Sue Lynn Tan’s highly acclaimed, bestselling Celestial Kingdom duology is expanded with this new compilation of stories from before, during, and after the events in Daughter of the Moon Goddess and Heart of the Sun Warrior, all from the perspectives of beloved characters and illustrated by Kelly Chong. Return to the Immortal Realm, a world of gods, magic, and legendary creatures—and embark upon new adventures of valor, danger, and love. Tales from the Celestial Kingdom collects nine spellbinding stories—two previously published, seven original, including the epilogue to the duology—set in the enchanting world of Sue Lynn Tan’s stunning debut. Filled with magic and mythology, friendship and love, these stories intertwine through the past, present, and future of the two novels, told from the perspectives of multiple characters, including Chang’e, Shuxiao, Liwei, and Wenzhi. With beautiful illustrations from Kelly Chong throughout, these wondrous tales make the perfect complement to Sue Lynn Tan’s breathtaking series.

Like most things in his life, it started at a funeral. Like most things in her life, it started with a chase. Echo doesn't remember much of her past, but she has embraced her new life with Mama Gama, the woman who took her in, and little Lu, the other young orphan whose secret they are all guarding. It is a death sentence to bear the mark of the curse, and Lu's features do nothing to hide it. Surviving in the Seyat is becoming harder each day, but Echo has a plan. There's one market day every three months when the city gates open. She has nothing to sell but she can steal enough to buy her small family a crossing to the free North. When market day comes, it coincides with a funeral. Another orphan girl from Pleiades, the academy of the seven orders, is dead. Echo thinks the funeral proceedings are the distraction her plan needs, except that everything goes wrong. Very horribly wrong. She ends up in the last place someone like her should be in. The academy where her kind have been dying one by one, and she believes she knows who is doing it. The doubler, the next Kardinal. The vicious boy who already wears the mark of the Imperial Vylone. She doesn't know why he is killing the girls, but she is certain that she is next. Except she is not going to let it happen. She will get him before he has the chance to kill her as well.

Bunga Liar Harus dilihat dengan saksama maka ia terlihat cantik. Harus dilihat cukup lama maka ia terlihat menarik. Begitu pula dengan dirimu. Na Tae Joo lahir di Korea Selatan pada 1945. Beliau memenangkan Kontes Sastra Seoul Newspaper pada 1971, lalu menerbitkan buku kumpulan puisi pertamanya yang berjudul Under the Bamboo Forest. Sampai saat ini, Na Tae Joo terus menerbitkan buku kumpulan puisi, kumpulan prosa, dan kumpulan cerita anak-anak. Beliau juga mendapatkan penghargaan di Korea Selatan seperti Chungcheongnam-do Cultural Award, Hyundai Buddhist Literature Award, Korean Poet Association Award, dan lain-lain. Puisi-puisinya pernah digunakan sebagai referensi dalam drama "School 2013", "Encounter", dan "Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life".

전국민의 애송시 「풀꽃」 개정판!! '자세히 보아야/ 예쁘다// 오래 보아야/ 사랑스럽다// 너도 그렇 다. 스물넉 자밖에 되지 않는 단출한 시입니다. 그런데 이 시가 독 자들의 가슴에 들어가 꽃이 되고 악수가 되고 샘물이 된 것입니다. 그야말로 감사하기 짝이 없는 일입니다 이 시집 「풀꽃」은 바로 그 '풀꽃' 시의 성공을 기념하고 기뻐하기 위해서 만든 선시집 형태의 책입니다. - 나태주, 「시인의 말」에서

Two gods strike a bargain that leads them on a journey with devastating consequences in this lush historical fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Ann Liang. China in the age of brilliance, where gods freely wander the three realms. Amongst them is the cruel and beautiful Death God, who has never failed to collect a soul on time. Until now. For when he seeks out Rujia, the noble god of healing―and the only god he is fated to kill with his own hands―she makes him an offer he can’t refuse: she will help lift the excruciating, century-old curse placed upon him if he gives her a one-month reprieve. Rujia knows she isn’t as noble as everyone believes. Her deal with Death is merely an excuse to buy herself time while she figures out an escape plan. But when her plan causes the Celestial Palace’s collapse and the beloved crown prince’s disappearance, she and Death are both held responsible. The only way to avoid the wrath of all the other gods is to travel across the realms and safely retrieve the crown prince themselves. Yet the journey proves far more treacherous than expected. As the unlikely alliance between them blooms into more, and Death’s resolve to kill Rujia weakens by the day, neither can outrun their intertwined fate without devastating consequences: A mysterious plague. An empire-destroying flood. A thousand deaths―and rising―to restore the balance Rujia's disrupted. And if Rujia continues to live despite the will of the Heavens, this is only the beginning...

