Author: Gabrielle Wang
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years 5-6

13-year-old Isabelle has travelled alone to China to visit Por Por her grandmother, and to release her mother's ashes. Here she meets Ting Ting, an orphan who has been taken in by Por Por, and learns that her grandmother ...

Author: Gabrielle Wang
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Health
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations Prejudice & Racism
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 5-6

Mimi is second-generation Chinese and growing up in inner-city Melbourne. She feels more Australian than Chinese, and hates being teased by the other kids about the way she looks and what she eats. But through the gift o ...

Author: Gabrielle Wang
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 7-8

Jax has been connected to Peng from the moment Peng fell from the sky as a tiny creature when he was a baby. The two are connected in a mysterious way, but Jax has no knowledge of Peng or that he is to become the Peng Ma ...

Author: Gabrielle Wang
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 7-8

When Annie moves with her family to the seaside town of Tiger Bay, she finds a place full of strange sadness and the mysterious reclusive Madame Olenka who lives in an old hotel. As Annie's friendship grows with Olenka, ...

Author: Gabrielle Wang
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 5-6

Lulu, a young Chinese girl, is very musical. She knows that everything in life has its own particular rhythm, its own song, and in spite of her parents' objections (for the family lives in a small flat) she longs to lear ...

Author: Gabrielle Wang
Binding: Paperback Book

Mirabel, a 17-year-old Australian-born Chinese girl, falls in love with a Chinese soldier stationed in Melbourne during WW II. When their affair is discovered JJ is posted back to China. Mirabel decides to follow him to ...

Author: Gabrielle Wang
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

The Jade Emperor has declared a great race: the first animals to cross the river will win a place in the Chinese Zodiac. Thirteen animals line up along the shore, but there are only twelve places to be won. who will miss ...

Author: Liza N. Burby
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Biography & Autobiography - General

Young girls must be encouraged to believe in themselves and to know that they can achieve any goal that they set for themselves in any arena, including sports. The six athletes profiled in these accessible biographies se ...

Author: Henry James
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Fiction - Literary General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

My good old friend sat for some moments gazing into the fire. At last he looked up. I knew what was coming. Apropos, that little debt of mine -- Not that the debt was really very little. But M. de Bergerac was a man of h ...

Author: Katherine E Krohn
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Art
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Art Fashion
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Biography & Autobiography
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Biography & Autobiography Art

As USA TODAY, The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper, put it, Vera Wang is hot???.She oversees everything. The name Vera Wang has become synonymous with simple, elegant design. Her wonderfully styled gowns drape and flow to make t ...

Author: D. Hinton
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Literary Criticism - Literary Criticism General
Category:Poetry - General
Category:Poetry - Anthologies

David Hinton, whose much-acclaimed translations of Li Po and Tu Fu have become classics, now completes the triumvirate of China's greatest poets with The Selected Poems of Wang Wei. Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spok ...

Author: Xiaobo Wang
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Fiction - Literary General
Category:Fiction - Modern & Contemporary

The first English translation of work by Wang Xiaobo, one of the most important writers of the twentieth-century China.

Author: Jonathan Spence
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:History - Asia

In The Death of Woman Wang, the award-winning historian Jonathan Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure time and place: provincial China in the late 17th century. Drawing on a range of sources, including local Chine ...

Author: Katherine E Krohn
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Biography & Autobiography
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - History

Author: Anne M. Todd
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Biography & Autobiography
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Biography & Autobiography People of Color
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - History
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Science & Technology

Vera Wang is a top fashion designer whose name is known around the world. Working first at Vogue magazine and then for Ralph Lauren, Wang opened her own business in 1990. She started with bridal gowns, but her collection ...

Author: Eliot Weinberger & Octavio Paz
Binding: Paperback Book
Category:Literary Criticism - Poetry
Category:Poetry - Regional Asian

This title features nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger and an introduction contributed by Octavio Paz.

Author: Pearl S Buck
Binding: Paperback Book

This is the Korean translation of Pearl S. Buck's "Wang Lung and Other Stories," bilingual edition. (Korean/English).

Author: Zoe Butt
Binding: Hardback Book
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Photography Photographers
Category:Arts & Entertainment - Art Treatments & Subjects Catalogues
Category:Photography - Individual Photographer

Wang Qingsong (b.1966), the enfant terrible of contemporary Chinese art photography, stages grand, kitschy tableaux that call to mind traditional Chinese scrolls, allegorical Renaissance paintings, Socialist public sculp ...

Author: Jianming Zhang
Binding: Paperback Book

Chinese Festivals and Folklores - The Legend of the Stove God. (Vol. 19 of 25).

Author: Weizhong and Rongrong Wang Wang
Binding: Paperback Book

This are the stories of the Wang family dinner table. Wang is a prolific and successful TV program writer and producer. Wang believes dinner with the family easily guarantees dinner to be harmonious, happy, and memorable ...