The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her as an orphan, Mary is sent to England to live with her rec...

The Most Dammed Country in the World

Dai Qing

The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected here detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise....