Asia
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Read more“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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Rats to the Rescue: The Unlikely Heroes Making Cambodia Safe
$19.99 Read moreHeroes come in all shapes, sizes, and species!
Growing up in Cambodia, Malen knew that dangers from a long-ago war lay hidden underground. Buried explosives forced her and many others to live, farm,
- Author: Riley, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765607985
- Language: English
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Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan
$20.00 Read moreThe gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle–and the renewed threat of invasion by China.
Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as noth
- Author: Clements, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1957363746
- Language: English
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It’s Not That Spicy!
$27.99 Add to cartWhile there are many wonderful books that illustrate how to eat right, where food comes from and how it’s grown, not many introduce children to spicy food. Instead, children are often taught at a youn
- Author: Powers, Mei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1662937261
- Language: English
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
$32.50 Add to cartNo animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eu
- Author: Chaffetz, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1324051469
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War: A Military History
$40.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive military history of the war in Vietnam
The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests- Author: Wawro, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606086
- Language: English
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The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age
$34.95 Read moreThe fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing.
A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese–- Author: Mullaney, Thomas S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0262047519
- Language: English
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Passcode to the Third Floor: An Insider’s Account of Life Among North Korea’s Political Elite
$32.95 Add to cartThae Yong-ho was a leading North Korean diplomat to the United Kingdom and Northern Europe–until his dramatic defection to South Korea in 2016. In this gripping tell-all, he reveals the inner working
- Author: Yong-Ho, Thae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0231198868
- Language: English
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The Korean Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Legends
$25.95 Read moreThe myths of Korea may seem a complex and intriguing mix of ghosts, spirits, and superstition, but they form the bedrock of one of the most vibrant global cultures today. In the past few decades, Sout
- Series: Myths #8
- Author: Fenkl, Heinz Insu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027668
- Language: English
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Miso Magic
$18.99 Read moreA young girl learns that good things can take time as her father teaches her about an important Japanese cultural tradition.
When the first snowfall of the year reaches the foot of the nearby mountain
- Author: Hadley, Moni Ritchie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 05 2024
- ISBN10: 807551872
- Language: English
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Thrilling Cities: Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond
$18.99 Add to cartA CAPTIVATING JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CREATOR OF JAMES BOND
Ian Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote
- Author: Fleming, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0063299143
- Language: English
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Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan
$12.99 Add to cartJapanese Shinto is the simple belief that the divine dwells in all things around us.
Shinto: The Japanese World of Kami Spirits is a concise guide to the fundamental elements of the Shinto religion–i- Author: Ono, Sokyo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 4805317930
- Language: English
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Barefoot Skateboarders
$21.95 Read moreThe remote village of Janwaar in Northern India has been the same for a long time, with the community strictly divided into castes. It’s a quiet village… until the construction project begins.
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- Author: Singh, Rina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 145983853X
- Language: English
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The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette’s
$19.99 Add to cartAn all-girls school is struck with mysterious cases of screaming hysteria in this chilling dark academia thriller haunted by a deeply buried history clawing to the light.
For over a hundred years, gir- Author: Alkaf, Hanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1534494588
- Language: English
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A Two-Placed Heart
$24.95 Add to cartAfraid her sister (and maybe even herself) could lose sight of their Vietnamese identity, twelve-year-old Bom writes a poetic memoir to help them both remember–a love letter in verse to sisterhood an
- Author: Nguyen, Doan Phuong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1643796429
- Language: English
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Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses
$36.00 Add to cartThe first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation an… [more below]
- Series: Embers
- Author: Sheftall, M. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 059347225X
- Language: English
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
$19.83 Read moreThe emotionally wrenching yet ultimately uplifting memoir of a Chinese woman struggling to win the love and acceptance of her family.
Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Ad- Author: Mah, Adeline Yen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0767903579
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Thailand’s Islands & Beaches
$24.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Thailand’s Islands and Beaches.
Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from visiting Ph
- Series: Regional Guide
- Author: Mahapatra, Anirban
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1787017826
- Language: English
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Japan’s Longest Day: A Graphic Novel about the End of WWII: Intrigue, Treason and Emperor Hirohito’s Fateful Decision to Surrender
$19.99 Add to cartThe true story of Japan’s surrender in World War II and how it nearly didn’t happen!
In the final days of World War II, Japan lay in ruins and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been obliterated- Author: Hando, Kazutoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 4805317795
- Language: English
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Seeker of Truth: Kailash Satyarthi’s Fight to End Child Labor
$18.99 Read moreLittle by little, drop by drop Kailash Satyarthi devoted his life to battling international child labor and exploitation. In 2014 his work earned him a Nobel Peace Prize alongside Malala Yousafzai.
“M- Author: Venkat, Srividhya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1499815697
- Language: English
