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1) The survivor
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Unearthing the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior in Southeast Asia, archeologist Riley Smith and Eve Duncan seek answers about this extraordinary past life, leading Riley to make a discovery that will change history--if she can survive long enough to share it with the world.
2) 18mm Blues
Author
Pub. Date
c1993
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Julia Elkins accompanies Grady Bowman to Rangoon and the annual Gem Emporium, only to find their journey has become intertwined with a bloody incident carried out decades before.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong,...
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Pub. Date
1974.
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Robert Stone's National Book Award-winning novel Dog Soldiers trades on a hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a place in which all honor and morality are ceded to the mere business of survival -- and, better, survival with personal profit. "This is the place where everybody finds out who they are," says the novel's protagonist, the journalist Converse, to which his friend and partner in crime Ray Hicks replies, "What a bummer for the gooks." Converse...
6) Wolf! Wolf!
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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A retelling of the classic tale about the boy who cried wolf, set in ancient China, in which a hungry wolf wonders if the boy is inviting him over for lunch.
7) Dark watch
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Series
Oregon files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
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Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas...
8) King Rat
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Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 4
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The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory.
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"Laos, 1981: When an unofficial mailman drops off a strange bilingual diary, Dr. Siri is intrigued. Half is in Lao, but the other half is in Japanese, which no one Siri knows can read; it appears to have been written during the Second World War. Most mysterious of all, it comes with a note stapled to it: Dr. Siri, we need your help most urgently. But who is "we," and why have they left no return address? To the chagrin of his wife and friends, who...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A compelling depiction of a man's act of violence, set against the backdrop of Asia in flux. Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means who favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man?"--
12) Samurai
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Simon St. George and his father, the last members of the Order of Dragonhunters, must join forces with a group of Japanese samurai to destroy the dragons in the Far East.
13) The city of Devi
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A dazzling, multilayered novel that not only encompasses a searing love story but, with its epic reach from quarks to mythology to geopolitics, also encapsulates the fate of the entire world. As Mumbai empties under the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation, Sarita, a thirty-three-year-old statistician, can only think of one thing: being reunited with Karun, her physicist husband. Why has he vanished? Who is he running from? How will they form the...
15) Amok
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Pub. Date
2022
Description
Bored with small-town life in Abilene, Texas, a former Marine and CIA contractor accepts an offer for a five-figure payday to fight a secret war in Southeast Asia.
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Addison Cooke volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Twelve-year-old Addison Cooke and his friends travel across Asia in an attempt to rescue Addison's aunt and uncle from the clutches of a dangerous gang and prevent the legendary tomb of Ghenghis Khan from falling the in the wrong hands.
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Series
Paladin of shadows volume 6
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Former Navy SEAL Mike Harmon investigates how pirates in the Singapore Straits acquired top-secret computer chips designed to run nuclear reactors, a case that threatens the fledgling democratic government in Myanmar.
20) Tropic thunder
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
It's not really a knock to say that nothing in Tropic Thunder is funnier than its first five minutes, so sly that--especially for people watching in theaters--you don't realize right away they are the opening minutes of the movie. This outrageous comedy begins with a series of fake previews, each introducing one of the main characters in the film-proper (not that there's anything proper about this film) and each bearing the familiar logo of a different...
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