Ah Ling: son of a prostitute & a white `ghost`, dispatched from Hong Kong as a boy to make his way alone in 1860s California. Anna Mae Wong: the first Chinese film star in Hollywood, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen. Vincent Chin: killed by a pair of Detroit auto workers in 1982 simply for looking Japanese. John Ling Smith: a half-Chinese writer visiting China for the first time, to adopt a baby girl. Inspired by three figures who lived at pivotal moments in Chinese-American history, & drawing on his own mixed-race experience, Peter Ho Davies plunges us into what it is like to feel, & be treated, like a foreigner in the country you call home. Ranging from the mouth of the Pearl River to the land of golden opportunity, this remarkable novel spans 150 years to tell a tale of familial bonds denied & fragmented, of tenacity & pride, of prejudice & the universal need to belong. ...

` Musa Dagh stood beyond the world. No storm would reach it, even if one should break` It is 1915 & Gabriel has returned to his childhood home, an Armenian village on the slopes of Musa Dagh. But things are becoming increasingly dangerous for his people in Turkey, &, as the government orders round-ups & deportations, the villagers of Musa Dagh decide to fight back. The seminal novel of the Armenian genocide, Franz Werfel`s bestselling 1933 epic brought the catastrophe to the world`s attention for the first time, & has become a talismanic story of resistance in the face of hatred.` Forty Days will invade your senses & keep the blood pounding. Once read, it will never be forgotten` The New York Times Translated by Geoffrey Dunlop & James Reidel ...

Elif Shafak's compelling novel, The Forty Rules of Love, follows Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery as she examines her life & the concept of love through Sufi mysticism. Discover the forty rules of love... Ella Rubinstein has a husb&, three teenage children, & a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident & fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life
- an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi & Shams of Tabriz, & his forty rules of life & love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism & verse, taking Ella & us into an exotic world where faith & love are heartbreakingly explored... Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith & love. (Metro). Colourfully woven & beguilingly intelligent. (Daily Telegraph). The past & present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself. (The Times). Elif Shafak has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in both English & Turkish contemporary literature; her novels, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Flea Palace, The Gaze & Honour, are consistently at the top of bestseller lists across the globe. Elif Shafak's examination of national identity, The Happiness of Blond People is available as part of the Penguin Specials series
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From the author of The Architect`s Apprentice & Honour, The Forty Rules of Love is Elif Shafak`s compelling & profound novel following Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery, examining life & love through Sufi mysticism. Discover the forty rules of love... Ella Rubinstein has a husb&, three teenage children, & a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident & fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella`s life
- an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi & Shams of Tabriz, & his forty rules of life & love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism & verse, taking Ella & us into an exotic world where faith & love are heartbreakingly explored...” Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith & love.” (Metro). ” Colourfully woven & beguilingly intelligent.” (Daily Telegraph). ” The past & present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself.” (The Times). Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of nine novels including The Bastard of Istanbul, The Architect`s Apprentice & Honour, & is the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more than forty languages & she contributes to numerous international publications, including the New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, La Repubblica, Newsweek & Time magazine. She is also a public speaker working with The London Speaker Bureau & is a TED Global speaker. Elif Shafak has previously been longlisted for the Orange Prize, the Baileys Prize & the IMPAC Dublin Award, & shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She is based in London with her two children & can be found on her website.
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Since ancient times, the column has stood as a functional & decorative standard. This all metal globe base is reminiscent of that form, yet it is crafted to reflect modern design. The three round black-metal legs are supported & capped by tiered discs wrought from the same steel. This globe is an elegant addition to any living room, study, office or reception area. ...

A follow-up to Andrea Wulf`s award-winning & critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams & James Madison`s passion for nature, plants, agriculture & gardens shaped the birth of America. Through a series of vignettes spanning the Declaration of Independence to the death of Adams & Jefferson exactly fifty years to the day afterwards, these stories that weave the political, the personal & the botanical & are in turns funny, fascinating & moving. The Founding Gardeners shows that it is impossible to understand these visionary men & the American nation without considering their love of gardening. ...

It is 1919. On a summer`s night in Normandy, a new-born baby is left in a basket outside the home of Albert & Jeanne Arnaud. The childless couple take the foundling in, name him Jean, & decide to raise him as their own, though his parentage remains a mystery. Though Jean`s life is never dull, he grows up knowing little of what lies beyond his local area. Until the day he sets off on his bicycle to discover the world, & encounters a Europe on the threshold of interesting times... ...

This is the page-turning true story of Paul Fronczak, a man who recently discovered that he had been kidnapped as a baby-and how his quest to find out who he really is upturned the genealogy industry, his own family & set in motion the second longest cold-case in US history. In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy named Paul Fronczak from a Chicago hospital. Two years later, police found a boy abandoned outside a variety store in New Jersey. The FBI tracked down Dora Fronczak, the kidnapped infant`s mother, & she identified the abandoned boy as her son. The family spent the next fifty years believing they were whole again-but Paul was always unsure about his true identity. Then, four years ago-spurred on by the birth of his first child, Emma Faith-Paul took a DNA test. The test revealed that he was definitely not Paul Fronczak. From that moment on, Paul has been on a tireless mission to find the man whose life he`s been living-and to discover who abandoned him, & why. Poignant & inspiring, The Foundling is a story about a child lost & a faith found, about the permanence of families & the bloodlines that define you, & about the emotional toll of both losing your identity & rediscovering who you truly are. ...

This is Ayn Rand`s story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. First published in 1943, this best-selling novel is a passionate defense of individualism & presents an exalted view of man`s creative potential; it is a book about ambition, power, gold & love. ...

The western United States is a region of astonishing open space which has profoundly shaped the American character. Here Reg Saner explores places that can still transform the human spirit with almost sacred power. His essays describe journeys--both physical & spiritual--to areas as remote as they are beautiful. ...