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The End of the Golden Gate is a penetrating journey that illuminates both what makes San Francisco so magnetizing and how it has changed vastly over time. With essays chronicling the impact of the tech-industry invasion and the evolution, gentrification, and radical cost of living that has transformed San Francisco's most beloved neighborhoods, these prescient essayists capture the lasting imprint of the 1960s counterculture movement, as well as the fight to preserve the art, music, and other creative movements that make this forever the city of love.

Jun hates boy bands. They are disruptive in the classroom, annoying, have no talent, and are now affecting his role as class president. After a talk with his teacher, Jun must convince his best friend, Saki, to give up her obsession over Akatsuki, the particularly vexing boy band, or abdicate his class privileges. But his talk with Saki doesn’t go well. In his attempt to understand what all the fuss is about, Jun goes down the rabbit hole of Akatsuki, only to find another unusual fan of the boy band that has his classmates raving.

Joanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of 10 novels and two collections, turns her “incandescent imagination” (Publishers Weekly) back to the craft of the short story, with breathtaking results. Ranging across history from the distant past to the future, Scott tours the many forms our stories can take, from cave wall paintings to radio banter to digitized archives, and the far-reaching consequences of our communications.

Greater Than a Tourist: Colorado Springs Colorado USA by Anita M. Pariseau offers the inside scoop on Colorado Springs. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

传说中的无上天，是所有生命最后的庇护所。在西藏的茫茫雪山中，是否隐藏着人类的最后一处圣地？……傳說中的無上天，是所有生命最後的庇護所。在西藏的茫茫雪山中，是否隱藏著人類的最後一處聖地？

仙幻时代豪门情事纠葛，九州八荒浪漫凄美童话。 凡间女子扶菲在偷东西时遇到清弘和朱雀……仙幻時代豪門情事糾葛，九州八荒浪漫淒美童話。 凡間女子扶菲在偷東西時遇到清弘和朱雀……

在那个年代里，她无能为力的堕入红尘，痴了，傻了。以为逃开了怡香院就能平平安安的生下孩子， 过着平凡的生活，可惜她低估了世俗，低估了自己本身……在那個年代裡，她無能為力的墮入紅塵，痴了，傻了。以為逃開了怡香院就能平平安安的生下孩子，過著平凡的生活，可惜她低估了世俗，低估了自己本身……

《周易》是一部是建立在阴阳二元论基础上对事物运行规律加以论证和描述的中国古哲学书籍。…… 《周易》是一部建立在陰陽二元論基礎上對事物運行規律加以論證和描述的中國古哲學書籍。

《尚书》又称《书》、《书经》，为一部多体裁文献汇编，是中国现存最早的史书。…… 《尚書》又稱《書》、《書經》，為一部多體裁文獻彙編，是中國現存最早的史書。

For the past five years, Mila has spent her human life on the run from both Heaven and Hell. Finally settling down with a job as a bartender and a sometimes relationship with both her co-worker and boss, she's mostly content with what she doesn't have. Until she meets Damien....

This book is written for those who have heard about Excel and how useful it is for years, if not decades, and are finally ready to take the plunge and learn everything there is to know about Excel basics. It describes everything you need to know when it comes to understanding what Excel is for and when to use it for the best results.

In this moving true story, Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a young Hmong refugee navigating life at home and at school. Having seen the poor treatment her parents received when making their best efforts at speaking English, she no longer speaks at school.

Oregon Book Award–winning author Waka T. Brown hits a home run in this middle grade novel about a baseball-obsessed twelve-year-old who moves to Oregon to help his grandfather—an elusive old man with a shrouded past—but ends up learning unexpected truths about his family and how they mysteriously parallel the Japanese folktale of Urashima Taro.

La riscoperta delle proprie radici si accompagna a una serie inevitabile di nuove sfide, spesso estremamente pericolose… Dopo il successo del romanzo "Il cinese" (2018), Andrea Cotti torna a narrare le avventure del suo personaggio più amato, il vicequestore italo-cinese Luca Wu. Tormentato dai problemi coniugali con Anna – complici, se non altro, i ripetuti tradimenti di lui – l’investigatore trova l’occasione per allontanarsi momentaneamente da Roma e dall’amato figlio Giacomo.

Tai Go and his family have crossed an ocean wider than a thousand rivers, joining countless other Chinese immigrants in search of a better life in the United States. Instead, they’re met with hostility and racism. Empowered by the Chinese Exclusion Act, the government detains the immigrants on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay while evaluating their claims.

The idea that God serves as a source of inspiration and strength through both the challenges and joys of life is a cornerstone of many spiritual journeys. This divine motivation is far from an abstract concept; it is a palpable force that influences the fabric of our existence. It colors the choices we make, the values we hold dear, and ultimately, the pattern our lives weave in the vast tapestry of human experience. This inspiration encourages us not only to endure the difficult times with grace and resilience but also to savor the moments of joy and happiness with gratitude and openness.

Malcolm is the youngest child of Hmong refugees, and he was born over a decade after his youngest sibling, giving him a unique perspective on his complicated immigrant family. In the first part of the story, we meet Malcolm as an elementary school kid through the eyes of the adults in his life—his parents and siblings but also the white teachers at his Minnesota schools. As middle school begins, we encounter Malcolm in his own words, and suddenly we see that this "quiet, slow Hmong boy" is anything but.

Will is the only round kid in a school full of thin ones. So he hides…in baggy jeans and oversized hoodies, in the back row during class, and anywhere but the cafeteria during lunch. But shame isn’t the only feeling that dominates Will’s life. He’s also got a crush on a girl named Jules who he knows he doesn’t have a chance with, because of his size—but he can’t help wondering what if? Will’s best shot at attracting Jules’s attention is by slaying the Will Monster inside him by changing his eating habits and getting more exercise.