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Amy Tan   Pearl Louie Brandt has a terrible secret which she tries desperately to keep from her mother, Winnie Louie. And Winnie has long kept her own secrets -...

Sheldon Pollock In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces...

Edward Samuel Behr A Candid Biography of One of Twentieth-century China's Most Elusive Figures January 1, 1987 by Futura

Anchee Min “Admirers of Empress Orchid will be interested in this sequel. Others may find the introduction to relatively modern Chinese history a revelation” ( Rocky Mountain News ). During...

Jonathan Kaufman "In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties." --The Boston Globe"Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals...

Weina Dai Randel 1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out...

Hye-Young Pyun From the Prize-Winning Author of The Hole, a Slow-Burning Thriller about Unseen Forces that Shape Us and Debts We Accumulate, in Life, in Death.Winner of several of Korea's top...

Author: Marie Kondo Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles? Japanese cleaning consultant Marie...

Ruiyan XuA dazzling debut novel about the power of love and language...Li Jing, a successful, happily married businessman, is dining at a grand hotel in Shanghai when a gas explosion...

Colin Thubron A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia--the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane, site of the legendary Silk Route and scene...

Fiona Mitchell Set in the blistering heat of Singapore, The Maid's Room follows the lives of two Filipina maids - sisters Dolly and Tala who are working hard to send...