Big-city radiologist Dan Davenport is ready to take New York by storm. But when an accident robs him of the most important person in his life, he decides to honor his brother by taking his place as the town physician in Forever, Texas—temporarily. He's never been fond of commitment, but when he meets a beautiful young mother struggling to get back on her feet, he reconsiders.
Tina Blayne can't afford to open her heart to another man,...

"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations--looking, listening, touching, and asking--something a man can never do with a female patient....

A meditation on the meaning of life in an increasingly global world, from acclaimed Chinese-Canadian author Xue Yiwei. Set in modern-day Montreal, Celia, Misoka, I is the story of a middle-aged Chinese man who has been living in the city for fifteen years. After the death of his wife, he begins to reflect on his past and how he has ended up alone in Canada, a solitary member of the Chinese diaspora. It is in this period of angst and uncertainty,...

Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 in Nonfiction

A resonant biography of America's most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression.

The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for

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"Clear your schedule! The Third Son is your next obsessive read. Julie Wu's book reads like an instant classic."  -Lydia Netzer, author of Shine Shine Shine In the middle of a terrifying air raid in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least-favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a forest for cover. It's there he stumbles on Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to Saburo like a glimpse of paradise. Meeting her is...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Charlie Chan, a heroic detective created by Earl Derr Biggers to the delight of mystery lovers

American novelist and playwright Earl Derr Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang Apana. Apana would become the...

San is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in Seoul's bustling city center. Haunted by childhood rejection, she stumbles through life-painfully vulnerable, stifled, and unsure. She barely registers to others, especially by the ruthless standards of 1990s South Korea. Over the course of one hazy, volatile summer, San meets a curious cast of characters: the nonspeaking shop owner, a brash coworker, quiet farmers, and aggressive...

For Anne, family is everything—but at what cost?

Anne is the happiest she's ever been, and her wedding is just around the corner. This is meant to be the biggest moment of her life—a chance to celebrate the love she has found with not only Sebastian but also her new-found family.

But Anne is the wealthiest woman in town and her upcoming nuptials provide an opportunity for her enemies to undo her newfound

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Ruby Wei's Cacophony is the first novel in a series that explores empathy through the lens of minorities in the US and in China.

Meet Dolkar: victim combating her vulnerability. "...abandoned, I first met him when I got here, his white fur tainted a dirty brown. I couldn't say I liked the human race too much... With eyes purer than my own, he watched out for me, but even his barks wouldn't prevent the inevitable from happening."

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