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Mayon

Mayon
  • Author(s): Mickie B Ashling
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

After being discharged from the Marines, John Buchanan takes a position as overseer for plantation owner Ignacio Saenz. The work is good, but the real draw for John is Mount Mayon, the active volcano looming on the island’s horizon. Finally...

Minor Wife

Minor Wife
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Crime

A contemporary murder set in Bangkok-a neighbor and friend, a young ex-hooker turned artist, is found dead by an American millionaire’s minor wife. Her rich expat husband hires Calvino to investigate. While searching for the killer in exclusive clubs...

Missing in Rangoon

Missing in Rangoon
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Rangoon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

As foreigners rush into Myanmar with briefcases stuffed with plans and cash for hotels, shopping malls and high rises, they discover the old ways die hard. Vincent Calvino’s case is to find a young British-Thai man gone missing in...

My Brother, My Executioner

My Brother, My Executioner
  • Author(s): F Sionil José
  • Location(s): Rosales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Sionsil Jose is seen as one of the Philippine’s greatest novelists.  The Rosales Novels are a series of five novels about the life of a small Illocano town in Central Luzon (Rosalles) after which the Novels are named.  I am...

My Father is Police Lah!

My Father is Police Lah!
  • Author(s): Rowena Hawkins
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

Eight years old and growing up in Colonial Singapore, enjoying all the elite privileges that came with having a Colonial senior police officer father. Rowena Hawkins and her immigrant family from Ceylon, were living the 1960s Singapore dream —...

My Imaginary Ex

My Imaginary Ex
  • Author(s): Mina V Esguerra
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Current

When Zack asks Jasmine to pretend to be his ex-girlfriend, she gamely agrees, thinking it would be fun. A few years later, she still has to keep convincing people that they were never together! Then one day, she finds...

No More Tomorrows: The Compelling True Story of an Innocent Woman Sentenced to Twenty Years in a Hellhole Bali Prison

No More Tomorrows: The Compelling True Story of an Innocent Woman Sentenced to Twenty Years in a Hellhole Bali Prison
  • Author(s): Schapelle Corby, Kathryn Bonella
  • Location(s): Bali
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

It was meant to be a two-week holiday to celebrate her sister’s birthday, but for Schapelle Corby it ended up a waking nightmare. Arrested at Denpasar airport after marijuana was found in her luggage, she became the victim of...

Paradise of the Blind

Paradise of the Blind
  • Author(s): Duong Thu Huong
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Second half twentieh Century

Three women struggle to survive in this savage account of Vietnam’s Maoist-style land reform of the 1950s and its aftermath. Hang, a young woman, tells of the hardship, chaos and disillusionment it sowed, dividing her family and shattering the...

Pattaya 24/7

Pattaya 24/7
  • Author(s): Christopher G Moore
  • Location(s): Pattaya
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Inside a secluded, lush estatelocated on the edge of Pattaya, an eccentric English-man’s gardener is found hanged. Calvino has been hired to investigate. Calvino finds himself pulled deep into the shadows of the war against drugs, into Code Orange...

Philippine Folk Tales

Philippine Folk Tales
  • Author(s): Mabel Cook Cole
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

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