Editor's Note: Story by Luo Minxia, Marketing and Resource Development Specialist, Heifer China
On June 30, 2013, authors Greg Baines and Peter Rotundo launched new e-books and announced that profits will benefit Heifer China.
Peter Rotundo's The Elephant in the Room is a modern-day play, which was written specifically for a middle school in Shangai. It is a rewrite of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac.
It tells the story of a woman who writes for a Shanghai television show. And she is an extraordinary writer.
However, a strange deformity keeps her in solitude. She falls in love with an actor on the show, but so does the shows beautiful star.
As an expat, Greg Baines spent over a decade in China. His works has been previously published, but now appear together for the first time.
Concrete Fish is a collection of short stories often written from a Chinese locals point of view.
Both Rotundo and Baines are teachers at the Shanghai YK Pao Schoola Heifer China Read to Feed partner school.
Reading teaches kids to be everyday heroes