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It's the summer of 2015, racial tensions were high in America. Poet and author, Daniel L. Walker, wrote a collection of poems and lyrics about injustice, betrayal, failed relationships, and hope. Serious Sins is the fourth book published by author Daniel L. Walker. Some of the titles included are: After You Fall, Raven, and Times are Changing.

Inspired by three figures who lived at pivotal moments in Chinese American history, and drawing on his own mixed-race experience, Peter Ho Davies plunges us into what it is like to feel and be treated like a foreigner in the country you call home. Ranging from the mouth of the Pearl River to the land of golden opportunity, this remarkable audiobook spans 150 years to tell a tale of familial bonds denied, of tenacity and pride, of prejudice and the universal need to belong.

Always be thankful for what you have. 'Cause there is always someone wishing and praying they could be like you or have what you have.

This program is a manual designed to give you an in-depth understanding of how to access your own free will. As we all know, life doesn't always go the way you wanted to. The question for most people is, "What do you want?" The true answer for most people lies hidden deep within their subconscious yet its existence motivates every facet of our lives.

In this comprehensive program, you'll learn about how achieving and receiving begin with believing. You'll learn to form a recipe for your own powerful personal affirmations as well as how to attract the best of everything into your life with just a simple shift in focus.

Inside this very special program, you'll learn the secrets of mass media and consumer manipulation used by Fortune 500 companies to build their empires, and you'll discover how to apply this new-found knowledge to your own endeavors to produce amazing results, without spending thousands of dollars to do it.

Fünf AutorInnen - zehnfacher Nachwuchs. Da gibt es einiges zu erzählen: Aus dem Gebärsaal, über Kita und Kindsgi, über Zoo und Co., über den Spagat zwischen Familienalltag und Beruf, über Ferien mit und von den Kindern, über Yogamütter, Drogenmüsli und Schulreisen.

Dr. Bruce Thompson, an extraordinary scientist and engineer, returns home to a hero's welcome after almost four decades in deep space. Soon after, he learns the hostile alien culture he battled in Messier-104 have followed him through the time fold. The first intergalactic war is about to begin.

Chinese Yankee by Ruthanne Lum McCunn tells the true story of Hong Kong born Thomas Sylvanus (Ah Yee Way), an orphan brought to America for schooling in the mid-1850s, but enslaved in Baltimore. Only sixteen at the outbreak of war, Thomas ran north, joined the Freedom Army, and was blinded in the first major campaign. He failed to fully recover his sight and, deemed incapable of performing the duties of a soldier, was discharged.

Logan Solomon is a Southern gentleman who has lived in Beijing far too long. Aside from the shady business deals, surveillance jobs, and the often decadent lifestyle of the jaded foreigner, he has also managed to alienate his wife Li Na while associating himself with very rough characters - some who might not even be human. Following a seemingly chance encounter aboard a train, a chain of events is set in motion that will change Logan's destiny forever, and leave a trail of dead in the wake.

What happens when a thirty-something, newly divorced man discovers courage and adventure, thanks to a karaoke contest? In Adventures of the Karaoke King, Harold Taw introduces us to Guy Watanabe, a man marginally aware of his Asian background and decidedly unaware of how poorly he has planned for his future. In this riotous, often thoughtful, and always entertaining novel, readers are taken on a memorable journey that crosses America, Asia, and back, with the last leg spent in a shipping container.

Would you like to use team building to win at work? Would you like to get your team decision made faster? Would you like to know the insider secret that got eight Microsoft teams to work together to sell over 100 million licenses? Well now you can! Best-selling team building author John Chen presents his incredible Six Team Building Steps to Winning Decisions. With a combination of practical tips, inspiring stories, and interactive exercises, just sit back, enjoy the learning, and start WINning today!

Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and opened it up to outside developers, however, the iPhone became capable of serving a rapidly growing number of functions--now more than 350,000 and counting. But the iPhone has implications far beyond the phone or gadget market.

The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the 15th century. Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants in one of the poorest provinces, Anhui, asking the question: have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors?

Each course in this language learning series has 12 lessons of 5-11 minutes each, covering the things you most need to know. Either take the lessons one after the other or pick and choose the topics that you prefer. It's as easy as 1-2-3, and you can get to grips with the language quickly because you hear it, rather than just reading it. Includes complete course script with 96 test questions.

The struggles of international students at Cambridge University and in the context of the United Kingdom come alive for the reader. Christian Kim's book points out the inadequacies of Cambridge University to deal with the influx of international students and their needs. Furthermore, this book exposes the underhanded policies of the British New Labour government. This book is a heart-warming account of the positivity of the human spirit to take on a big unfair power even when the odds are stacked against them.

The Cave Man follows Ja Feng once he is released from his solitary confinement, as he is forced to integrate with fellow prisoners who view his skeletal figure and erratic screaming fits as freakish, and his heartbreaking attempts to assimilate into Chinese culture, to reestablish familial bonds and to seek out an ordinary human experience.

ring China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution, the People’s Liberation Army dispatches an elite group of prospectors famous for their work uncovering rare minerals to the mountains of rural Inner Mongolia. Their assignment: to bring honor to their country by descending into a maze of dank caves to find and retrieve the remnants of a buried Japanese World War II bomber. How the aircraft ended up beneath thousands of feet of rock baffles the team, but they’ll soon encounter far more treacherous forces lurking in the shadows.

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature listeners as well.

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic.