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The Noble Path

The Noble Path
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Cambodia, Carennac
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

THE EVIL WRATH Cambodia, 1978. Amid the Khmer Rouge’s crazed genocide, soldier-of-fortune Jack Elliott is given the impossible task of rescuing a family from the regime. THE PAINFUL TRUTH Eighteen-year-old orphan and budding journalist Lisa Robinson has received the...

The One Day You Were My Husband

The One Day You Were My Husband
  • Author(s): Rosie Walsh
  • Location(s): England, Stockholm, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 2000s

FOUR HOURS AFTER SAYING ‘I DO,’ HE WAS GONE . . . Twelve years ago, Carrie married Johan on a beach in Thailand. But as the sun set on their perfect day, armed men swarmed the island and her...

The Paper Boat

The Paper Boat
  • Author(s): Thao Lam
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Named a best picture book of 2020 by Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books — a heartfelt and personal immigration story by...

The Pearl of Penang

The Pearl of Penang
  • Author(s): Clare Flynn
  • Location(s): Penang
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War 2

As World War Two looms closer, a young woman travels to a far-off tropical paradise on the promise of a new life, in this powerful and emotionally gripping love story. Penang, 1939: As Evie steps off the boat, the...

The Persimmon Tree

The Persimmon Tree
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): Java, Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century looking back to WW2

Set among the Pacific islands and in the Indian Ocean, The Persimmon Tree tells the very personal and often romantic stories of men and women caught up in larger events – in this case starting with the Japanese invasion...

The Plantation

The Plantation
  • Author(s): Di Morrissey
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author – her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappeared...

The Quiet American

The Quiet American
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian McEwan Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious ‘Third Force’....

The Red Lotus

The Red Lotus
  • Author(s): Chris Bohjalian
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend, an emergency room doctor...

The Red Pavillion

The Red Pavillion
  • Author(s): Jean Chapman
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1948

Liz Hammond and her mother Blanche are returning to the rubber plantation they were forced to abandon at the outbreak of war. The beautiful Malayan jungle and exotic estate of her childhood have remained in Liz’s heart even after...

The Reign of Greed

The Reign of Greed
  • Author(s): José Rizal
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): late 19th Century

Dr. Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (1861-1896) was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor...

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