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Duncan Clark In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man who rose from humble beginnings and started his career as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into...

Wayson Choy Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh, the Old One. It is 1926, and because...

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Vikram SethA powerful love story from the author of the international bestsellerPublished September 21st 2011 by Orion Publishing Group (first published 1999)

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