Sweet Mandarin

6 best books like Sweet Mandarin (Helen Tse): The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories, Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right, Good Wives, The Concubine's Children, Norwegian by Night, Where You Once Belonged

The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories

Author	Leo Tolstoy
ISBN	0451528808

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest...

Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right

Author	Al Franken
ISBN	0452285216

Al Franken, one of our savviest satirists (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of slander, bias, and even treason. He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the...

Good Wives

Author	Louisa May Alcott
ISBN	1419122126

NOTE: Little Women is sometimes published in two volumes, entitled Little Women and Good Wives.

Amy looked relieved, but naughty Jo took her at her word, for during the first call she sat with every limb gracefully composed, every fold correctly draped, calm as a summer sea, cool as a snowbank,...

The Concubine's Children

Author	Denise Chong
ISBN	0140254277

The Concubine’s Children is the story of a family cleaved in two for the sake of a father’s dream. There’s Chan Sam, who left an "at home" wife in China to earn a living in "Gold Mountain"—North America. There’s May-ying, the wilful, seventeen-year-old concubine he bought, sight unseen,...

Norwegian by Night

Author	Derek B. Miller
ISBN	1921844884

He will not admit it to Rhea and Lars - never, of course not - but Sheldon can't help but wonder what it is he's doing here..

Eighty-two years old, and recently widowed, Sheldon Horowitz has grudgingly moved to Oslo, with his grand-daughter and her Norwegian husband. An ex-Marine, he talks often...

Where You Once Belonged

Author

Kent Haruf

Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots - and too big, certainly for the small-town attitudes of Holt, Colorado. But when he fails to make the grade as a college footballer, and takes a job with the local farmers' co-operative, it seems he has finally settled into the rhythm...