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Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance."A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." **—**Michael Schaub, NPR.org“A satirical spin on the end times-- kind of like The Office meets...

Here we will try NOT to look at the question of:God or no GodBut will try to understand:Which God is the GODFor more information please visit website https://My-OAG.comThis book offers over 500 pages of clear, logical thinking—no heavy philosophy, and only light calculations (which you can skip if you prefer). We will explore various historical, linguistic, capabilities, and possibilities to conclude a big question:

Everything has a price.In the kingdom of Axaria, a darkness has fallen. After defeating the evil mother who summoned an immortal demon to kill her, newly coronated Queen Asterin Faelenhart should have every reason to celebrate. Her kingdom is safe, forbidden magic eradicated, and her friends are alive. Except Asterin’s triumph has come at a devastating cost—forced to choose between a lifelong friend and true love, she’s lost both. But the shadows in Axaria have begun to st...

A National Indie BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and a Windham-Campbell Literature PrizeA Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Houston Chronicle, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Mashable, Polygon, Kirkus Reviews, and Library JournalA New Yor...

For fans of Helen Hoang and Lily Chu, this sweeping romance follows the entanglements of a fictional heiress to a Chinese dynastic fortune.Behind every hot, wealthy man stands a hotter, wealthier woman.There’s one rule in Gemma Huang’s family: never, under any circumstances, set foot in Beijing. But when Gemma, an aspiring actress, lands her first big break—a lead role in an update of M. Butterfly, which just so happens to be filming in th...

WINNER OF THE RICHARD & JUDY SEARCH FOR A BESTSELLER 2020'Fabulously, witty and warm – what a talent!' Milly Johnson'A rare find' Richard MadeleyThree generations, two secrets, one extended family . . .Amy is thirty-four and has just given up her glittering career in the big (Welsh) city to move back in with her grandfather, returning to work in the small-town Chinese takeaway where she spen...

Not Out of Hate—published in Burmese in 1955 and set in 1939–42—was Ma Ma Lay’s fifth novel and one that further cemented her status as one of twentieth-century Burma’s foremost writers and voices for change. A journalist by trade, Lay applied her straightforward observational style with compassion and purpose to the story of Way Way, a teenage village girl whose quiet life assisting her father in his rice-brokerage business is disrupted by the arrival of U Saw Han, the cosmopolit...

Best Book of 2025 by Electric Literature, PEN America, Debutiful • Top First Novel of 2025 by Booklist • Spotify Editors’ Pick • Longlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction"Ma’s These Memories Do Not Belong to Us brilliantly inventive weaves worlds around a central question: What happens when technology enables a totalitarian government to break into the last private frontiers of the internal mind? Chilling, poignant, and uncomfort...

Blending fact and fiction, this darkly comic fable “may be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma’s talent for probing the country’s darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party’s moral failings” (Mike Ives, The New York Times).Called “Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeli...

In How to Be Less Miserable, Lybi Ma, the executive editor of Psychology Today, provides strategies that challenge negative thinking and inspire a more positive mindset.As human beings, we are all predisposed to a negative mindset. This tendency is a byproduct of the evolution of our species. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had to stay vigilant at all times—what if a man-eating predator was lurking in their midst? It was more important to be aware o...

In the quiet after loss and the echo of days once filled with warmth,The Road Back To A Lovelier Light is a gentle, poetic return to what still matters.This collection was brought together by two individuals—one from Vietnam, the other from the United States—who found in each other a shared voice across distance and grief. Through reflections, letters, and slow awakenings, they explore how we hold on, how we let go, and how the light we thought we lost can still find its way...

**"Narrator Nancy Wu delivers an outstanding performance of this cheeky satirical novel...**Listeners will be entertained by the world building; cast of amusing, eccentric characters; and bizarre charm of the aloof heroine." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award WinnerMaybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocal...