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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
  • Author(s): Simon Winchester
  • Location(s): Krakatoa
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1883

Simon Winchester’s brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of...

Lalani of the Distant Sea

Lalani of the Distant Sea
  • Author(s): Erin Entrada Kelly
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): timeless

When Lalani Sarita’s mother falls ill with an incurable disease, Lalani embarks on a dangerous journey across the sea . . . Life is hard on the island of Sanlagita. To the west looms a vengeful mountain, one that...

Land Below the Wind

Land Below the Wind
  • Author(s): Agnes Newton Keith
  • Location(s): Borneo
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1930s

This book was written during an era when Sabah was known as North Borneo, and when life was very much different from today s. Reprinted many times, this classic, of Agnes Keith s observations and reflections of the time,...

Land of Smiles

Land of Smiles
  • Author(s): T C Huo
  • Location(s): Thailand, California, Oakland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Set in the 1970s, in the era of the Vietnam War and its volatile aftermath, Land of Smiles tells the story of a young Southeast Asian man’s journey from a refugee camp in Thailand to a housing project in...

Lao Folktales

Lao Folktales
  • Author(s): Stephen Jay Epstein
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Time immemorial

Here in one slim volume is a selection of the best-known and best-loved Lao folktales that have entertained the Lao people for generations. We meet the legendary trickster Xieng Mieng who matches his wits with merchants, monks, and kings....

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace
  • Author(s): Dang Thuy Tram
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1968 - 1970

At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far...

Last Tang Standing

Last Tang Standing
  • Author(s): Lauren Ho
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Like all good Chinese children, Andrea Tang is doing her best to fulfil all her mother’s plans for her life: she’s on track to become partner at a top law firm in Singapore, she has a beautiful apartment in...

Leaving Laos

Leaving Laos
  • Author(s): May Y Yang
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975

Through the ups and downs of life, whom do you count on the most? Twelve-year-old Blong does not have much, but he has his older sister Ka-Ying. Now, their world is suddenly and forever changed. Homes are abandoned. People...

Letters from Thailand

Letters from Thailand
  • Author(s): Botan
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

When the original Thai version of Letters from Thailand appeared in Bangkok in 1969, it was promptly awarded the SEATO Prize for Thai Literature. This new English translation reveals it as one of Thailand’s most entertaining and enduring modern...

Life Expands: A Travel Comedy Romance

Life Expands: A Travel Comedy Romance
  • Author(s): N R Milne
  • Location(s): Ghana, South America, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Getting over heartbreak and unsatisfied with life in London, he escapes on a jaunt across the world. Encountering indecent proposals volunteering in rural Africa, the downsides of drug consumption backpacking in Southeast Asia and the challenges of love-making in...

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