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Working as a quality-assurance grunt in the gaming industry sounds like fun, right? You get to play the coolest new games before anyone else. And all you have to do is to find, reproduce, and report bugs before the last pixel is locked in and the games are launched to an eager public. Sure, there’s the unpaid overtime, the office politics, and the ever-present threat of layoffs. But you get to game!

Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present. Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen’s stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for openings where mobility is limited.

Meet the members of the Equinox Society: Claire, a caustic but compassionate demonologist; Amanda, a witch who wants to help; William, an occultist living in a haunted brownstone; and other ordinary people who share a fascination with the bizarre and otherworldly. Their reports explore private fears and personal demons, offering glimpses of the nightscape all of us inhabit. A troubled vampire who stalks an abandoned shopping mall. A dead teen who emails from the past. An arsonist who starts real fires with her dreams.

When the Hart-Celler Act passed in 1965, opening up US immigration to non-Europeans, it ushered in a whole new era. But even to the first generation of Asian Americans born in the US after that milestone, it would have been impossible to imagine that sushi and boba would one day be beloved by all, that a Korean boy band named BTS would be the biggest musical act in the world, that one of the most acclaimed and popular movies of 2018 would be Crazy Rich Asians, or that we would have an Asian American Vice President.

Es ist immer etwas los bei Familie Moll. Ob in den Ferien, auf einer Fahrradtour oder im Zirkus – Papa Moll erlebt ein Abenteuer nach dem anderen. Papa Moll – eine zeitlose Figur. Papa Moll, der umtriebige, hilfsbereite und vielseitige Familienvater, der es immer so gut meint, und gerade damit immer wieder Pech hat, gehört zu den bekanntesten Schweizer Kinderbuchhelden. Seit Erscheinen in der 50er Jahren begeistern die Geschichten rund um Papa Moll und seine Familie Generation um Generation.

Es ist immer etwas los bei Familie Moll. Ob in den Ferien, auf einer Fahrradtour oder im Zirkus – Papa Moll erlebt ein Abenteuer nach dem anderen. Papa Moll – eine zeitlose Figur. Papa Moll, der umtriebige, hilfsbereite und vielseitige Familienvater, der es immer so gut meint, und gerade damit immer wieder Pech hat, gehört zu den bekanntesten Schweizer Kinderbuchhelden. Seit Erscheinen in der 50er Jahren begeistern die Geschichten rund um Papa Moll und seine Familie Generation um Generation.