Alec Ash
Alec Ash was born in England in 1986. After graduating from Oxford, he taught in a Tibetan village and in 2008 moved to Beijing, where he is a writer and journalist. His articles have appeared in the Economist, Dissent, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere, including the book of reportage Chinese Characters and the Los Angeles Review of Books, for which he blogs. He is a founder and editor of TheAntHill.org and coeditor of the anthology While We’re Here. He resides in Beijing.
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Wish Lanterns
- By: Alec Ash
- Narrator: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age in a... Read more
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Nine Minutes on Monday
The Globe amp; Mail’s #1 Business Book of the Year!“ALL IN, ALL THE TIME”Low performance and high turnover is not the result of lazy, apathetic workers. It’s not about decreasing budgets. And it’s not about a terrible economy.It’s about leadership that doesn’t engage employees.In Nine Minutes on Monday, leadership guru James Robbins argues that employee engagement comes down to one ...
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Dead of Winter
She has to run. She has to hide. But is there any place he can’t find her?On the run from her drug-dealing ex, Rosie is forced to return to the one place she swore she’d never go back to-Aspen Falls. But it’s a place to lay low until the nightmare blows over. Or is it?When she’s pulled over by Officer Blaine Hartford, she comes face to face with her past. Will she have the courage to tell ...
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Hearing Day Homicide
What do a dead judge, a bird organization, and a homeless woman have in common? That’s what Cameron Cripps Hayman would like to know.When Judge Lundstrom is murdered in her office with her very own gavel leaving her little Pekingese, Bailiff, behind, Cam and her crew set out to solve the case. But with Canal Days keeping her team busy, and a falling out between her last two Action Agency ...
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The 50-Percent Theory of Life
Steve Porter uses his experience on the family farm to explain his “50-Percent Theory of Life” for NPR’s This I Believe series.
This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that begins with the series title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how they have ...
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Beauty and the Billionaire
Real-estate tycoon Hunter Buchanan has a dark past that’s left him scarred and living as a recluse on his family’s palatial estate. Hunter is ready to give up on love-until he spots an enigmatic red-haired beauty and comes up with an elaborate scheme to meet her.Gretchen Petty is in need of a paycheck-and a change. So when a job opportunity in an upstate New York mansion pops up she accepts. ...
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Serious Adverse Events
On April 23, 1984, in a packed press conference room in Washington, DC, the secretary of health and human services declared “The probable cause of AIDS has been found.” By the next day, “probable” had fallen away, and the novel retrovirus later named HIV became forever lodged in global consciousness as “the AIDS virus.” Celia Farber, then an intrepid young reporter for SPIN magazine, ...
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MESSAGE in the BONES
I am not a freak, although many people call me that. The night my father was murdered and I was left for dead, I awoke with the ability to “sense” things. Touching things can give me visions, sometimes horrifying, murderous ones.The bones of a murdered woman are unearthed and our safe small town is shaken to its core. Her killer was good at hiding the truth and after decades in the ground, ...
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Gold Fame Citrus
An acclaimed “5 Under 35” fiction writer’s much-anticipated first novel In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins’s story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with a first novel that will more than meet readers’ hopes, harnessing the sweeping vision and deep heart that made her debut so ...
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The October Country
Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features: THE SMALL ASSASSIN: a fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother’s dream come true — or her nightmare . . . THE EMISSARY: the faithful dog was the sick boy’s only connectioin with the world outside — and beyond . . . THE WONDERFUL DEATH OF DUDLEY STONE: a most remarkable ...
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Third Eye Awakening
Have you always been curious to tap into the power of higher faculties of your existence so you could maybe have out of body experiences, have psychic abilities, have visions of the future, precognition and more and have come across information that the third eye could be the gateway to all that and more?If you answered YES, keep reading…You Are About To Discover The Ancient Wisdom Of Awakening ...
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