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In this stunning work of Chinese-American fiction, Pam Chun brings to life the story of Lau Ah Leong, the Money Dragon, the legendary founder of Honolulu’s...
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With Krishna's Eyes
Krishna has been in New York, making documentaries. But, following the death of her grandmother, the all-knowing Dadiji, Krishna returns to her home village in a...
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Single in the City
A witty and insightfulbook that is as much a guide for single women as it is a commentary on modern, urban society in present day India. The stories related here...
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Nani's Book of Suicides
Sammie, the cocaine-snorting international wanderer who moves from a small town childhood in India to Mexico, is linked inextricably to mythical women in a debut...
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SoMa is the nickname for San Francisco's gritty South of Market neighborhood. The novel tells the interwoven stories of twentysomethings on the prowl for thrills...
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[The] soft taboo against celebrities expressing political opinions leads me to speculate why the intellectual component of their lives has been deemed so unsuitable...
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Rent Girl
Publishers Weekly called Michelle Tea “a modern-day Beat, a kind of pop ambassador to the world of the tattooed, pierced, politicized, and sex-radical queer grrls...
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What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
Peter Coyote wrote the foreword and contributed to this anthology of modern, mindful poetry on Western Buddhism. Edited by Gary Gach, it features selections from...
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Japanese by Spring
Reed’s satire of academia as cultural battleground takes on targets ranging from Eurocentrism to antiporn feminists. – Publishers Weekly
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  It all begins in the closet. Paris Jablonski, wife, mother, social worker, and aspiring writer, is celebrating her eighth wedding anniversary when she...
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The King of Good Times
Dr. Vijay Mallya is not your typical everyday CEO. He has made it to the Forbes billionaires’ list many number of times but he doesn’t care if he is on the list...
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As a medical examiner, Samantha Owens knows her job is to make a certain sense of death with crisp methodology and precision instruments. But the day the Tennessee...
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There’s nothing quite like a hot, soothing bowl of soup. It’s a leisurely meal—a purposeful one that offers pause for reflection between every savory spoonful....
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1943: Twenty-one year old JUDY GARLAND is dropped behind enemy lines to bring back a photograph of German physicist FRANZ KINTNER -who poses a serious threat to...
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Jean Kendrick, a champion billiard player taught by DeadSTRoke, a grandmaster at billiards, was unable to win on the Women's Professional Billiard Tour: something...
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Victoria Lake discovers that it’s not difficult for a person to vanish without a trace–even if that person is herself.  Tory and her son Jack are estranged,...
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Allan Cox has always been one of the foremost thinkers in management consulting. The essence of Cox’s 10th book, The CEO in You, is his teaching readers to master...
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Allan Cox has always been one of the foremost thinkers in management consulting. In his ninth book, WHOA! Are They Glad You’re in Their Lives? Allan Cox takes his...
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Focusing on the impact on Constitutional interpretation, and the precedents that were established, during the early 1790s, The History of Virtue and Corruption:...
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