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    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 Kong2 x HK$180.00
    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
    Paul’s Records: How a refugee from the Vietnam War found success selling vinyl on the streets of Hong Kong1 x HK$118.00
    Book cover image: Hong Kong Sweet and Sour, by Daniel Zabo
    Hong Kong Sweet and Sour1 x HK$108.00
    Book cover image: The Tale of Run Run Rat
    The Tale of Run Run Rat1 x HK$100.00
    Paper Tigress: A life in the Hong Kong government1 x HK$138.00
    Whispers and Moans: Interviews with the men and women of Hong Kong's sex industry3 x HK$118.00
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    The Tale of a Dark Horse2 x HK$100.00
    Sleeping Chinese1 x HK$88.00
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    Spatial Cemetery: A Journey Beneath the Surface of Hidden Hong Kong1 x HK$168.00
    Apologies Forthcoming: Stories not about Mao2 x HK$98.00
    Walking the Tycoons' Rope: How ambition drove a poor boy from Ningbo to compete with the richest men of Hong Kong and Singapore1 x HK$138.00
    Eating Smoke: One man’s descent into drug psychosis in Hong Kong’s triad heartland1 x HK$138.00
    Thai the Knot: How to Untangle the Complexities of Cross-cultural Marriage1 x HK$78.00
    King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong1 x HK$138.00
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    Other Voices, Other Eyes: Expatriate Lives in Hong Kong1 x HK$138.00
    Book cover image - Hong Kong Confidential
    Hong Kong Confidential: Life as a Subversive1 x HK$148.00
    Book cover image: The Tale of Temujin
    The Tale of Temujin1 x HK$100.00
    Book cover image - Hong Kong on the Brink
    Hong Kong on the Brink: An American diplomat relives 1967's darkest days2 x HK$138.00
    Book cover image: Sevens, by G.T. Reels
    Sevens: a Hong Kong novel1 x HK$120.00
    Book cover image: The Extraordinary Amazing Incredible Unbelievable Walled City of Kowloon, by Fiona Hawthorne
    The Extraordinary Amazing Incredible Unbelievable Walled City of Kowloon2 x HK$100.00
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    Sunset Survivors: Meet the people keeping Hong Kong's traditional industries alive1 x HK$288.00
    Book cover image: The Tale of Oswald Ox
    The Tale of Oswald Ox1 x HK$100.00
    Book cover image: bundle of 5 "China Revisited" books
    China Revisited: a series bundle1 x HK$360.00
    Book cover image - Dateline Mongolia
    Dateline Mongolia: An American journalist in nomad's land1 x HK$138.00
    Book cover image: The Good War of Consul Reeves, by Peter Rose
    The Good War of Consul Reeves1 x HK$138.00
    Book cover image: 36 Views of Lion Rock
    Thirty-six Views of Lion Rock1 x HK$350.00
    Sketches of Sai Kung: From Clearwater Bay to the Country Parks1 x HK$188.00
    Hong Kong Beat: True Stories From One of the Last British Police Officers in Colonial Hong Kong1 x HK$138.00
    HONG KONG State of Mind: 37 views of a city that doesn’t blink1 x HK$118.00
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    Trading Places: A photographic journey through China’s former Treaty Ports1 x HK$480.00
    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
    Book cover image: Why Your CEO Failed in China
    Why Your CEO Failed in China: True tales of how not to do business in the People's Republic1 x HK$138.00
    The Dictionary of the Asian Language1 x HK$138.00
    The Great Walk of China: Travels on foot from Shanghai to Tibet3 x HK$128.00
    Remembering Bruce Lee: And Jon Benn’s Other Adventures1 x HK$138.00
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    The Hong Kong Letters1 x HK$138.00
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    Stories from the Royal Hong Kong Police: Fifty accounts from officers of Hong Kong's colonial-era police force1 x HK$138.00
    Book cover image: The Crocodile who Wanted to be Famous
    The Crocodile who Wanted to be Famous1 x HK$100.00
    Book cover image - Farewell My Colony
    Farewell, My Colony: Last Days in the Life of British Hong Kong1 x HK$128.00
    Book cover image: Dear Hong Kong
    Dear Hong Kong vol.1 -《鄉港家書》第一冊1 x HK$360.00
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    Paul French's Destination series: a book bundle1 x HK$328.00
    Book cover image - Collected Hong Kong Stories
    Collected Hong Kong Stories1 x HK$128.00
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    Coming to Canada1 x HK$138.00
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    The Tale of Rickshaw Rooster1 x HK$100.00
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    Book cover image: Volume 5, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, by David Bellis from Gwulo
    Volume 5: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell1 x HK$168.00
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  • Book cover image - Hong Kong Confidential

    Hong Kong Confidential: Life as a Subversive

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    The Cleaner: The true story of one of the world’s most successful money launderers

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  • Book cover image: Sevens, by G.T. Reels

    Sevens: a Hong Kong novel

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    The Tale of a Dark Horse

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    Farewell, My Colony: Last Days in the Life of British Hong Kong

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  • Book cover image - Other Voices, Other Eyes

    Other Voices, Other Eyes: Expatriate Lives in Hong Kong

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  • The Dictionary of the Asian Language

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    Book cover image - Chinese Ghosts Revisited

    Chinese Ghosts Revisited: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences

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  • Book cover image: The Tale of Rickshaw Rooster

    The Tale of Rickshaw Rooster

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    Confessions of a Hong Kong Naturalist

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    The Tiger Hunters of Tai O

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  • Book cover image: Volume 1, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, by David Bellis from Gwulo

    Volume 1: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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    Hong Kong on the Brink: An American diplomat relives 1967’s darkest days

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  • Book cover image - Policing Hong Kong - An Irish History

    Policing Hong Kong – An Irish History

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    Dateline Mongolia: An American journalist in nomad’s land

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    The Tale of Desmond Dog

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  • Book cover image - How to Hong Kong: An illustrated travel journal

    How to Hong Kong: An illustrated travel journal

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    Collected Hong Kong Stories

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    Sheriff of Wan Chai: How an Englishman helped govern Hong Kong in its last decades as a British colony

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    The Tale of Ming Kee Monkey

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  • Getting Along with the Chinese: For Fun and Profit

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    Hong Kong Unveiled: A journey of discovery through the hidden world of Chinese customs and culture

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  • Fishing in Hong Kong: A How-To Guide to Making the Most of the Territory’s Shores, Reservoirs and Surrounding Waters

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    The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British adventurer became a general in Qing-dynasty China

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    The Tale of Rodney Ram

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