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In the Pond: A Novel

Ha Jin
1998

Shao Bin is a downtrodden worker at the Harvest Fertilizer Plant by day and an aspiring artist by night. Passed over on the list to receive a decent apartment for his young family, while those in favor with the party's leaders are selected ahead of him, Shao Bin chafes at his powerlessness. When he attempts to expose his corrupt superiors by circulating satirical cartoons, he provokes an escalating series of merciless counterattacks that send ripples beyond his small community.
Under the Red Flag: Stories

Ha Jin
1997

A collection of stories on the Cultural Revolution in China. In the story, A Man-to-Be, a soldier who refuses to participate in a gang rape pays the consequences, while In Broad Daylight, a woman is punished for being a prostitute.
Facing Shadows

Ha Jin
1996

This is the second volume of poems from Chinese ex-patriot poet Ha Jin, who moved to the United States after the Tiananmen massacre.
Ocean of Words: Army Stories

Ha Jin
1996

The place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. And the characters in this thrilling collection of stories are Chinese soldiers who must constantly scrutinize the enemy even as they themselves are watched for signs of the fatal disease of bourgeois liberalism.
Between Silences: A Voice from China

Ha Jin
1990

Mixing autobiography with invented other voices, this book is an extraordinary meditation on what it means to have lived the history of China in the second half of the twentieth century.
Fortune Smiles: Stories

Adam Johnson
2015

In six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. “Nirvana,” which won the prestigious Sunday Times short story prize, portrays a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finding solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous”—first included in the Best American Short Stories anthology—a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind.
The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel

Adam Johnson
2012

Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother, a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang, and a father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for his loyalty and keen instincts, Jun Do comes to the attention of superiors in the state, rises in the ranks, and starts on a road from which there will be no return. Considering himself 'a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world,' Jun Do becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress 'so pure, she didn't know what starving people looked like.'
Parasites Like Us

Adam Johnson
2003

Hoping to learn more about those he loves by studying the lost civilizations of human history, anthropologist Hank Hannah works at the site of a twelve-thousand-year-old grave and unearths a deadly legacy linked to the Ice Age.
Emporium: Stories

Adam Johnson
2002

Through thrilling prose and fearless scenes, Johnson shows that Christian power-lifters and depressed robots are no more surreal than fathers who vanish or mothers who waste away.
North: A Novel

Brad Kessler
10-5-2021

As a late spring blizzard brews, Brother Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, rushes to tend to his Ida Red and Northern Spy apple trees in advance of the unseasonal snowstorm. When the storm lands a young Somali refugee, Sahro Abdi Muse, at the monastery, Christopher is pulled back into the world as his life intersects with Sahro's and that of an Afghan war veteran in surprising and revealing ways--Provided by publisher.
Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese

Brad Kessler
2009

he author, a novelist, describes his life as he and his wife moved to a farm in Vermont, becoming a goatherd and cheesemaker.
Birds in Fall: A Novel

Brad Kessler
2006

One fall night off the coast of a remote island in Nova Scotia, an airplane plummets to the sea as an innkeeper watches from the shore. Miles away in New York City, ornithologist Ana Gathreaux works in a darkened room, full of sparrows, testing their migratory instincts. Soon, Ana will be bound for Trachis Island, along with other relatives of victims who converge on the site of the tragedy.
Lick Creek: A Novel

Brad Kessler
2001

Emily Jenkins is angry with the world after her father and brother are killed in a coal mining accident. Then, a badly injured electrical worker named Joseph is brought to her remote West Virginia farmhouse and Emily's world is changed forever.
The Woodcutter's Christmas

Brad Kessler
2001

A New York City family looks forward to the annual visit of the Christmas tree salesman they know as "the Woodcutter," and one day, several years after he has stopped coming, they find his home during a Vermont vacation and learn the reason why he no longer sells trees.
Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion

Brad Kessler, Joel Chandler Harris, and Bill Mayer
2005

Boss Lion threatens to eat all the inhabitants of the village, until he is outsmarted by Brer Rabbit.
Moses in Egypt

Brad Kessler and Phil Huling
1997

Tells how Moses grew up in the Egyptian Pharaoh's court, was chosen by God to be the leader of the enslaved Israelites, and called down plagues to convince the Pharaoh to let the Israelites go free.
John Henry: The Legendary Folk Hero

Brad Kessler and Barry Jackson
2005

Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
The Firebird

Brad Kessler and Robert Van Nutt
2005

With the aid of his magical Horse of Power, a young archer fulfills the increasingly difficult requests of Tsar Ivan and wins the hand of Princess Vasilissa.
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

Gilbert King
2018

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller "Devil in the Grove" comes a gripping story of sex, race, class, corruption, and the arc of justice. In December 1957, Blanche Bosanquet Knowles, the wealthy young wife of a citrus baron, is raped in her home while her husband is away. Journalist Mabel Norris Reese and an inexperienced young lawyer pursue the case, winning unlikely allies and chasing down
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Gilbert King
2012

Chronicles a little-known court case in which Thurgood Marshall successfully saved a black citrus worker from the electric chair after the worker was accused of raping a white woman with three other black men.
The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South

Gilbert King
2008

The true story of how a young Cajun lawyer, Bertrand DeBlanc, fought to save 17-year-old Willie Francis from the electric chair. In deciding Willie's fate the courts and the country would be forced to ask questions about capital punishment that remain unresolved today.
Trees

Gilbert King
2003

Many people thrill at the sight of a majestic tree, and North America is full of them, from the towering California redwoods to venerable East Coast oaks that were planted when the first colonists arrived. This beautiful, original book, a most appropriate gift for anyone who finds solace in nature, is a stunning value. It provides a gorgeous photographic tour of the continent's most captivating arboreal specimens, with text on the history, botany, and lore surrounding them.
Bicycle: Bone Shakers, Highwheelers, and other Celebrated Cycles

Gilbert King
2002

This photographic survey is richly illustrated with images of one of the world's largest private collections of bicycles from the 1850s to the 1950s, and includes some never-before-published photographs. From antique high wheelers and "boneshakers" to tandems, tricycles, and circus clown bikes, it provides a fascinating historical retrospective of the bicycle's development and evolution.
Art of Golf Antiques: A Photographic History of the Art of Golf

Gilbert King
2001

One of the best ways to understand the history of golf is to witness the design and evolution of clubs, balls, tees, and accessories. The Art of Golf Antiques is illustrated with more than 85 photographs from the United States Golf Association Museum, which houses the largest collection of golf memorabilia in the country. Readers will take a close-up look at the earliest feather golf balls, mid-19th century clubs from the Royal Perth Golfing Society, Ben Hogan's private collection, and much more. Filled with anecdotes and observations from writers, players, and commentators, The Art of Golf Antiques illustrates the tools and traditions of a beloved sport.
How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

Barbara Kingsolver
9-22-2020

In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death, in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins. Closing the book are poems that celebrate natural wonders--birdsong and ghost-flowers, ruthless ants, clever shellfish, coral reefs, deadly deserts, and thousand-year-old beech trees--all speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves.