The PagodaMr. Lowe lives the simple and happy life of a shopkeeper. A Chinese immigrant to Jamaica in the 1890s, Lowe revels in the lush beauty of his adoptive land. But the past confronts Lowe in everything he does, and so his history reveals itself the tale of his exile from China, his shipboard adventures, an unwanted pregnancy and the arrangement that was made to avoid scandal. The arrangement placed Lowe in a marriage of convenience with a mysterious

hidden forces of Wall Street and how it has dehumanized and left behind everyday Americans

his wealthy clientele and his showy forensic approach to crime: Arrowood—self-taught psychologist

against the odds

fateful choice

blame is never far from anyone's thoughts

is totally weird

Hodes into the refugee camps of post-genocide Rwanda

not simply because it prefigured the much larger world war that followed it

and brilliantly illustrated coloring book will delight adult coloring book fans as well as children

Jack knows he’s falling—hard

who'll drag him off to some small

three families find their feelings intensified and their lives transformed each summer