, ex-hacker, who stayed in China. Travelling all over Europe the couple discovers...Data dostępności:
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The Chinese Parrot – ebook
Earl Derr Biggers
Earl Derr Biggers’ second Charlie Chan novel took the detective to the California desert where he uncovers the reason for the mysterious disappearance of a millionaire. Biggers was always a great romance writer who simply incorporated mystery into his books to propel the story forward. The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. Charlie Chan...Data dostępności:
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Chop Suey Nation – audiobook
Ann Hui
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included - her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that...Data dostępności:
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The Complete Charlie Chan Series – ebook
Earl Derr Biggers
Charlie Chen – the hero of the detective series, owned by the pen of the American writer Earl D. Biggers. Biggers wrote about two dozen action stories and plays, but he has been preserved in the memory of many generations of readers primarily as the creator of the image of this handsome inspector, the immense thickness of a Chinese living in Honolulu, where he now has to deal with purely Chinese dexterity....Data dostępności:
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The way in the front – ebook
Feng Ping
It is a great pleasure to recommend to a Polish reader the literary debut of the Chinese student of the University of Warsaw (who studies International Relations). From the very first lectures which I held for the students of her year, Ms Feng Ping stood out as person showing keen interest in Poland and ready to discover the links which bring the Chinese and Poles closer together. I was also impressed...Data dostępności:
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Stolen Idols – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A young adventurer steals two complimentary idols of Buddha from a Chinese temple, one of which is supposed to have a debasing and malevolent effect upon its owners. One of the idols represents the Body, and all of the corruption and evil of Mankind, the other represents the Soul, and all that is good. The Ballastons are a spendthrift aristocratic family threatened with the loss of their ancestral...Data dostępności:
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The Wallet of Kai Lung – ebook
Ernest Bramah
„The Wallet of Kai Lung” is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. These tales of an unlikely but marvelous China are classic works of fantasy, with each story holding a story-within-a-story. Ernest Bramah’s Kai Lung is a storyteller in an imagined China, telling tales of earnest examination...Data dostępności:
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Owen Clancy’s Happy Trail – ebook
Burt L. Standish
Such a heartbreaking story will appeal to everyone.It was just a tow-headed, cross-eyed youth who tried to find his father in Los Angeles. On Saturday evening, there was a festival for the Chinese, where a dragon twisted and twisted, under which there were a hundred people. Perhaps his father is there...Data dostępności:
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Dr Nikola’s Experiment – ebook
Guy Boothby
Dr. Nicola invited Douglas Ingleby to help him in a mysterious experiment. Unemployed and undoubtedly curious, Ingleby agrees to follow Nikola to a remote castle to help him take care of the old man on the verge of death, Nicola is trying to perform a miracle. But will Ingleby’s loyalty to Nicolau withstand the contrary to the requests of the old man’s great granddaughter, will the experiment give...Data dostępności:
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The Silver Thorn – ebook
Hugh Walpole
This is an exciting collection of 15 stories. Indeed, there are some who are very good – there is a sad and exciting „Silly old fool” about a canon who believes that a woman cares for him, and „Engraving” sees how an obsessed husband goes against his wife’s desires, collecting engravings. Other great stories are Little Donkeys with Raspberry Saddles, gentle Chinese Horses about two women and a man,...Data dostępności:
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