Jin In Time-Two
Jin In Time-Two

Author: Karin De Havin

Publisher: Supernatural Fantasy Publishing

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13:

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Can ten wishes change her destiny? Seventeen-year-old Esme is about to find out when a bowler-hatted genie pops out of her grandmother’s antique vase. Jin says he’ll grant her ten life-changing wishes. At first Esme gets off to a bumpy start with Jin and her wishes. But she soon finds herself falling for her Victorian genie. Things take a dangerous turn when Jin’s former master, a diabolical Victorian magician, sends a message through the vase—he wants his genie back! Esme has a tough choice to make. Work on rebuilding her relationship with her dad and a new life in Long Island or use her last wish to and save the genie she loves. If she travels back in time to Victorian England will she ever be able to return home again? Find out more in Jin in Time-Two, the second book in the Time is Forever Series by author Karin De Havin! If you enjoy young adult time travel romances that are filled with magic and adventure that keeps you turning the pages, then one-click for your copy of Jin in Time-Two today! Keywords: young adult time travel, young adult historical fantasy, genie books, young adult books, young adult historical fantasy complete series, young adult coming of age fantasy, time travel books, Victorian London based books, young adult action adventure supernatural, teen high paranormal, young adult supernatural books, time travel books, Victorian fantasy, time travel stories, magician fantasy books.

The Jin In Time Boxed Set- Books 1-3
The Jin In Time Boxed Set- Books 1-3

Author: Karin De Havin

Publisher: Supernatural Fantasy Publishing

Published: 2020-12-04

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13:

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Life would be amazing if you had a genie, right? Seventeen-year-old Esme is about out to find out when her guardian grandmother dies and leaves her an antique vase. Forced to move in with a father she hardly knows, she rubs it for good luck. Out pops a bowler-hatted genie! Esme hopes to turn her luck around now that she has a genie to help her deal with her problems but there’s a catch. She realizes the wishes are powered by Victorian-era magic and that her genie’s past could put her life in danger…for good. Included: Jin In Time Book One, Jin In Time Book Two, and Love in the Time of Jin Book Three. If you love time traveling genies from Victorian England, coming of age stories with a bit of magic, unforgettable characters and page turning action (with a dash of humor and romance mixed in) and a happy ever after ending, then grab your copy of the Jin in Time 1-3 boxed set today! **The Time is Forever Series has a prequel The Genie Academy Series.** Keywords: young adult time travel, young adult historical fantasy, genie books, young adult books, young adult historical fantasy complete series, young adult coming of age fantasy, time travel books, Los Angeles based books, young adult action adventure supernatural, teen high paranormal, young adult supernatural books, time travel , Victorian fantasy, time travel stories, magician fantasy books, happy ever after books.

Little Gods
Little Gods

Author: Meng Jin

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0062935976

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LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD “Compellingly complex…Expands the future of the immigrant novel even as it holds us in uneasy thrall to the past.” – Gish Jen, New York Times Book Review Combining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers. On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya’s own sense of displacement. A story of migrations literal and emotional, spanning time, space and class, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory, history, and self.

Jinnealogy
Jinnealogy

Author: Anand Vivek Taneja

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1503603954

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In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand Vivek Taneja's Jinnealogy provides a fresh vision of religion, identity, and sacrality that runs counter to state-sanctioned history. The ruin, Firoz Shah Kotla, is an unusually democratic religious space, characterized by freewheeling theological conversations, DIY rituals, and the sanctification of animals. Taneja observes the visitors, who come mainly from the Muslim and Dalit neighborhoods of Delhi, and uses their conversations and letters to the jinns as an archive of voices so often silenced. He finds that their veneration of the jinns recalls pre-modern religious traditions in which spiritual experience was inextricably tied to ecological surroundings. In this enchanted space, Taneja encounters a form of popular Islam that is not a relic of bygone days, but a vibrant form of resistance to state repression and post-colonial visions of India.

