Bad Girls of the Silver Screen

Humor & Entertainment

Da, Lottie

Alexander, Jan

Movies

Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List

According to legend, the Burma ruby had the magic power to grant anything the heart desired. But it was cursed, and all who owned the stone would die tragically, damned for eternity. When Joseph Hanson inherited the gem after his uncle's bizarre murder, his wife Liza grew afraid. Though his fortune increased, he became surly and brutal, as if his humanness were being sucked from him. Suddenly, Liza knew there was only one way to stave off the curse of centuries.  Available only in Romance 12.

Blood Ruby

Ballantine Books

Literature & Fiction

Chivers

<p>Illustrates and comments explain why bad girls were so popular in movies, and who they were</p>

Carroll & Graf Pub.

<p>Ming, born in a bleak outpost of Sichuan province, finds an unexpected glimpse of the world beyond when she meets a talking monkey with golden eyes and supernatural abilities-the immortal Monkey King, with whom Ming's destiny is inextricably intertwined. Determined to become a writer, Ming finds her way to New York, but to make ends meet she goes to work for a crime ring and returns to China on the lam. Hope arrives in the form of her American friend Zoe. Together, they travel to the village of Ming's birth, where the clouds writhe like phantoms and the rain never stops, where Ming and Zoe join forces with a certain down-and-out immortal who has an ambitious plan to save the world from capitalism run amok. When a nation of tycoons and financiers suddenly and inexplicably decide that the key to happiness lies in sharing one's wealth and pursuing a contemplative life, nobody suspects the newly formed tech company run by Ming, Zoe, and William Sun. Hyper-capitalist China rapidly becomes a paradise for artists, thinkers, and lovers-a rollicking playground where the air is clean and the strangest words you can hear are, "I can't afford it!" But it's a short-lived Xanadu once human nature begins to intervene. In Ms. Ming's Guide to Civilization , as in life and politics, every action provokes an equal and opposite reaction.</p>

Ms. Ming's Guide to Civilization

United States

Regal House Publishing

One bicycle accident changes everything when the self-absorbed New Yorker Madeleine Fox literally runs into brash Shanghai dissident David Li, in a tale that is like following an escapee from a Woody Allen movie as she looks for love and meaning amidst the moral ambiguities of post-Tiananmen China.

Getting to Lamma

Weatherhill+inc

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