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Mystical Laotian Flower

Mystical Laotian Flower
  • Author(s): Brent Ayscough
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A plant exists that could change mankind’s evolution, and the key to it resides with an exotic woman in Laos… When Spencer and Candice Harrington, two research doctors, travel to Laos on a sabbatical, they meet a beautiful and...

Nathaniel’s Nutmeg

Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
  • Author(s): Giles Milton
  • Location(s): Banda Islands, Run
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1600s

The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago–remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run’s harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative...

Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: How One Man’s Courage Changed the Course of History

Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: How One Man’s Courage Changed the Course of History
  • Author(s): Giles Milton
  • Location(s): Run
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1616

The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago–remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run’s harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative...

Nazi Goreng

Nazi Goreng
  • Author(s): Marco Ferrarese
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Nazi Goreng is a disturbing story of one young Malay man’s coming-of-age in the big city and offers a stunning portrait of the racial tensions that pervade Malaysian society. Asrul is a fanatical yet naïve Muslim skinhead from small...

Never Fall Down

Never Fall Down
  • Author(s): Patricia McCormick
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975-1979

This National Book Award nominee from two-time finalist Patricia McCormick is the unforgettable story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who defied the odds to survive the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and the labor camps of the Khmer Rouge. Based on the...

Never Go Full Pai

Never Go Full Pai
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Eng
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Paris, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Present

All night parties. Quick love affairs. Wild and carefree adventures. Perfectly filtered Instagram posts. A break from reality for most, but not everyone has a perfect life to return to when stepping off the road. In Never Go Full...

Nightmare In Laos: The True Story Of A Woman Imprisoned In A Communist Gulag

Nightmare In Laos: The True Story Of A Woman Imprisoned In A Communist Gulag
  • Author(s): Kay Danes
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Hours after her husband, Kerry, was kidnapped by the Communist Laos government, Kay Danes tried to flee to Thailand with her two youngest children, only to be intercepted at the border. Torn from them and sent to a communist...

No Dancing, No Dancing: Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis

No Dancing, No Dancing: Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis
  • Author(s): Denis Dragovic
  • Location(s): South Sudan, East Timor (Timor-Leste), Iraq
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Current

What happens to aid projects after the money is spent? Or the people and communities once the media spotlight has left? No Dancing, No Dancing: Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis follows the return journey of a former aid worker...

Noli Me Tangere: (Touch Me Not)

Noli Me Tangere: (Touch Me Not)
  • Author(s): José Rizal
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 1900s

In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder,...

Notes from an Even Smaller Island

Notes from an Even Smaller Island
  • Author(s): Neil Humphreys
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Knowing nothing of Singapore, Neil Humphreys arrives in the land of ‘air-conned’ shopping centres and Lee Kuan Yew. From the aunties in the hawker centres to expats dressed as bananas, from Singlish to kiasuism, and from Singaporeans abroad, Humphreys...

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