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People's Republic of China Controversies: People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Communist Party, Web Attacks, Internet Censorship, Trade Disputes, Debt and Bond Holdings, Renminbi (RMB) Yuan Valuation    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 180020 words. Published on November 30, 2010. .

This comprehensive overview of ongoing controversies and problems in American relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) provides the reader with an excellent, up-to-date review of critical Chinese issues. Topics covered in this 2010 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic And Security Review Commission include: security and trade issues; WTO; web and internet censorship, and more.
Crystal Coffin    by R. L. Tyler
Price: $6.99 USD. 70270 words. Published by Wonder Realms Books  on December 3, 2010. .

When the Japanese mafia abducts North Korea's embalmed "Eternal Leader" as ransom for the return of a kidnapped girl, North Korea refuses to trade and threatens to attack Japan. Secret agents Vince and Cat rush to North Korea to rescue the girl, but a betrayal leads them into a trap. The world teeters on the edge of war, and the fate of one girl and a dead Communist leader will tip the scale.
Puramore - The Lute of Pythagoras    by Steven Wood Collins
Price: $5.99 USD. 107470 words. Published on December 14, 2010. .

General George Smythe battles Wingtip, an avatar of China's first emperor, and spirit forces at his command to save mankind's collective soul from extinction. In order to prevail they must marshal all their intellectual resources to acquire Puramore. If you enjoyed reading Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol", you'll enjoy discovering the secret mystery surrounding the Puramore talisman
Slow Boat to China: The Personal Diaries and Letters of Pegge Parker, 1942-1951    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 199310 words. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on December 28, 2010. .

Pegge Parker lived two lives. Her second life was as a wife, mother and freelance journalist, but her first was that of a courageous young woman traveling the world. Before cell phones or email, when the world seemed much larger, Pegge moved from Washington D.C., where she was a newspaper columnist, to live in Alaska, China, India, and Europe, making a living as a freelance reporter.
Slow Boat to Pakistan: The Personal Diaries and Letters of Pegge Parker, 1951-1952    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 75450 words. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on December 28, 2010. .

Pegge Parker lived two lives. Her first as a journalist in D.C., and Alaska took her by Slow Boat to China (the first book of the series) where she landed in China. Slow Boat to Pakistan picks up after her husband Doug Mackiernan, a CIA agent, was killed. Now a mother and a widow, and needing to make a living, Pegge left their twins and began a new career as Vice Consul and Press Officer.
Alias Pegge Parker    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 93270 words. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 3, 2011. .

During World War II, Margaret Lyons, a small-town Pennsylvania girl, had a taste for adventure. She began her career as an advice columnist, adopting the pen name Pegge Parker. She began literally writing her way around the world. Before long, she was headed for China where she met and married Douglas Mackiernan, an undercover CIA agent. The couple became the proud parents of twins, Mike and Mary.
Diapers on a Dateline: The Adventures of a United Press Family in India During the 1950s    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 126190 words. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 3, 2011. .

Pegge Mackiernan was a widow and single mother of twins working as Vice Consul in the American Embassy in Pakistan in 1951. Her husband had been a CIA agent who was killed by Tibetan guards while evacuating newly Communist China. In her work at the embassy, she met John Hlavacek. A passionate international reporter with humble Midwestern values, John convinced Pegge to bring her children to India.
Letters Home: An American in China: 1939-1944    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 101380 words. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 5, 2011. .

After graduating from Carleton College in Northfield, MN in 1939, John Hlavacek sailed to China to the Carleton-in-China Middle School in Fenchow, Shansi Province. As John describes it, many Midwesterners had little knowledge of China, other than famine, disease, and war. After weeks of training in Chinese in Peking, John traveled to the compound in what was then Japanese-occupied China.
United Press Invades India: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent, 1944-1952    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 127900 words. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 5, 2011. .

How does a Midwestern boy end up reporting world events from India for United Press? He comes by way of boat, after reporting from China during the Communist takeover. Such is the life story of John Hlavacek, correspondent for NBC and Time-Life. John left his career reporting from China to join United Press as a war correspondent. He reported world events from India from 1944-1952.
Hot Soup- A WuXia Adventure in Old China    by Robyn Paterson
Price: $0.99 USD. 11720 words. Published on January 10, 2011. .

When a crime lord's wife is stricken with a mysterious illness, Little Gou finds himself on the hunt for a solution- but the only cure lies on the table of a visiting imperial noble who's about to eat it for lunch! Set in early 17th century China, The Adventures of Little Gou are a series of swashbuckling tales of action, comedy and romance centered around the gambling martial artist Little Gou.