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Wuxia Triumphs: A Journey of Death, Betrayal, Triumph, and Loss

“Fred Yu has created an extraordinary world that taps into ancient, powerful archetypes. The lucky reader will journey into unexpected terrain.”— Jay Stern, producer of Rush Hour and Horrible Bosses “The Orchid Farmer’s Sacrifice is a riveting experience, an intense page-turner full of plot twists and intrigue.”— Kary Oberbrunner, author…

Wyatt SemenukMarch 17, 2022

Better Self Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

A Spiritual Memoir and Life-Changing Guide to Energy Healing

From the first time he used the Light on his injured wrist, Yan Ming Li knew he "had been given a special gift." Yet it was a gift he would need to keep secret from all but those nearest and dearest to him. You see, at the time, Master Li…

Gevera Bert PiedmontAugust 18, 2022

Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Two Superpowers Collide in the Middle of the China Sea

One of the best-known authors on Earth, Tom Clancy was a pioneer in military thrillers whose name became a pop-culture shortcut for discussions about high-tech weaponry, espionage heroes and sinister plots to take down the United States government. Despite his death in 2013, his legacy lives on, with over 100…

Wyatt SemenukAugust 17, 2022

Nonfiction Save the World

Enlightening and Alarming Explanation of Climate Challenge

If the title alone for Jeff Nesbit’s analysis of environmental challenges isn’t enough to scare you, there’s plenty to be concerned about in the content of This Is The Way The World Ends: How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America (Thomas Dunne Books). Nesbit, previous…

BookTribOctober 25, 2018

Nonfiction

BookTrib Review: Jonathan White Captures the ‘Spirit of the Ocean’ in ‘Tides’

Something unexpected will happen upon reading the chapters of this captivating book. Your nostrils will feel the iodine-laden air brushing as the winds break like waves upon the shores of your assumptions. They will jolt into wakeness. If you ever thought that the constant ebb and flow of the sea…

Frederic ColierJanuary 10, 2018

Nonfiction

TED Talks: Lisa Bu Shares How Books Help Us Discover Identity

What was your childhood dream? Growing up in China, Lisa Bu wanted to be a Chinese Opera Singer – but her parents didn’t approve. In her TED Talk from TED 2013, Bu describes how books helped her discover her identity and branch out within her own culture. She also discusses…

Katie HiresDecember 22, 2015

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Vaccine Held Hostage in Chilling Alternate History of COVID-19

In October 2019, in the city of Wuhan in the People’s Republic of China, virologist Zhou Zhihao is hard at work creating a new virus at the behest of her father, a well-connected doctor who works closely with the national health minister, Ma Xiaowei. An employee at the Wuhan Institute…

Peggy KurkowskiJanuary 14, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Leroy Field Merges Fiction and Current Events in Thriller “China Deception”

China Deception, Part 1 (Gatekeeper Press) by Leroy Field provides a chilling perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and around the world through the medium of dystopian fiction. During a time characterized by worldwide fear and placing blame on various members of the global community for inciting…

Gabby TorrentiJuly 21, 2021

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

“Rings of Fire” Creates Olympic Terror in an Alternate History Thriller

It appears we’ll see the Tokyo Olympics this July, just not the one we imagined. That’s fertile ground for a creative thriller writer. In the real world, organizers decided to postpone the Games from 2020 to 2021 due to the Covid pandemic. Then there was the recent announcement that no…

Dennis HetzelApril 19, 2021

Fiction Romance

Author Pens Love Letter to Shanghai in Debut Novel “Love and Other Moods”

Crystal Z. Lee calls her debut novel, Love and Other Moods (Balestier Press), a love letter to Shanghai, and it clearly is, but it is also a delicious way to learn about the largest and most cosmopolitan city in China. In this setting, we follow a cast of expats and…

Sherri DaleyFebruary 22, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppies Review: “The Moon in the Palace” Is Full of Forbidden Love, Intrigue, and Clever Women

Palace intrigue, forbidden love, and clever women. Weina Dai Randel’s beautifully written, RITA-award winning The Moon in the Palace is full of all three and more. Set in China during the Tang Dynasty (seventh century), the novel follows the life of Mei, the future Empress Wu. From an early age, Mei…

BookTribMarch 15, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “Dragon Springs Road,” Orphan’s Tale

In Dragon Springs Road (William Morrow Paperbacks), Janie Chang constructs a magical, rich and compelling historical novel set in the early twentieth-century about Jialing, a girl of Eurasian descent, as she navigates her life as an orphan near Shanghai, China. The Western Residence of Dragon Springs Road is the place Jialing…

Tif MarceloSeptember 27, 2018

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured

Martial Artist and Author, Fred Yu, Reveals His Secrets

Historical fiction is read for many reasons, chiefly among them is the escapism they allow. In author Fred Yu’s writing he does exactly that. “I want readers to put down my books at the very end and feel that they were transported to a world that no longer exists,” says…

Wyatt SemenukApril 4, 2022

Wuxia Triumphs: A Journey of Death, Betrayal, Triumph, and Loss

A Spiritual Memoir and Life-Changing Guide to Energy Healing

Two Superpowers Collide in the Middle of the China Sea

Enlightening and Alarming Explanation of Climate Challenge

BookTrib Review: Jonathan White Captures the ‘Spirit of the Ocean’ in ‘Tides’

TED Talks: Lisa Bu Shares How Books Help Us Discover Identity

Vaccine Held Hostage in Chilling Alternate History of COVID-19

Leroy Field Merges Fiction and Current Events in Thriller “China Deception”

“Rings of Fire” Creates Olympic Terror in an Alternate History Thriller

Author Pens Love Letter to Shanghai in Debut Novel “Love and Other Moods”

Tall Poppies Review: “The Moon in the Palace” Is Full of Forbidden Love, Intrigue, and Clever Women

Tall Poppy Review: “Dragon Springs Road,” Orphan’s Tale

Martial Artist and Author, Fred Yu, Reveals His Secrets

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