Blogs in July 2025

Return to Paradise 4th July 2025

Some memories last a lifetime. Some secrets should stay buried. In 2000, four backpackers – Beth, Claire, Jez, and Max – meet on the sun-drenched shores of Phayom Beach, Thailand. Their gap year travels doing the banana pancake trail...

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Fishnets and Fire-eating A True Story 2nd July 2025

This amusing, true story tells the tale of four young, professional dancers who travel to the island of Hokkaido, an area steeped in mystery, myths and legendary beasts. When the quartet discovers that they are living next door to...

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For Fukui’s Sake: Two years in rural Japan 2nd July 2025

Far from the high-tech, high-rise of the super-cities, there lies another Japan. A Japan where snakes slither down school corridors, where bears prowl dark forests and where Westerners are still regarded as curious creatures. Welcome to the world of...

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Lady of Ch’iao Kuo: Red Bird of the South, Southern China, AD 531 2nd July 2025

The Royal Diaries proudly presents two-time Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep, whose stunning diary of sixteen-year-old Lady of Ch’iao Kuo takes readers on a remarkable adventure to Southern China in the sixth century A.D. A born leader, Lady of...

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Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed 2nd July 2025

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,...

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