Offers an intimate travelogue of the author's trek to Kailas, the holiest mountain in Tibet, in the wake of the death of his mother and the loss of his family.

Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer prize-winning novel of a China that was now in a contemporary classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In the Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the...

Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate, the first automobile any of them have seen and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced...

A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for this book. The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its...

Presents a children's story about a little duck named Ping who experienced many adventures when he didn't come back to his boat in time.

A fictionalized account of China during the second half of the twentieth century witnessed through the eyes of Ximen Nao, a landowner killed so that his land could be redistributed to peasants, and--as punishment from Lord Yama--is reincarnated into a donkey.

"In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences...

"An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer"--

The "emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in same small expat community in Hong Kong... As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all."--

Chronicles the February 2002 kayaking expedition of Scott Lindgren and his crew down the treacherous Tsangpo River Gorge in southeastern Tibet.