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“louisa lim”

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  • Indelible City

    Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

    by Louisa Lim ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARAn award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased.**The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a “barren rock” with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The People's Republic of Amnesia

    Tiananmen Revisited

    by Louisa Lim ...
    Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign Affairs An Economist Book of the Year, 2014 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review On June 4, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The People's Republic of Amnesia

    Tiananmen Revisited

    by Louisa Lim ...
    Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign Affairs An Economist Book of the Year, 2014 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review On June 4, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    Indelible City

    Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

    by Louisa Lim ...
    Narrated by Louisa Lim ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 37 min

    **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARAn award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased.**The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a “barren rock” with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Impossible City

    A Hong Kong Memoir

    by Karen Cheung ...
    Narrated by Karen Cheung ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 3 min

    A boldly rendered—and deeply intimate—account of Hong Kong today, from a resilient young woman whose stories explore what it means to survive in a city teeming with broken promises.“[A] pulsing debut . . . about what it means to find your place in a city as it vanishes before your eyes.”—The New York Times Book ReviewONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington PostHong Kong is known as a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Among the Braves

    Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

    by Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin ...
    Narrated by Jason Vu ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 31 min

    Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown.Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Kissinger

    A Biography

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    The definitive biography of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and how his ideas still resonate in the world today from the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs.By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

    by Evan Osnos ...
    Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the National Book Award in nonfiction.As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval.Age of Ambition provides a vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation.From abroad, we ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

    A Novel

    by Nadia Hashimi ...
    Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See.In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave ... Read more

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  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North

    A novel

    by Richard Flanagan ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker."Magnificent." —*The New York ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Silkworm

    by Robert Galbraith ...
    Series Book 2 - A Cormoran Strike Novel
    Private investigator Cormoran Strike must track down a missing writer -- and a sinister killer bent on destruction -- in this "wonderfully entertaining" mystery (Harlan Coben, New York Times Book Review) that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike.When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • China Wakes

    The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

    by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...
    The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower, and an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky."Nick Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's work as correspondents in China was beyond compare, and now they have written a book every bit as astonishing. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD