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Mystical Laotian Flower

Mystical Laotian Flower
  • Author(s): Brent Ayscough
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A plant exists that could change mankind’s evolution, and the key to it resides with an exotic woman in Laos… When Spencer and Candice Harrington, two research doctors, travel to Laos on a sabbatical, they meet a beautiful and...

Never Fall Down

Never Fall Down
  • Author(s): Patricia McCormick
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975-1979

This National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who defied the odds to survive the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and the labor camps of the Khmer Rouge. Based on the...

Never Go Full Pai

Never Go Full Pai
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Eng
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Paris, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Present

All night parties. Quick love affairs. Wild and carefree adventures. Perfectly filtered Instagram posts. A break from reality for most, but not everyone has a perfect life to return to when stepping off the road. In Never Go Full...

Nightmare In Laos: The True Story Of A Woman Imprisoned In A Communist Gulag

Nightmare In Laos: The True Story Of A Woman Imprisoned In A Communist Gulag
  • Author(s): Kay Danes
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Hours after her husband, Kerry, was kidnapped by the Communist Laos government, Kay Danes tried to flee to Thailand with her two youngest children, only to be intercepted at the border. Torn from them and sent to a communist...

Novel Without a Name

Novel Without a Name
  • Author(s): Duong Thu Huong
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Vietnam War

Twenty-eight-year-old Quan has been fighting for the Communist cause in North Vietnam for a decade. Filled with idealism and hope when he first left his village, he now spends his days and nights dodging stray bullets and bombs, foraging...

Old Fool’s Gold

Old Fool’s Gold
  • Author(s): Bob Johnston
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller
  • Era(s): Vietnam War to present day

Stolen gold from the Vietnam War, stolen again and hidden on a boat that is left behind by the US Navy. An old River Rat involved in the first theft runs across the boat 36 years later, tied up...

One Foot in Laos

One Foot in Laos
  • Author(s): Dervla Murphy
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1997

The ever popular travel-writer Dervla Murphy encounters a large variety of complications on her latest adventure, when she tries to go trekking in little-known Laos. When Dervla Murphy mentioned that Laos was to be her next destination, most people...

Overboard

Overboard
  • Author(s): Ivy Ngeow
  • Location(s): Cambodia, London, Singapore, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thailand. An epic storm. A shipwreck. A white man has been found alive. But who is he? Suffering horrific injuries and burns, he is taken to a local hospital. He is mute. Everything is a blank. They tell him...

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • Location(s): Japan, Australia, Austria, Cambodia, France, Hong Kong, Malaysia (Malaya), New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is short fiction for busy people who love to travel. Six of the stories are set in Japan, and the others in Hong Kong, East Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, France, Austria, the...

Phnom Penh Noir

Phnom Penh Noir
  • Author(s): Various
  • Location(s): Phnom Penh
  • Genre(s): Noir, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

Authors: Roland Joffé, James Grady, John Burdett, Christopher G. Moore, Kosal Khiev, Prabda Yoon, Bopha Phorn, Giancarlo Narciso, Christopher West, Richard Rubenstein, Suong Mak, Andrew Nette, Bob Bergin, Neil Wilford and Christopher Minko. Many noir anthologies have inspired writers...

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