China Adventure

Jack Flashhardt is back! Still a Captain in the Marine Corps, he has been classified as a deserter and wants to sneak across the Mexican border into America to fight his criminal status. But after Jack makes it to America, he is arrested and told by a General of a secret government entity that they want him to fake a climb of Mt Elbrus of the Caucasus Mountains, where he and his team will eliminate a Chinese hacking gang that is stealing American technology. Jack is offered freedom from his deserter status if he completes the mission. Jack forms a combat team and the adventure begins.

While I’ve been cooling my heels in Africa, things have been happening at a furious pace back home. Zombies have founded a city right next to mine, and the nearest human settlements are now united and busy sharpening their knives. Meanwhile, traitors weave their webs of intrigue within the Architects Clan itself, and a numberless horde of zombies is moving relentlessly toward us from China. And these are just some of the problems I’m going to have to solve as soon as I get home.

En el reino de Dàxī, el té guarda una poderosa magia y una antigua sabiduría. Por eso los shénnóng-shī, maestros en el arte del té, son personas con años de entrenamiento que gozan de un gran prestigio entre las esferas más altas de la sociedad. Cuando Ning se entera de la competencia para encontrar al nuevo mejor shénnóng-shī del reino, viaja a la ciudad imperial para participar. El ganador recibirá un favor de la princesa Ying-Zhen y con ello Ning tendría la oportunidad de salvar la vida de su hermana.

Greater Than a Tourist China - 300 Travel Tips from Locals gives you the inside scoop on China. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from those who have lived at your next travel destination.

Read by the author. The Monsoon Diaries is the firsthand account of Dr. Calvin Sun, an emergency room doctor who worked tirelessly on the front lines in multiple hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing upon the lessons he learned from his adventures traveling to more than 190 countries...

Weit über 3 Millionen verkaufte Romane weltweit - Cixin Liu hat der chinesischen Science-Fiction die Tür zur westlichen Welt geöffnet. An seinem vierzehnten Geburtstag muss der junge Chen miterleben, wie seine Eltern vor seinen Augen getötet werden. Ein mehrere tausend Grad heißer Feuerball fährt in das alte Haus und verwandelt alles in Asche - ein Kugelblitz. Ab diesem Ereignis hat Chen nur noch ein Ziel im Leben: Er will diesem rätselhaften Naturphänomen auf den Grund gehen und es erforschen.

"In Rules of Engagement, David Bruns and J. R. Olson deliver a captivating and utterly authentic portrayal of modern day combat that compares with the best of the timeless classics by Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, and Stephen Coonts. This one must not be missed!" —Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times...

Peaks and Lamas is one of the classic early 20th-century accounts of travelling in the Himalayas on the borders of Tibet. It describes two journeys in the 1930s, one physically active and one more of spiritual investigation. It starts as the title suggests, as a mountaineering adventure, when a group of English climbers set out to climb unconquered peaks in the Himalayas. The audiobook ends with a warning of the deleterious effect of Western culture on traditional art and values and an idealistic polemic on education.

"Wir brauchten ein Werkzeug. Also rief ich die Götter an." Schon immer hat es Gerüchte über ihn gegeben. Legenden. Tausende Zivilisationen hat er erstarken und fallen sehen. Ein Krieger, der nicht getötet werden kann. Er trägt viele Namen: Unute, Kind des Blitzes, sogar als Tod wurde er bezeichnet. Heutzutage kennen wir ihn als "B". Und er wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als sterben zu können. In einer Welt nah an unserer Realität lässt sich "B" auf ein Angebot einer geheimen Einheit des US-Militärs ein, die verspricht, ihm dabei zu helfen, das Rätsel seiner Unsterblichkeit zu lösen.

La búsqueda de Gobi es la milagrosa historia de Dion Leonard, un corredor de ultramaratones experimentado que se encontró con una perrita callejera mientras competía en una carrera de 155 millas a través del desierto de Gobi en China. La adorable cachorro, que luego nombró «Gobi»...

A heart-thumping whirlwind of action, suspense & murder that reaches deep into the highest levels of Vatican power & uncovers a demonic scheme to massacre hundreds of thousands of Chinese in an attempt to establish a new Holy Roman Empire on the Chinese mainland in the twenty-first century...

Culture shock hits you in ways you never expect. I guess that's why it's so...well, shocking. Living in another country is a fascinating experience. Southern China is absolutely beautiful and Chinese food is figuratively to die for. A native of Minnesota, the transition to mega-city-China was challenging, but it was a challenge which allowed me to grow. It opened my eyes with new experiences, new sights, new sounds, and my hope is that I'm able to share some of that with you in this audiobook.

Like an Egg in a Bowl of Cherries is a memoir that will appeal to those with a lust for life and a passion for exploration. Drawing from hand-written journal entries and emails sent home while living and working for a year in Dalian, China (2002-2003), listeners are taken on an entertaining ride filled with humor, sarcasm, and irreverence.

Admiral Lenson leads Operation Rupture, the invasion of South China, in a bid to finally end the war and restore peace. Meanwhile, Captain Cheryl Staurulakis fights to take a radical new “super ship” to sea, even though its power and capability may introduce more risk than reward.

Amazing! An astonishing find! - AMITAV GHOSH Nariman Karkaria, a young Parsi from Gujarat, had always wanted to see the world. So he left home as a teenager with fifty rupees in his pocket to do just that. After working in Hong Kong and Peking for a few years, in 1914, when war was in the air...

Der ewige Student Fritz Degenfeld, genannt der ‚blaurote Methusalem‘, sein Leibdiener Gottfried Ziegenkopf, scherzhaft Gottfried von Bouillon gerufen, und Richard Stein, der jugendliche Schützling des ‚Methusalem‘, machen sich auf den Weg nach China, um dort eine Richard in Aussicht gestellte, geheimnisvolle Erbschaft anzutreten. Zugleich wollen sie auch nach der verschollenen Familie ihres im deutschen Exil lebenden chinesischen Freundes Ye-kin-li forschen.

For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling author China Miéville. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR In a remote house on a hilltop...

Chinese Islamists are poised to strike at the heart of Asia, as they unleash a plan to create a state in the heart of China. NATO has uncovered a plan to blackmail Beijing with the threat of a genocidal attack. Uighur terrorists have created a weapon of mass destruction, and threaten to unleash it on the capital city of the most populous nation on earth if their demands are not met. Yet the threat is not just confined to China.

It is one of the greatest conflicts - and a pivotal turning point - in history...the Chinese civil war. On one side stands Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists. On the other, Mao Zedong and the Communists. And their forces are about to meet in a decisive battle...the outcome of which is in the hands of one American pilot, John Hampton, a man who couldn’t care less....

当小偷的父亲，胆小懦弱的儿子，两本民国时期的杂志，引出人性的贪婪，带来一段友情，毁了一段友情 ……當小偷的父親，膽小懦弱的兒子，兩本民國時期的雜誌，引出人性的貪婪，帶來一段友情，毀了一段友情……