Solitaire is the groundbreaking memoir of a young woman growing up in the 1970s and her triumph over anorexia nervosa.

Full recovery from an eating disorder is possible. Despite what you may have been led to believe, most people with anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder are able to completely restore their health and well-being. But how does this happen?
Author Aimee Liu has woven together dozens of first-person accounts of recovery to create a break-through roadmap for healing from an eating disorder. "Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives" answers key questions including: How does healing begin? What does it feel like? What supports and accelerates it? Will I ever be free of worry about a relapse?
Throughout the book are informative sidebars written by leading professionals in the field, addressing essential topics such as finding the right therapist, the use of medications, exploring complementary treatments, and how family members can help.
Learn more at the author's website: www.aimeeliu.net.

Aimee Liu, who wrote Solitaire, the first-ever memoir of anorexia, in 1979, returns to the subject nearly three decades later and shares her story and those of the many women in her age group of life beyond this life-altering ailment. She has extensively researched the origins and effects of both anorexia and bulimia, and dispels many commonly held myths about these diseases with the persuasive conclusion that anorexia is a result of personality.
Key revelations include: the temperament required for eating disorders, the long-term effects of eating disorders on health, brain function, relationships and career, why some individuals recover while others relapse, and why many relapse in mid-life, Which treatment approaches are most successful long-term and how parents can tell if a child will be vulnerable to eating disorders.
Using her own experience and the stories of many recovering anorexics she's interviewed, Liu weaves together a narrative that is both persuasive in argument and compelling in personal details.

- FLASH HOUSE was published in Warner hardcover in 2/03, and became a "Los Angeles Times bestseller.- With its phenomenal characterizations and exotic setting, FLASH HOUSE won raves in publications, including the "Los Angeles Times, Booklist, and a starred review in "Publishers Weekly, among others.- Foreign rights were sold in England, Holland, and Italy.- Liu's previous novel, "Cloud Mountain (Warner, 1997), was a critical success, winning praise from the "Dallas Morning News, Rocky Mountain News, Asian Reporter, Publishers Weekly, and "Library Journal, among other publications. Foreign rights were sold in more than 10 countries and it was excerpted in "Good Housekeeping magazine.

Also available as a Time Warner AudioBook

In the sweeping tradition of Shogun and The Far Pavilions, acclaimed author Aimee Liu offers an epic tale of East and West, of a forbidden love so powerful it defied all taboos and survived four decades of revolution and war...Cloud Mountain

Los Angeles. October 1941. A month before Pearl Harbor, Hope Leon receives a letter smuggled out of war-torn China. It's from her husband, the father of her children, a man she once loved with reckless abandon. "So much time has passed," he writes. "Do you keep place for me in your heart, your home?"

In Hope's voice, through her eyes and her memories, we learn their story...

Northern California, 1906. She was Hope Newfield then, young and headstrong, teaching English to foreign students. He was Liang Po-yu, an idealistic Chinese scholar-revolutionary, intent on bringing modern democracy to his imperial homeland.

She chose Paul Leon for his American name. He called her Hsin-hsin, Mandarin for "hope." When the Great Earthquake came, they rescued each other...and fell desperately in love. And at a time when it was illegal to shoot livestock in California but not Chinese, Hope and Paul dared to defy blatant bigotry, marry, and start a family.

Shanghai, 1911. When the long-awaited revolution toppled China's imperial rulers, Hope and Paul moved to a world more compelling and brutal than Hope had ever known. There, Paul would relentlessly pursue his dream of democracy for his country, even when feuding warlords placed his, Hope's, and their children's lives in the balance. And in that land of turmoil, their love would be tested by personal tragedy and betrayal -- and by their own divided loyalties and conflicting ambitions.

Drawing on the true story of her grandparents' marriage, Aimee Liu has written an unforgettable epic that resonates with authenticity and shimmers with emotion, a rich tapestry of star-crossed lovers torn by events greater than themselves.

Part Chinese, part American, with green eyes and red hair, Maibelle Chung always felt like the outsider growing up in New York's Chinatown. Now, at 28, she returns, confronting memories she has tried to forget, stripping away layers of illusion to expose the bare bones of her past--and her future.

This explosive program redefines addiction, codependency, and self-help. Using the author's clinical experiences, it shows how self-help methods can actually promote dependency, and offers options as well as positive, proven strategies for finding helpful therapies.

Now, for the first time, a prominent psychologist speaks out against the addiction/recovery movement, and teaches readers how to stop seeing themselves as codependent victims and how to start taking charge of their lives. Dr. Katz argues that most codependent programs, rather than promoting recovery, merely promote dependence under the guise of self-help.