Like most things in his life, it started at a funeral. Like most things in her life, it started with a chase. Echo doesn't remember much of her past, but she has embraced her new life with Mama Gama, the woman who took her in, and little Lu, the other young orphan whose secret they are all guarding. It is a death sentence to bear the mark of the curse, and Lu's features do nothing to hide it. Surviving in the Seyat is becoming harder each day, but Echo has a plan. There's one market day every three months when the city gates open. She has nothing to sell but she can steal enough to buy her small family a crossing to the free North. When market day comes, it coincides with a funeral. Another orphan girl from Pleiades, the academy of the seven orders, is dead. Echo thinks the funeral proceedings are the distraction her plan needs, except that everything goes wrong. Very horribly wrong. She ends up in the last place someone like her should be in. The academy where her kind have been dying one by one, and she believes she knows who is doing it. The doubler, the next Kardinal. The vicious boy who already wears the mark of the Imperial Vylone. She doesn't know why he is killing the girls, but she is certain that she is next. Except she is not going to let it happen. She will get him before he has the chance to kill her as well.

Like most things in his life, it started at a funeral. Like most things in her life, it started with a chase. Echo doesn't remember much of her past, but she has embraced her new life with Mama Gama, the woman who took her in, and little Lu, the other young orphan whose secret they are all guarding. It is a death sentence to bear the mark of the curse, and Lu's features do nothing to hide it. Surviving in the Seyat is becoming harder each day, but Echo has a plan. There's one market day every three months when the city gates open. She has nothing to sell but she can steal enough to buy her small family a crossing to the free North. When market day comes, it coincides with a funeral. Another orphan girl from Pleiades, the academy of the seven orders, is dead. Echo thinks the funeral proceedings are the distraction her plan needs, except that everything goes wrong. Very horribly wrong. She ends up in the last place someone like her should be in. The academy where her kind have been dying one by one, and she believes she knows who is doing it. The doubler, the next Kardinal. The vicious boy who already wears the mark of the Imperial Vylone. She doesn't know why he is killing the girls, but she is certain that she is next. Except she is not going to let it happen. She will get him before he has the chance to kill her as well.

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales.In the course of assembling her thesis, Minerva uncovers information that reveals that Tremblay’s most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true Decades earlier, during the Great Depression, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is now studying and became obsessed with her beautiful and otherworldly roommate, who then disappeared under mysterious circumstances.As Minerva descends ever deeper into Tremblay’s manuscript, she begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus. These disturbing events also echo the stories Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico, where she had a terrifying encounter with a witch.Minerva suspects that the same shadow that darkened the lives of her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay is now threatening her own in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved.

The heart is a battlefield. All Talasyn has ever known is the Hurricane Wars. Growing up an orphan in a nation under siege by the ruthless Night Emperor, Talasyn has found her family among the soldiers who fight for freedom. But she is hiding a deadly secret: light magic courses through her veins, a blazing power believed to have been wiped out years ago that can cut through the Night Empire's shadows. Prince Alaric, the emperor's only son and heir, has been forged into a weapon by his father. Tasked with obliterating any threats to the Night Empire's rule with the strength of his armies and mighty Shadow magic, Alaric has never been bested. That is until he sees Talasyn burning brightly on the battlefield with the magic that killed his grandfather, turned his father into a monster, and ignited the Hurricane Wars. In a clash of light and dark, their powers merge and create a force the likes of which has never been seen. Talasyn and Alaric both know this war can only end with them. But a greater threat is coming, and the strange new magic they can create together could be the only way to overcome it. Thrust into an uneasy alliance, they will confront the secrets at the heart of the war and find, in each other, a searing passion--one that could save their world...or destroy it. An exquisite fantasy brimming with unforgettable characters, sizzling enemies-to-lovers romance, and richly drawn worlds, The Hurricane Wars marks the breathtaking debut of an extraordinary new writer.

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history—or tear it apart.In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job.Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away.Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice—for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They’re also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats.Apart, they love like demons and fight like tigers. Together, they could bring down an empire.

At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is gradually stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold to the royal harem as a slave. But in the end Clarence’s bewildering journey is the occasion of a revelation, as he discovers the image, both shameful and beautiful, of his own humanity in the alien splendor of the king. Camara Laye published his first novel in 1953, the autobiographical L'Enfant noir (The African Child, also published under the title The Dark Child). It follows his own journey from childhood in Kouroussa, his education in Conakry, and eventual departure for France. The book won the Prix Charles Veillon in 1954. L'Enfant noir was followed the next year by Le Regard du roi (The Radiance of the King).

