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Adam and Evie’s Matchmaking Tour

Adam and Evie’s Matchmaking Tour
  • Author(s): Nora Nguyen
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A rollicking, unforgettable romance about two strangers finding love despite their best efforts as they embark on a sweeping matchmaking tour through Việt Nam. Evie Lang’s life is in shambles. On the heels of losing her beloved aunt, she’s...

Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands

Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
  • Author(s): Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century

Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s memoir is a courageously frank and deeply affecting account of a Malaysian girlhood and of the making of an Asian-American woman. With insight, candor, and grace, Lim lays bare the material poverty and family violence of...

And Brother It’s Starting to Rain

And Brother It’s Starting to Rain
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Thailand, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Inspector Samuel Tay has retired from Singapore CID so he’s no longer actually a police inspector. It wasn’t entirely his idea, but that’s another story. John August is a guy who has saved Tay’s butt more than once over...

And The Rain My Drink

And The Rain My Drink
  • Author(s): Han Suyin
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s/1950s

First published in 1956, Han Suyin’s magnificent novel about the Emergency Period in Malaya and Singapore evokes all the colour and conflict of a land where, in the late 1940s and early 50s, a bitter guerrilla war was fought...

Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City

Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City
  • Author(s): Alex Kerr
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alex Kerr has spent over thirty years of his life living in Bangkok. As with his bestselling books on Japan, this evocative personal meditation explores the city’s secret corners. Here is the huge, traffic-choked metropolis of concrete high-rises, slums...

Another Quiet American: Stories Of Life In Laos

Another Quiet American: Stories Of Life In Laos
  • Author(s): Brett Dakin
  • Location(s): Vientiane
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 2000s

In Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos, Brett Dakin takes you through the corridors of power and into the living rooms of Laos. Among many others, you’ll meet Brett’s boss, a wealthy general who strikes fear into...

Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures Of A Food Tourist In Laos

Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures Of A Food Tourist In Laos
  • Author(s): Natacha Du Pont De Bie
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Natacha Du Pont De Bie is no ordinary tourist. She’ll trek for hours or even days in search of a good lunch. Her obsession with food is such that, while others are lying comatose on the beach or cycling...

Ashes in a Coconut

Ashes in a Coconut
  • Author(s): Bo Kearns
  • Location(s): Bali, Jakarta (Batavia), Java
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

New York City fashion designer Laura Harrison sets aside her career and accompanies her banker husband Jack to Indonesia to save her marriage. En route to Jakarta, they stopover in Bali where she experiences the mysticism and magic of...

At Sea with a Song

At Sea with a Song
  • Author(s): Catherine Monnet
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1990s

“Thai island girl Thanikarn’s chances of meeting a good Thai man were limited … and foreigners couldn’t be trusted.” On the Thai island of Koh Samui, Thanikarn, a masseuse with traditional values, has never fallen in love – until...

Aunty Lee’s Delights: A Singaporean Mystery

Aunty Lee’s Delights: A Singaporean Mystery
  • Author(s): Ovidia Yu
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie “Aunty” Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home-cooking restaurant After losing her husband, Rosie Lee could have become one of Singapore’s “tai tai,” an idle rich lady. Instead...

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