 | Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel (Fiction from Modern China)
Publication Date: May 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 0824817109 | ISBN-13: 978-0824817107Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 withpublication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many criticswere outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, andstylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception tobecome what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fictionand the benchmark of Taiwan's Modernist movement.Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylisticand linguistic experimentation a...
 |  | On Strike for Christmas
Release Date: October 30, 2007At Christmastime, it seems as though a woman’s work is never done. Trimming the tree, mailing the cards, schlepping to the mall, the endless wrapping—bah humbug! So this year, Joy and Laura and the rest of their knitting group decide to go on strike. If their husbands and families want a nice holiday—filled with parties, decorations, and presents—well, they’ll just have to do it themselves. The boycott soon takes on a life of its own when a reporter picks up the story and more women join in. But as Christmas Day approaches...
|  | The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel
Release Date: February 10, 2005"A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice...[that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor.We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us...In short, his is a voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration." --Neil Gordon, New York Times Book ReviewSelection, Summer Reading, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immoral...
|  | The Year the Lights Came on (Brown Thrasher Books)
Publication Date: June 1, 2007| Series: Brown Thrasher Books First published in 1976, The Year the Lights Came On was Terry Kay's debut novel. Revolving around the electrification of rural northeast Georgia shortly after the end of World War II, the novel has become a classic coming-of-age story. Kay, now an acclaimed writer with an international following, has reread the novel with the eyes of a seasoned storyteller. Cutting here and adding there, Kay has enriched an already highly comical and poignant work. The Year the Lights Came On is ready to find its place in the hearts of a new gener...
|  | Imagine This
Release Date: August 3, 2004Imagine This is the sequel to Vickie Stringer's bestselling Let That Be the Reason, her stunning debut novel based on life as she knew it in the shocking underworld of the sex and drug trade.Vickie Stringer has gained a legion of fans for her portrayal of Pamela, a.k.a. Carmen, a woman who had it all but lost out when the love of her life left her penniless and alone to raise their son. Pamela refuses to remain powerless, though. She pulls herself up, becomes a major hustler in the street game, gains independence, and makes big money -- but the consequences are ...
|  | Two Pair: Quadruple or Nothing (Volume 1)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012Ashburg, California; the city that’s split into rich and not rich, the upper class and the middle class, the snobs and the down-to-earth…that’s how the teenagers perceived it, anyway. And it all stemmed from two schools’ rivalries. The rivalry has grown now that there are a set of twins that go to Ashburg Arts and a set of twins that go to Ashburg Academy that don’t see eye to eye. Reagan and Ronan Jacoby thought that their only problem was wondering if their cop father, Elijah would make it home from work every day. That ...
|  | Savannah from Savannah (Savanah Series)
Publication Date: June 30, 2004| Series: Savanah Series (Book 1) I'm coming home to prove something..to my city, my mother, and myself. It is a place known to most as Savannah.It is a place known to me as home.I wish I could tell you it was my love for this city that precipitated my return.But I did not return out of a mere longing for home.I returned because I have something to prove to home.I am Savannah...from Savannah. ...
|  | Typical American (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
Release Date: March 1, 1992| Series: Contemporary Fiction, Plume A trio of young Chinese immigrants slowly transform into everything they once despised in the ""typical American"" as they set out after their dreams and create their own suburban paradise. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Tour. NYT. ...
|  | Paul and James's Naturist Adventure
Publication Date: February 17, 2012Paul Jessop and James Handle are two fourteen-year-olds who have known each other all their lives. One very warm day while out roaming through the local countryside and woods, not far from home, they're suddenly surprised when they spot a naturist rambler. Having never seen anyone walk about like this before their curiosity gets the better of them and they decide to follow him. It leads to them finding out about a naturist swim at their own local leisure centre and, after deducing what the word 'naturist' means, want to find a way of getting in to see for t...
|  | 'Til Morning Light (Fiction for the Way We Live)
Release Date: February 1, 2005She crossed an ocean to escape the suffering of famine-torn Ireland. Haunted by loss, but determined to build a life in the New World, Gracelin O'Malley then crosses the country with her young children to accept a San Francisco sea captain's practical proposal of marriage. But when she arrives, he is not there, and the City of Gold is no place for widows and children. When a prominent doctor offers her work in his household, Grace accepts, only to become embroiled in blackmail and betrayal at the hands of his troubled sister. As past catches up to present, Grace...
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