Product Description: From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize—comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future.The Kong women are in crisis...read more

The book contains selected papers presented at two international Euro-Asia research conferences held in Nantes and Poitiers, France, in 1994 and 1995. These papers are among the most recent empirical works concerned with the analysis of economic transformation and business strategy in the Asia-Pacific region. Various themes are addressed ranging from an assessment of the environment to more specific issues, e.g. business and marketing strategies of firms operating in this region. Countries given particular attention include: China, Japan, South Korea, India, Taiwan and Vietnam. The book represents a comprehensive and up-to-date appraisal of the effects of economic transformation and business strategy of firms operating in one of the world's most dynamic regions.

Product Description: Placing her baby girl for adoption isn't the mistake Ally is running away from, but everyone else seems to think it is. As Ally tries to move forward in her life, her past keeps pulling her back, and she wonders if she will ever find true love again...read more

The book contains selected papers presented at two international Euro-Asia research conferences held in Nantes and Poitiers, France, in 1994 and 1995. These papers are among the most recent empirical works concerned with the analysis of economic transformation and business strategy in the Asia-Pacific region. Various themes are addressed ranging from an assessment of the environment to more specific issues, e.g. business and marketing strategies of firms operating in this region. Countries given particular attention include: China, Japan, South Korea, India, Taiwan and Vietnam. The book represents a comprehensive and up-to-date appraisal of the effects of economic transformation and business strategy of firms operating in one of the world's most dynamic regions.

Emil, the unwanted child of two young parents, is adopted by Yoel and Leah, a childless couple. Yet, as the years pass, it becomes clear that Emil doesn't bear much resemblance to the parents who've loved and raised him. Is his name the only thing his real parents have left him? Kin traces the movements of Emil and his four parents as they walk through the same city, nearby but apart, searching for each other in the faces of passersby; until Yoel, now old, becomes determined to do the impossible: return his grown son--a lonely man approaching middle age--to his birth parents. In prose that is both minimal and subtly off kilter, acclaimed Israeli novelist Dror Burstein introduces us to an Israel that is as peculiar, and poignant, as Donald Barthelme's America: ranging from an apocalyptic future to the petty annoyances of daily life, from shifting continents to tiny heartbreaks.

Product Description: No one knows what was happening in Christian Hartwell's life in the days before his corpse was found bruised and scarred at the foot of Fellbeck Crag in Yorkshire. Was he in trouble he couldn't get out of? Was his death a suicide? Or was it something much more sinister? These are the questions that DCI Ed Swift and his colleague DI Cat Fallon must determine before a major murder investigation is mounted—but finding convincing evidence is problematic...read more

A follow-up to Dry Ice finds psychologist Alan Gregory struggling to adapt to a shaky marriage and new fatherhood, a situation that is complicated by his ex-wife's entreaty to help her find her pregnant surrogate. 100,000 first printing.

New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box’s novels have been called “red hot,”* “edge-of-your-seat read[s],”† and “unforgettable, powerful.”‡ Now he delivers a novel that will steal your sleep as much as it will wrench your heart. It’s a novel about something that could be anyone’s worst nightmare. . . .Jack and Melissa McGuane have spent years trying to have a baby. Finally their dream has come true with the adoption of their daughter, Angelina. But nine months after bringing her home, they receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: Angelina’s birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants her back. Worse, his father, a powerful Denver judge, wants him to own up to this responsibility and will use every advantage his position of power affords him to make sure it happens. When Jack and Melissa attempt to handle the situation rationally by meeting face-to-face with the father and son, it is immediately apparent that there’s something sinister about both of them and that love for Angelina is not the motivation for their actions. As Angelina’s safety hangs in the balance, Jack and Melissa will stop at nothing to protect their child. A horrifying game of intimidation and double crosses begins that quickly becomes a death spiral where absolutely no one is safe.How far would you go to save someone you love?C.J. Box has once again written a bone-chilling thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page. *Booklist†Omaha World-Herald‡Bookreporter.com

Product Description: The last of the Christmas Numbers compiled by Charles Dickens, this is a charming and highly entertaining series of stories from one of England’s best-known and most widely read novelists. Named after the man who delivered him as a baby, Doctor Marigold is a poor hawker who, after a dreadful turn of events, finds happiness with his adopted daughter Sophy...read more

Two very different sisters--Jean, an outspoken and ambitious corporate head-hunter, and Sunny, a family oriented wife and mother--feud over who will adopt the baby of their unexpectedly deceased older sister, in a novel set against the backfrop of 1980s New York City. By the author of Good Gossip. Reader's Guide included.

Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage, but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler. Teenage fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage, but their lives change when an eccentric older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.

Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a politician, Joe is swept into the maelstrom of power and intimidation that surrounds his adoptive father, but when Will is murdered and Joe hunts for the killer, he learns of his father's many secrets.