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Life In Shadows

Life In Shadows
  • Author(s): Anthony Addis
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Thailand, Life In Shadows is a 10,000 word short story available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited about two writers: why they succeed, why they fail, and why sometimes they never start. Thirty years ago, Charles Shaw wrote...

Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed

Life in the Valley of Death:  The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed
  • Author(s): Alan Rabinowitz
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Dubbed the Indiana Jones of wildlife science by The New York Times, Alan Rabinowitz has devoted—and risked—his life to protect nature’s great endangered mammals. He has journeyed to the remote corners of the earth in search of wild things,...

Listen, Slowly

Listen, Slowly
  • Author(s): Thanhhà Lai
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

This remarkable and bestselling novel from Thanhha Lai, author of the National Book Award-winning and Newbery Honor Book Inside Out & Back Again, follows a young girl as she learns the true meaning of family. This middle grade novel...

Little Angels

Little Angels
  • Author(s): Phra Peter Pannapadipo
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The real-life stories of the novice monks in Little Angels reflect the lives of many youths in rural Thailand who are trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty, broken homes, illiteracy and drug abuse. When all else fails, Buddhism...

Little Daughter

Little Daughter
  • Author(s): Zoya Phan
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Recent

Zoya Phan was born in the remote jungles of Burma, to the Karen ethnic group. For decades the Karen have been under attack from Burma’s military junta; Zoya’s mother was a guerrilla soldier, her father a freedom activist. She...

Lizard’s Tale

Lizard’s Tale
  • Author(s): Weng Wai Chan
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

A thief. A spy. A mysterious codebook. And a whole lot of trouble. It’s 1940 and World War II is being fought in faraway Europe. Lizard doesn’t know much about that. He lives in Singapore’s Chinatown, surviving on odd...

Lola: A Ghost Story

Lola: A Ghost Story
  • Author(s): J Torres
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jesse sees dead people, monsters, demons, and lots of other things that go bump in the night that no one else can see. No one except his ailing grandmother – a woman who used her visions to help those...

Lone Buffalo

Lone Buffalo
  • Author(s): C J C Whitehouse
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Lone Buffalo is a fictionalised account of the life of a man who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time – northeastern Laos in the autumn of 1969. With the Secret War building to its climax,...

Lone Buffalo: conquering adversity in Laos, the land the West forgot

Lone Buffalo: conquering adversity in Laos, the land the West forgot
  • Author(s): C J C Whitehouse
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1969

Lone Buffalo is a fictionalised account of the life of a man who was born in the wrong place at the wrong time – northeastern Laos in the autumn of 1969. With the Secret War building to its climax,...

Lost in Laos

Lost in Laos
  • Author(s): Lydia Laube
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Global traveller Lydia Laube had out her map again. Where could she go next? Her eye fell on one place she hadn’t visited – Laos, the Land of a Million Elephants. After enduring a close call with Thai immigration...

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