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Book cover for The Green Phoenix: A Novel of the Woman Who Re-Made Asia, Empress Xiaozhuang

The Green Phoenix: A Novel of the Woman Who Re-Made Asia, Empress Xiaozhuang by Alice Poon

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As Mongolian folklore went, once upon a time by the shores of a placid lake on the crest of Burkhan Khaldun (the mountain that Genghis Khan ordained as sacred), Blue Grey Wolf had mated with Beautiful Red Doe. The first child in Mongolian ...more

Brown Girl in the Ring

by Nalo Hopkinson

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The Mango's Kiss

by Albert Wendt

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“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: loneliness

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“Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

tags: philosophy

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“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower

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“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate

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“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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