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Anil's Ghost
• Michael Ondaatje
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Ondaatje's novel follows the exploits of a forensic anthropologist, born in Sri Lanka but educated in America, who returns to her homeland to help uncover the truth behind a series of organized murders.
(SRL10, $14.00)
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Audrey Hepburn's Neck, A Novel
• Alan Brown
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An exquisite short novel about contemporary Japan. This prize-winning work captures the eclectic, mixed-up society of contemporary Japan.
(JPN14, $20.95)
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
• Haruki Murakami
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Murakami's revelatory collection of short fiction, set in Italy, Greece and his native Japan.
(JPN252, $14.95)
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Catfish and Mandala, A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
• Andrew X. Pham
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Much more than a road trip, this book combines the author's family history with his many and often-gritty adventures by bicycle through foreign lands (including Mexico, Japan and, notably, Vietnam).
(VNM50, $15.00)
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Dancing With Strangers, Europeans And Australians At First Contact
• Inga Clendinnen
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A compassionate and well-researched account of early British contact with the Australian natives, focusing on the rapport between British governor Arthur Philip and a native named Bennelong.
(AUS208, $24.99)
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Dogside Story
• Patricia Grace
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Grace writes with ease and style about a man struggling for custody of his daughter in a Maori community on New Zealand's east cape.
(NZL98, $13.95)
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Family Matters
• Rohinton Mistry
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An aging professor comes to live with his daughter, her husband and their two children in a cramped Bombay apartment in Mistry's moving, and often comic, tale.
(IDA214, $15.95)
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The Fragile Edge, Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific
• Julia Whitty
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Whitty illuminates coral reefs, their inhabitants and the pleasures of diving in this memoir of underwater adventures in Rangiroa, Tuvalu and Moorea. Winner of the 2008 Kiriyama Prize and John Burroughs Medal.
(PAC173, $14.95)
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From the Land of Green Ghosts, a Burmese Odyssey
• Pascal Khoo Thwe
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The young Burmese author, a member of a remote hill-tribe in the Shan hills, captures the traditions and challenges of the Padaung people in this astonishing memoir.
(BMA29, $13.95)
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The Girl Who Played Go
• Shan Sa
• Adriana Hunter
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In this accomplished novel set in a Manchurian city in the war-torn 1930s, two young people -- one of each side of the conflict -- fall in love.
(CHN214, $14.95)
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The Hummingbird's Daughter, A Novel
• Alberto Urrea
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Urrea bases his award-winning novel on the life of Teresita, the Saint of Cabora, born on a ranch in 1878 on the Arizona-Mexico border (she's also his great aunt).
(SWU220, $14.99)
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Japan, A Reinterpretation
• Patrick Smith
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A thoughtful, stimulating look at the country since World War II, targeting the role of the U.S. in creating modern Japan. Highly recommended.
(JPN16, $15.95)
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Maps for Lost Lovers
• Nadeem Aslam
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A well-wrought novel about a Pakistani family living near London and the cultural and personal conflicts of immigrant communities.
(GBR567, $14.95)
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Maximum City, Bombay Lost and Found
• Suketu Mehta
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The tale of the author who, after a 21-year sojourn in New York, returns to his native Bombay, "the biggest, fastest, richest city in India."
(IDA252, $16.95)
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Mister Pip
• Lloyd Jones
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Jones sets his poignant tale of children, teachers and the transcendent power of storytelling in the midst of the 1990s civil war in Bougainville that pitched the islanders against the government of Papua New Guinea. He spins magic with gunfire and Great Expectations.
(PNG22, $12.00)
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My Year of Meats
• Ruth L. Ozeki
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A tale of two women: an American working for a Japanese TV show in the pocket of the beef lobby, and a depressed Japanese housewife who watches the show. It's a sharp satire of colliding cultures and the meat market that is also an engaging personal story.
(jpn334, $15.00)
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The Reindeer People, Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
• Piers Vitebsky
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Vitebsky captures the hardships, challenges and routines of everyday life of the Eveny people on the taiga of northeastern Siberia.
(SIB48, $15.95)
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River Town, Two Years on the Yangtze
• Peter Hessler
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An intelligent personal account of life as a Peace Corps volunteer in Fuling, a provincial city where foreigners are a curiosity. Fuling is located on the Yangtze in Sichuan, which will be partially submerged with the completion of the Three Gorges dam.
(CHN125, $14.95)
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Three Cups of Tea, One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time
• Greg Mortenson
• David Oliver Relin
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The fascinating true story of American nurse Mortenson who attempted to scale K2 in 1993 and ended up sheltered in a remote Pakistani mountain village. In return, he set up the village's first school, a project which expanded into the 50-school Central Asia Institute
(PKN20, $15.00)
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Three-Legged Horse
• Cheng Ch'Ing-Wen
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These twelve tales vividly evoke traditional and modern Taiwan. The first English translations of work by Cheng, well-known in Taiwan.
(TWN05, $24.50)
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