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A Novel
by Galsan Tschinag
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Published Mar 2012
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by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Published Sep 2011
Read ReviewsOften laugh-out-loud funny, this moving and simply told novella of two Mongolian brothers learning to fit in to a British school tugs at the heart - a unique story of immigration both fierce in its telling and magical in its characters.
by William Dalrymple
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsA mesmerizing book that illuminates the remarkable ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the regions rapid change.
by Moying Li
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsThis inspiring memoir following the Author from age twelve to twenty-two, illuminating a complex, dark time in Chinas history as it tells the compelling story of one girls difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution.
by Rong Jiang
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsAn epic Chinese tale in the vein of The Last Emperor, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols - the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world - and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf.
by Kevin Patterson
Published Jul 2008
Read ReviewsBorn on the tundra in the 1950s, Victoria knows nothing but the nomadic life of the Inuit until, at the age of ten, she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and evacuated to a southern sanitarium. When she returns home six years later, she finds a radically different world, where the traditionally rootless tribes have uneasily congregated in small ...
by Xue Xinran
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsAn extraordinary portrait of a woman and the land of Tibet, each at the mercy of fate and politics. It is an unforgettable, ultimately uplifting tale of love loss, loyalty, and survival.
by Seth Kantner
Published Aug 2005
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by James Redfield
Published Nov 2001
Read Reviews'Open yourself to this adventure and the experience will stretch your worldview and leave you determined to channel your thoughts and wishes into a dynamic force that can help you liberate your life.'
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