The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu the assassini

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu the assassiniA Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from "an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem). Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of

as we grow up

A burglary gone wrong in Virginia

first published as essays in The New Yorker

and how quickly outdated they've become

NASA missions

A timeless book giving middle-grade boys a welcome message that masculinity can mean many things

deeply concerned

A forty-year-old woman risks her new career for a secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback in this "deliciously good time" of a novel (Nicola Kraus

despite the attackers' efforts

This delightful book is centered around a love poem to a child: Right from the start

alongside the right to vote

she knows the story could be huge