New Releases by Jean Lee

Dana Allison Tessier is a thirty-something woman depressed over the loss of an opportunity to open an extension office for Walk the Life Headhunters Agency and the recent death of her Aunt Meg, her only living family. Her best friend, Amy Bickerton, reminds her of the promise to “let go and let God.” God calls her to quit her job, sell her home, and find where He’s leading her. Amy reminds her to keep her eyes and ears open to His calling. Dana is summoned for jury duty. The book opens at a truck stop, Bobbie-Jo’s Truck Stop. A waitress asks her to share her table because Dana has the only other place to sit. A tall, good-looking man, Jerrod, sits down. He makes small talk. She talks for a while before leaving. Dana travels through each village and town, looking for the place God is wanting her to be. She gets tired of not finding that special place. She settles down in a town, rents a room, finds a job in a card shop, and makes friends that stay in her life for the rest of her life. Certain events occur that she feels are from God telling her this isn’t where she belongs. She turns around and heads home. The adventure doesn’t end there. Read the rest of Dana’s story and find out how her life turns for the better.

177 Lee/BETA''S YEAR OF FIRSTS Beta sits beside her mother after she has just died. Beta is thirteen. Her mother stares off into space as wondering what to say. She goes to live at a foster home. When her mother first dies, Beta hears words of wisdom from her mother. After all the firsts, Beta no longer hears words of wisdom from her mother. 111

Two compassionately subversive plays about identity, by Young Jean Lee, a Korean American playwright whose work is groundbreaking, humorous and often thrillingly transgressive. In Straight White Men, it''s Christmas Eve, and Ed has gathered his three adult sons to celebrate with matching pyjamas, trash-talking, and Chinese takeaway. But when a question they can''t answer interrupts their seasonal cheer, they are forced to confront their own identities. Raucous, surprising and fearless, Straight White Men takes an outside look at the traditional father/son narrative, shedding new light on a story we think we know all too well. It had its UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2021, following US productions including a Broadway run that made Lee the first Asian-American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. In Untitled Feminist Show, six charismatic stars of the theatre, dance, cabaret and burlesque worlds come together in an exhilaratingly irreverent, nearly wordless celebration of a fluid and limitless sense of identity. Untitled Feminist Show isn''t a show about feminism - it is a feminist show. It premiered at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 2012 before transferring to the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City. ''Young Jean Lee is, hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation'' New York Times

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2021 Honorable Mention Recipient of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895–1920 examines an era in which the US population was becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial. Comic artists and writers, hoping to create works that would appeal to a diverse audience, had to formulate a method for making the “other half” laugh. In magazine fiction, vaudeville, and the comic strip, the oppressive conditions of the poor and the marginalized were portrayed unflinchingly, yet with a distinctly comic sensibility that grew out of caricature and ethnic humor. Author Jean Lee Cole analyzes Progressive Era popular culture, providing a critical angle to approach visual and literary humor about ethnicity—how avenues of comedy serve as expressions of solidarity, commiseration, and empowerment. Cole’s argument centers on the comic sensibility, which she defines as a performative act that fosters feelings of solidarity and community among the marginalized. Cole stresses the connections between the worlds of art, journalism, and literature and the people who produced them—including George Herriman, R. F. Outcault, Rudolph Dirks, Jimmy Swinnerton, George Luks, and William Glackens—and traces the form’s emergence in the pages of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s Journal-American and how it influenced popular fiction, illustration, and art. How the Other Half Laughs restores the newspaper comic strip to its rightful place as a transformative element of American culture at the turn into the twentieth century.

The end of 4th grade marks a huge milestone in a young person''s life; and this MY 4TH GRADE STORY guided journal will help them capture all of the special memories and milestones of their 4TH grade school years before moving on to 5th grade! Filled with over 100 pages of interview-style question and answer prompts and plenty of lined space to record: School statistics Favorite and least favorite classes, teachers, and subjects Details of school events, sports, dances, etc Memories of friends, holidays, and milestones Current entertainment, food, and social media favorites Hopes and dreams for the future Pages for photos and memorabilia along with autographs Once completed, this book will make a lasting keepsake and an heirloom for future generations! Makes a wonderful gift for any occasion!

