Short Pieces

10 books

Strange Fate (Huanhua Zhiwu) cover
Strange Fate (Huanhua Zhiwu) Huanhua zhi Wu Strange Fate is a suspense and supernatural web novel by Huanhua Zhiwu, a contracted author of Heiyan Reading Network, first serialized on Heiyan Read…
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Rating 4.0
50 Classic Philosophy Lessons 郁喆隽 CITIC Press · 2021 Written by Yu Zhejun, associate professor at Fudan University's School of Philosophy, this is an introduction to Western philosophy for general reader…
Mortal Kombat X: Blood Ties, Vol. 9 cover
Mortal Kombat X: Blood Ties, Vol. 9 Shawn Kittelsen / DC Comics DC Comics · 2015 Mortal Kombat X: Blood Ties is the official prequel comic series to Mortal Kombat X, a collaboration between DC Comics and NetherRealm Studios. Releas…
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The Wisdom of Life Ryuho Okawa Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2011 The Wisdom of Life is an inspirational collection of essays by the Japanese author Ryuho Okawa, published in Chinese by Shanghai People's Publishing H…
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Reader's Digest, Issue 11, 2020 (Whole No. 712) Readers Magazine Editorial Office Readers Magazine · 2020 Reader's Digest, Issue 11, 2020 (Whole No. 712) is a semimonthly magazine launched in June 2020, running to about 227 pages. This issue opens with an …
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Rating 4.0
See You on Stage: Wang Peiyu on Learning and Performing Peking Opera Wang Peiyu CITIC Press · 2019 This is a first-person account by Wang Peiyu, a new-generation laosheng (old male role) performer of Peking Opera and fourth-generation inheritor of t…
The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran: Master Translations Classic Set (7 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.5
The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran: Master Translations Classic Set (7 Volumes) Kahlil Gibran Jiuzhou Press · 2014 The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran: Master Translations Classic Set (7 Volumes) is a seven-volume Chinese set of works by the Lebanese writer Kahlil …
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Poems, Volume II (George Meredith) George Meredith The Times Book Club · 1912 Poems, Volume II is the second volume of poetry by George Meredith (1828–1909), the Victorian novelist and poet, usually read together with Volume I a…
Are You Really, Really Ready for Marriage? cover
Rating 3.6
Are You Really, Really Ready for Marriage? Rensheng Xue CITIC Press · 2024 This book is one volume of The School of Life's series on love (eleven volumes in the first set), edited by the British writer Alain de Botton and dra…
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Rating 4.2
Discourse of Walking 爱德华多·加莱亚诺 / 何塞·博尔赫斯 / 张方正 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 This book consists of more than seventy pieces, divided into two categories: "Stories" and "Windows." The former are folk tales and legends from Latin…