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Informed by real-life events, from Japanese incarceration to the Vietnam War and modern-day immigrant detention, Kevin Nguyen’s novel gives us a version of reality only a few degrees away from our own. Moving and finely attuned to both the brutalities and mundanities of racism, Mỹ Documents is a strangely funny and touching portrait of American ambition, fear, and family. The story of the Nguyens is one of resilience and how we return to one another, and to ourselves, after tragedy.

Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career. She’s even scored a coveted spot in the writers’ room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult novels, and if she can hide her imposter syndrome and overcome her writer’s block, surely the rest of her life will fall into place too. LA is the fresh start she needs. After all, no one knows her there. Except…

At a party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the room: gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the center of everyone's attention. She wants Hanne, or wants to be her, or to sully her, or destroy her, or consume her, or some confusion of all the above. She will use art to get closer to Hanne, beginning a series of paintings with her new muse as model. When the paintings of Hanne become a hit, resulting in the artist's first sold-out show, she resolves to bring her new muse with her to Berlin, to continue their work, and her seduction.

Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change-the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens-while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy. In the amazing and much-lauded title story (the basis for the 2016 movie Arrival), a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her knowledge of alien languages and non-linear memory recollection.

Set in the 1920s and 1930s, Honolulu explores the stark contrast between the image of the glamorous Hawaiian paradise portrayed to the mainland and the harsh reality of life on the island. With characters as vivid and richly descriptive as the history of Hawaii itself, this novel is sure to enthrall listeners.

Portland, 1888. Amid the subterranean labyrinth of the notorious Shanghai Tunnels, a woman awakens in an underground cell, drugged and disguised. Celia soon realizes she’s a “Shanghaied” victim on the verge of being shipped off as forced labor, leaving behind those she loves most. Although well-accustomed to adapting for survival—being half-Chinese, passing as white during an era fraught with anti-Chinese sentiment—she fears that far more than her own fate hangs in the balance.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FIRE MEETS ICE? He is tall dark and handsome, she is gorgeous, smart and sassy. If he is hot, she is hotter. And if he turns cold, she becomes colder. They agree on nothing and bicker at everything. What happens when fate pits these two hot headed individuals together? Will they make the office a warzone or will they accept their difference and find common ground? And can we hope for love? Cheer for it? And wish they found it? Follow them on their rollercoaster journey of sarcastic remarks and sassy comebacks. EXERT FROM THE STORY Shree turned to his friends, "give me one ...

82 poemas El poemario está dividido en tres partes: Todo (in)fluye; Entre formas de ser; y Nada desaparece. Es un canto al eco de la poesía japonesa, que incluye un único haikú, aunque podemos reconocer la vibración y la influencia en otro tipo de versos, estrofas y emociones. Con meridiana claridad, incluso ante la actualidad que irrumpe, con la agresión bélica de Rusia a Ucrania, nos muestra el incesante fluir de la vida, y sus burbujas, las distintas formas de ser humano, y los estragos del tiempo en la belleza que no se mira por segunda vez. Una humilde muestra de lo importante ...

কৃপাচার্য-র আদর্শ-নীতি এবং যুদ্ধপিপাষু ভোজরাজ কৃতবর্মার নীতিহীনতার মাঝখানে পড়ে অশ্বত্থামার দ্বন্দ্ব-বিভ্রান্তি, ভুল পথ নির্বাচন এবং শেষে সঠিক দিক নির্দেশ খুঁজে পাওয়া নিয়েই গড়ে উঠেছে এই নাটক! লেখকের সমকালীন সমাজের ছবি এবং সেও সূত্রে লেখকের ভাবনা চিন্তার একটা ছবি পাওয়া যায় এই নাটকে। মহাভারতের প্রেক্ষাপট ও সংলাপের টানটান বুননে মনোজ মিত্র-র লেখা মহাকাব্যিক ব্যাপ্তির নাটক, অশ্বত্থামা!

In Japan, nothing is more familiar than the neighborhood post office, with its big red box in front and bright, welcoming windows. The post office has been Siya's favorite place since she was a child. Now a young woman, Siya is delighted to have a job at the Shindori Post Office in Shizuoka City, even though it is temporary. But her boss is a jerk. Born in Japan of a Japanese father and an Indian mother, Siya looks just a little different. The boss won't believe she is a native speaker and gives her a hard time every day!

The stories in this selection, taken from William Peskett’s four collections, Mango and Sticky Rice, Mist on the Jungle, Sweet Song of the Siren and The Day of the Tiger, cover the different ways in which people look at how the world works, for example in the clash between a scientific approach and a traditionalist Buddhist mode of thought. And some deal with the impossible yearnings that can motivate or destroy a person. Sometimes these may be shallow—a lust for drink, for money or for sex—and the characters absurdly comic, self-destructive or psychopathic. Sometimes the yearning may...

