Nina, a new graduate from fashion design in college, gladly accepts the offer to have her palm read as a graduation gift. Smiling, the palm reader tells Nina that she has a long lifeline, as she traces it on her hand. As soon as the words are uttered, the palm reader's facial expression turns to one of fear. In broken English, she whispers, "Break – very bad break in middle of life. Maybe you die."Nina does come close to death at age thirty-four when she and her family are involved...

Infused with eroticism, poignancy, and insight that cuts to the bone, these stories lead us into a tipping world of emotional wagers, loss and discovery, power and impulse. A marriage is tested as a mother struggles to cope with the disappearance of her prostitute daughter. Two angry women in a minivan act out their frustrations as they rampage through the night. A pill-dependent nurse juggles neuroses, infatuation, and exhaustion while supervising a high school dance-a-thon. A quiet tatto...

Nanci Lee’s debut explores 4th Century Su Hui’s palindrome of longing. Hsin arises from an ancient Chinese ethical philosophy, less a set of moral standards than an appeal to tune.Heart-mind and nothingness are fair English translations of Hsin, but their tidiness risks losing some of the sharper, wider sides of absence and appetite. As a historical process, according to Hang Thaddeus T’ui-Chieh, Hsin frustrates, “the psychologic...

The Age, Nancy Lee’s electrifying debut novel, follows her celebrated story collection Dead Girls.Set in Vancouver in 1984 as Soviet warships swarm the Atlantic, The Age tells the story of Gerry, a troubled teenager whose life is suddenly and strangely catapulted into adulthood.Confronted by her mother’s newest relationship, confusion about her father’s abandonment, and anxieties about a looming nuclear incident, Gerry finds a kind of belonging wi...

Packed with step-by-step instructions and color photos, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Making Metal Jewelry explains essential techniques — soldering, smithing, stamping, hammering, casting, riveting, and wiring. Readers will learn how to work with easily obtainable but beautiful metals while making a dozen original projects — along the way, discovering alternate methods, ways to correct mistakes, safety tips, online video instruction, and more.

A searing exploration of girlhood in the pre- and post- #MeToo eras from the acclaimed novelist.CBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020What keeps a kind girl alive in the wild? The men in townare crapshoots, sawbucks, coins striking heads and tails.Nancy Lee's searing collection of poems confronts how socially ingrained violence and sexual power dynamics distort and dislocate girlhood, womanhood, and relationships....

Nanci Lee’s debut explores 4th Century Su Hui’s palindrome of longing. Hsin arises from an ancient Chinese ethical philosophy, less a set of moral standards than an appeal to tune.Heart-mind and nothingness are fair English translations of Hsin, but their tidiness risks losing some of the sharper, wider sides of absence and appetite. As a historical process, according to Hang Thaddeus T’ui-Chieh, Hsin frustrates, “the psychologic...

Vices are outlawed in Cloquet in 1918—except on the Island. There, loggers can have the time of their lives with drink, women of the night, and poker games. When the city is threatened by fire, the virtuous citizens of Cloquet have to overcome their prejudice in order to survive. Everything is destroyed—except the Island. As one reporter commented, "The Devil takes care of his own."

SecretsBy: Nancy LeeSecrets is the magical tale of a witch/queen dragon and the ups and downs of her life. She falls in love with a witch. It shows how people can overcome their obstacles to find love. It shows all different types of animals, fairies, and pixies, and other items that get along with one another if we stop and understand what each one is about and listen to them to find out they are the same as humans. They love, hurt, and laugh.Secrets teaches us that...

Booglee the Rainforest Worm lives in a Kapok tree in the Osa Rainforest located in Costa Rica. Booglee likes science, and with help from his human friend Julian, Booglee goes to school to learn more about his rainforest home. Shocking information about the rainforest comes to light, and Booglee and Julian must figure out a way to save the rainforest.

Nancy Lee Badger brings you the first book in the Highland Games Through Times series. This 338-page time travel romance is set in the Highlands of 14th century Scotland as well as present-day New England.Bumbling present day herbalist, Haven MacKay, gets more than she bargains for when her love spell goes awry, is cast back in time, and meets her true love, Laird Kirkwall Gunn.Kirk's plans go slightly off course when he falls in love with a woman wandering through the Scot...

Nancy Lee Badger brings you another time travel romance. This 329-page book is the third book in the Highland Games Through Time series. Skye Gunn could not prevent her husband’s death, and will risk everything to defeat the sorcerer she blames. When he attacks her nephew, she is taken instead. She escapes by plunging into the North Sea, and a spell takes her back to the future, to Jake. The woman who haunted his dreams since she blackmailed him into traveling back in time falls from the s...