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Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Omar and his friends team up to raise money to save his family's favorite mosque, and when the money goes missing, they find the most unlikely culprit"--
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Omar is going on his biggest adventure yet--a trip to Pakistan! But his excitement about the trip is interrupted by some shocking news: his amazing teacher is not coming back to school, and no one will say why. When Omar and his friends start investigating, the hints they overhear and clues they find lead them to an alarming conclusion--it must be aliens! Omar has a huge imagination, but saving his teacher from aliens seems far-fetched even to him....
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. Leo is a police officer who sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers" organization. Leo ends up arresting Mei, only to have Jin break her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But...
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Imaginative Omar goes through the ups and downs of starting a new school and making new friends with the help of his wonderful (and silly) Muslim family"--
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 4
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Omar takes the blame for a few small things to keep his friends out of trouble, he feels great--until something big happens and everyone thinks Omar did it"--
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 1898, China experienced one hundred days of utopia, after a cabal of reformist intellectuals persuaded the young emperor to enact sweeping changes intended to modernize the country and bring about the "Great Unity." Their movement ended in blood and the crowning of two more dictators, but not before it whetted an appetite for revolution all across the country - an appetite that would eventually consume millions of lives. One such life belongs...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Description
Left alone to prepare their family's prize-winning dumplings for the annual cooking contest, the young Kang boys accidentally invent a new dish, "mian tiao," or noodles. Includes a cultural note and a recipe for long life noodles.
Author
Publisher
America's Test Kitchen
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"James Beard Award winner Kevin Pang and his dad Jeffrey, hosts of the hit America's Test Kitchen series Hunger Pangs, show you the way to delicious Chinese cooking in this accessible, funny, heartfelt cookbook. From American Chinese classics (General Tso's Chicken) to Sichuan street foods (Dan Dan Mian) and Hong Kong dim sum favorites (Shu Mai), A Very Chinese Cookbook is ideal for both the Chinese food-curious and experienced cooks seeking a weekend...
Author
Publisher
Hardie Grant Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Veganise your favourite Chinese dishes at home with Vegan Chinese Food, from the founders of the hugely popular food blog littlericenoodle, Yang Liu and Katharina Pinczolits. Vegan Chinese Food gives flavourful plant-based alternatives to 86 well-loved and diverse Chinese recipes, including sauces, dumplings, noodles and desserts. The book draws upon Yang's experience of wanting to make the dishes from her childhood vegan-friendly, as well as the...
15) A perfect crime
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications Ltd
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he's also planning the brutal murder of his only friend...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Takada is an aging Japanese fisherman who has been estranged from his son for many years. When the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. When his son refuses to see him, Rie gives him a videotape about the work his son was doing on a documentary film in a remote region of China's Yunnan province. Still troubled by the relationship, Takada decides to go to China and complete his son's work in part...
17) Hero
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A fearless warrior rises up to defy an empire and unite a nation. With supernatural skill, and no fear, the soldier embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that has massacred his people. To achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat. The story of the First Emperor of China, who is on the brink of winning a war-torn land during the dawn of the Qin dynasty...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai. His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress, this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan, her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped,...
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