Cultural Region/East Asian
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The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp
$34.99 Add to cartDuring World War II, the Japanese military extended Japan’s civilian licensing regime for domestic brothels to those next to its overseas bases. It did so for a simple reason: to impose the strenuous … [more below]
- Author: Ramseyer, J. Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1641773456
- Language: English
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Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan
$33.99 Add to cartFor over 400 years, Taiwan has suffered at the hands of multiple colonial powers, but it has now entered the decade when its independence will be won or lost. At the heart of Taiwan’s story is the cur… [more below]
- Author: Manthorpe, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0230614248
- Language: English
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Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries.
There is- Author: Booth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250114055
- Language: English
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The Korean War
$20.99 Add to cartIt was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle.Max Hastings–preeminent military historian–takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle t
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 391
- Publish Date: October 15, 1988
- ISBN10: 067166834X
- Language: English
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Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story — The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
$19.99 Add to cartAn epic story of valor and sacrifice by a legendary Marine company in the Korean War brought to gripping, cinematic light by an acclaimed historian (“Gives the brave Marines of George Company long ove… [more below]
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0306820447
- Language: English
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La Espera / The Waiting
$27.95 Read moreMEJOR C?MIC DEL A?O The Washington Post / Forbes / Publishers Weekly
FINALISTA Harvey Award / LA Times Book Prize El
PREMIOS Freeman Awards / YALSA Book Award / Cartoonist Studio Prize / Prix BDGest’- Author: Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 8418897775
- Language: Spanish
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The Disaster Tourist
$16.95 Read moreThis stunning “dystopian feminist eco-thriller” from an award-winning South Korean author “takes on climate change, sexual assault, greed, and dark tourism” (Ms. Magazine).
Welcome to the desert isl… [more below]- Author: Ko-Eun, Yun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1640094164
- Language: English
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Korean Folktales
$12.99 Add to cartEveryday folk and fairy tales from Korea with magicians, magistrates, mischievous creatures and devious sprites.
Organized into four sections – Love, Marriage & Family, Powerful Spirits & Mystical Rea- Series: World’s Greatest Myths and Legends
- Author: Jackson, J. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1804175846
- Language: English
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The Language of Threads
$22.00 Add to cartReaders of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel t
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267568
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks
$13.95 Add to cartIsaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the coast of Japan. His people catch barely enough fish to live on, and so must distill salt to sell to neighboring… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Yoshimura, Akira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0156008351
- Language: English
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The Magician of Lhasa
$14.95 Add to cartWhen novice monk Tenzin Dorje is told by his lama that the Red Army is invading Tibet, his country’s darkest moment paradoxically gives him a sense of purpose like no other. He accepts a mission to ca
- Series: A Matt Lester Spiritual Thriller #1
- Author: Michie, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: January 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0994488122
- Language: English
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Night of Many Dreams
$22.00 Add to cartNight of Many Dreams is the bestselling novel from Gail Tsukiyama that tells the tale of two sisters separated by ambition, bound by tradition
As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong K- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0312199406
- Language: English
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This Burns My Heart
$20.99 Add to cartIn this “extraordinary” (Chicago Tribune) and compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggles to give her daughter a good life and to find love in a socie… [more below]
- Author: Park, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1439199620
- Language: English
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Monkey Bridge
$18.00 Read moreHailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war.
Like navigating a monkey bridge- Author: Cao, Lan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140263616
- Language: English
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Mater 2-10: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
$29.95 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
International Booker-nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story–an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean hi
- Author: Sok-Yong, Hwang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 486
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1957363312
- Language: English
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The Invisible Hotel
$28.00 Read more“A surreal, riveting, keep-the-lights-on masterwork of horror . . . I will be haunted by this book for years to come.” –Kim Fu, author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
I know this place.- Author: Ham, Yeji Y.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1638931372
- Language: English
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Saha
$16.95 Add to cartIn a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates.
Controlled by a secretive o… [more below]
- Author: Nam-Joo, Cho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324094117
- Language: English
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My Brilliant Life
$17.99 Add to cartA BEST OF THE MONTH SELECTION BY OPRAH MAGAZINE
“An eminent South Korean talent makes her American d?ut in this poignant watercolor of a novel . . . Kim is a writer on the move
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2021- Author: Kim, Ae-Ran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250750563
- Language: English
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Idoru
$8.99 Add to cart“The best novel William Gibson has ever written about the world we’re entering daily. Neuromancer made Gibson famous; Idoru cements that fame.”–The Washington Post Book World
21st century Tokyo, afte- Series: Bridge Trilogy #2
- Author: Gibson, William
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0425158640
- Language: English
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A Magical Girl Retires
$21.99 Add to cartA millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.
Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in cre
- Author: Seolyeon, Park
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063373262
- Language: English
