Toddler Hunting: And Other StoriesKirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018 An unforgettable collection of stories from the most carnally direct and the most lucidly intelligent woman writing in Japan (Kenzaburo Oe) Toddler Hunting and Other Stories introduces a startlingly original voice. Winner of Japans top literary prizes for fiction (among them the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, the Noma, and the Yomiuri), Taeko Kono writes with a strange beauty, pinpricked with sadomasochistic and disquieting

Ted Severson meets Lily

Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother

But on the night Cheong is to be sacrificed

sexual orientation

without ever shying from the harder truths

He also worked as a photographer and graphic designer

How did an idealistic dream of justice and prosperity mutate into one of humanity's worst nightmares

a clairvoyant and

A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids

They were thought to be impossible to escape―but one man did

for there is a warrior king on the throne of France whose desire for supremacy knows no bounds and who will stop at nothing to fulfil his twisted ambitions

friendships and their limits in her moving and entertaining novel Girl Friday