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A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worldsA seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean. A tree is planted on a shifting border. A shrub is uprooted from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere?Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scienti...

What makes the place we live feel like home? This is a warm-hearted and lush picture book about family, the immigrant experience and how a simple garden can foster a connection to the larger natural world.Mama was born in a country far away from here. I love her stories about warm rain in winter and green mountains. And now Mama's taking me there! When a young girl and her mother go to visit her family, the girl notices a change. At home, her ...

In this unique bilingual children's picture book, Leon is an excitable and lively five-year-old. Leon has an adorable pet guinea pig named Panda. However, Panda doesn't like some of the ways Leon plays with her, and she is often afraid to play with Leon. Panda's rejection makes Leon sad and frustrated. He really wants to be Panda's friend and play games with her!This playful story is a great way to create important discussions with children ag...

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Als Jessica J. Lee durch Zufall die gut versteckten Aufzeichnungen ihres verstorbenen Großvaters in die Hände fallen, entschließt sie sich, nicht nur ihrer Familiengeschichte nachzuspüren, sondern auch die Insel zu erkunden, auf der ihre Großeltern den Großteil ihres Lebens verbrachten: Taiwan. Im Bestreben, diese zwischen tektonischen Platten und gegensätzlichen Kulturen gelegene Insel der Extreme zu erforschen, legt Jessica J. Lee frei, inwi...

Longlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors"Jessica J. Lee is a writer of rare and exhilarating grace. In Turning, she sounds the depths of lakes and her own life, never flinching from darkness, surfacing to fresh understandings of her place in the welter of natural and human history. A beautiful, moody, bracing debut." -Kate Harris, award-winning author of Lands of Lost BordersThrough the heat of summer to the frozen depths...

This "stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity, family, and love" (Refinery29). A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she s...

After unearthing her grandfather's hidden memoir, Jessica J. Lee embarks on a journey to Taiwan to piece together her family's fractured history. From lush forests, towering mountains and precipitous coasts to the abstract landscapes of language and memory, Lee traces stories of a country built on natural and political fault lines, and of its people. 'A beautiful, fully-realised tribute to a family and a brave, diligent search for understandin...

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Schwimmen ist so befreiend wie MeditierenNiemals hätte Jessica J. Lee gedacht, dass ausgerechnet die Seen rund um die deutsche Hauptstadt ihrem Leben eine neue Wendung geben würden. Geboren und aufgewachsen in Kanada, hat sie später viele Jahre in England verbracht. Berlin mutet sie zunächst unwirtlich an. Als Lichtblick erscheinen ihr die unzähligen Seen rund um die Stadt. Und die passionierte Schwimmerin und kundige Naturbeobachterin beschli...

Part-nature writing, part-biography and beautifully written, Two Trees Make a Forest traces the natural and human stories that shaped an island and a family.

`Its short, shining sections tilt yearningly towards one another, in form as well as content, this is a beautiful book about the distance between people and between places, the means of their bridging - and finding a home in language' - Robert Macfarlane Taiwan is an island of extremes: towering mountains, lush forests and domesticated flatlands. Between shifting tectonic plates and a history rife with tension, the geographical and political l...

Jessica J. Lee - Canadian, Chinese and British - swims through all four seasons. This is the story of a beautiful obsession: of the thrill of a still, turquoise lake, of cracking the ice before submerging, of floating under blue skies, of cool, fresh, spring swimming - of facing past fears of near drowning and of breaking free.'Lee is intelligent and controlled, her writing clean and accurate . . . Turning is many things: a snapshot of Berlin ...

She swims to explore the natural history of fresh water and to examine her own place and identity in the world. Turning is a nature memoir chronicling Jessica J. Lee's year of swimming.