Two individuals explore the edge of traditional China. They also learn new values and the importance of family and tradition.

In a smoky gambling den in 1940s China, a drunken young man runs through his family's fortune, losing their ancestral home and all their possessions. This staggering loss proves to be their salvation and the first step in an odyssey of survival that will take them through war and revolution, love and loss, tragedy and triumph. Through the terrors of China's civil war, the passions of the communist takeover, the betrayals of Chairman Mao's Great Leap...

Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband up until his death. She finds out that her son Osvald not only has congenital syphilis, but is in love with the maid without knowing she is his half-sister. Eventually Mrs. Alving must face the cruel choice of euthanizing her own son as he descends into a syphilitic madness. As with Ibsen's A Doll's House, Ghosts was an intentionally controversial

...

Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, a new novel is a coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world.

China, Later Tang dynasty, 10th century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai. His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress, this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan, her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped,...

NEW RELEASE - # 5 OF 10 - MUST READ FOR LOVERS OF BILLIONAIRE INTERRACIAL ROMANCE! It's trouble in paradise for Danika Marshall and her billionaire boyfriend, Jordan Bradshaw when a sudden family tragedy forces Jordan to bring his new girlfriend home. Will Danika and Jordan's fragile relationship survive this billionaire family drama? This serial contains steamy, sexy love and is meant for mature readers only. It's trouble in paradise for Danika...

In The Family China, her second book of poems, Ann Shin examines the decentering experiences of migration, loss and death, and the impulse to build anew. In five suites threaded through with footnote-like fragments that haunt and ambush the text like memories, the book accrues associations, building and transforming images from poem to poem, creating a layered and cohesive collection that asks daring questions about how we define ourselves. These...

If your soulmate gives you an ultimatum, is he really the one for you? When Cassie Pennebaker was just fourteen-years-old, her mother suddenly abandoned her, leaving Cassie with her unpredictable, mentally unstable grandmother, Sally. From that moment on, Cassie had to pick up the pieces and be the responsible adult. Six-years later, she's faced with an impossible decision: leave town with her boyfriend, Joe Darby, to pursue a college degree, a career...

A woman in her early 40s moves from China to America to start a new life. Her father comes to visit her due to her recent divorce. Their generational conflicts reveal the darker lies and cover-ups within her family during the Cultural Revolution.

Abominable takes audiences on an epic 2,000-mile adventure from the streets of Shanghai to the breathtaking Himalayan snowscapes. When teenage Yi encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, she and her mischievous friends, Jin and Peng, name him "Everest" and embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. But the trio of friends will have to stay one-step ahead...