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1 author picked Shanghai Tai Chi as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It was really original and deep research on a usually overlooked aspect of Shanghai's history - the interregnum between 1949 and the Cultural Revolution when everything changed, but some things didn't....

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These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas,

A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.

German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…

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