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    Book cover image: Welly the Wild Boar
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    Spatial Cemetery: A Journey Beneath the Surface of Hidden Hong Kong2 x HK$168.00
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    With Bare Hands: The true story of Alain Robert, the real-life Spiderman2 x HK$138.00
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    King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong1 x HK$138.00
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    The Peak: An Illustrated History of Hong Kong’s Top District1 x HK$228.00
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    LING-NAM: Hong Kong, Canton and Hainan Island in the 1880s1 x HK$90.00
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    The Evergreen Tea House: A Hong Kong Novel1 x HK$138.00
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    A Small Band of Men: An Englishman’s Adventures in the Hong Kong Marine Police1 x HK$180.00
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    Don't Joke on the Stairs: How I learnt to navigate China by breaking most of the rules2 x HK$128.00
    Hong Kong Beat: True Stories From One of the Last British Police Officers in Colonial Hong Kong1 x HK$138.00
    Book cover image: Along the Southern Boundary by Les Bird
    Along the Southern Boundary: A Marine Police Officer's Frontline Account of the Vietnamese Boatpeople and their Arrival in Hong Kong1 x HK$180.00
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    Book cover image: The Girl Who Dreamed, by Sonia Leung
    The Girl Who Dreamed: A Hong Kong Memoir of Triumph Against the Odds1 x HK$138.00
    Book cover image: Women, Crime and the Courts, Hong Kong 1841-1941
    Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-19411 x HK$148.00
    Wing Chun Warrior: The True Tales of Kung Fu Master Duncan Leung, Bruce Lee’s Fighting Companion1 x HK$118.00
    Whispers and Moans: Interviews with the men and women of Hong Kong's sex industry1 x HK$118.00
    Book cover image: The Marvellous Adventures of Maggie and Methuselah: A Mystery in Hong Kong
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    Love, Money and Friendships2 x HK$148.00
    Book cover image: "When 'Jesus' Came to Hong Kong" by Derek Currie
    When 'Jesus' Came to Hong Kong: The remarkable story of the first European football star in Asia1 x HK$148.00
    Apologies Forthcoming: Stories not about Mao1 x HK$98.00
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    Book cover image: Early Golf In China, 1870-1950, by Wayne Xing and Christoph Meister
    Early Golf in China, 1870-1950: How Modern Golf Spread from Scotland to China1 x HK$388.00
    Paul’s Records: How a refugee from the Vietnam War found success selling vinyl on the streets of Hong Kong1 x HK$118.00
    HONG KONG State of Mind: 37 views of a city that doesn’t blink1 x HK$118.00
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    Farewell, My Colony: Last Days in the Life of British Hong Kong1 x HK$128.00
    Book cover image: The Last Tigers of Hong Kong, by John Saeki
    The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True stories of big cats that stalked Britain's Chinese colony1 x HK$138.00
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    The Cleaner: The true story of one of the world's most successful money launderers1 x HK$200.00
    Sketches of Sai Kung: From Clearwater Bay to the Country Parks1 x HK$188.00
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    Ayo Gorkhali: The True Story of the Gurkhas1 x HK$138.00
    Year of Fire Dragons: An American Woman’s Story of Coming of Age in Hong Kong1 x HK$128.00
    Remembering Bruce Lee: And Jon Benn’s Other Adventures2 x HK$138.00
    Book cover image: Wanderings in China, by Constance Gordon-Cumming
    Wanderings in China: Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year, 1878/18791 x HK$90.00
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    No City for Slow Men: Hong Kong's quirks and quandaries laid bare2 x HK$128.00
    Master of None: How a Hong Kong high-flyer overcame the devastating experience of imprisonment1 x HK$138.00
    The Yunnan Cookbook: Recipes from China’s land of ethnic diversity1 x HK$208.00
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    Backstage in Hong Kong: A life with the Philharmonic, Broadway musicals and classical superstars1 x HK$148.00
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    The Hong Kong I Knew: Scenes and Stories from a Childhood in Kowloon1 x HK$148.00
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  • Whispers and Moans: Interviews with the men and women of Hong Kong’s sex industry

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    The Eurasian Face

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  • HONG KONG State of Mind: 37 views of a city that doesn’t blink

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  • Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from all sides of the Tibetan debate

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  • Thai the Knot: How to Untangle the Complexities of Cross-cultural Marriage

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  • Walking the Tycoons’ Rope: How ambition drove a poor boy from Ningbo to compete with the richest men of Hong Kong and Singapore

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  • Kowloon: Unknown Territory

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    Hong Kong Noir: Fifteen true tales from the dark side of the city

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