| International Standard Book Number |
9781250446893
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250446899
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6 23/eng/20260417
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| Personal Name |
Penny, Louise, author.
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| Title Statement |
The last Mandarin [sound recording] / Louise Penny and Mellissa Fung.
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| Edition Statement |
Unabridged ed.
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| Edition Statement |
[CD ed.]
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
?2026.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Macmillan Audio, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
11 audio discs (approximately 810 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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| Playing Time |
133000.
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| Content Type |
spoken word spw rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
audio s rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
audio disc sd rdacarrier.
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| General Note |
Title from web page.
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| Participant or Performer Note |
Read by Eunice Wong.
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| Summary, Etc. |
In a fast-paced, all-too-real thriller co-written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny and award-winning journalist Mellissa Fung, global politics become personal for two unlikely heroines. Alice Li, a first-generation Chinese-American, is an erstwhile food blogger who has lived in the shadow of her mother, Vivien Li. A Chinese dissident who escaped China after Tiananmen Square, Vivien is now a globally recognized human rights activist and passionate advocate for a free and democratic China. When security and fire alarms go off simultaneously all around the world, setting off a panic, the signal is traced back to China. As world leaders scramble to respond, Vivien and Alice are called to the White House in hopes Madame Li can decode the Chinese intentions. While it makes some sense that the President would turn to Vivien, since she regularly advises world leaders on the actions of today's Chinese government, what isn't clear is why they'd want to talk to Alice. After looking at the evidence, Vivien says that the only thing worse than the Chinese government being behind it, is if they are not. It would mean, she explains, that some clandestine element within China is calling the shots. That the President of China has lost control. And an unstable China cannot be good for anyone. Or perhaps that's exactly what the shrewd old politician wants everyone to think. Caught up in the chaos, Vivien and Alice are uniquely placed to stop the next, cataclysmic attack. But there are forces deep within both the American and Chinese governments intent on stopping mother and daughter. The estranged pair, who excels at misunderstanding each other, must figure out how to work together. The increasingly frantic search for answers takes the women from the Oval Office to an office building in Akron, Ohio, from the noodle shops of Hong Kong to the necropolis of the first emperor. Along the way they must decode an old legend, and an old language invented by women, for women.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mothers and daughters Fiction Sound recordings.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Detective and mystery stories Sound recordings.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World politics Fiction Sound recordings.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Chinese Americans Fiction Sound recordings.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Suspense fiction Sound recordings.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Talking books.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Compact discs El Dorado County Library.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sound recordings El Dorado County Library.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Political fiction Sound recordings.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Relations China Fiction Sound recordings.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
China Politics and government Fiction Sound recordings.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
China Relations United States Fiction Sound recordings.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Fung, Mellissa, 1972- author.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Wong, Eunice (Eunice S.), narrator.
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| Location |
CD[BK] PEN 31662001851427
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