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

Author: Min Jin Lee

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 1455563919

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A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones." In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. *Includes reading group guide*

A Song Everlasting
A Song Everlasting

Author: Ha Jin

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2021-07-27

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 152474879X

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From the universally admired, National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Waiting—a timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country, as he works to find his way in the United States At the end of a U.S. tour with his state-supported choir, popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York to pick up some extra cash for his daughter’s tuition fund, but the consequences of his choice spiral out of control. On his return to China, Tian is informed that the sponsors of the event were supporters of Taiwan’s secession, and that he must deliver a formal self-criticism. When he is asked to forfeit his passport to his employer, Tian impulsively decides instead to return to New York to protest the government’s threat to his artistic integrity. With the help of his old friend Yabin, Tian’s career begins to flourish in the United States. But he is soon placed on a Chinese gov­ernment blacklist and thwarted by the state at every turn, and it becomes increasingly clear that he may never return to China unless he denounces the freedoms that have made his new life possible. Tian nevertheless insists on his identity as a performer, refusing to give up his art. Moving, important, and strikingly relevant to our times, A Song Everlasting is a story of hope in the face of hardship from one of our most celebrated authors.

Free Food for Millionaires
Free Food for Millionaires

Author: Min Jin Lee

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-08-10

Total Pages: 711

ISBN-13: 1786694476

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The brilliant debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Pachinko. 'Ambitious, accomplished, engrossing... As easy to devour as a nineteenth-century romance.' NEW YORK TIMES Casey Han's years at Princeton have given her a refined diction, an enviable golf handicap, a popular white boyfriend and a degree in economics. The elder daughter of working-class Korean immigrants, Casey inhabits a New York a world away from that of her parents. But she has no job, and a number of bad habits. So when a chance encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's determined to carve a space for herself in a glittering world of privilege, power, and wealth – but at what cost? As Casey navigates an uneven course of small triumphs and spectacular failures, a clash of values and ambitions plays out against the colourful backdrop of New York society, its many shades and divides. Addictively readable, Min Jin Lee's bestselling debut Free Food for Millionaires exposes the intricate layers of a community clinging to its old ways in a city packed with haves and have-nots. 'Explores the most funadmental crisis of immigrants' children: how to bridge a generation gap so wide it is measured in oceans.' Observer 'A remarkable writer.' The Times

The Boat Rocker
The Boat Rocker

Author: Ha Jin

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0307911624

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From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea, and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age. New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by the Chinese diaspora around the world. Danlin's explosive exposés have made him legendary among readers--and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize her dreams of literary stardom. Haili's scheme infuriates Danlin both morally and personally--he will do whatever it takes to expose her as a fraud. But in outing Haili, he is also provoking her powerful political allies, and he will need to draw on all of his journalistic cunning to emerge from this investigation with his career--and his life--still intact. A brilliant, darkly funny story of corruption, integrity, and the power of the pen, The Boat Rocker is a tour de force of modern fiction.

Love in the Time of Jin
Love in the Time of Jin

Author: Karin De Havin

Publisher: Supernatural Fantasy Publishing

Published: 2020-12-22

Total Pages: 158

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Will she be stuck in the past forever? Eighteen-year-old Esme uses her last wish to help her genie, Jin, which sends her back in time to Victorian England. Esme is there to confront Roderick, Jin’s former master, and it may be the biggest mistake she’s ever made. With no wishes left, Esme is stuck in the past, possibly forever. Just as she is getting used to living in Victorian times, Jin’s troubles with his former master turn deadly. Esme, and Jin have two enemies to face: Roderick full of revenge for the loss of his magician powers, and the genie High Council, who want to destroy Jin for breaking the genie rules and running off with Esme. Can love conquer all like in the fairy tales? Find out more in Love in the Time of Jin, the third and final book in the Time is Forever Series by author Karin De Havin! If you enjoy young adult time travel romances that are filled with magic and adventure that keeps you turning the pages, and a happy ever after ending then one-click for your copy of Love in the Time of Jin today! Keywords: young adult time travel, young adult historical fantasy, genie books, young adult books, young adult historical fantasy complete series, young adult coming of age fantasy, time travel books, Los Angeles based books, young adult action adventure supernatural, teen high paranormal, young adult supernatural books, time travel , Victorian fantasy, time travel stories, magician fantasy books, happy ever after books. **If you enjoyed the Time is Forever Series , it has a prequel The Genie Academy Series.**

Nanjing Requiem
Nanjing Requiem

Author: Ha Jin

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 030774373X

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It’s 1937, and the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College, decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and Vautrin must struggle, day after day, to intercede on the behalf of the hapless victims. Yet even when order and civility are restored, she remains deeply embattled, always haunted by the lives she could not save. At once a searing story that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century and an indelible portrait of a singular and brave woman, Nanjing Requiem is another tour de force from the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting.