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81) Family Blossom
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For Anne, family is everything-but at what cost?
Anne is the happiest she's ever been, and her wedding is just around the corner. This is meant to be the biggest moment of her life-a chance to celebrate the love she has found with not only Sebastian but also her new-found family.
But Anne is the wealthiest woman in town and her upcoming nuptials provide an opportunity for her enemies to undo her newfound happiness. As the big day draws closer, the...
82) I Pink I Can!
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"I Pink I Can! Made me laugh, cry, and taught me what it was really like for someone to go through breast cancer treatment." The last thing Mindy expected to hear as she sat in the doctor's office was that she had cancer. No one in her family had cancer. In fact, Mindy realized of all the things she thought her results might say, she would have guessed fibroadenoma before cancer! Even though she had always been sheltered by her overly adoring parents,...
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"I suppose I did it because I wanted something to show for the thirty years-longer than I had lived in my homeland-that I had been here in America. Something that was properly appreciated, even if someone else got all the credit."
Liu Qingwu doesn't set out to commit a crime. He only wants to sell a painting-something more substantial than the Impressionist knockoffs he flogs to tourists outside New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the lucrative...
84) Atomweight
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When nineteen-year-old Aki throws her first punch, the respectable 'good girl' discovers she's a fighter.
Good girl, good student, good daughter: Aki has always done what her loving but demanding multiracial family expects. Far from her Vancouver home, she adjusts to life in London-studies, friends and a relationship with a wealthy but closeted Asian woman. Life is demanding, but Aki is coping until a violent incident triggers an unexpected response...
85) Secret Blossom
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How many secrets could one family have?
After failing to find her uncle in Taiwan, Anne is back at Skyline Mansion and wants life to be quiet for a change. But when Harrison suddenly makes an appearance, only to disappear a few days later, her life is once again turned upside down.
When Anne receives Harrison's journal with a note requesting her to read it before she decides to search for him again, Anne takes the mission to heart. She once again...
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"A riveting novel of two heroic people attempting to transcend the prejudices of their time and place." -Ron Rash, author of Serena and One Foot in Eden
"Leung's writing is exquisite, deceptively plain, deeply felt and spiritually high, with dead-on depictions of the world as it is." -San Francisco Chronicle
From Brian Leung, author of Lost Men and World Famous Love Acts (winner of both the Asian American Literary Award and the Mary McCarthy Prize...
87) After the Bloom
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A daughter's search for her mother reveals her family's past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War. Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation and memory problems, which have led her to wander off before. But never has she stayed away so long. Unconvinced the police are taking the case seriously, Rita begins...
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"I just wanted to be myself, someone who would be free enough to move the line around, between Chinese and American within a wider range and far outside of the spectrum."
Mae Li is a Chinese-American graduate student trying to claim her independence as an adult while struggling with her identity. Mae meets Spirit, who takes her on journeys into her mother's childhood in rural Hainan during the 1970s and 80s. As Mae begins to understand more about...
89) The Vision
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"You have been given a gift! Use it!" the guru said.All Divya wants is to become a great pathologist and save lives in order to redeem herself for a childhood blunder. But when her wish for a "good eye" comes true, she starts getting visions of the future. Terrified, Divya wonders if the guru is right or if she's losing her mind. Her estranged lover Krish follows her to Los Angeles, complicating her life as she struggles with her newfound ability....
90) Mr. Pan
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Author of such celebrated and acclaimed works as THE SOONG SISTERS, CHINA TO ME, and FRACTURED EMERALD: IRELAND. Now, E-Reads continues to reintroduce Hahn to a new generation of readers, bringing to light her richly textured voice and unique perspective on a world that continues to exist both through history and fiction. Mr. Pan is no highly-placed official. Mr. Pan is the Mr. Smith of China--an ordinary man with extraordinary reach--and China, like...
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Anne Panning: In his debut collection, The Melting Season, Sukrungruang writes with compassion, humor and tenderness about the sting of cultural exclusion and isolation. His underdog characters make you root for them every step of the way, thanks to Sukrungruang's honest portrayal of their deep loneliness and family heartbreak. To sweeten the deal, the book simmers with food so delicious it will make you hungry for more.
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MEENA KAUL is riding high in her position as director of Behera House, a safe haven in India for women who have survived domestic violence. But when the stock market crashes, Behera House loses its funding to expand. The right-wing Hindu Democratic Party (HDP), seeing an opportunity to win women's votes before a national election, steps in with a multimillion-dollar grant. While Meena is reluctant to accept the offer, it is the only way for the project...
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Aysha is a twenty-two-year-old plagued by guilt and anxiety ever since her parents' divorce. But after suffering severe symptoms, she's now focused on recovering and on teaching her English as a Second Language students. Then a young man named Da Ge joins her ESL class. A dissident with a painful past, he has fled China after the Tianenmen Square massacre, and Aysha finds herself falling irresistibly in love, in spite of the language barrier-and often,...
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Michael Tang and his sister, Emily, have both struggled to forge a sense of identity in their parents' adopted homeland. Emily, an immigration lawyer in New York City, baffles their mother, Ling, by refusing to have children. At twenty-six, Michael is unable to commit to a relationship or a career-or come out to his family. And now their father, after a lifetime of sacrifice, has passed away.
When Michael finds a letter to his father from a long-ago...
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The Miami millionaire could have anywoman-;but Stephen Garrison intendedto have newly returned Megan Simmons.She'd ended their sizzling affair years ago...;leaving without explanation...;leavingStephen determined to seek his revenge.
But his plan to seduce his ex-loverwas met with an unexpected discovery:she'd had his child. And now it wasno longer enough to seduce Meganback into his bed. Stephen had decidedmarriage would be the ultimate payback....
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This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one's earlobe with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters-both personal and ecological- that destroy the rain...
97) Once and for All
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What would you do if your life was a web of lies?Thirty-two-year-old celebrity, Sheetal Dhanraj, is married to millionaire Rakesh Dhanraj and mother to their eight-year-old son. The women of Raigun, India, envy Sheetal's good fortune and ability to balance career, marriage, motherhood and uphold Indian values to perfection.However, behind the closed doors of the marble Dhanraj palace Sheetal yearns for love but is trapped in an abusive and unfaithful...
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In a peaceful village, it has been officially proven that Ku is not, as was once believed, the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. Mocked by his neighbors, Ku leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people. But refusing to renounce his high status, he-along with his teenage son-keeps his distance from the gossipy lowlifes who surround him.
Then one day a feral girl, Huixian, arrives looking for...
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From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize-comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future. The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her "home" orphanage in China has plunged eighteen-year-old Ari into a self-destructive spiral. Her adoptive mother, Charlie, a lawyer with a great heart, is desperate...
100) Dynasties
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DYNASTIES is a January 2023 International Book Of The Month Pick by the International Pulpwood Queen & Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation "Dynasties kept me captivated from the first sentence to the very end. An enticing Downton Abbey-style saga but set in India! I simply adored it and I cannot wait to read the next book in the series. "-Barbara Bos, Managing Editor, BooksByWomen "With stories that take us into the culture and dynasties of India,...
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