A little duck finds adventure on the Yangtze River when he is too late to board his master's houseboat one evening.

After a disastrous visit to her "home" orphanage in China, eighteen-year-old Ari Kong descends into a self-destructive spiral that forces all of the Kong women to come face to face with the truths of their lives.

After her parents are arrested by Chinese soldiers because of their religious beliefs, twelve-year-old Tash and her best friend Sam travel from their home in Tibet across the Himalayas to India in order to seek the help of the Dalai Lama.

Assigned to help the wife of an important witness to reach the United States safely, U.S. marshal Catharine Rohn learns that the woman has vanished, while inspector Chen reluctantly assumes the task of saving face.

Wang Sumin single-handedly raised 2 daughters, Liu Xiaomin and Liu Xiaojie, unexpectedly both of her daughters after the age of 30 were divorced. The husband of the eldest daughter Liu Xiaomin had an affair, she came from a small town to Beijing to find a place to work and got to know Chen Zhuo, who was also divorced like her, they decided to remarry. But Xiaomin and Chen Zhuo both have an uncomfortable ex, their children are growing up and the adults...

Kung Fu novelist Huang Yi's debut novel that launched his Kung Fu and fantasy novel career! The novel is set at the waning years of the Song dynasty when the Mongols were fast destroying people's way of life.

"The crumbling building" tells the stories of the developers in Beijing, each dreams of becoming rich overnight. Two conglomerates came to the scene, one a state venture, another a private investment group. These are the stories of their trials and triumphs - mostly trials.

When 84-year-old Hazel goes into a nursing home in 1999, her children arrive to close up her farmhouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, and find relics of a past they can't fully understand. Told in alternating chapters, the stories of Hazel, Addie, Louisa and Juanlan move from rural Illinois to the far reaches of China and span more than a century. Their secrets, adventures, and rebellions drive them forward as they fight against expectation and follow...