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Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Flower Net (an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain. The Organization of Chinese American Women named her the 2001 National Woman of the Year. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Shanghai Girls
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree—until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree—until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to... Read more >
Also available as an
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unabridged audiobook download,
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $15.00
In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s painted a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $15.00
In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s painted a... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
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Peony in Love
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2008
Price: $14.00
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2008
Price: $14.00
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print hardcover.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $17.00
In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, an “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s written... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $17.00
In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, an “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s written... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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On Gold Mountain
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $15.95
Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $15.95
Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of... Read more >
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Shanghai Girls
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $25.00
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $25.00
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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Flower Net
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade.”
–The Washington Post Book World
In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping’s... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade.”
–The Washington Post Book World
In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping’s... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Dragon Bones
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2004
Price: $14.95
In a magnificent land where myth mixes treacherously with truth, one woman is in charge of telling them apart. Liu Hulan is the Inspector in China’s Ministry of Public Security whose tough style rousts wrongdoers and rubs her superiors the wrong way. Now her latest case finds her trapped between her... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2004
Price: $14.95
In a magnificent land where myth mixes treacherously with truth, one woman is in charge of telling them apart. Liu Hulan is the Inspector in China’s Ministry of Public Security whose tough style rousts wrongdoers and rubs her superiors the wrong way. Now her latest case finds her trapped between her... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Interior
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
“See paints a fascinating portrait of a complex and enigmatic society, in which nothing is ever quite as it appears, and of the people, peasant and aristocrat alike, who are bound by its subtle strictures.”
–San Diego Union-Tribune
While David Stark is asked to open a law office in Beijing, his lover, detective... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
“See paints a fascinating portrait of a complex and enigmatic society, in which nothing is ever quite as it appears, and of the people, peasant and aristocrat alike, who are bound by its subtle strictures.”
–San Diego Union-Tribune
While David Stark is asked to open a law office in Beijing, his lover, detective... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Shanghai Girls
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $39.95
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $39.95
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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Shanghai Girls
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $25.00
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $25.00
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $23.95
Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $23.95
Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Peony in Love
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 19, 2008
Price: $14.99
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 19, 2008
Price: $14.99
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print hardcover.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $14.99
Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost... Read more >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 21, 2006
Price: $14.99
Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.
In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Peony in Love
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $23.95
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $23.95
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and in
large print hardcover.
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Peony in Love
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $26.95
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $26.95
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Dragon Bones
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $14.95
When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes this death—or is it a murder?—David, on behalf of the National Relics Bureau... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $14.95
When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes this death—or is it a murder?—David, on behalf of the National Relics Bureau... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
Dragon Bones
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $20.00
When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes this death—or is it a murder?—David, on behalf of the National Relics Bureau... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $20.00
When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes this death—or is it a murder?—David, on behalf of the National Relics Bureau... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Flower Net
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade.”
–The Washington Post Book World
In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping’s... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade.”
–The Washington Post Book World
In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping’s... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Flower Net
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $11.95
In Flower Net, Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening.
Here the veil is ripped away from modern China--its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty--and the inextricable link between China's fortunes and America's is underscored.
In the depths of a... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $11.95
In Flower Net, Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening.
Here the veil is ripped away from modern China--its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty--and the inextricable link between China's fortunes and America's is underscored.
In the depths of a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Interior
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
“See paints a fascinating portrait of a complex and enigmatic society, in which nothing is ever quite as it appears, and of the people, peasant and aristocrat alike, who are bound by its subtle strictures.”
–San Diego Union-Tribune
While David Stark is asked to open a law office in Beijing, his lover, detective... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
“See paints a fascinating portrait of a complex and enigmatic society, in which nothing is ever quite as it appears, and of the people, peasant and aristocrat alike, who are bound by its subtle strictures.”
–San Diego Union-Tribune
While David Stark is asked to open a law office in Beijing, his lover, detective... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
The Interior
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $20.00
“See paints a fascinating portrait of a complex and enigmatic society, in which nothing is ever quite as it appears, and of the people, peasant and aristocrat alike, who are bound by its subtle strictures.”
–San Diego Union-Tribune
While David Stark is asked to open a law office in Beijing, his lover, detective... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $20.00
“See paints a fascinating portrait of a complex and enigmatic society, in which nothing is ever quite as it appears, and of the people, peasant and aristocrat alike, who are bound by its subtle strictures.”
–San Diego Union-Tribune
While David Stark is asked to open a law office in Beijing, his lover, detective... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Peony in Love
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $14.98
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $14.98
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print hardcover.
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Peony in Love
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $14.00
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $14.00
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print hardcover.
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Peony in Love
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 3, 2007
Price: $20.00
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn, only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 3, 2007
Price: $20.00
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn, only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print hardcover.
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