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See draws on the vibrancy and turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles to tell the story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and, eventually, thrive, despite all odds. In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entrancing and innocent. These characteristics should bring her great rewards, beginning with her arranged marriage to a much older merchant. Petal, the big-footed daughter of peasants, has grown up hungry and with dirt between her toes. In a moment of desperation, Petal’s father sells her to buy money for rice seed, and she is loaded onto a ship to the Gold Mountain—America—where she is once again sold. Moon is married to a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. She is educated, speaks fluent English, and has been endowed with a face of great beauty, yet her failed footbinding as a child has left her with a limp that lessens her value in the eyes of many. Each woman has her own desires. Dove wants to love and be loved, Petal desires freedom, and Moon seeks justice. Together they face a larger society that wishes them not one ounce of good will. Anti-Chinese sentiment is strong in Los Angeles, and this eventually leads to the Night of Horrors during which all three women are challenged in ways they could not have imagined. Brought together by hardship and heartbreak, they must use their bravery, endurance, and ability to “eat bitterness” to discover their voices, find freedom, and connect through solace and friendship. Together they are daughters of the sun and moon.

A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear. Soon a Taiwanese woman―who is younger even than she is, and who shares the characters of her name―is hired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true. The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arranges Chizuko’s travels all over the Land of the South and also proves to be an exceptional cook. Over scenic train rides and braised pork rice, lively banter and winter melon tea, Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance. It’s only after a heartbreaking separation that Chizuko begins to grasp what the “something” is. Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan’s highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.

"Using the techniques of both the fabulist and the polemicist, Parsipur continues her protest against traditional Persian gender relations in this charming, powerful novella." —Publishers Weekly This modern literary masterpiece follows the interwoven destinies of five women—including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a prostitute, and a schoolteacher—as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of Tehran. Drawing on elements of Islamic mysticism and recent Iranian history, this unforgettable novel depicts women escaping the narrow confines of family and society, and imagines their future living in a world without men.

**Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature**A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America’s best-known trans men, Antonio de ErausoThe new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Adventures of China Iron'Cabezón Cámara’s historical fiction plays out like confession or revelation... glowing white hot, dancing like the heart of a pyre' Financial Times'Profoundly resonant with our current moment… a story that is not only inclusive but also redemptive' Chicago Review of BooksFrom deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the convent he escaped as a young girl. Since leaving his past behind, he's become Antonio, conquistador. Now, hiding in the jungle and hounded by the army he deserted, Antonio is caring for two Guaraní girls he rescued from enslavement. But the New World has one more metamorphosis in store, which might save them all from extinction.We Are Green and Trembling is a masterful subversion of Latin American history, religious tyranny and the mistreatment of women and indigenous people - finding in the rainforest a magical space where transformation is not only possible but necessary.‘Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s writing is singular in the Spanish an intrepid pulse that shakes and disarms us’ FERNANDA MELCHOR‘Not only does Cámara challenge and incite us, she also gives us the subversive courage to think of ourselves as more human, more alive, and more luminous than ever’ SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN'Sensuous and searing—a queer anticolonial picaresque' Publishers WeeklyTranslated by Robin Myers

New York Times bestseller Jasmine Walt returns with this first book in a brand-new fantasy series, perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas, Raven Kennedy, and Elise Kova. A fae with impossible magic Adara has been an outsider for as long as she can remember. Born and raised in the earth fae realm, she’s a water fae who can’t control her magic, making her not just useless, but downright dangerous at times. When a training mishap accidentally unleashes a hidden magic inside her, Adara suddenly finds herself on the run. The king wants to use her powers for nefarious reasons, and he’ll stop at nothing to obtain her—including kidnapping and torturing Adara’s own mother. A dragon awoken from slumber As the last of his kind, Einar wants nothing to do with the kingdom of Ediria or its problems. The fae hunted his kind to extinction, and he harbors only hatred for them in his heart. But when a beautiful fae female awakens him from an enchanted slumber, Einar is reluctantly ensnared. And while he would rather die than submit to any fae, every fiber of his body screams to claim her as his own. A kingdom corrupted by darkness The last thing Adara and Einar want to do is join forces, no matter how scorching the passion between them is. But a dark magic is sweeping through the land, rotting the kingdom from the inside out. And if the two cannot put aside the centuries-old feud between their races, they will lose everything they hold dear... If you like steamy, slow-burn romance, heart-pounding elemental duels, and unmatched world-building, then you’ll love this series. Scroll up to grab your copy today!

TEMPTRESS. MONSTER. WARRIOR. Aicha tells the tale of Morocco's warrior goddess, her strange magic, vicious rebellion and devastating romance. This is a story of female rage and lesser known myths, perfect for fans of She Who Became the Sun, The Jasmine Throne and Circe. The Portuguese flag has been planted across Morocco, its empire ruling with an iron fist. But eventually, all empires must fall. Aicha, the daughter of a Moroccan freedom-fighter, was born for battle. She has witnessed the death of her people, their starvation and torture at the hands of the occupiers, and it has awakened an anger within her. An anger that burns hot and bright, and speaks to Aicha's soul. Only Aicha's secret lover Rachid, a rebellion leader, knows how to soothe her. But as the fight for Morocco's freedom reaches it violent climax, the creature that simmers beneath Aicha's skin begs to be unleashed. It hungers for the screams of those who have caused her pain, and it will not be ignored.