Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children

Jen Storer

Dumped in the River Charon, hunted by an accursed river creature and betrayed by the wicked Matron Pluckrose, Tensy Farlow is in mortal danger. She has no parents. Worse still, she has no guardian angel. When she is thrown into the Home for Mislaid Children - a gloomy orphanage where ravens attack, Watc...

Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750

Odd Arne Westad

Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire. Tracing China's course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People's Republic, "Restless Empire" shows how the country's worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attit...