The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Author:Alan Burgess Originally published as The Small Woman. "Alone, friendless, penniless, she traveled across Siberia fighting off murder and kidnapping to reach a remote mountain city in China. First, she penetrated the court of the powerful Mandarin ruler and converted him to Christianity. Then, she fell in love with a Chinese nationalist soldier and began to s... more »py against the Japanese army. Finally, she led one hundred homeless orphans back across the wild mountains in an epic trek to safety at a time when all of China was a battlefield."« less