From the author of Secret of a Thousand Beauties and Peach Blossom Pavilion comes a beautifully written novel of self-discovery and intrigue.Chinese-American assistant professor Eileen Chen specializes in folk religion at her San Francisco college. Though her grandmother made her living as a shamaness, Eileen publicly dismisses witchcraft as mere superstition. Yet privately, the subject intrigues her.When a research project takes her to the Canary...

""A unique and enthralling style. . .flawless." --Baltimore Books ExaminerIn this mesmerizing new novel, Mingmei Yip draws readers deeper into the exotic world of 1930s Shanghai first explored in Skeleton Women, and into the lives of the unforgettable Camilla, Shadow, and Rainbow Chang.When Shadow, a gifted, ambitious magician, competed with the beautiful Camilla for the affections of organized crime leader Master Lung, she almost lost everything. Hiding out in Hon...

Unfinished Business is now an Amazon Best Seller, having reached the top of the Amazon's best seller charts.If you've ever yearned for your parents' approval, felt the weight of their high expectations, or experienced the burden of unspoken obligations to care for them as they age, you're not alone.Too often, we hesitate to ask our parents about their lives, held back by mistaken beliefs or past conflicts. With warmth, wit, and vul...

Do you love non-fiction books? Do you discuss the latest self-development and personal growth books with your friends and coworkers? Do you spend every spare moment you have reading on your smartphone, Kindle or physical book? Do you love it when other people recommend books to you that can change your life?In Essential Habits, blogger, self-published author, former management consultant and teacher extraordinaire, Wang Yip, shares his favourite nuggets from hundreds of bo...

Are your meetings lacklustre or boring? Do guests ever come in to meetings and then leave without ever thinking about joining? Are you having problems retaining valued members of your club?In 50 awesome ideas for table topics, self-published author, teacher, blogger and Distinguished Toastmaster Wang Yip shares 50 of his best ideas for table topics that will challenge you, entertain you and get members and guests out of their comfort zone. You will learn things that you ne...

Through poetry people can express their deepest emotions. Through devotion believers aim to draw closer to their LORD. This book is a collection of poems with accompanying devotions to help you explore what it means to glorify God. It is Christ-centered and in step with the Holy Spirit. Each week, it covers a different-yet-overlapping concept: worship, time, repentance, offering, trust, growth, and obedience. It is structured seven by seven, ending with the fiftieth poem to parallel the ye...

A young boy named Alex explores a bright, inviting bookshop filled with grammar-themed books and displays. As he moves through the shop—walking, hopping, spinning, and pausing in wonder—he discovers parts of speech and tenses one by one: nouns, pronouns, present tense, past tense, future tense, adjectives, verbs, and conjunctions. His excitement grows as each shelf reveals a new idea. The shop's cozy lights, clocks, storybooks, and reading corners guide his learning. The journey ends with ...

Early one morning, Alex steps into the magical garden behind his home. Dew sparkles on the grass, flowers glow in the sunlight, and a winding path leads him forward. He smells lavender, listens to birds sing, and quietly watches small animals—a rabbit hopping away, butterflies dancing, bees buzzing, and a squirrel nibbling an acorn. Alex moves gently and patiently, feeling calm and happy as the garden comes alive around him.Later, Alex kneels by a snail, tosses a pebble into the po...

Throughout a sunny day in the family kitchen, Alex explores and helps with chores while naturally practicing counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using apples, eggs, utensils, plates, cups, biscuits, and fruit. He arranges items into rows, pairs, groups, and shared portions, stirs sugar, washes dishes, shares food with his parents, celebrates his small accomplishments, skips joyfully through the kitchen, and ends the day in quiet reflection.

Alex steps from his backyard into a vibrant, magical jungle where colorful shapes—red circles, blue squares, yellow triangles, and purple rectangles—appear in flowers, ponds, shadows, and sunlight. He touches, studies, and follows these shapes with growing excitement, watching fish create square ripples, butterflies land on triangle petals, and shadows form perfect rectangles on the trail. As he wanders deeper, the jungle becomes a playful world of glowing patterns and gentle surprises, le...

Do you give speeches that people seem to forget? Are your speeches not memorable? I have been there and I had no idea what was going on. I tried different things with over 50 speeches and slowly, but surely, I made a bigger and bigger impact with my speeches.As I tweaked my speeches, I noted down the things that worked, that helped to make my speech have the maximum impact and went from speeches with no impact to speeches with great content and delivery (https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Do you struggle with providing feedback on speeches and presentations? Do you take notes but have no idea how to provide the feedback so that it is seen as positive and encouraging?In A guide to evaluating speeches, blogger, self-published author, teacher and Distinguished Toastmaster Wang Yip provides his thoughts and template for providing evaluations that speakers want to hear. This book walks you through all the things you need to do before, during and after the evalua...