The reappearance of a long-lost Zhou dynasty dragon is the catalyst that reunites three mismatched families in th...

In the epic storytelling tradition of Amy Tan and Jiang Rong comes Gold Mountain Blues, a rich saga chronicling the lives of five generations of a Chinese family from Guandong Province transformed ...

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Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain and the Great One

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"Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But—a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be stron...

From Publishers WeeklyEngland's almost bloodless Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the Dutch king William of Orange overthrew James II, began as a hostile takeover but rapidly tur...

"To call <b>Going After Cacciato</b> a novel about war is like calling <b>Moby-Dick</b> a novel about whales."<br><br>So wrote the <i>New York Times</i> of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. ...

Amazon.com ReviewOne could argue that the war novel is an essentially timeless genre. Weapons are subject to long and increasingly lethal refinement--but from Gods Go Begging, is ...

Gods and Generals