"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue--in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...

Grace and her family get ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year

Yuki's parent-teacher conference has finally arrived and Yuki decides he must make his own decisions about his future. Tohru sets out to discover if Kureno Sohma is the same person Arisa has been in love with for so long, but she'll uncover a tragic secret about Momiji's sister Momo in the process.

The gang returns from vacation to find that a new student council has been assembled in their absence. Later, Thoru goes to see her grandmother and a part of her past is revealed that she had shut away. And, Mayuko gives Shigure some advice for parent-teacher conferences.

Katie misses school while she is home with the flu.

This new translation of the Chinese classic and foundation text of Daoism integrates the manuscript discoveries of the last 30 years, introducing a fundamentally different view of the nature of the Dao. Michael Puett, the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, calls this translation "an excellent translation of one of the most important texts from the Chinese philosophical...

Freedom is a collection of 60 poems by Wang Yin, one of the most incisive and observant voices in modern Chinese poetry. Focusing on music, nightlife, and the culture of contemporary China, Wang Yin's wit and humor offer an original perspective on modern society. Freedom is the English-language poetry debut of Wang Yin. This bilingual volume includes poems in both English and Chinese, translated and compiled by Chinese poet Xi Nan and featuring a...