Yin & Yang Press, 2011. Third Printing. Paperback. This memoir conveys the experiences, first of my parents and subsequently of our family, the only Chinese people living in Macon, Georgia between 1928 and 1956. It describes our family's isolated existence running a laundry, enduring loneliness as well as racial prejudice... More about Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South
New York: Scribner, 2018. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. *Finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize* *Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, The New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly* An essential read for our times... More about Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
London: I.B. Taurisa & Co. Ltd, 2017. Paperback. China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed... More about CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping
Manchester: Camphor Press, 2016. Republished with new material. Paperback. Vern Sneider’s A Pail of Oysters is the most important English-language novel ever written about Taiwan. Yet despite critical acclaim, this exciting and controversial book has long been unavailable to readers. Unlike Sneider’s previous novel, the humorous bestseller The Teahouse of..... More about A Pail of Oysters
Hong Kong: WIPS Women In Publishing in Hong Kong, 2019. Paperback. Featuring the work of 53 writers and artists with a connection to Hong Kong, as well as the winning entry to our Short Story Competition for Young Writers. Each year, WiPS invites its members to submit examples of... More about Imprint 18: The Annual Anthology of Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong
London: Dennis Dobson, 1966. Richard Weaver (jacket design). First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very rare. More about Fantastic Voyage
The Vanguard Press, 1956. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Very rare. More about One Is Good But Two Are Better
London: Heinemann, 1958. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. More about Our Man in Havana
London: Icon Books Ltd, 2018. Reprint. Paperback. The first known inhabitant of St Helena – long before Napoleon – was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade. In 1506 Fernão Lopes, a member of his country’s minor nobility, travelled to Goa in search of honour and wealth. There he converted to Islam..... More about The Other Exile: The Remarkable Story of Fernão Lopes, the Island of Saint Helena and a Paradise...
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2018. Reprint. Mass-market paperback. More about The Fallen
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. A 2019 Edgar Award Nominee and a CrimeReads Best Crime Book of the Year A searing portrait of the crack epidemic and violent drug wars that once ravaged the Bronx. In the late 1980s and early 1990s... More about Sex, Money, Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. On a two-mile stretch of land in New York’s East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . . Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then, it was Blackwell’s, site of a lunatic asylum, two... More about Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
New York: Crown, 2018. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. AMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY New York Times Critics • Wall Street Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Christian Science Monitor • San Francisco Chronicle Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award Shortlisted for the... More about Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown
London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2018. Sam Chivers (illustrations). First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. ‘Alarmingly full of incident, very funny – even mildly transformative’ --- Daily Mail Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original Model T Ford. Armed only... More about Another Fine Mess: Across Trumpland in a Ford Model T
Lebanon, New Hampshire: ForeEdge, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the... More about Shallow Graves: The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer
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