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	Insight City Guide Hong Kong, Macau & Guangzhou  •   Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES This eyecatching guidebook features beautiful full-color photographs, illuminating area maps, a street atlas and information about transport and accommodations. With a pullout restaurant map guide. (HKG27, $15.95)
	Hong Kong  •  Jan Morris CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1997 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES • FAVORITE It's always a pleasure to find a destination that Jan Morris has written about. In this book, she covers the whole city in typical fashion -- enumerating the many personal pleasures she found there, as well as deftly describing the most important aspects of Hong Kong's history and culture. Reissued with a new final chapter on the city's return to China. (HKG02, $17.00)
	Travelers' Tales Hong Kong  •  Travelers' Tales ANTHOLOGY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES A diverse collection of excellent stories and essays, mostly modern. Organized by topic, the selection includes Jan Morris, Simon Winchester, and other greats. It's a highly readable introduction to the cultural heritage, politics and people of Hong Kong. (HKG08, $17.95)
	Hong Kong Map  •   Borch Maps MAP A laminated, folding map of Hong Kong, at a scale of 1:14,000. (HKG15, $6.95)

	Fodor's Hong Kong's 25 Best  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A shirt-pocket guide and map. (HKG09, $11.95)
	Lonely Planet Cantonese Phrasebook  •  Kam Y. Lau   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (HKG19, $8.99)
	Lonely Planet Hong Kong & Macau City Guide  •  Nicko Goncharoff  •  Damian Harper   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide to Hong Kong. (HKG14, $19.99)
	Lonely Planet Hong Kong Encounter  •  Steve Fallon   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map. (HKG33, $11.99)
	City Between Worlds, My Hong Kong  •  Leo Ou-Fan Lee   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Lee draws on his experience of Hong Kong as well as literature, film and popular culture. The result is a multi-layered portrait of a city on the fault line between China and the West. (HKG35, $29.95)
	Hong Kong, A Cultural History  •  Michael Ingham   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Beneath the surface of Hong Kong's clichéd self-image as Pearl of the Orient and Shopping Paradise, Michael Ingham reveals a city rich in history, myth, and cultural diversity. (HKG29, $19.99)
	Understanding China, A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Politics  •  John Bryan Starr   • HISTORY  •  John Bryan Starr, a professor of history and former director of the China Association, brings his classroom experience to this admirably brief, clearheaded introduction to contemporary China. (CHN196, $16.00)
	Golden Boy, Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood  •  Martin Booth   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Booth writes with warmth of his youthful rambles in this sharp-eyed, affectionate memoir of coming of age in colonial Hong Kong. The book is a portrait of place, of a lost time, and most especially of his friends and family. (HKG23, $14.00)
	Outposts, Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire  •  Simon Winchester   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Winchester's globe-trotting account of scattered, mostly oceanic, outposts of the British Empire. He shows his usual flair for anecdote in describing Hong Kong, Diego Garcia, Tristan de Cunha, St. Helena, Ascension, Pitcairn, Antarctica and the Falkland Islands. (GBR569, $13.95)
	Fragrant Harbor  •  John Lanchester   • LITERATURE  •  Lanchester, in this satisfying novel of Hong Kong, spins an atmospheric tale of the city in the 1930s and 1940s bracketed by a parallell tale of business dealings, power and greed in the 1990s. (CHN266, $14.00)
	Kowloon Tong, A Novel of Hong Kong  •  Paul Theroux   • LITERATURE  •  With its strong sense of place and contemporary setting in Hong Kong at a time of transition, this fast-paced novel is an illuminating and imaginative look at the city. (HKG12, $13.95)
	Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha  •  Dorothy Gilman   • MYSTERY  •  Grandma Pollifax, the CIA agent, is at it again, hot on the trail of jewel thieves, drug dealers and murderers in the city of Hong Kong. Part of the popular series, this mystery is great fun. (HKG17, $6.99)
	Noble House  •  James Clavell   • LITERATURE  •  Another Clavell novel set in Asia, this one finds Russian, Chinese and English businessmen and intelligence agents caught up in a struggle to control the largest trading house in 1960s Hong Kong. (HKG16, $7.99)
	Tai-Pan  •  James Clavell   • LITERATURE  •  Another volume in Clavell's well known Asia series, this book focuses on Hong Kong and its most powerful trading company. Tai-pans were the Hong Kong-based resident managers of the China/India trade. (ASA04, $7.99)
	The Honourable Schoolboy  •  John Le Carre   • LITERATURE  •  Le Carre at his best, with British Secret Service agent George Smiley at work among the backstreets of Hong Kong, and across Asia. A riveting cold war spy story that is suffused in Hong Kong atmosphere. (HKG01, $15.00)
	The Train to Lo Wu  •  Jess Row   • LITERATURE  •  The Hong Kong of Jess Row's remarkable debut collection is "a city that can be like a mirage, hovering above the ground: skyscrapers built on mountainsides, islands swallowed in fog for days." (HKG36, $12.00)

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