Typical guidebooks can overwhelm readers with page after page of recommendations. Selectively, through the writing of more than fifty expatriates, travelers, and locals, To North India With Love presents a collection of thoughtful, unique suggestions. The fourth book in the exciting To Asia With Love guidebook series, its practical information is paired with personal essays that will inspire both seasoned globetrotters and armchair travelers.

To North India with Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur (To Asia with Love)

Travel

Asia

Things Asian Press/Global Directions

Everyday Life introduces children to the vibrant world created by Shanghai's Jinshan artists. From a watermelon harvest to an autumn festival to a child’s winter game, vivid, friendly peasant art brings everyday life in rural China into our lives. Simple, rhythmic poems, presented in English, Simplified Chinese, and Pinyin, beautifully accent each painting. Everyday Life’s colorful, bustling illustrations will capture a child’s imagination, while descriptive bilingual text invites English and Chinese readers to enjoy the sweetness of each page. ThingsAsian Kids presents a series of books introducing children to the beauty and wonder of Asia. Other ThingsAsian Kids books include My Mom is a Dragon and My Dad is a Boar, a whimsical introduction to Chinese paper cut art and the lunar calendar animals; Hiss! Pop! Boom! Celebrating Chinese New Year; and H is for Hong Kong, an international twist on the classic primer, featuring a lovely, hand-tinted cyanotype photograph.

Everyday Life: Through Chinese Peasant Art

Children's Books

Morrissey, Tricia

Arts, Music & Photography

As she approaches her sixties, Ma Thanegi decides to satisfy a lifelong dream. Jumping on any boat that would let her onboard, she begins a leisurely exploration of Myanmar’s thirteen hundred-mile long Ayeyarwaddy River. Always hungry—for food, conversation, and a good story—Ma Thanegi clearly savors and vividly describes every adventure she encounters, whether she is traveling into the Cyclone Nargis-stricken delta region, feeding a dragon, or careening down the rock-infested white-water gorge of the Ayeyarwaddy’s First Defile. You’ll love accompanying this opinionated and delightful lady on an odyssey that takes her through much of Myanmar—never without great passion for her country, a wicked sense of humor, and her tube of red lipstick.

Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy: One Woman's Mid-Life Travel Adventures on Myanmar's Great River

Thanegi, Ma

Uncle Three loves good food, good booze, good card games, and bad women—and he’s never found a grave he wouldn’t rob. He can’t help it—it’s in his blood—grave robbing has been the family business for centuries. So when his bookseller nephew comes to him with a map to an ancient tomb, Uncle Three sets off to find it, in the company of some grave-robbing colleagues, his nerdy nephew, and a strange poker-faced guy that nobody can quite figure out. Uncle Three knows that the grave he seeks will lead him and his companions to “another kind of world,” but not even he could ever imagine what they are about to find. Lost in a labyrinthine cavern that is full of dead bodies, Uncle Three and his comrades fight for their lives as they come up against vampires, corpse-eating bugs, and blood zombies. The first volume of The Grave Robbers’ Chronicles, which will soon be followed by Angry Sea, Hidden Sand, Cavern of the Blood Zombies is as impossible to put down as a bag of good potato chips. A story with more twists and turns than a burial cavern and the funniest grave robbers the world has ever known, it’s kept Chinese readers awake far into the night. Now it’s your turn…

Cavern of the Blood Zombies (Grave Robbers' Chronicles)

Literature & Fiction

Xu, Lei

Genre Fiction

Uncle Three is nowhere to be found and to make matters worse, there’s convincing evidence that he may be a liar and a killer. Exhausted and discouraged, his nephew decides to abandon the family business of robbing ancient graves with the intention of resuming the life of an honest man. Then his childhood friend emerges from prison with a scheme that promises treasure and adventure—along with the possibility of finding Uncle Three, as well as savage monkeys with a tendency toward kleptomania, gigantic rats who hunger for human flesh, a band of rival grave robbers who believe murder is a justifiable step to take when trying to achieve success, and a mysterious bronze tree that conceals deadly secrets.

Bronze Tree of Death (Grave Robbers' Chronicles, 3)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

“When the crickets call and the wind is still and the water buffalo all are sleeping,” take a night journey through the streets of Hanoi with an artist who is searching for the city’s Red River. Wafted by dreams that soar like “a hundred white birds,” wander through a city that is stilled and softened by darkness; savor the syrupy fragrance of blossom-filled trees and the music of a cake seller’s song. Learn that “everything we love we carry within,” and hold that thought close while falling asleep. This bilingual story with its surreal and playful paintings is a beautiful addition to the Alphabetical World Series.

H is for Hanoi (Alphabetical World)

Rush, Elizabeth

Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern spent more than seven years traveling in Laos, talking to farmers, scrap-metal hunters, people who make and use tools from UXO, people who hunt for death beneath the earth and render it harmless. With their words and photographs, they reveal the beauty of Laos, the strength of Laotians, and the commitment of bomb-disposal teams. People take precedence in this account, which is deeply personal without ever becoming a polemic.

Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos

History

Coates, Karen J.

Five different viewpoints, five different cameras, five different photographers bring their own special version of a city they know and love to a book that lets readers roam through the hidden corners of Hanoi. In these pages, you'll enter living spaces tucked away in alleys; enjoy art installations that celebrate Hanoi’s natural world; study the architecture that has developed over the centuries, and the graphic design that has become an integral part of the urban landscape; watch people who are savoring a sidewalk meal, rushing off to work in a wild river of traffic, working at jobs that have existed forever and at new occupations that will change the city. Watch the exuberance of boys taking flight on skateboards, the trendy chic of hipsters in tattoos and elegantly tailored blue jeans, the beauty of aging faces whose countenances have been shaped by decades of struggle. And then reserve a ticket, because when you've finished the book, you’ll want to lose yourself in this city on your own, finding the places that will make Hanoi your private terrain of discovered secrets. Photographs by Matthew Dakin, Nguyen Thanh Hai (Maika Elan), Nguyen The Son, Elizabeth Rush, Aaron Joel Santos

Lost & Found Hanoi

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Abandoning post-war America’s Leave It to Beaver modernity, a woman from midtown Manhattan raised her family of five on a homestead in Alaska. This had been her dream from the time she was a little girl, but the Alaska she found wasn’t quite what she had envisioned. Her children became Alaskans in a way she had never intended, in a place that was almost its own continent and definitely its own world. Living a life that was still locked in the 19th century, with an outdoor privy, a wood-burning barrel stove, a Ford tractor as a second car, and a husband who was legally blind, she never gave up on her childhood dream. Laura Ingalls Wilder and The Glass Castle collide as her life unfolds, heavily laced with the humor and heroism that was the hallmark of the Last Frontier before it became the 49th state. A woman with persistent optimism in a life that was studded with tragedy, this New Yorker with eccentric dreams had the courage to build a life for herself and her family in a place that was still truly wilderness, a domain of wind, grass, and trees. The life she lived was difficult, but it was her own. She chose it, she crafted it, and she savored it. Her story is a tribute to the unique and indomitable spirit of the great ladies whose labor, devotion, and love shaped Alaska.

Light and Silence: Growing Up in My Mother s Alaska

Brown, Janet

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