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Jamie Ford has established himself as one of the few authors out there willing to tackle the uncomfortable subject of the oppressed existence led by many Asian-Americans during the 19th and early 20th centuries. In Love and Other Consolation Prizes he returns to his forte once again, telling the story of a young Chinese boy who is first sold by his mother as a means of getting him a better life, and then auctioned off to the madam of a brothel in the red light district. Curiously enough, it's where the boy begins to form his first semblance of an actual family and is embarked on a lifelong journey few could have ever predicted.

Danielle Steel Tackles a Dangerous Romance The subject of forbidden love is about as old as humanity itself as we have always managed to find factors by which divide ourselves, including skin colour, ethnic origin, religious adherence, social standing, wealth... it's the kind of list that inexhaustibly goes on and on. Nevertheless, it hasn't stopped countless people from trying to jump over those barriers and go for the life they believed fate had planned for them all along.