The Mandarin and Other Stories

7 best books like The Mandarin and Other Stories (Eça de Queirós): When We Were Orphans, The Other Americans, The Devil In Love, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation, The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos, The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer, The Shadow War: Inside the Modern-Day Undeclared Battles Waged Against America

When We Were Orphans

Author	Kazuo Ishiguro
ISBN	0571225403

An English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. Sent to live in England, he grows up to become a renowned detective and, 20 years later, returns to Shanghai, where the Sino-Japanese War is raging.

The...

The Other Americans

Author

Laila Lalami

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant–at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.

Late one...

The Devil In Love

Author	Jacques Cazotte
ISBN	0946626731

ilk okumam değil ama en az 16-17 sene oldu..hiçbişii anlamamışım o zaman.
"şeytanın bir adama aşık olması aman da 18. yüzyıl" falan dersek 2-3 yıldız yeter; ama düğüm şurda çözülüyor;
" che vuoi?" yani ne istiyorsun?
aşk üstüne okumayı hiç sevmem ama buna...

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Author	Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN	0767903692

“If there is a candidate for ‘Living Buddha’ on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh.”
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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

Author	Christian Davenport
ISBN	1610398297

The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier


The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes...

The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer

Author	Charles Graeber
ISBN	1455568503

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse comes an empowering and accessible story of the discoveries of the tricks cancer uses to avoid the immune system, and the important new therapies already unleashing the immune system to fight -- and beat -- the disease.
Four years in the...

The Shadow War: Inside the Modern-Day Undeclared Battles Waged Against America

Author	Jim Sciutto
ISBN	0062853651

CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of twenty-first century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged—often without the public’s full knowledge—from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry.

The United...