"New York Times" bestselling author of "The Joy Luck Club" Amy Tan brings us her latest novel: a sweeping, evocative epic of two women s intertwined fates and their search for identity from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village Shanghai, [...]

A poignant love story about fate versus choice from today's upcoming Judy Blume. Eighteen-year-old Annie Winters can barely run a mile without wheezing. Still, she's training to run the Music City Marathon in October. That's only seven months away. Running is so not her thing, but she has to finish [...]

" Translator] Red Pine's out-of-the-mainstream work is uncanny and clearheaded."--"Kyoto Journal""Red Pine's succinct and informative notes for each poem are core samples of the cultural, political, and literary history of China."--"Asian Reporter"Wei Ying-wu (737-791) is considered one of the great[...]

Chinese Astrology: Exploring the Eastern Zodiac explains our ?natural endowment? or ?inner being? - our personality from the beginning. This 5,000-year-old art paints a remarkable picture of personality and potential using the archetypes of the 12 signs of the ancient Eastern zodiac.[...]

Psychologist Susan Bauer-Wu presents mindfulness and compassion practices designed to help readers with terminal illnesses find fulfillment and peace. Readers learn a variety of skills for improving their quality of life, coping with fears, and making meaningful connections with others. Millions of [...]

The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, Chinas 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of Chinas underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook[...]

In the years since Wei Wu Wei's work was originally published, his stature has only increased. He joins Paul Reps, Alan Watts, and Philip Kapleau as one of the earliest and most profound Western interpreters of Zen Buddhism and Taoist philosophies. Drawing on the ancient traditions of Buddhism, Taoi[...]