Die 12-jährige Hanli möchte eine Städterin werden und eine gute Schule besuchen. Sie verlässt ihr Heimatdorf in den Bergen und reist zu ihren Eltern, die in Peking als Wanderarbeiter leben. Doch dort wird sie ständig mit Diskriminierungen und Ungerechtigkeiten konfrontiert und muss erfahren,. dass Wanderarbeiter und ihre Kinder keine Rechte haben. Hanli gibt nicht auf, sie hinterfragt und bleibt beharrlich. So erfüllt sich ihr größter Wunsch: Nach langer Zeit des Bangens darf sie endlich eine gute Schule besuchen!

La protagonista di questo seducente romanzo se ne è andata di casa a 17 anni. Ora che ne ha 25, lavora come intrattenitrice nel quartiere notturno di Tokyo. La madre, con cui non ha rapporti da tempo e che è gravemente malata, si presenta all’improvviso alla sua porta con il desiderio di rimanere da lei per un po’ di tempo e comporre così la sua ultima poesia. Ma un giorno collassa e viene portata in ospedale dove i dottori le danno pochi giorni di vita.

An arranged marriage… At a meeting set up by common friends of the family, it’s instant attraction for Bollywood choreographer Rajiv from Mumbai, when he sets eyes on the beautiful Inaaya from Raipur. Inaaya feels drawn to a man for the first time in her life when she meets Rajiv. Deeper feelings invoked… The duo falls under each other’s spell during the few times they meet even before they tie the knot, but are still not sure enough to admit their feelings for one another. Then the axe falls… creating a rift between the couple Despite that, the physical desire between them rages ...

HE is the tall, hot and handsome Uday, the youngest and third son from the renowned Bollywood family of Chandhoks. Uday has always aspired to be behind the camera, and these days, he has made a name for himself in the film industry after three award-winning films under his belt. Into his life walks Yamini Gupta from Ranchi. SHE is not only young and beautiful, but extremely intelligent and career driven. And she wants to work in Bollywood, also behind the camera. She feels her dream has come true when she gets the opportunity to become Uday's assistant director. But can the two stick to ...

Mili lacks self-confidence when she arrives in Mumbai to take part in a singing contest. It’s young Vivaan who goes to her rescue and they are deeply attracted to each other. But he keeps his distance from Mili once the contest begins in earnest, to avoid her name being trashed by the paparazzi… …only for her to be stolen from right under his nose by Ankit who goes on to marry her, breaking Vivaan’s heart in the process. Six years later… Mili leaves her abusive marriage, deciding to walk alone. Will Vivaan be able to win her now? And find happiness with the woman he never stopped ...

How far will magical women go to save their people and perpetuate their civilization? When killer hornets invade the land of Oksay, an island in the Pacific Ocean, the women of the isle must use wit, perseverance and a bit of magic, to concoct a plan, that rewrites history and re-creates mankind using......yep, bears. Enjoy this fantasy of the rise of a people after having a face to face encounter with destruction.

'પુષ્પદાહ' એટલે પુષ્પને લાગતો દાહ. અમેરિકામાં વસતા ગુજરાતીઓના સમાજજીવનનો અંતરંગ પરિચય કરાવતી આ નવલકથા 'ડોક્યુ-નોવેલ' એટલે કે 'દસ્તાવેજી નવલકથા' છે. તેની વિશેષતા એ છે કે લેખકે આ નવલકથાનાં પાત્રોની વચ્ચે રહીને, તેમની મનોસ્થિતિનો અભ્યાસ કરતા રહીને આલેખન કર્યું છે. અમેરિકાનિવાસી મનોવિજ્ઞાનના શિક્ષક શાંતિભાઈના પુત્ર સંજયને પત્ની ચારુ થકી બે બાળકો જુલી અને રોબિન છે. ચારુએ સંજયનો ઉપયોગ અમેરિકા આવવાની સીડી તરીકે કરેલો છે. વલ્લભ ઠક્કર સાથે તેના સંબંધો છે. આ હકીકતની જાણ થતાં, સમજાવટની કોઈ અસર ન થતાં સંજય અને ચારુ છૂટાછેડા લે છે.

All Talasyn has ever known is the Hurricane Wars. Growing up an orphan in a nation under siege by the ruthless Night Emperor, she found her family among the soldiers who fight for freedom. But she is hiding a deadly secret: light magic courses through her veins, a blazing power believed to have been wiped out years ago that can cut through the Night Empire’s shadows.

May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste its authentic cuisine.