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Chinese Yankee by Ruthanne Lum McCunn tells the true story of Hong Kong born Thomas Sylvanus (Ah Yee Way), an orphan brought to America for schooling in the mid-1850s, but enslaved in Baltimore. Only sixteen at the outbreak of war, Thomas ran north, joined the Freedom Army, and was blinded in the first major campaign. He failed to fully recover his sight and, deemed incapable of performing the duties of a soldier, was discharged.

A washed up T.V. reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China: illegal metal mines, a fashion-crazed gang of girl bikers, a whole commune of Tiananmen Square survivors and the up-market sleaze-joints of Beijing. En route, he clashes with a stellar cast of people - traffickers, prostitutes and T.V. execs. But then the unquiet dead begin to intervene: ghosts from his own past and the past of Chinese Communism; the "spirits that hover three feet above our heads" of Chinese folklore.

Logan Solomon is a Southern gentleman who has lived in Beijing far too long. Aside from the shady business deals, surveillance jobs, and the often decadent lifestyle of the jaded foreigner, he has also managed to alienate his wife Li Na while associating himself with very rough characters - some who might not even be human. Following a seemingly chance encounter aboard a train, a chain of events is set in motion that will change Logan's destiny forever, and leave a trail of dead in the wake.

The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China’s new president Xi Jinping. The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family - the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo’s secret lovers; the secret maneuverings of Bo’s supporters; the hasty trial and sentencing of Gu Kailai, Bo’s wife - was just the first rumble of a seismic power struggle that continues to rock the very foundation of China’s all-powerful Communist Party.

The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the 15th century. Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants in one of the poorest provinces, Anhui, asking the question: have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors?

When recently widowed Maggie McElroy is called to China to settle a claim against her late husbands estate, she is blindsided by the discovery that he may have led a double life. Since work is all that will keep her sane, her magazine editor assigns her to profile Sam, a half-Chinese American who is the last in a line of gifted chefs tracing back to the imperial palace. As she watches Sam gear up for Chinas Olympic culinary competition by planning the banquet of a lifetime, she begins to see past the cuisines artistry to glimpse its coherent expression of Chinese civilization.

The Cave Man follows Ja Feng once he is released from his solitary confinement, as he is forced to integrate with fellow prisoners who view his skeletal figure and erratic screaming fits as freakish, and his heartbreaking attempts to assimilate into Chinese culture, to reestablish familial bonds and to seek out an ordinary human experience.

With in these pages, lose yourself in fantasy. Sharon creates a universe of endless possibility. From vampires to fallen angels; this collection has it all.

It's the summer of 2015, racial tensions were high in America. Poet and author, Daniel L. Walker, wrote a collection of poems and lyrics about injustice, betrayal, failed relationships, and hope. Serious Sins is the fourth book published by author Daniel L. Walker. Some of the titles included are: After You Fall, Raven, and Times are Changing.

Inside this very special program, you'll learn the secrets of mass media and consumer manipulation used by Fortune 500 companies to build their empires, and you'll discover how to apply this new-found knowledge to your own endeavors to produce amazing results, without spending thousands of dollars to do it.

This program is a manual designed to give you an in-depth understanding of how to access your own free will. As we all know, life doesn't always go the way you wanted to. The question for most people is, "What do you want?" The true answer for most people lies hidden deep within their subconscious yet its existence motivates every facet of our lives.

In this comprehensive program, you'll learn about how achieving and receiving begin with believing. You'll learn to form a recipe for your own powerful personal affirmations as well as how to attract the best of everything into your life with just a simple shift in focus.

Dr. Bruce Thompson, an extraordinary scientist and engineer, returns home to a hero's welcome after almost four decades in deep space. Soon after, he learns the hostile alien culture he battled in Messier-104 have followed him through the time fold. The first intergalactic war is about to begin.

Is there a secret formula that consumers follow? The answer is yes! Understanding how to get into the mind of your buyer and direct these processes can unlock untold fortunes for the savvy marketer or product salesman. Inside this program you'll learn about how to tap into the consumer mind using the power of Neural Linguistic Programming (NLP) developed by top mental researchers, and you'll learn how to use that newfound knowledge to direct your buyer towards larger and more frequent purchases.

The struggles of international students at Cambridge University and in the context of the United Kingdom come alive for the reader. Christian Kim's book points out the inadequacies of Cambridge University to deal with the influx of international students and their needs. Furthermore, this book exposes the underhanded policies of the British New Labour government. This book is a heart-warming account of the positivity of the human spirit to take on a big unfair power even when the odds are stacked against them.

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science-fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience.

From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male is the chilling dystopian tale of politics, inequality, marriage, love, and rebellion, set in a near-future China, that further explores the themes of the classics The Handmaid's Tale and When She Woke. Under the One Child Policy, everyone...

A harrowing journey into a milestone event of Canadian history: the use of Chinese coolies to help build the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia in hazardous conditions. After the CPR is built in 1885, Yang Hok, a former coolie, treks along the railway to return his half-Chinese/half-Native son to the boy's mother, where he confronts the conflicts arising from road-building among the Chinese and Native peoples.

For six days, Los Angeles is a city ablaze. For six days, seventeen people are caught in the chaos. For six days, Los Angeles shows the world what happens when laws are no longer enforceable. Ernesto Vera is walking home from his job at a taco truck when three guys jump out of a car and assault...

A FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL IN FIRST FICTION WINNER OF THE JOHN ZACHARIS FIRST BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR...