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Solitaire by Aimee Liu SOLITAIRE A Memoir of Anorexia Originally published when Liu was just 25, Solitaire is America's first memoir of anorexia. Liu describes her battles with food,... More about this book »	Hawai'i One Summer by Maxine Hong Kingston In this collection of eleven pieces, originally issued as a limited hand-printed edition, Maxine Hong Kingston does not attempt to capture Hawai’i but “instead and... More about this book »
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here’s a storyteller’s tale of what they endured... More about this book »	To Be the Poet by Maxine Hong Kingston “I have almost finished my longbook,” Maxine Hong Kingston declares. “Let my life as Poet begin ... I won’t be a workhorse anymore; I’ll be a skylark.” To Be the... More about this book »
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men)... More about this book »	The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine... More about this book »
Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston Young Chinese American Wittman Ah Sing, a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and student of the 1960s, is an absolutely extraordinary... More about this book »	Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston This poignant collection, compiled from Kingston’s healing workshops, contains the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows,... More about this book »
Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston (edited by Paul Skenazy) by Maxine Hong Kingston In this collection of interviews, Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and her objectives. From the first, her books have hovered along the hazy line between... More about this book »	The Writer's Brush (edited by Donald Friedman) by Maxine Hong Kingston The itch to make dark marks on paper is shared by many writers and artists,” begins John Updike in his essay in The Writer’s Brush, and this stunning collection... More about this book »

Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny... by Erica Jong, Ph.D. Discovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars.... More about this book »	Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice by Erica Jong, Ph.D. When the beautiful Jessica Pruitt arrives in Venice to star in a film based on The Merchant of Venice, she is preoccupied: she has recently lost custody of her... More about this book »
Parachutes and Kisses by Erica Jong, Ph.D. Married (again) and divorced (again), Isadora Wing is a single parent with an adorable daughter, an irritating ex-husband, and a startling assortment of suitors:... More about this book »	Tessellations Everywhere by Susan Schott Karr In this middle-grade nonfiction account, we explore the mathematical nature of tessellations. More about this book »
Fabulous after 50 ~ Finding Fullfilment for Tomorrow by Shirley Mitchell Our objective in "Fabulous after 50®" is to provide emotional, spiritual, and psychological wisdom, support, and guidance for women moving into the Second Half of... More about this book »	Sensational after 60® ~ Loving Life All Over Again by Shirley Mitchell Sensational after 60® ~ Loving Life All Over Again is written from the palette of her heart, to encourage, inform, inflame, and influence maturing women. Never... More about this book »
Presidential Migraines by Fritz Strobl With the first presidential debate to be held at the University of Minnesota just weeks away, the nation is focused on a young senator from California of Chinese... More about this book »	Sleigh Ride by Malena Lott Sleigh Ride: A Winter Anthology includes seven wintry tales of romance, adventure and drama. Each short story includes a sleigh ride and is sure to put the reader... More about this book »
Greek Flu by Fritz Strobl During his Inauguration, President Kozdronski receives disturbing news of a highly fatal flu epidemic in Greece, which strangely coincides with the apparent murder... More about this book »	Shepherd's Moon by Stacy Mantle Fate hasn’t exactly been kind to twenty-year-old Alexandra. Unless you count the fact that she can communicate with animals (and she doesn’t), the only piece of... More about this book »