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    Hong Kong On Air1 x HK$98.00
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    Book cover image: Designing a Life, by Kai-Yin Lo
    Designing a Life: A Cross-Cultural Journey1 x HK$148.00
    Thai the Knot: How to Untangle the Complexities of Cross-cultural Marriage1 x HK$78.00
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    Chungking Mansions: Photographs from Hong Kong's last ghetto1 x HK$158.00
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    Sustainably Stylish: A guide to curating a guilt-free wardrobe2 x HK$180.00
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    Dragon Bones: Two Years Beneath the Skin of a Himalayan Kingdom1 x HK$128.00
    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
    Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon Walled City 19851 x HK$288.00
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    The Marvellous Adventures of Maggie and Methuselah: A Mystery in Hong Kong1 x HK$100.00
    Kowloon: Unknown Territory1 x HK$180.00
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    Chinese Gods: An introduction to Chinese folk religion2 x HK$138.00
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    A Dirty Story1 x HK$100.00
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    Policing Hong Kong – An Irish History2 x HK$158.00
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    Dateline Mongolia: An American journalist in nomad's land1 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
    Hong Kong Beat: True Stories From One of the Last British Police Officers in Colonial Hong Kong1 x HK$138.00
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    The Girl Who Dreamed: A Hong Kong Memoir of Triumph Against the Odds1 x HK$138.00
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    Street Life Hong Kong: Outdoor workers in their own words1 x HK$158.00
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    The Evergreen Tea House: A Hong Kong Novel1 x HK$138.00
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    Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao1 x HK$78.00
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    Other Voices, Other Eyes: Expatriate Lives in Hong Kong1 x HK$138.00
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    The Tale of Rickshaw Rooster2 x HK$100.00
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    The Crocodile who Wanted to be Famous1 x HK$100.00
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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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  • Wing Chun Warrior: The True Tales of Kung Fu Master Duncan Leung, Bruce Lee’s Fighting Companion

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  • Eating Smoke: One man’s descent into drug psychosis in Hong Kong’s triad heartland

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  • Book cover image: Volume 4, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, by David Bellis from Gwulo

    Volume 4: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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  • Book cover image: Volume 3, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, by David Bellis from Gwulo

    Volume 3: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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    Paper Horses: Traditional Woodblock Prints of Gods from Northern China

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

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  • Kowloon: Unknown Territory

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    The Kowloon English Club

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  • Book cover image: Searching for Billie, by Ian Gill

    Searching for Billie: A journalist’s quest to understand his mother’s past leads him to discover a vanished China

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  • Tales from Victoria Park: Short stories of Indonesian women in Hong Kong

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  • My Private China

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    Octopus: The Pioneering Story of the World’s First Contactless Payment Card

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  • Book cover image: The Evergreen Tea House, by David T. K. Wong

    The Evergreen Tea House: A Hong Kong Novel

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  • Book cover image: Confessions of a Hong Kong Naturalist, by G. T. Reels

    Confessions of a Hong Kong Naturalist

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  • Whispers and Moans: Interviews with the men and women of Hong Kong’s sex industry

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  • Sketches of Sai Kung: From Clearwater Bay to the Country Parks

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  • The Yunnan Cookbook: Recipes from China’s land of ethnic diversity

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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 Odds

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  • Book cover image: Time Tourists - Extinct mammals go on holiday

    Time Tourists: Extinct mammals go on holiday

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  • Book cover image: Dear Hong Kong

    Dear Hong Kong vol.1 -《鄉港家書》第一冊

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    Chinese Street Food: A Field Guide for the Adventurous Diner

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  • Getting Along with the Chinese: For Fun and Profit

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    The Eurasian Face

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  • Hong Kong for Kids: A Parent’s Guide

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  • Book cover image: LING-NAM, by Benjamin Couch 'BC' Henry

    LING-NAM: Hong Kong, Canton and Hainan Island in the 1880s

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