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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan After her mother Suyuan’s death, thirty-six year old Jing-mei (June) Woo joins The Joy Luck Club. The club, which Suyuan founded in China during the war, consists... More about this book »	The Moon Lady by Amy Tan On a rainy afternoon, three sisters wish for the rain to stoop, wish they could play in the puddles, wish for something, anything, to do. So Ying-Ying, their... More about this book »
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama Japan, 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms in Tokyo, two orphaned brothers are growing up with loving grandparents who inspire them to dream of a future... More about this book »	Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea Tea follows up her Lambda Award–winning San Francisco prostitution memoir, Valencia (2000), her sporadically transcendent collected poems, The Beautiful (2003), and... More about this book »
Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave by Ellen Sussman “I behave badly to set myself apart. To test myself. To push myself. To prove something. To shock someone. ... I behave badly because I can.” That’s how Ellen... More about this book »	The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan Novelist Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife) presents a nonfiction work sharing her personal philosophy of fate; she also writes about her life and... More about this book »
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an... More about this book »	Terciopelo violento (The Violence of Velvet) by Juvenal Acosta More about this book »
The Best American Short Stories 1999 (Edited) by Amy Tan In choosing this year’s best American short stories, guest editor Amy Tan found herself drawn to fiction that satisfied her appetite for the magic and mystery she... More about this book »	Barn Blind by Jane Smiley The verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have the placid charm of a landscape painting. But the horses that graze there have become the obsession of a woman who... More about this book »

Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology by Paul Hoover A new edition of this groundbreaking anthology revisits postmodernism as a twenty-first-century movement. Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology galvanized... More about this book »	Digital Age Marketing: A Practical Workbook for Entrepreneurs... by Angela C Render The Digital Age offers entrepreneurs and small businesses unparalleled, direct access to consumers and has leveled the playing field between small and big... More about this book »
The View from Penthouse B by Elinor Lipman Two sisters recover from widowhood, divorce, and Bernie Madoff as unexpected roommates in a Manhattan apartment Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still... More about this book »	ROOM FOR EXAMINATION: More than Skin Deep by james channing shaw If there is one thing special about doctors, it is that society has granted us unique privileges. The license to probe the private lives and bodies of people is... More about this book »
Mercury Blobs by Sylvia Petter A collection of flash fiction which will challenge and delight readers. All over the place in the space of a mind. “The brilliant stories in Sylvia Petter’s... More about this book »	Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying by Timothy Pina Many people remember Benjamin Franklin as the man who discovered electricity. But did you know that he was bullied as a child? Yes, Ben was bullied by his older... More about this book »
Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy... More about this book »	Gypsy Escapades by William Jackson Gypsy Escapades Can a ragtag quartet of newfound friends outwit terrorists during a crisis in India? In our precarious world of old grudges and ruthless high-tech... More about this book »
Time of Useful Consciousness by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book since Poetry as Insurgent Art, a new call to action and a vivid picture of civilization moving towards its brink. New Directions... More about this book »	Capable of Murder by Brian Kavanagh An old lady's decaying body is found lying at the bottom of the stairs. The police believe it was simply an accidental fall that killed great-aunt Jane. But was... More about this book »