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Having money doesn’t make people happy. It’s what we do with it that matters. And yet the wealth-generating industry of investing and financial planning focuses almost exclusively on using wealth to create more wealth. Is that really the point of life? To see how rich you can be when you die? In Memory Royalties, Todd Rustman shines an evocative light on the very concept of investing, inviting you on a journey to change the way you look at wealth itself—not as a goal, but as the tremendous potential to generate a life of depth and meaning.

San Francisco 1959 - Kats Takemoto, the Nisei private detective from Hunters Point, returns to investigate the murder of a young Chinese girl, killed in a covert CIA brothel in the heart of San Francisco. Her family, members of the Tong, a powerful Chinatown gang, demand vengeance that threatens to start an all-out war in Chinatown unless Kats can discover the truth behind the slaying.

China, 1934: A naive orphan and shy gunsmith, Ping, has fallen in love with Yong, who is a sophisticated veteran, skilled sharpshooter, and true believer in Mao and the Marxist ideology. Winning Yong’s affections will take an ideological battle—something Ping does not at first understand. As the Red Army begins its yearlong tactical retreat, the Long March, Yong turns to Ping for comfort and companionship. Yong becomes pregnant, and soon their son is born. The Army can’t retreat with a crying infant, so they leave the child with a village woman and promise to return once the war is won.

Come. Accept pastor Joshua Choonmin Kang's invitation to walk slowly, paying attention to God's work in you and around you, to walk intentionally, using spiritual disciplines to develop Christlike character, and to walk purposefully, experiencing deeper grace and vision. In this book you'll encounter fifty-two brief readings, ideal for weekly sabbath reflection or daily devotional use. They point to the path of peace in the midst of life's turmoil, to hope in the midst of brokenness.