Asian Reads
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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."—The Boston Globe"Not just a brilliant, well-researched, an...
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Womb of Diamonds: A True Adventure From Child Bride Of Syria To Celebrity Businesswoman Of Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $34.97 - Original price $34.97Original price $34.97$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In the 1930's Jewish Community of Aleppo, Syria, thirteen-year-old Lucie lives and works beside Muslims, Armenian Christians, and the French milit...
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Kosher Chinese
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional s...
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In the Crook of the Rock: Jewish Refuge in a World Gone Mad -- The Chaya Leah Walkin Story
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00Original price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Focusing upon the life of Chaya Walkin--one little girl from a distinguished Torah lineage in Poland--this book illustrates the inner resources of ...
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A Play for the End of the World: A novel
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A dazzling novel—set in early 1970's New York and rural India—the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horr...
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Stateless in Shanghai
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Born in Shanghai to Russian Jewish parents who fled the Bolshevik Revolution, Liliane Willens is a "stateless" girl in the world's most cosmopolita...
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Witness to History: From Vienna to Shanghai: A Memoir of Escape, Survival and Resilience
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /On the rainy afternoon of November 28,1938, a slight 18-year-old Austrian man took in his first impressions of Shanghai. Paul Hoffmann had left his...
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Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society. The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immig...
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Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Meet the Jewish salon host in 1930s Shanghai who brought together Chinese and expats around the arts as civil war erupted and World War II loomed o...
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Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /2023 Best Book Awards Winner in History sponsored by American Book Fest In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set ...
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The Tenth Muse
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM: Los Angeles Times * USA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Buzzfeed * The Rumpus * Entertainment Weekly * Elle * BBC * Christ...
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Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /Examines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society.The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immi...
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