The Bride Factory

From the acclaimed author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia.With his entry into Restless Book's The Face series, award-winning novelist Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers' treacherous boat journeys to mainland China in the 1920s, Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders, images from rural villages to megacity nightclubs, and voices in a dizzying variety of languages, dialects, and slangs.Tash Aw was born in Taiwan, grew up in Kuala Lumpur, and currently lives in London. He is the author ofThe Harmony Silk Factory, which won the Whitbread Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and ofMap of the Invisible Wo

ALWAYS A STYLIST, NEVER A BRIDE? Abby Crane loves her job as a hairstylist, so it's a major coup when fabulously wealthy Dylan Camden hires her for his sister's nuptials. Raised tough and ind

This is the moving story of a teenage bride who is forced back to the high-school life she thought she'd left behind. For seventeen-year-old Tam, running off to marry her musician boyfriend is the ide

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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A frightfully delightful collection of 44 spooky tunes in piano/vocal/guitar arrangements. Includes: Addams Family Theme * Bad Things * Corpse Bride (Main Title) * Don't

A prince's surprise twins may turn his royal marriage into something more? Prince Gabriel Alessandro's top priority is continuing the family line, and he's found the perfect bride-to-be in Lady Olivia

His Perfect Bride Jacob Lapp has loved Annie Zook since childhood. But she's never seen him that way. Once courted?then rejected?by his older brother, Annie's wary of the Lapp men. But now that Jacob

The sea-king's warrior bride Legendary shield maiden Sayrid Avildottar will marry no man unless he first defeats her in combat. And in powerful sea-king Hrolf Eymundsson she has finally met her match.

A Yuletide Bride It's time for mistletoe and merriment?for everyone except Robin Frazier. As Jasper Gulch's centennial celebrations reach their festive conclusion, her guilt is only mounting. The shy

Surrender is the greatest sin For adventure guide Ryan Quinn, a week in Fiji babysitting a hen party should be a cakewalk. Only, the bride turns out to be sexy movie star Serena Hightower, and the wed

This adventurous duke... The Duke of Marchford requires a suitable bride, but catching spies for the Foreign Office takes up most of his time. Not wanting to face another London season as an eligible

FROM AMISH NANNY TO BRIDE? After her sweetheart's betrayal, Ruthy Mummert leaves behind the small-town gossip of her Amish community for the first opportunity she can find: a housekeeper position in f

Runaway bride Kari Worthington gets more than she bargained for when her search for a job—and a new life—brings her to the doorstep of a gorgeous winery owner in Texas hill country. 75,000 first print

A bride for a Broward? If Brooke Palmer doesn't find a husband within thirty days, she will lose her family home forever. So she turns to the only man she trusts to save her?. Jameson Broward has only

Sir Diarmot MacEnroy, deciding his illegitimate children need a mother and his keep needs a proper lady, now stands before the altar with a gentle bride he hopes is too shy to disrupt his life or brea

Runaway bride Maddie Donovan bursts into a bar while still wearing her wedding dress, and into the arms of bartender Mitch Riley, who offers for her to stay at his place until things settle down. Orig

A marriage to save them both? Among the responses Cassandra Hamilton receives to her advertizement as a mail-order bride, one stands out?Jack McColton's. The last time she saw him, she was a carefree

Three Candidates. One Perfect Bride. Whitfield Calder, Earl of Danning, would much rather spend a fortnight tending to his estate than entertaining three eligible young ladies. But when his valet insi

Two heartwarming holiday novels by Anna Schmidt in one keepsake collection LASSO HER HEART A painful past has Bethany Taft believing she'll never be a bride. But when her beloved sixty-year-old aunt

Nicholas Haddonfield has something to hide... After a wild youth, Nicholas Haddonfield, Viscount Reston, has promised his ailing father he'll finally take a bride, though doing so will force Nick to m

Carrie Montgomery had grown up with seven adoring older brothers, and she was used to getting her way rather easily. Joshua Greene was only looking for a hardworking, practical mail-order bride to hel

In the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Agony of the Leaves, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning may always be a bridesmaid, never a bride, but this groom is never g

When his new deputy's mail-order bride is kidnapped, Cotton Pickens, the sheriff of Doubtful, Wyoming, must keep his distracted deputy alive when their peaceful town explodes in a frenzy of killing an

Through vivid photos and engaging text, this fun and fact-filled Rookie Read-About Science book answers the question, How is chocolate made? From tropical cacao fields to the chocolate factory, Beans

A fresh, modern take on wedding design perfect for today’s bride. Paige Appel and Kelly Harris started designing weddings in 2009, and their work immediately resonated with young brides and grooms: we

Loveable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. But when a little girl named Boo wanders into their

A Desperate Widow Once a penniless orphan, Evelyn D'Orsay became a countess and a bride at the tender age of sixteen. But the flames of revolution forced her to flee France, with the aid of a notoriou

Charlie had his chocolate factory. Stanley Yelnats had his holes. Leo has the wacky, amazing Whippet Hotel.Now that Leo has uncovered a few secrets behind the wacky Whippet Hotel, he'll have to save

Thomas McKinnon crosses the Atlantic to restore a twelfth-century castle and finds himself in love with a ghost--a young Scottish bride betrayed by her new husband and killed in 1382, who has awaited

Johnny Mo has quit his job at the paper clip factory to fight giant, mutant chickens in a "cool points" contest - all so his smokin'' hot girlfriend will have a safe world in which to have a their bab

“I am Marzi, born in 1979, ten years before the end of communism in Poland. My father works at a factory, my mother at a dairy. Social problems are at their height. Empty stores are our dail

James, the new Viscount Matheson, believes that Louisa, a kind, intelligent beauty, will make a suitable bride until he meets her impetuous stepsister Julia, and, torn between two women, James has no

Charlie had his chocolate factory. Stanley Yelnats had his holes. Leo has the wacky, amazing Whippet Hotel.The Whippet Hotel is a strange place full of strange and mysterious people. Each floor has

A pirate bride who sinks with her ship, a ghost that gets ever larger, and a big slobbery monster with long green fingers and floppy purple lips are just a few of the characters who populate this coll

Praise for The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy: "Another superior Jane Austen homage...will entertain those who already know their Austen and Georgette Heyer by heart, as well as fans of old-fashioned rom

The Easter Bunny gets all the glory, but what about all the chicks who do all the work making Easter baskets? When the factory chicks feel it's time they get the Easter credit they deserve, mutiny ari

In this debut novel, Peter is a simple man who lives by a simple truth--a person gains strength by leaning on his constants. To him, those constants are the factory where he works, the family he love

A computer genius. A missing Russian bride. A true-life murder mystery. Computer genius Hans Reiser married beautiful Russian pediatrician Nina Sharanova, moved with her to his native Oakland, Cali

Their marriage was arranged, but their desire was not... After two years, Grayson Bridlington, The Earl of Hawkeswell, has located his missing bride Verity Thompson. Coerced into marrying Hawkeswell

A vicious Apokolptian villain known as Malestrom has arrived on Earth to kill Superman so that she might become The Bride of Darkseid! Superman and Supergirl join forces to battle the villain but at w