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A timeless story of familial devotion undermined by deceit and passion and rebuilt by memory. In 1931, abandoned after their mother's suicide, the young Junan and her sister, Yinan, make a pact never to leave each other. The two girls are inseparable—until Junan enters into an arranged marriage and finds herself falling in love with her soldier husband. When the Japanese invade China, Junan and her husband... (more)

Eating Chinese Food Naked: A Novel

by Mei Ng

This piquant, irresistible first novel explores the complex relationship between a mother and a daughter, a daughter's reluctant homecoming to a family she couldn't wait to leave...and her own sexual awakening.... Eating Chinese Food Naked Surprisingly world-weary for twenty-two, Ruby Lee is stunned to find herself back home at Lee's Hand Laundry in Queens after graduating from Columbia University. Restless... (more)

The Lost Scrolls: Fire (Avatar)

by Tom Mason, Dan Danko

If you are reading this, you have uncovered one of the four hidden scrolls I have compiled about the world of Avatar. This scroll contains sacred information about the Fire Nation -- stories, legends, and facts that I have found so far about this nation -- its history and culture and tales of its past and present. Katara describes how Aang outwits and defeats the dreaded Admiral Zhao and the Fire Navy, Aang tells... (more)

Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures

Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures

by Kam Raslan

Dato' Hamid The Old Boy and civil servant who's been everywhere and seen it all (even though he never wanted to). Here he 'spills the beans' on his adventures dating back to the 1940s, from Kuala Lumpur to Monte Carlo, Los Angeles to Algiers, London to Temerloh Rest House and much more. Along the way, Dato' Hamid tussles with a beautiful seductress-cum-diamond thief in Switzerland; is corrupted by a ruthlessly... (more)

Sing to the dawn: The musicalMinfong Ho

Sing to the dawn: The musical

by Minfong Ho

Living the Wisdom of the Tao: The Complete Tao Te Ching and Affirmations

Living the Wisdom of the Tao: The Complete Tao Te Ching and Affirmations

by Wayne W. Dyer

“This book offers you an opportunity to internalize and directly experience the great wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, a collection of verses authored by the Chinese prophet Lao-tzu. “The words Tao Te Ching translate to ‘living and applying the Great Way.’ Although just 81 short verses, the Tao encourages you to change your life by literally changing the way you think. By reading through the verses presented here... (more)

The Voice of Hope

by Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi--daugher of the founder of modern Burma--won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize and numerous other prestigious international awards for her courageous leadership of the nonviolent struggle for freedom in Burma. With Burma expert Alan Clements, Suu Kyi explains why she has chosen to risk everything to join in her country's struggle.

The Road of Lost Innocence

by Ruth Marshall, Somaly Mam

A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation. A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this... (more)

The Manga Cookbook

by The Manga University Culinary Institute, Chihiro Hattori

Reading manga sure can make a person hungry! Food appears frequently in Japanese comics, but what exactly is it that the characters are eating? Introducing The Manga Cookbook, an illustrated step-by-step guide to preparing simple Japanese dishes using ingredients found in every Western kitchen. Learn to identify and make the same things you see in all your favorite manga: authentic onigiri (rice balls), yakitori... (more)

A Treasury of Asian Literature (A Mentor Book)

A Treasury of Asian Literature (A Mentor Book)

Sano Ichiro Mysteries: Book 1

Shinju

by Laura Joh Rowland

When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in a shinju, or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the culprit was forbidden love. Everyone but newly appointed yoriki Sano Ichiro. Despite the official verdict and warnings from his superiors, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People suspects the deaths weren't just a tragedy -- they... (more)

Bound Feet and Western Dress

by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang

"In China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a series of rebellions: her refusal as a... (more)

Can Asians Think? Third Edition

by Kishore Mahbubani

Can Asians think? Is Western civilization universal? Does the West promote human rights for altruistic reasons? Since 1998, Kishore Mahbubani has attempted to answer these questions in his provocative collections of essays entitled CAN ASIANS THINK? Now, in the third edition of this work, Mr. Mahbubani includes two new essays which discuss the changing role and importance of the United Nations. As the... (more)

Freedom from Fear and Other Writings: Revised Edition

Freedom from Fear and Other Writings: Revised Edition

by Aung San Suu Kyi

A new collection of writings by the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner includes her acceptance speech as delivered by her son during her six-year incarceration and numerous reminiscences on her role in politics and her fear for her people.

A Corpse in the Koryo

by James Church

Against the backdrop of a totalitarian North Korea , one man unwillingly uncovers the truth behind series of murders, and wagers his life in the process. Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south . Simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department’s turf and into a maelstrom of... (more)

Tao Te Ching

by Gai-Fu Feng, Jane English, Laozi, Lao-Tzu

The most accessible and authoritative modern English translation of the ancient Chinese classic. Offers the essence of each word and makes Lao Tsu's teaching immediate and alive.

The Secret Life of Water

by Masaru Emoto

A small adventure beginning with a tiny little water crystal has spread to people all over the world, creating a growing movement. Hearts have been opened, and love, gratitude, and a hope for peace have spilled out, opening the way for a new adventure. From its arrival on earth to the vast areas it traverses before emptying into the sea, water holds all the knowledge and experience it has acquired. As phenomenal... (more)

The Fourth Treasure

by Todd A. Shimoda

Tina Suzuki has just begun her first year of graduate study. Born and raised in San Francisco by her Japanese immigrant mother, Tina knows nothing about the rest of her family, and very little about her cultural heritage. But when her boyfriend's Japanese calligraphy teacher suffers a stroke, loses his ability to communicate, but continues to create magnificent calligraphic art, Tina knows she has stumbled across... (more)

American Knees

by Shawn Wong

American Knees is about relationships, sex, work, and family obligations. In other words, it's about life. "American Knees (a takeoff on the old schoolyard song, 'Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees. . .') is the story of how Raymond Ding, a politically correct man with a politically incorrect sense of humor, falls into, and out of, love with newspaper photographer Aurora Crane. As Raymond and Aurora’s story... (more)

Dragon Bones

by Lisa See

In a magnificent land where myth mixes treacherously with truth, one woman is in charge of telling them apart. Liu Hulan is the Inspector in China’s Ministry of Public Security whose tough style rousts wrongdoers and rubs her superiors the wrong way. Now her latest case finds her trapped between her country’s distant past and her own recent history. The case starts at a rally for a controversial cult that ends... (more)

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by Lan Samantha Chang

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by Tom Mason, Dan Danko

by Kam Raslan

by Minfong Ho

by Wayne W. Dyer

by Aung San Suu Kyi

by Ruth Marshall, Somaly Mam

by The Manga University Culinary Institute, Chihiro Hattori

by Laura Joh Rowland

by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang

by Kishore Mahbubani

by Aung San Suu Kyi

by James Church

by Gai-Fu Feng, Jane English, Laozi, Lao-Tzu

by Masaru Emoto

by Todd A. Shimoda

by Shawn Wong

by Lisa See