Once, Russia was a place split between breathtaking wealth and desperate poverty. Now, as the country conforms under Stalin's violent rule, a young woman becomes a fugitive, and a storied hero turns into a living, breathing man.
When Ji-li's father is finally imprisoned, she faces the most difficult dilemma of her life. This is the true story of one girl's determination to hold her family together during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.
Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walking free; and the stories told by her friend Anna, beguiling tales of a charmed upbringing in Petrograd - and of Anna's ...
- A lovely story by Nicolás Schuff highlighted by the delicacy of Mariana Ruiz Johnson’s wonderful illustrations. - The rhythmic and entertaining story of the red scarf fosters understanding and learning in children.
A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center.
After all his female relatives refuse to knit him a scarf as they go on about their business--driving the cows, building a crib--Grandfather learns to knit himself.
Two noir thrillers from the mid-1950s by "one of the best pulpsters around," according to critic Woody Haut.
His investigation leads him into a seedy, adulterous world of THE RED SCARF SOCIETY, a members-only website for the rich and beautiful. But this isn't just a "catch 'em in the act" surveillance case.
The Red Scarf
The mischievous Monkey King attempts to achieve immortality the easy way, gains god-like powers, and wreaks havoc in heaven.
Red Scarf Girl with Connections: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution