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Ray grounds her text in the everyday experiences of young children.
De Waal, an English ceramist who inherited a collection of 264 netsuke intricate, puts the figurines in this account of his family's survival in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Emily, the teenage narrator of Espach's wry first novel,loses faith in the adults around her.
It's the summer of 1994 in Roth's suspenseful novel, and a polio epidemic has taken hold of a Newark neighborhood.
Leavy alternated an account of great pitcher's perfect game in 1965 with a study of his life in Sandy Koufax.
Danticat's essays reflect on the Haitian diaspora and artists.
Icelandic writer Steinunn Sigurdardottir's "first-time adventure" arrives in China for the 2011 Asian and Nordic Poetry Festival.
Gish Jen, born to immigrant Chinese parents, is giving US literary heavyweights a run for their money.
Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs leapt to the top of bestseller lists in its first week in book stores.
Alai's voyage to become the best-known Tibetan author was anything but smooth sailing - especially writing outside his mother tongue.
Tibetan author Alai's King Gesar provides easy access to the classic and lengthy adventures of the legendary ruler.
The 2011 Annual Conference of the Library Society of China brings together more than 1,300 librarians from home and abroad.