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The Cancer Chain cover
Rating 3.3
The Cancer Chain 贾鲁生 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Drawing on cancer and cancer patients as its material, this book tells stories and reflections on illness, psychology, society, culture, and the envir…
Seeing Women cover
Rating 3.9
Seeing Women 简·卡罗 / 陈拔萃 / 刘付仕贤 Shenzhen Publishing House · 2026 Why are women so often rendered invisible? Who is silencing them? Do women truly have a say over their own bodies? How much "invisible" labor do women…
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Rating 2.8
The Yellow River Flows East 玉米 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This is a rural-themed novel, a panoramic literary mural of the varied lives of people from all walks of life on the banks of the Yellow River in earl…
World Literature Library · French Classics Series: The Red and the Black (Full-Color Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.6
World Literature Library · French Classics Series: The Red and the Black (Full-Color Illustrated Edition) Stendhal / 郑怀川 · 2026 "The Red and the Black" tells the story of Julien Sorel, son of a carpenter, trying to change his fate in Restoration-era France. With intelligence, m…
When AI Begins to Evolve on Its Own, What Should Ordinary People Most Hold Fast To cover
Rating 2.6
When AI Begins to Evolve on Its Own, What Should Ordinary People Most Hold Fast To 林军锋 · 2026 "AI building AI" is now a reality—and that judgment comes not from a science fiction writer but from Anthropic, the AI giant that built its name on be…
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Rating 3.6
The Surging Tide Kathleen Dean Moore / 龙娟 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026 In Great Tide Rising, Kathleen Dean Moore argues that as sea levels rise, another tide is also surging—a tide of anger at humanity's plunder of the Ea…
The Revenge of the One Who Cannot Return cover
Rating 3.1
The Revenge of the One Who Cannot Return 身边工作室 / 云川纵 · 2026 【In Ming-dynasty China, ordinary people force a new statute into being】 【A brilliant, hardened heroine pleads for the people and pushes for a legal am…
Shared Development and Its Internal Logic Under Common Prosperity cover
Rating 3.2
Shared Development and Its Internal Logic Under Common Prosperity 雷明 / 袁旋宇 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 This is an accessible theoretical work that observes, examines, and assesses China's concept of shared development. Centered on the theme of "common p…
The Great Crocodile Alliance 3: Crocodile Chapter cover
Rating 3.0
The Great Crocodile Alliance 3: Crocodile Chapter 陆晓峰 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 "Crocodile Alliance 3: The Crocodile Chapter" is the third installment in the novel series. Continuing from the previous two books, it tells how Shuai…
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Rating 2.8
Revolving Door 老刀 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This is a work about wealth, love, life, and destiny. Set against a financial backdrop, it tells of people's struggles, drift, and rise and fall in th…
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Rating 4.2
True Colors of the Four Seas 杰拉尔德·克什 / Yan He Culture Communication (Beijing) Co., Ltd. · 2026 The Four Seas paints a dark and brutal picture of London's Soho in the 1930s. The protagonist, Harry Fabian, is a small-time hustler who lives by lies…
Beauties of the Officialdom (Five-Part Series: Red Skirt, Red Slender, Red Dogwood, Red Ink, Red Lips) cover
Rating 2.6
Beauties of the Officialdom (Five-Part Series: Red Skirt, Red Slender, Red Dogwood, Red Ink, Red Lips) 彭海燕 / 唐大伟 / 郭晓燕 每本书不同出版社 · 2026 In webs woven from power, money, and relations between men and women, what stories do those beautiful women who move through circles of power and fame…
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Rating 2.8
Reconstructing Individual Ownership 柯榕生 · 2026 In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the upheavals in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet Union proclaimed the bankruptcy of the Soviet-sty…
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Rating 4.3
The Million Pound Bank Note Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) / 叶绍辰 · 2026 The Million Pound Bank Note is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain, including "The Million Pound Bank Note," "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of C…
The Stranger / The Plague: Illustrated Collector's Edition cover
Rating 4.6
The Stranger / The Plague: Illustrated Collector's Edition Albert Camus / 埃迪·勒格朗 / 亚历山大·加贝尔 / Li Yumin Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This volume brings together two of Nobel laureate Albert Camus's signature novels, The Stranger and The Plague, translated by Li Yumin, winner of the …
The Secretaries cover
Rating 3.2
The Secretaries 王清平 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 The novel unfolds around the secretarial corps of a municipal government, revealing their workplace survival and power struggles through conflicts in …
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Rating 3.8
Parasitic Seoul 李惠美 / 拓四光 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2026 Uncovering the unfinished cold truth of the film Parasite: "It was only after I came to Seoul that I learned sunlight, too, must be bought." Exposing …
Bride Price cover
Rating 3.0
Bride Price 叁月 · 2026 After six years of dating, my future mother-in-law complained that I couldn't cook, and my fiancé accused me of "extorting money" by asking for a 60,0…
Nowhere to Hide: In Search of Privacy and a Good Life cover
Rating 3.8
Nowhere to Hide: In Search of Privacy and a Good Life 劳里·普雷斯利 / 马晓晨 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 A New Yorker Book of the Year, published by Harvard University Press. In an age of visibility, defend the unknowable. This is a social science work su…
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Rating 3.0
The Bluestone Chronicle 祭鸿 Sichuan People's Publishing House · 2026 This book chronicles the lives of Luo Nan, a deputy director of the forestry bureau with a strong sense of justice, and Shang Wenxiong, a businessman …