Golden Inches
Golden Inches

Author: Grace Service

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780520074163

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"(An) engrossing memoir .... To turn everything recorded here--births, an infant death, family uprootings, civil turmoil, maintaining an American household in the interior of China--into gold requires an alchemy that only a beautiful, strong-minded, witty and loving wife and mother can hold the secret to."--John Espey, Washington Post Book World "A wonderful, sad, moving memoir by an indomitable American . . . Golden Inches not only gives many fascinating glimpses of historical events; more important, it shows us what it meant to live through those events and deal with them without rancor, resentment or facile anger and enthusiasm."--Tracy B. Strong, New York Times Book Review "This closely observed portrait of living in isolated missionary communities and treaty ports, against the background of one of the most turbulent periods of twentieth-century Chinese history, is an important document. It is also a moving story of one family's obsessive and destructive love affair with China."--Tiffany Brown, Times Literary Supplement

Gold by the Inch
Gold by the Inch

Author: Lawrence Chua

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1999-09-13

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780802136497

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A romance between a New York man and a male prostitute in Thailand. The visitor is an American of Asian descent and he is on a rebound from a failed romance with a lover. A tale of sex and debauchery in Bangkok.

The Three-Inch Golden Lotus
The Three-Inch Golden Lotus

Author: Feng Jicai

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1994-03-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780824816063

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This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrants Lotus’ life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history and fable, forgery and authentic work. The novel’s waggish narrator exists in the tension between judgement and description, wryly deflating his reader’s certainties along the way. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation.

The Last Time I Saw Her
The Last Time I Saw Her

Author: Karen Robards

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0804178305

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In the sizzling new novel from New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards, Dr. Charlie Stone must prove the innocence of a dangerously sexy condemned man, or lose her one chance at true love. THE LAST TIME I SAW HER In this world, Dr. Charlotte “Charlie” Stone skillfully probes the twisted minds of incarcerated serial killers to better understand what makes them tick, and to help nab those who remain at large. But in the next world, Charlotte’s ghostly lover—convicted killer Michael Garland—is facing death yet again. It seem the only way Charlie can snatch Michael from the jaws of oblivion is by proving his innocence. And this dead man’s dead ringer may just be the key. A mysterious stranger has turned up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, and Charlie is shocked to realize he could be Michael Garland’s identical twin. But she suspects the resemblance is only skin deep—and that behind the handsome face may lurk the perverse mind of a killer. While using all her keen profiling gifts, Charlie risks her life to discover the shocking secret that will clear Michael’s name. Then a breakout at Wallens Ridge State Prison forces Charlie to contend with a sudden swarm of psychopaths bent on spilling blood. No one has a better chance of tracking down the deadly fugitives than Charlie—unless the rampaging killers manage to find her first and make this case her last. But Michael will move heaven and hell—and even make a devil’s bargain—for the chance to save Charlie’s life, and feel her touch once more . . . if only for the final time. Praise for The Last Time I Saw Her “The always talented Robards brings her uniquely compelling ghostly romantic suspense series to a truly magnificent close. The evolution of the strange but utterly riveting romance between Dr. Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Stone and deceased convicted killer Michael Garland has been transfixing to read. . . . This has been one amazing ride.”—RT Book Reviews (Top Pick) Praise for Karen Robards “One of the most popular voices in women’s fiction.”—Newsweek “Draw a line between two extremely popular genres, mysteries and romance novels, and in the middle you will find the bestselling Robards. She merges the two worlds like no one else, deftly interlacing plot and passion.”—Albany Times Union Praise for The Last Victim “Excellent . . . This story is going to haunt you.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Last Kiss Goodbye “This suspense tale will truly have you on the edge of your seat.”—RT Book Reviews Her Last Whisper “An absolute winner . . . explodes with both passion and mystery . . . providing both thrills and chills.”—Bookreporter

The Half Brother
The Half Brother

Author: Lars Saabye Christensen

Publisher: Skyhorse

Published: 2012-01-23

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 1611459826

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At the end of World War II, twenty-year-old Vera is brutally raped by an unknown assailant. From that rape is born a boy named Fred, a misfit who later becomes a talented boxer. Vera’s young son, Barnum, forms a special but bizarre relationship with his half brother, fraught with rivalry and dependence as well as love. “I should have been your father,” Fred tells Barnum, “instead of the fool who says he is.” It is Barnum, who is now a screenwriter with a fondness for lies and alcohol, who narrates his family’s saga. As he shares his family’s history, he chronicles generations of independent women and absent and flawed men whom he calls the Night Men. Among them is his father, Arnold, who bequeaths to Barnum his circus name, his excessively small stature, and a con man’s belief in the power of illusion. Filled with a galaxy of finely etched characters, this prize-winning novel is a tour de force and a literary masterpiece richly deserving of the accolades it has received.

Grace
Grace

Author: Grace Roys

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-04-12

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1532609396

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Grace Woodbridge Roys suffered from bi-polar disease before it was well understood. Her daughter feared that her children would also suffer mental illness. This annotation of Grace's diary opens the early 1900s missionary world in China and the personality of Grace to the reader. In December 1910 Grace married Harvey Curtis Roys, who was teaching physics at Kiang Nan government school in Nanking, under the sponsorship of the YMCA. Grace had had a mental breakdown weeks earlier when her missionary father forbade the marriage. The diary records their early married life, the births of their first two children, their social life with other missionaries in China, many of whom made major contributions to Nanking life and education: medical doctors and nurses, theology professors, agricultural innovators, and founders of universities, hospitals, nursing schools, and schools for young Chinese women and men. Included is their experience evacuating during the Sun Yat-sen Revolution of 1911. Well-known missionaries of that time came to tea and taught at the Hillcrest School that the mothers began for foreign children. The Nanyang Exposition took place in 1910, too, as China was in the throes of entering the modern era, with trains, electricity, telegraphs, and a new interest in democracy.

Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2013-11-17

Total Pages: 5191

ISBN-13: 1909496693

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A gifted poet, playwright, novelist, and critic, Algernon Charles Swinburne created late Victorian works that were controversial and groundbreaking, establishing his name as an imaginative innovator of his very own poetic forms, whilst achieving notoriety due to his scandalous lifestyle. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works and plays of Swinburne, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Swinburne's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other texts * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Features rare posthumous poems available nowhere else * the complete verse dramas, with individual contents tables * Includes Swinburne's only complete novel, LOVE’S CROSS-CURRENTS - appearing here for the first time on eReaders * Features Gosse’s seminal 1917 biography on the great poet, available in no other collection - discover Swinburne's literary life * A selection of non-fiction * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections ATALANTA IN CALYDON POEMS AND BALLADS (FIRST SERIES) SONGS OF TWO NATIONS SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE ERECHTHEUS POEMS AND BALLADS (SECOND SERIES) POEMS AND BALLADS. (THIRD SERIES) SONGS OF THE SPRINGTIDES STUDIES IN SONG TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE SONNETS SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS (1590-1650) A MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY AND OTHER POEMS A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS ASTROPHEL AND OTHER POEMS THE HEPTALOGIA THE TALE OF BALEN A CHANNEL PASSAGE AND OTHER POEMS POSTHUMOUS AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Verse Dramas THE QUEEN MOTHER ROSAMOND CHASTELARD BOTHWELL MARY STUART MARINO FALIERO LOCRINE THE SISTERS ROSAMUND, QUEEN OF THE LOMBARDS THE DUKE OF GANDIA The Novel LOVE’S CROSS-CURRENTS Selected Non-Fiction WILLIAM BLAKE: A CRITICAL ESSAY THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE The Biography THE LIFE OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE by Edmund Gosse Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles