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From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page. For readers of Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Neon Yang’s The Black Tides of Heaven and Kritika H. Rao’s The Surviving Sky.Liu Lufeng is the eldest princess of the Feng royalty and, bound by duty and traditio...

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei examines censorship and self-censorship, through the lens of his compelling personal history, offering readers profound insights into an important topic of current and perpetual relevance.Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's greatest practitioners. He has been a voice for artistic and personal freedom of expression for decades within his native China and around the world.This publication offers a compelling exploration of cen...

The concept of an Eden-like garden evokes images of lush greenery, vibrant blooms, and a serene atmosphere that invites tranquility and introspection. At its core, an Eden-like garden is a harmonious blend of nature and creativity, emphasizing the importance of biodiversity, sustainability, and aesthetic appeal. To transform your garden into such a paradise, understanding the principles that define this concept is essential. These principles include the integration of native plants, the in...

Riveting and highly inventive Chinese-inspired science-fantasy of a royal family torn apart, painful betrayal and deadly secrets. Set on a drowning continent full of corruption and deception and strange technology this is a richly envisioned and powerful debut novel from the winner of the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards.Long isolated from her family following her parents’ murder, Princess Xīlián of Piāo discovers the corrupt royal advisors are plotting to overthrow ...

From Chinese-Canadian award-winning author Ai Jiang comes a masterful debut collection of short fiction that explores both near-future and far-future societies, the fantastical and surreal, the horrific and psychological, found family and those we've lost, generational disparities, the value of language and identity and memories, and more.Memories Are Only Valuable If They Can Be Lost features 40 works of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy, including the Hugo Awa...

Nana Komatsu is a young woman who's endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she's hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. She's looking for love and she's hoping to find it in the big city.Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is cool, confident and focused. She swaggers into town and proceeds to kick down the doors to Tokyo's underground punk scene. She's got a dream and won't give up until she becomes Japan's No. 1 ...

Miku is in a bind: her father has taken on too much debt, subjecting her family to so much work and stress that now her mother has fallen ill. Miku is willing to do what it takes to help her family, so she agrees to become a wealthy benefactor's mistress to raise the cash they need! Unfortunately, that alone isn't enough--the wealthy man has a preference for women who are experienced in bed, and Miku is anything but. That's when the man's butler, Kamishiro, steps in. The gorgeous but sharp...

Wildly-popular artist Ai Yazawa’s beloved fashion-centric manga, Paradise Kiss, is back in a glamorous omnibus edition to celebrate 20 years since the manga began serialization.Follow Yukari’s through-the-looking-glass journey as she is drawn into the world of fashion by a group of passionate, young aesthetes who are determined to make their couture label a success, with Yukari as their muse...

Three cowboys walk into a bar.It’s not the start of a joke.It’s the start of the biggest, baddest bar brawls the Old West has ever seen.In the dusty, lawless towns of the untamed frontier, a quiet drink is a luxury few can afford. Especially for an unlikely trio of heroes. One a mountain of a man with fists like boulders, another a lanky brawler with a reach that defies reason, and the third a lightning-fast warrior...

The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and his father’s.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)ON...

Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry.Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books—Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed—along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's "often brilliant" (Chicago Tribune) vision.

After a brush with death, young Hotaru meets Mizuki for the first time in a dream. The next day, Hotaru wanders into an abandoned mansion and comes face-to-face with the girl she met in her dream…