French ConcessionAn acclaimed Chinese writer makes his English language debut with this heart stopping literary noir, a richly atmospheric tale of espionage and international intrigue, set in Shanghai in 1931an electrifying, decadent world of love, violence, and betrayal filled with femme fatales, criminals, revolutionaries, and spies. A boat from Hong Kong arrives in Shanghai harbor, carrying an important official in the Nationalist Party and his striking wife, Leng.

The Bone Knife

Pascoe’s colleague Edgar Wield rides to the rescue of a boy in danger and in return

and gets specific results

Sharing true stories

seems to want something more

occasionally foolhardy acts of moral rectitude that will reverberate through their lives for generations to come

Preschoolers will be intrigued by the adventures and pleased by the puppy at the conclusion

My name is Amy Gumm—and I’m the other girl from Kansas

Speaking Christian

she’ll just have to make her own

and a gaggle of brain scientists

and The Whiskey—until its tragic demise