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We Were Soldiers Once…and Young

We Were Soldiers Once…and Young
  • Author(s): Joseph L Galloway, Harold G Moore
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1965

We, the Survivors

We, the Survivors
  • Author(s): Tash Aw
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny. Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to...

Welcome Me to the Kingdom

Welcome Me to the Kingdom
  • Author(s): Mai Nardone
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Bangkok, 1980. As the decades pass, figures fall in and out of the relentless city: Pea and Nam, who arrive in search of a better life; a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, Pinky; Benz, Tintin and Big,...

What We Become

What We Become
  • Author(s): Reece Willis
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

She was everything he could have wanted. From the moment she came into his life, she captured his heart and turned his world upside down. Now that she’s gone, he can’t live without her. Desperate for resolution, Ben follows...

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
  • Author(s): Chanrithy Him
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975-1979

In the Cambodian proverb, “when broken glass floats” is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell...

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
  • Author(s): Le Ly Hayslip
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside...

When the Rainbow Goddess Wept

When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
  • Author(s): Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941

Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard’s brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the suffering and tragedies of the Filipino people. When nine-year-old Yvonne flees with her family...

When Turtles Come Home: A Memoir on Life in the Philippines

When Turtles Come Home: A Memoir on Life in the Philippines
  • Author(s): Victoria Hoffarth
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

When Victoria Hoffarth was at graduate school in the U.S., her lecturer, the anthropologist Margaret Mead, once told her class, “There are so many varied places in the world. It is incumbent upon us to search for one where we most...

Whisper of the Lotus

Whisper of the Lotus
  • Author(s): Gabrielle Yetter
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Charlotte Fontaine’s dead-end life lacked excitement so she impulsively booked a flight to Cambodia to visit her best friend. She never imagined that sitting on a plane, struggling with her fear of flying, might lead a chance encounter with...

White Powder

White Powder
  • Author(s): Larry B Lambert
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

There is something intoxicating about a secret. There’s something terrifying about a shadow war. You may not know much about Laos or the world of WHITE POWDER. You aren’t supposed to. Drugs, sex, and murder combined with personal and...

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