If Pennsylvania is HOME, whether or not you currently live there, then this is the notebook for you! Sleek black cover features the outline of the state with the word HOME in the middle. 7x10 composition book size with 120 college-ruled pages. Perfect for school, work, or home; and also makes a great gift!

If Tennessee is HOME, whether or not you currently live there, then this is the notebook for you! Sleek black cover features the outline of the state with the word HOME in the middle. 7x10 composition book size with 120 college-ruled pages. Perfect for school, work, or home; and also makes a great gift!

If Kentucky is HOME, whether or not you currently live there, then this is the notebook for you! Sleek black cover features the outline of the state with the word HOME in the middle. 7x10 composition book size with 120 college-ruled pages. Perfect for school, work, or home; and also makes a great gift!

If Kansas is HOME, whether or not you currently live there, then this is the notebook for you! Sleek black cover features the outline of the state with the word HOME in the middle. 7x10 composition book size with 120 college-ruled pages. Perfect for school, work, or home; and also makes a great gift!

If Georgia is HOME, whether or not you currently live there, then this is the notebook for you! Sleek black cover features the outline of the state with the word HOME in the middle. 7x10 composition book size with 120 college-ruled pages. Perfect for school, work, or home; and also makes a great gift!

The Boston Terrier Life Is The Only Life For Me 8.5x11-inch notebook lets everyone know how much you love Boston Terrier dogs! Paperback with 120 pages college-ruled page. Perfect for any age, whether for school, work or at home!

Readers today are still fascinated by “Nat, an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by ‘log, lead, and lookout.’ Nat’s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the ‘Sailors Bible’), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero. नॅट अर्थात बो-डिचची ही जीवनकहाणी. लहानपणापासूनच गणित विषयाच्या आवडीमुळे त्याच्यात हार्वर्ड विद्यापीठात शिकून पदवी मिळवण्याची इच्छा रूजलेली. पण घरच्या परिस्थितीमुळे त्याला शाळा सोडावी लागते. जहाजावर हिशेबनीस म्हणून काम करताना सागरी प्रवासाच्या अनुभवविश्वाशी नॅटची ओळख होते. या प्रवासात त्यानं मिळवलेलं ज्ञान आणि त्याची अपार इच्छाशक्ती त्याला त्याच्या इच्छित साध्यापर्यंत पोहोचवते. नौकानयन शास्त्रात नॅटनं केलेल्या विलक्षण कामाचा हा एक अर्थी साहित्यिक दस्ताऐवजच होय.

Hunter, Ava, and Maxwell grow taller and I grow wiser in this second book of the Lexi''s Triplets Series. The kids learn to walk and talk, while I learn important life lessons from my canine friends-and even Granny. Read about the mayhem we run into during my quest to become the best furry parent I can be to my litter of three. This book has black and white pictures in the interior.

When Ed and his three adult sons come together to celebrate Christmas, they enjoy cheerful trash-talking, pranks, and takeout Chinese. Then they confront a problem that even being a happy family can’t solve: When identity matters, and privilege is problematic, what is the value of being a straight white man?

Chinese Women Business Leaders - Seven Principles of Leadership includes seven women who represent the characteristics of ShEOs in the wave of Chinese economic reform. Their unique life stories are also reflections of changes in Chinese society. These women have each played a distinctive role In China''s rapid emergence. Reform and opening up has brought more opportunities than ever before to Chinese women, though along with these opportunities come some questions and challenges. The fetters and shackles of tradition have been shattered. A path for self-actualization has opened up. Women in mainland China have experienced great changes, and struggled with conflicts between traditional heritage and modern values. Ever since reform and opening up in 1978, the rapid emergence of women in leadership roles in business has paralleled significant upheavals in the Chinese business landscape. - Offers a new perspective on leadership using examples from successful woman leaders in Chinese business - Includes seven unique case interviews with successful women leaders in China - Provides an overview of China''s business environment over the past 30 years and the challenges unique to entrepreneurs working in China

Acclaimed playwright and director Young Jean Lee transforms her life-long struggle with Christianity into an exuberant church service. Both celebratory and confrontational, CHURCH will test the expectations of religious and non-religious alike—looking deep into why we believe what we believe.

The Land Speaks explores the intersections of two vibrant fields, oral history and environmental studies. The fourteen oral histories collected here range North America, examining wilderness and cities, farms and forests, rivers and arid lands. The contributors argue that oral history can capture communication from nature and provide tools for environmental problem solving.

