Oracle Bones
By
Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler
2006 • 512 pages

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16 books

Foreign Countries

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Todd Trautman
The Places In Between
Taliban
Riding the Iron Rooster
Colors of the Mountain
Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid
The Search For Modern China
China Wakes

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654 books

Nonfiction

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Sylvia Chi
On Human Nature
Breaking Open the Head
Pathologies of Power
Supercapitalism
The Nine
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press
The Climate War : True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth

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16 books

The Motherland

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Sylvia Chi
The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy
China in Ten Words
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
Kinder than solitude
The Incarnations
Economic History of China

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6 books

Given To Me

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Sylvia Chi
Oracle Bones
River Town
The Big Short
Cleopatra: A Life
Four Hundred Souls : A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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68 books

Nonfiction Memoir

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Clifford Garstang
See You in a Hundred Years: Discover One Young Family's Search for a Simpler Life . . . Four Seasons of Living in the Year 1900
Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
One Life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family

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11 books

Chinese

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Clifford Garstang
Happy Dreams
The Art of Writing
Oracle Bones
Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese Characters

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332 books

Travel

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Deb Nance
China road
Blue highways
Geisha, a Life
The greatest skating race
Travels with Charley
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
The Housekeeper and the Professor

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Nonfiction

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Deb Nance
Barefoot Books World Atlas Sticker Book
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Sinister Savannah
Deadly Spider Bite!
The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick
Skulls!
Half-Earth

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10 books

Cultures

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Tu Hoang
Age of Ambition
Dumb luck : a novel
Oracle Bones
Xách Ba Lô Lên Và Đi - Tập 1: Châu Á Là Nhà. Đừng Khóc!
Educated: A Memoir
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
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