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by Louise Callaghan
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsFather of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba the lion cub, Lula the bear, and countless others, faithfully depicted by acclaimed, award-winning journalist Louise Callaghan in her trade publishing debut.
by Helen Benedict
Published Oct 2017
Read ReviewsAfter a hurricane devastates a small town in upstate New York, the lives of three women and their young children are irrevocably changed.
by Mo Yan
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsIn this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama - in which nearly everyone dies - unfurls.
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
by Xue Xinran
Published Mar 2012
Read ReviewsMessage from an Unknown Chinese Mother is powered by love and by heartbreak and will stay with readers long after they have turned the final page.
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 Yu Hua
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsA bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of Frances Prix Courrier International, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.
by Conn Iggulden
Published Feb 2009
Read ReviewsHe came from over the horizon, a single Mongol warrior surrounded by his brothers, sons, and fellow tribesmen. For centuries, primitive tribes had warred with one another. Now, under Genghis Khan, they have united as one nation, setting their sights on a common enemy: the great, slumbering walled empire of the Chin.
by Mischa Berlinski
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsA daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski.
by Galsan Tschinag
Published Nov 2007
Read ReviewsIn the high Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia, the nomadic Tuvan peoples ancient way of life collides with the pervasive influence of modernity as seen through the eyes of a young shepherd boy.
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 Amitav Ghosh
Published Jun 2006
Read ReviewsA prophetic novel of remarkable insight, beauty, and humanity set in the Sundarbans, an immense labyrinth of tiny islands on the easternmost coast of India.
by Seth Kantner
Published Aug 2005
Read Reviews'I've not read anything that so captures the contrast between the wild world and our ravaging consumer culture. Ordinary Wolves is painful and beautiful'.. Louise Erdrich.
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