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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

by Jane Wong ...

**2024 PNBA Award Winner“[Wong] paints her story with flourish.”―The New York Times“A love letter to Atlantic City and the Asian American working class.”―The Los Angeles Times“Blazing, lyrical.”―The Boston Globe“Joyful. . . . Wong’s memoir invites those who have been overlooked in America to hold up their verses, accolades and solidarity in a collective rejoinder to their detractors.”―The ... Read more

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**2024 PNBA Award Winner“[Wong] paints her story with flourish.”―The New York Times“A love letter to Atlantic City and the Asian American working class.”―The Los Angeles Times“Blazing, lyrical.”―The Boston Globe“Joyful. . . . Wong’s memoir invites those who have been overlooked in America to hold up their verses, accolades and solidarity in a collective rejoinder to their detractors.”―The
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How to Not Be Afraid of Everything

by Jane Wong ...

Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62? Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. ... Read more

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Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62? Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival.
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Tales of Betrayal

by John Biguenet, Adam Haslett, Galina Vromen, John Cheever, Rattawut Lapchraroensap, Tessa Hadley ...

Narrated by David Strathairn, John Shea, Anne Meara, B. D. Wong, Jane Curtin, Shohreh Aghdashloo ...

Series series Selected Shorts
Unabridged

2 hours 58 min

In this compilation characters make choices that define their lives and suffer consequences often dire or disquieting. Abraham prepares to slay Isaac; siblings fall in love with the same man; a Thai man hides his secret guilt from his best friend on draft selection day; delve into the secret lives of people and discover what drives them to betrayal. ... Read more

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In this compilation characters make choices that define their lives and suffer consequences often dire or disquieting. Abraham prepares to slay Isaac; siblings fall in love with the same man; a Thai man hides his secret guilt from his best friend on draft selection day; delve into the secret lives of people and discover what drives them to betrayal.
... Read more
Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland

The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare

by Jane Wong ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare examines the problems that beset the Tudor administration of Ireland through a range of selected 16th century English narratives. This book is primarily concerned with the period between 1541 and 1603. This bracket provides a framework that charts early modern Irish history from the constitutional change of ... Read more

$89.31 CAD

Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare examines the problems that beset the Tudor administration of Ireland through a range of selected 16th century English narratives. This book is primarily concerned with the period between 1541 and 1603. This bracket provides a framework that charts early modern Irish history from the constitutional change of
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

by Jane Wong ...

Narrated by Jane Wong ...

Unabridged

9 hours 46 min

An Audible Best Memoir Audiobook of 2023An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child ... Read more

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An Audible Best Memoir Audiobook of 2023An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child
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Asia and the Historical Imagination

Edited by Jane Yeang Chui Wong ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This collection explores the interpretation of historical fiction through fictional representations of the past in an Asian context. Emphasising the significance of region and locality, it explores local networks of political and cultural exchanges at the heart of an Asian polity. The book considers how imagined pasts converge and diverge in developed and developing nations, and examines the ... Read more

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This collection explores the interpretation of historical fiction through fictional representations of the past in an Asian context. Emphasising the significance of region and locality, it explores local networks of political and cultural exchanges at the heart of an Asian polity. The book considers how imagined pasts converge and diverge in developed and developing nations, and examines the
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Writing the Self-Elegy

The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink

by Teresa Leo, Jennifer McCauley, John Chavez, Katherine C. Jueds, Catherine Kyle, Adam Crittenden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Kyle McCord, Jane Wong, Naomi Ortiz, Denise Leto, Carol Berg, Kristy Bowen, Floydd Michael Elliot, Jehanne Dubrow, Carl Phillips, Bruce Bond, Kevin Prufer, Rusane Morrison, Sheila Black, Lauren Shellberg, Anne Kaier, TC Tolbert, Raymond Luczak, Stephanie Heit, Juliet Cook, Tanaya Winder ...

An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selvesHonest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selvesHonest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice
... Read more
The Politics of Affective Relations

East Asia and Beyond

by Daniel A. Bell, Hahm Chaihark, Joseph Chan, Sin Yee Chan, Ruiping Fan, Tatiana Yu. Danilchenko, Sung Ho Kim, Shaomin Li, Randall Peerenboom0, Hoyt Cleveland Tillman1, Jane K. Winn2, David B. Wong3, R. Bin Wong4, Liang Zhiping5 ...

Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated, reproduced, and utilized throughout history. Sparked by a strong dissatisfaction with the state over many discourses regarding East Asian politics, this volume moves beyond the simplistic exchange of ... Read more

$61.99 CAD

In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated, reproduced, and utilized throughout history. Sparked by a strong dissatisfaction with the state over many discourses regarding East Asian politics, this volume moves beyond the simplistic exchange of
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Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television

by Kathleen M. Ryan, Noah J. Springer, Mary Erickson, Lauren Bratslavsky, Elizabeth L. Cohen, Teri Del Rosso, Erika Engstrom0, Fran Hassencahl1, Alexander L. Lancaster2, Kathryn L. Lookadoo3, Sabrina K. Pasztor4, Siobhan E. Smith5, John Shrader6, William David Hart7, Norman C.H. Wong8, Jane Marcellus9, David Staton0, Jan Whitt1 ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Communication and Storytelling
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and nations. This book is written by a diverse group of scholars who used a variety ... Read more

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Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and nations. This book is written by a diverse group of scholars who used a variety
... Read more
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The Verifiers

by Jane Pek ...

Narrated by Eunice Wong ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Claudia Lin
Unabridged

11 hours 46 min

**ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST MYSTERY BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people's online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing....“The world of social media, big tech and internet connectivity provides ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

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**ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST MYSTERY BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people's online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing....“The world of social media, big tech and internet connectivity provides
... Read more

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The Rivals

A Novel

by Jane Pek ...

Narrated by Eunice Wong ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Claudia Lin
Unabridged

12 hours 18 min

**ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST MYSTERY NOVELS OF 2024 • A witty and thought-provoking mystery that reimagines the spy story to explore the nature of relationships in a digital age: the follow-up to Jane Pek’s “thoroughly modern twist on classic detective fiction,” The Verifiers (New York Times Book Review)“Jane Pek’s writing is really fun and will keep you hooked.” —Emily Henry, #1 New ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

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**ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST MYSTERY NOVELS OF 2024 • A witty and thought-provoking mystery that reimagines the spy story to explore the nature of relationships in a digital age: the follow-up to Jane Pek’s “thoroughly modern twist on classic detective fiction,” The Verifiers (New York Times Book Review)“Jane Pek’s writing is really fun and will keep you hooked.” —Emily Henry, #1 New
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Godfire

by Cara Witter, Janci Patterson, Megan Walker, Lauren Janes ...

Narrated by Eunice Wong ...

Series series Five Lands Saga
Unabridged

17 hours 48 min

The gods are gone, long ago trapped in stones and lost to the ages. A godless nation rises to power, fueled by a brilliant and genocidal dictator who is willing to manipulate souls and embrace dark magics to spread his empire over the whole of the Five Lands.Kenton is the last of his people, desperately searching for others who can aid in his quest to unearth the gods from their hiding places and ... Read more

$42.99 CAD

The gods are gone, long ago trapped in stones and lost to the ages. A godless nation rises to power, fueled by a brilliant and genocidal dictator who is willing to manipulate souls and embrace dark magics to spread his empire over the whole of the Five Lands.Kenton is the last of his people, desperately searching for others who can aid in his quest to unearth the gods from their hiding places and
... Read more

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