From the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives."Lin's gossamer prose is patient and full of wonders."—Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams and An Oral History of AtlantisWhen ...

Why do twins look alike? How are we similar to our parents? What is the genetic code? Professor Lin He, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shares his childhood stories and knowledge of genetics in this vividly illustrated popular science book.

**A swoony rivals-to-lovers romance about two girls who unexpectedly fall for each other while creating a love-story based RPG!Love is an art.**Sixteen-year-old Lynda Fan has the skills and the drive to get into the Rhode Island School of Design—but not the money. Her parents are too busy paying off her stepsister's violin lessons to help Lynda get into art school.So when her rich and arrogant classmate, Angela Wu, offers to hire Lynda as a character designer for an...

Maidservant Yue-ying is not one of those beauties. Street-smart and practical, she’s content to live in the shadow of her infamous mistress—until she meets the aristocratic playboy Bai Huang.Bai Huang lives in a privileged world Yue-ying can barely imagine, yet alone share, but as they are thrown together in an attempt to solve a deadly mystery, they both start to dream of a different life.Yet Bai Huang’s position means that all she could ever be to him is his concubine—wil...

This Atlas is organized in a way with a combination of basic theory and clinical practices, and of real photos and text description in perforator flap. The book includes four parts: the first part is the overview of the definition, vascular physiology and main principles of clinical applications of the perforator flap, etc.; the second to fourth parts are the descriptions of the indication, applied anatomy, typical clinical cases and key points in harvesting technologies of the direct and ...

This 15-volume set LNCS 15031-15045 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2024, held in Urumqi, China, during October 18–20, 2024.The 579 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1526 submissions. The papers cover various topics in the broad areas of pattern recognition and computer vision, including machine learning, pattern classification and cluster analysis, neural network and de...

Three witches and their magical cats solve paranormal murder cases in the mystical town of Wonder Falls. From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin.When Cath visits her parents' graves, she finds the dead body of the local hairstylist. What's even stranger is that she also stumbles upon an older corpse, nearly a skeleton, of a woman who died in 1958. It has been exhumed from her grave, but who would do that?While the police are stumped, Cath, ...

This 15-volume set LNCS 15031-15045 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2024, held in Urumqi, China, during October 18–20, 2024.The 579 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1526 submissions. The papers cover various topics in the broad areas of pattern recognition and computer vision, including machine learning, pattern classification and cluster analysis, neural network and de...

From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: The 1st novella in a 4-book holiday cozy mystery series. Includes holiday drink recipes!After breaking up with hunky movie star Nick Doyle, Grammy Award-winning singer Emma Wild returns to her hometown for Christmas to get away from it all. In Hartfield, a small town in Ontario, Canada, she gets caught up in a murder case after a fan's drink is pois...

A Newbery Honor Book!A New York Times bestseller!An Al Roker's TODAY Show Book Club Pick!A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time!This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver...

'Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod has become one of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' - Daily MailA remote shoreline. A lethal killer. As lone visitors disappear from the rural northwest of Scotland, campsites are becoming crime scenes.When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is brought in to analyse a shallow grave on Scotland’s west coast, she is disturbed by a bundle of twigs crafted into a stickman and left...

This 15-volume set LNCS 15031-15045 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2024, held in Urumqi, China, during October 18–20, 2024.The 579 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1526 submissions. The papers cover various topics in the broad areas of pattern recognition and computer vision, including machine learning, pattern classification and cluster analysis, neural network and d...