Jean B. Lee''s memoir, GOD HAS MY BACK is a potpourri of intriguing episodes affording glimpses into the author''s romantic adventures, spiritual struggles, interpersonal conflicts and victories. It is an easy read. It''s a witty, passionate testimonial of one who has been journeying with Christ from childhood to adulthood. The reader will experience a gamut of emotions-from hilarity to pathos---on this journey with the author. It appeals to a wide cross-section of age groups, and will even inspire some to start their own journals.

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Wouldn''t it be extraordinary to find the goodness of the Lord in ordinary life events? Chronicled within Living the Legacy, Jean Lee depicts real life moments in very short true stories that tell of circumstances to which you can relate. Living the Legacy is a snapshot view of everyday family situations. You''ll meet some of Jean Lee''s family members as the stories unfold. You''ll especially find the Lord in the details because every story leads to Him. Written in an easy-to-read, conversational style with a Southern flavor, Living the Legacy can be used as a devotional or read in its entirety. Set in East Tennessee, Living the Legacy portrays Jean Lee''s family triumphs, struggles, and everyday routine. Observe the Father weave each thread of life experience into a beautiful tapestry. Discover God''s personality and essence in Living the Legacy. Enjoy His goodness. Encounter His attributes: Grace and Forgiveness Encouragement and Healing Love and Gentleness Guidance and Glory Comfort and Mercy Provision and Protection The Father has given you a life to live. With fast paced lifestyles, the inspired Word of God provides power for living life as a child of the King. God chose you for a time like this and desires for you to experience His abundance by living His legacy.

With a bit of reluctance, Jeffrey listens to his little sister, Jasmine, trying predicament as she gives an account of what happened to her. Jasmine describes her heart rendering incident: losing her grandmother''s pearl necklace which is her secret that she is hiding from her parents. Jeffrey identifies with the feeling of "messing up" gets caught up in his sister''s anguish and despair. He blurts out "ouch" as an emotional release to his sister situation. At first the predicament seems as easy as 1-2-3. Jeffrey probes to find answers to resolve Jasmine''s questions that could have been overlooked. Using deductive reasoning proves to be helpful, but it does not reveal enough clues for solving the problem. Can a cover up be an alternative to his sister''s predicament? Who will take the blame if the cover up is exposed? Will Jeffrey take the blame for Jasmine? Based on his past history of squandering his allowance, can Jeffrey get his parent''s approval of starting his own business? Will his business aid him in making enough profit to purchase his desired treasure: that special watch? Jeffrey and Jasmine have dilemmas. They form an alliance to solve their problems to avert getting into hot water with their parents. Discover how Jeffrey and Jasmine maneuver to handle the turning point that is unavoidable. Will the turning point lead to an unexpected surprise?

What would you do if both parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer''s?At the time of their diagnosis, Ed Church struggles to his feet, yelling, "How dare you use the A. word with me," while Ibby wags her finger at the doctor scolding, "Shame on you."They protect each other, Ibby by asserting, "We''re not leaving our home," and Ed reassuring, "We''re just fine."About his driving Ed defends, "I''m an excellent driver, I''ve never had an accident." When their daughter, Rosie, finds dings in Ed''s car, he dismisses, "Someone must have bumped into me."After Rosie moves them to assisted living, convinced they are on a second honeymoon, they break the news, "We''ve decided not to have more children."In the late stages, they politely shake Rosie''s hand, inquiring, "Now, who are you?"In ALZHEIMER''S DAUGHTER readers journey with Rosie Church from her first suspicions that something is awry to nearly a decade later as she is honored to hold Ed and Ibby''s hands when they draw their final breaths.

A life-affirming, humorous show of songs and monologues drawing on real-life experiences, about the one thing we all have in common: we''re gonna die. You may be miserable, but you won''t be alone. Witty, wise and honest, We''re Gonna Die narrates Lee''s experiences of loneliness and the comfort she found in simple and unexpected things following the death of her father. This book includes a CD of all six songs (performed by Young Jean Lee with her band Future Wife) and eight monologues (performed by Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Kathleen Hanna, Adam Horovitz, Matmos''s Drew Daniel, and Martin Schmidt, Sarah Neufeld, and Colin Stetson).

