Across the Silver River synopsis:To prepare for her first assignment as a music instructor at an elementary school in San Francisco Zoey Zarkoff returns to the orphanage she was adopted from in China hoping to enhance her teaching skills while, at the same time, return some of the love and care she received as an abandoned infant 23 years earlier. She still harbors a host of questions surrounding the underbelly of China's past one-child policy and the conditions which caused her bi...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • An American attorney and a Chinese detective must join forces to unravel a globe-spanning conspiracy in this “fascinating . . . thriller that enlightens as well as it entertains” (San Diego Union-Tribune) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-cen...

When your best friend’s in trouble, that’s your signal to go full nightmare.As the sun rises over San Francisco, Abby Kane prepares to start another day at the FBI headquarters. But before she can set foot outside her front door, she receives devastating news - her partner and best friend, Kyle Kang, has been shot outside his home.Abby rushes to the hospital, where she discovers Kyle fighting for his life with less than a fifty percent chance of survival. Determined to se...

One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance of a lifetime.But Li was only eleven years old and he was scared and lonely, pushed away from all that he had ever known and loved. He hated the strict training routines and the strange place he had been brought to. All he wanted to do was go home – to his mother, father and six brothers, to his own small village. But soon Li real...

**A Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2012 pickA Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick“A richly emotional portrait of a family that had me spellbound from page one.”—Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild**The night before Janie’s sister, Hannah, is born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea, their family has lost a daughter in every generation, and Janie is told to keep Hannah safe. Years later, when Hannah inexplicably cut...

Set in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1930s and 1940s, Choy continues the story of the Chen family household, this time narrated by First Son, Kiam-Kim. We first meet Kiam-Kim at the age of eight, staring at the yellowed photograph of his mother, who died in China when he was just a baby. Kiam-Kim, Poh-Poh (his larger-than-life grandmother) and Mr. Chen, his demure and honest father, journey to a new life in Vancouver's Old Chinatown. Following the dream of finding gold and then one day retu...

In a "crackling good mystery novel," a North Korean state detective is drawn into a murder case in a page-turner "that keeps you guessing to the end" ( The Washington Post).Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south.Simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far off his department's turf and into a maelstrom of betrayal. North Korea's lead...

Long-listed for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionFinalist for the Publishing Triangle Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ FictionNamed one of The New York Times**’** Notable Books of the YearOne of The Washington Post’s Best Fiction Books of the YearA radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms ...

When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is kept locked at night. But there is no apparent motive. Sergeant Yu tries to unravel the reclusiv...

The latest in Qiu Xiaolong's critically-acclaimed series about crime in modern China, featuring Shanghai Police Chief Inspector CaoChief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situation-a poet by training and inclination, he was assigned by the party to the Police Department after he graduated college, where he has continued to shine. Now he's a rising cadre in the party, in line to take over the top politic position in the police dep...

**A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF THE YEARWASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK“Mo Yan’s voice will find it’s way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and García Márquez have.” —Amy Tan author of The Joy Luck ClubFrom the Nobel-prize winning author of Red Sorghum and one China’s most revered writers, a novel exploring the One-Child Policy**Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator Tadpole’s feisty aunt, is a resp...

An epic, soul-stirring love story about the transcendent magic of true love, in the tradition of Nicholas Sparks and Jojo Moyes, from a bestselling Australian author.An elderly woman stands at the edge of a mountain, touching the clouds. As she prepares to fall into the abyss, she reflects on the one great love that defined her life - and the one regret that still haunts her. If only she could live her life all over again ...Waking in the staff-only area of...