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1) Sight lines
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"From the current phenomenon of drawing calligraphy with water in public parks in China to Thomas Jefferson laying out dinosaur bones on the White House floor, from the last sighting of the axolotl to a man who stops building plutonium triggers, Sight Lines moves through space and time and brings the disparate and divergent into stunning and meaningful focus. In this new work, Arthur Sze employs a wide range of voices--from lichen on a ceiling to...
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When my family finds out that a corporate chain bakery is going to open right next to our shop, we can't help freaking out. I try to stay positive and tell my family that there's no way a soulless corporate chain's mooncakes could compare to Grandma's. But even without competition, our little bakery is struggling to make ends meet.When a gorgeous guy asks me out on a date, I think there might be some August Moon magic in the air.Then I discover that...
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Join Sam Keene on a heartfelt journey of self-discovery in this compelling story. From the ashes of the Vietnam War, Sam's life takes an unexpected turn when she's adopted by an American soldier and his wife, who whisk her away to the bustling streets of Brooklyn. Yet, even amidst the vibrant tapestry of New York City, Sam grapples with a lingering question: Who is she really? After college, Sam's quest for identity leads her to the enchanting city...
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An unflinching portrayal of contemporary India that explores the tensions between modernity and tradition, urban and rural life, duty and free will. Madhav is a man with an engineering job that pays rather well. He also has a family that consists of a mother who doesn't understand why it is so wrong to demand dowry for her son when she paid out a generous dowry for her daughter; a father who feels so obligated to his beautiful wife for consenting...
5) So Much More
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This collection contains 3 sexy friends-to-lovers stories featuring obsessed alpha males who want so much more. Includes Ringing in the Lunar New Year, Sparks Fly, and My Best Friend Forever. RINGING IN THE LUNAR NEW YEAR College freshman Simone Chang is feeling homesick. For the first time, she's spending Chinese New Year without her family. But fortunately, she has her best friend by her side, Will Higa...aka the boy she has wanted since pretty...
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With the Vietnam conflict as a backdrop, expatriate Louis makes his way along the dusty streets of Da Nang to meet his beloved Xuan. He has good news about a transfer to Saigon. However, Xuan has news of her own. A Matter of Finanaces is a story of love and betrayal across generations and cultures. Robert Reynolds has penned many books that present Vietnam as it was those many years ago.
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What happens when your only source of warmth and light leaves you?The dismal shadows once kept at bay, begin to seep back in and coat everything the light once touched.All feeling becomes saturated in their inky grasp and escape becomes impossible.She left me here in the dark, alone and awaiting the impending destruction.Who do you turn to when you feel all is lost?His presence isn't welcomed, and his anger scorches my insides, but at least he never...
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Bella Bell lives a perfectly ordinary life with a perfectly ordinary office job in suburban California, where she longs to break free from her perfect sister's shadow. So when Little Bear Café chooses her to train its new franchisee in Tokyo for the summer, she jumps at the chance. But even a dream come true can get complicated. From the moment she steps on the plane, she annoys her pompous, handsome seatmate, insults her apartment manager, and gets...
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Crossing is a vividly human re-imagining of the love, sacrifices, and history that laid tracks for the North America of today. Leaving behind ancestral Chinese homelands and their family, brothers Yang and Lee face harrowing challenges as they join countless immigrants seeking a better life in the 1860s. This story follows their remarkable journey across the ocean to San Francisco, then into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where they'll labor...
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American Rendering showcases twenty-four new poems as well as a generous selection from Andrew Hudgins's six previous volumes, spanning a distinguished career of more than twenty-five years.
Hudgins, who was born in Texas and spent most of his childhood in the South, is a lively and prolific poet who draws on his vivid Southern and,more specifically, Southern Baptist, childhood. Influenced by writers such as John Crowe Ransom,William Faulkner, Flannery...
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This book was written so that I could share with my family, friends and those interested in China the stories and experiences of 10 years travelling and working in China and the impact it had on me. In the words of my friend and a colleague, Professor Wang, "From the book we can see how his life was in China: What he encountered, experienced, what he liked and disliked, what he expected and what was unexpected. His life in Tianjin made a big difference...
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Montserrat Alexander had it all- beauty, brains, a lucrative leadership position in a global company, and a gorgeous beach house in Hawai'i. The trail of broken hearts she had stepped over in her stilettos belonged to celebrities and pro athletes. None of them mattered to Montserrat more than her career. She was perfectly content with her life of traveling the world for work with her handsome assistant, Kai. Kai Oshiro had it all too- brains, ambition,...
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I always had felt the deep desire to write about my unusual journey from Saigon to Ottawa, which occurred during the first thirty-four years of my existence.
My story is a story of faith as I converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1962 in Belgium.
As a witness of Vietnam history thanks to my family whose many members and friends had been part of that history I had served also the Republic of Vietnam, but my diplomatic position was cut short by...
14) Lotus Sync
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Lotus Sync is a window into one practitioner's experience of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism via its collection of poems and is a companion book to Lotus Ink, a sonnet-rich introduction to SGI Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism. The SGI is a worldwide value-creation society dedicated to using Buddhism to create world peace through individual happiness.Nichiren Daishonin is a priest in 13th century Japan who discovered the...
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This world super-exclusive book continues on the journey of Satya Nadella as Microsoft Chairman and CEO revealing explosive secrets for the first time ever. This book for the first time reveals about the precursor to Nadella's current prime time obsession about AI - Microsoft AI Networks for Education, Agriculture, Healthcare and Skilling – and his Microsoft Digital India team in Hyderabad tasked with using Artificial Intelligence to build solutions...
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Years earlier: Headed West to stay with her brother Tommy, a young and feisty Addie arrives in Wyoming having been convinced along the way that the Chinese who work alongside the white men in the small Wyoming town are half-man, half-beast-devious creatures to be wary of. When Tommy falters at homesteading, the siblings look to the coal mines and Addie comes into close contact with one Chinese man in particular, Wing Lee. The bond between the two...
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Set during the French and American wars, Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is a true story about an orphan, Quang Van Nguyen, who is adopted by a sixty-four year old monk, Thau, who carries great responsibility for his people as a barefoot doctor. Thau manages, against all odds to raise his son to follow in his footsteps and in doing so, saves his son, as well as a part of Vietnam's esoteric knowledge from the Vietnam holocaust.
Thau is wanted by the...
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A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2017
"Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and heralds the arrival of a formidable new writer." -The Economist
The stunning true story of an untouchable...
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In 1942, Eileen Simpson-then Eileen Mulligan-married John Berryman. Both were in their twenties; Eileen had just graduated from Hunter College and John had but one slim volume of poetry to his name. They moved frequently-from New York to Boston, then Princeton-chasing jobs, living simply, relying on the hospitality of more successful friends like Robert Lowell and Jean Stafford, or R. P. Blackmur and his wife, Helen. Rounding out their circle of intimates...
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Seen by many as a contemporary classic, Janwillem van de Wetering's small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student-later a widely celebrated mystery writer-who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, author of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, has written, The Empty Mirror "should be very encouraging for other Western seekers."
It is the first book...
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