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Based on a true story

Two foodies meet online. He's kinky; she's adventurous. Together, they embark on an expedition that will whet their appetites and lead them to the farthest boundaries of sex and love.

Sashimi-Inspired and Wok-hot Sex in New York Threesome MFM and Shibari in Tokyo Auto-erotic Asphyxiation and Mythical Tantra in Lhasa Light BDSM

Firsthand Account of "Mirror Mirror on the Floor," Tokyo's One-of-a-Kind Kinky Nightclub

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Nea, a Chinese-Cambodian teenager, flees to Texas as a refugee from the Khmer Rouge regime when a miracle occurs. Although her family has been struggling to support itself, they discover that a wealthy aunt and uncle have managed to make it to America as well. Nea and her family rush to join their relatives and help run a Chinese restaurant in Nebraska. But soon Nea discovers their miracle is not what she had expected. Family fights erupt. Then the past - and a forbidden love- threaten to tear them all apart. Dragon Chica follows Nea, an indomitable character in the tradition of Holden...

From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives

"I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting. With brilliance and beauty, Celeste Ng dissects a microcosm of American society just when we need to see it beneath...

"Fiercely satirical. . . . Yamashita presents an] intricate plot with mordant wit." --New York Times Book Review

"A stunner. . . . An exquisite mystery novel. But this is a novel of dystopia and apocalypse; the mystery concerns the tragic flaws of human nature." --Library Journal (starred review)

"Brilliant. . . . An ingenious interpretation of social woes." --Booklist (starred review)

"Yamashita handles her eccentrics and the setting of their adventures with panache. David Foster Wallace meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez." --Publishers...

"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." --New York Times Book Review

"Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Impressive . . . a flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil." --Village Voice

"Surreal and misty, sweeping from one high-voltage scene to another." --LA Weekly

"Amuses and frightens at the same time." --Newsday

"Incisive and funny, this book yanks our chains and makes us see the absurdity that rules our world." --Booklist (starred...

*Finalist for the California Book Award*

The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America s newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past memories of war and its aftermath, of murder, arrest, re-education camps and new economic zones, of escape and shipwreck and atrocity is ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. It plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they...

A woman attends a de-cluttering class in search of love. A low-level, drunkard diplomat finds himself mysteriously transferred to the Consulate in San Francisco, where everyone believes he is a great, lost poet. An anthropological expedition searching for early human fossils goes disastrously wrong and the leader turns to searching for the very first sounds made by humans. The wife of a retiring Consul...

The fourth installment of the Mas Arai mystery series and the precursor to Strawberry Yellow, Blood Hina is now in paperback for the first time.

Mas Arai's best friend Haruo is getting married, and he has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But when the ancient Japanese doll display that belongs to Haruo's fiancee goes missing, the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To save his friend's life, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy, heartbreaking memories, and murder dating all the way back to the Japanese American detention centers of World War II and...

"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be."

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will...

This time of fear and prejudice (the U.S. government formally apologized for the relocations in 1982) and the Arkansas Delta are the setting for "Camp Nine." The novel's narrator, Chess Morton, lives in tiny Rook...