LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mingmei yip

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  • The Witch’s Market
    Mingmei Yip
    From the author of Secret of a Thousand Beauties and Peach Blossom Pavilion comes a beautifully written novel of self-discovery and intrigue.Chinese-American assistant professor Eileen Chen specializes in folk religion at her San Francisco college. Though her grandmother made her living as a shamaness, Eileen publicly dismisses witchcraft as mere superstition. Yet privately, th...
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    16,71 €

  • Secret of a Thousand Beauties
    Mingmei Yip
    Set against the vibrant and intrigue-laden backdrop of 1930s China, Mingmei Yip’s enthralling novel explores one woman’s defiant pursuit of independence.Spring Swallow was promised in marriage while still in her mother’s belly. When the groom dies before a wedding can take place, seventeen-year-old Spring Swallow is ordered to become a ghost bride to appease his spirit. Under h...
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    16,74 €

  • The Nine Fold Heaven
    Mingmei Yip
    New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick welcomes readers back to picturesque New Bern, Connecticut--a perfect place for a woman whose marriage is in turmoil to discover a new pattern for living. . .Twice in her life, college counselor Gayla Oliver fell in love at first sight. The first time was with Brian--a lean, longhaired, British bass player. Marriage followed quic...
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    16,70 €

  • Skeleton Women
    Mingmei Yip
    Once upon a time in China, the most beautiful and gifted women were known as 'skeleton women'--the ultimate femme fatales who could bring a man to his knees, or to his doom. . .When Camilla, a young orphan girl in Shanghai, is adopted and brought to live in luxury, it seems like a stroke of luck. But as Camilla grows to womanhood, she realizes that her 'rescue' was part of gang...
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    18,52 €

  • Song of the Silk Road
    Mingmei Yip
    In this richly imaginative novel, Mingmei Yip--author of Peach Blossom Pavilion and Petals From the Sky--follows one woman's daunting journey along China's fabled Silk Road.As a girl growing up in Hong Kong, Lily Lin was captivated by photographs of the desert--its long, lonely vistas and shifting sand dunes. Now living in New York, Lily is struggling to finish her grad...
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    18,53 €

  • Petals From The Sky
    Mingmei Yip
    From the acclaimed author of Peach Blossom Pavilion comes a lush and lyrical novel of East and West--and of one young woman’s search for her heart’s true calling. . .When twenty-year-old Meng Ning declares that she wants to be a Buddhist nun, her mother is aghast. In her eyes, a nun’s life means only deprivation--'no freedom, no love, no meat.' But to Meng Ning, it means the ch...
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    17,59 €