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- Location(s): China, Japan, Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WWII
In 1939, nineteen-year-old Nobuko Ito, born and raised in Fresno, California, sails to Japan to learn the culture and customs of her ancestors. She lives with her host family in the mountain village of Nishimi, where her host, her...
- Location(s): Fiji
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): early 21st century
Bula, and welcome to the diverse islands of Fiji. There are white-sand islands here perfect for a relaxing beachside holiday, or little-visited islets and rugged hinterlands for the more adventurous. Wherever you’re based, coral gardens teeming with life are...
- Location(s): Italy, Papua New Guinea, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2020s
With the help of a feisty hotel owner, an attractive water taxi driver, and gondola full of Italians who call Venice home, Amelia, a widowed Australian, begins her search for serenity. As the island city works its magic, she...
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Kira Salak undertook an epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea—often called the last frontier of adventure travel. Traveling by dugout canoe and on foot, confronting the dangers and wonders of a...
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
- Location(s): Japan, Australia, Bali, China, Fiji, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Current
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of short fiction fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and peopled with wily, quick-witted, dim-witted, hapless, helpless, strong and gentle characters. These are tales about people with...
I Can See My Country Clearly Now
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
I saw my country clearly like Neil Armstrong saw the earth in the cosmos on that first trip to the moon. PNG was caught like a butterfly in a spider’s web struggling to free itself from the claws of...
Into the Crocodile Nest: A Journey Inside New Guinea
- Location(s): Papua New Guinea
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Benedict Allen travelled through Papua New Guinea in search of a tribe that would let him participate in an initiation ceremony into manhood. He was finally admitted to the ceremonies of the Sepik tribe, whose totemic god is the...
- Location(s): Fiji
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
When business mogul Jordan Hill inherits half of Bendura Island Resort, a posh vacation destination in the Fiji Islands, the will demands he release his half uncle’s ashes somewhere on the island and that he indulge in a real...
- Location(s): Suva, Fiji
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1965
Kalyana, an impressionable and plump five-year-old girl, lives in Suva, the capital city of the Fiji Islands. It is 1965: the country is under British rule, while a feminist revolution is sweeping both Great Britain and America. Kalyana lives...
- Location(s): Pacific Ocean
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
I disappeared on the night before my twelfth birthday. Gorgeous new colour illustrations for the best-selling Kensuke’s Kingdom. Washed up on an island in the Pacific, Michael struggles to survive on his own. With no food and no water,...
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