''Post-black'' refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find new and multiple expressions of blackness, unburdened by the social and cultural expectations of blackness of the past and moving beyond the conventional binary of black and white. Reflecting this multiplicity of perspectives, the plays in this collection explode the traditional ways of representing black families on the American stage, and create new means to consider the interplay of race, with questions of class, gender, and sexuality. They engage and critique current definitions of black and African-American identity, as well as previous limitations placed on what constitutes blackness and black theatre. Written by the emerging stars of American theatre such as Eisa Davis and Marcus Gardley, the plays explore themes as varied as family and individuality, alienation and gentrification, and reconciliation and belonging. They demonstrate a wide-range of formal and structural innovations for the American theatre, and reflect the important ways in which contemporary playwrights are expanding the American dramatic canon with new and diverse means of representation. Edited by two leading US scholars in black drama, Harry J. Elam Jr (Stanford) and Douglas A. Jones Jr (Princeton), this cutting edge anthology gathers together some of the most exciting new American plays, selected by a rigorous academic backbone and explored in depth by supporting critical material.

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment. There is a rich collection of distinctive, diverse voices at work in the contemporary American theatre and this brings together six of the best, with work by David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee, Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn and Dan LeFranc. The featured plays range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on life in America. The first play, David Adjmi''s Stunning, is an excavation of ruptured identity set in modern day Midwood, Brooklyn, in the heart of the insular Syrian-Jewish community; Marcus Gardley''s lyrical epic The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry deals with the migration of Black Seminoles, is set in mid-1800s Oklahoma and speaks directly to modern spirituality, relocation and cultural history; Young Jean Lee''s Pullman, WA deals with self-hatred and the self-help culture in her formally inventive three-character play; Katori Hall''s Hurt Village uses the real housing project of "Hurt Village" as a potent allegory for urban neglect set against the backdrop of the Iraq war; Christopher Shinn''s Dying City melds the personal and political in a theatrical crucible that cracks open our response to 9/11 and Abu Graib, and finally Dan LeFranc''s The Big Meal, an inter-generational play spanning eighty years, is set in the mid-west in a generic restaurant and considers family legacy and how some of the smallest events in life turn out to be the most significant.

Bold, unguarded work . . . that resists pat definition. [Young Jean] Lee has penned profane lampoons of motivational bromides (Pullman, WA) and the Romantic poets (The Appeal). Now she piles her deconstructive scorn upon ethnic stereotypes in Song...

“A subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by the adventurous playwright Young Jean Lee. . . . Ms. Lee does not shy away from prodding the audience’s racial sensitivities—or insensitivities—in a style that is sometimes sly and subtle, sometimes as blunt as a poke in the eye.”—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times “Lee is a facetious provocateur; she does whatever she can to get under our skins—with laughs and with raw, brutal talk . . . [and with] so ingenious a twist, such a radical bit of theatrical smoke and mirrors, that we are forced to confront our own preconceived notions of race.”—Hilton Als, The New Yorker With The Shipment, her latest work taking on identity politics, Young Jean Lee “confirms herself as one of the best experimental playwrights in America” (Time Out New York). The Korean American theater artist has taken on cultural images of black America, in a play that begins with sketches of African American clichés—an angry, foul-mouthed comedian; an aspiring young rapper who ends up in prison—and ends with a seemingly naturalistic parlor comedy, which slyly reveals the larger game Lee is playing, leaving us to consider the many ways that we see the world through a racial lens. Young Jean Lee is a playwright, director, and artistic director of her own OBIE Award-winning theater company, which as been producing her plays since 2003. Her other works include Songs of Dragons Flying to Heaven, Church, The Appeal, and Pullman, WA, and they have been produced across the country and internationally.

When Singapore became a sovereign state in 1965, the fledgling nation faced very similar problems as most other developing countries: high unemployment, low standard of living, and poor environmental conditions. In a scant four decades, it has become the 6th wealthiest country in the world in terms of per capita GDP and has managed its environment so well that it is now considered to be one of the best in the world. In this remarkable book, Tan Yong Soon authoritatively and objectively analyses how the environmental conditions were radically transformed within this period, and the enabling con.

The collective term ''Asian American'' comprises more than 20 distinct nationalities and ethnic groups. In this all-new collection of fascinating interviews with Asian Americans, Lee draws upon her skill and sensitivity as a journalist to reveal a rich mosaic of Asian identities.