Chinese Adventure

How far would you go to save the one you love? When John Hayes returns to England, he believes the worst is behind him. His parents' house is being rebuilt after a brutal arson attack, and life with Adriana in Portugal has finally begun to feel normal. But everything shatters when Adriana is abducted on a visit to England—and John is left for dead. With only one cryptic clue—a mysterious Chinese cat—John follows a deadly trail back to Lisbon, plunging into a world of shadowy surveillance, powerful enemies, and chilling betrayal. As he races against time, John must rely on old allies ...

In the fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley enrolls in ski school, where the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep. Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is not exactly the best student spy school has ever seen—he keeps flunking Advanced Self Preservation. But...

An AudioFile Magazine Best Audiobook of 2018! Read by Audiofile Golden Voice Narrator, Emily Woo Zeller A Library Journal, Paste Magazine, and ENTROPY Best Books of 2018 pick! Washington Post "5 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel of 2018" pick! A Bustle "30 Best Fiction Books of 2018" pick!...

Easy jobs don't exist. Jerold should have remembered that. Jerold thought guiding some desperate foreigners around the city would be quick coin. Find one missing relative, collect his fee, done. But his clients are hunting a man who left behind furious creditors, dangerous enemies, and what appears to be a truly impressive talent for bad decisions. Now Jerold's caught between rain-soaked ambushes and mounting threats, wondering if any amount of coin is worth babysitting people who somehow make every situation worse. And as the trail grows colder, one thing becomes clear: some people stay ...

What happens when a scrappy coder and a runaway cultivation princess collide in the heart of Manhattan? Kung fu, mayhem, and the best Hotpot in Flushing! James Wong thought juggling late-night code deployments and his mom’s matchmaking schemes was enough chaos for one lifetime—until he stumbled into Lanlan, a cat-eared princess on the run from a deadly sect. She’s got ancient powers, a knack for trouble, and a wardrobe straight out of a wuxia epic. He’s got quick reflexes, a killer left hook, and a questionable sense of humor. Not to mention his hot Latina sidekick. Together, they ...

The Duanwu Festival is just around the corner, and Mulan's favorite part is the Dragon Boat Race. Listen along as Mulan's village enters the race for the first time!

Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers’ case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are “pure reading pleasure” (Booklist). The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare...

A prince’s whip. A single scar. A line Zhou Yi will never let anyone cross. In the imperial capital of mighty Kairong, envoys and Innate masters from every corner of the northwest gather under one sky. Zhou Yi arrives as Tianluo’s youngest Guardian, planning to keep his head down, pay his respects, and quietly leave a city where a single wrong move can doom a country. But the game has already begun. Kairong wants to turn him into a blade aimed at their rivals. And on a crowded street, a foreign prince laughs as his whip carves a bloody mark across his wife’s face—as if an Innate ...

One stormy night deafening thunder roared in the dark and blinding lightings struck the mountain. All of a sudden, there was an earsplitting explosion from the top of the mountain. A monkey was born from a stone, so he was called Stone Monkey. Stone monkey was fearless and free spirited. He found a lovely home for the monkey tribe. He saved Monkey Mimi, and Grandpa White Eyebrows. He learned magic power of 72 transformations from Master Bodhi who gave him an official name—Wukong. Wukong used his wisdom to end the brutal underwater chess battle. Because of his courage, bravery and power, ...

An edge-of-your-seat thriller about China's secret role in the space race—written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Apollo Murders and one of the most experienced astronauts alive. Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz...

Another thrilling adventure featuring John Wells, the deep cover CIA operative from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Faithful Spy and The Deceivers. John Wells barely survived his homecoming when it was thought he’d become too close to the terrorists. Though his wounds have...

Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew's search for missing NASA technology leads to a globe-trotting adventure in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington state make an extraordinary...

“. . . a human and historical document of compelling interest.” — The Atlantic Powerful and inspirational, With God in Russia captures the heroic patience, endurance, and religious conviction of a man whose life embodied the Christian ideals that sustained him. While ministering in Eastern...

She was sold into sexual slavery at age seven. By thirty-five, she commanded 80,000 pirates and negotiated with empires as an equal. In 1801, Shi Yang was property—a flower boat prostitute in Canton with no future and no hope. By 1810, she was Zheng Yi Sao, the Pirate Queen, commander of the largest criminal fleet in history. This is the true story of how one woman transformed herself from victim to victor, building an empire on the South China Sea that neither the Chinese government nor European powers could destroy. Starting with nothing but intelligence and ruthless pragmatism, Shi ...

China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market).. Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem depicts the...

2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Gold Medalist 2023 RONE Award Gold Medalist 2023 Reader's Favorite Silver Medalist A healer with the talent to unravel death. A stillborn child brought to life. A father bent on vengeance, and a son torn between justice, faith, and love. Caught in a chase spanning kingdoms, each must decide the nature of good and evil, the lengths they will go to survive, and what they are willing to lose. A healer and dabbler in the dark arts, Barus is as gnarled as an ancient oak. Forgotten in the chaos of the dying queen’s chamber, he spirits away her stillborn ...

Wealth without pleasure. Life without meaning. And a philosopher who takes contracts very literally. Kin-Fo has everything—a massive fortune, a beautiful fiancée, every luxury 19th-century Shanghai can provide. Yet he feels nothing. No joy, no sorrow, no desire, no fear. Material abundance has produced only profound boredom, an ennui so complete that existence itself seems pointless. When news arrives (false, it will turn out) that his fortune is lost, Kin-Fo sees opportunity. He has recently taken out a large life insurance policy naming his beloved Lé-ou as beneficiary. If he dies ...

"Wildly imaginative." —Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy A new standalone military science fiction adventure from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Three-Body Trilogy. This program is read by Feodor Chin, voice of Zenyatta in Overwatch. When Chen’s...

She didn’t just survive the pirate king. She became one. Canton, 1801. In the humid, decaying splendor of the Pearl River, Shih Yang is a prized commodity. A high-ranking courtesan on the floating "flower boats," she trades in more than just flesh. She trades in secrets—cultivating a mental ledger of every corrupt official and smuggler who enters her silk-draped cage. But Shih Yang isn't waiting for a savior. She's waiting for an empire. When the notorious pirate warlord Zheng Yi raids the harbor, it isn't a stroke of misfortune. Shih Yang orchestrated the attack herself to escape a ...

From the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author’s Chinese-American family, combining years of research with “fascinating family anecdotes, imaginative details, and the historical details of immigrant life” (Amy...