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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
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  • A Small Band of Men: An Englishman’s Adventures in the Hong Kong Marine Police

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    Book cover image: All The Way With Ray, by Ray Cordeiro

    All The Way With Ray: My Autobiography

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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 Kong

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  • Book cover image: Backstage in Hong Kong: A life with the Philharmonic, Broadway musicals and classical superstars, by John Duffus

    Backstage in Hong Kong: A life with the Philharmonic, Broadway musicals and classical superstars

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  • China Revisited Series (four book covers)

    China Revisited: a series bundle

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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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  • Book cover image - Dateline Mongolia

    Dateline Mongolia: An American journalist in nomad’s land

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  • Book cover image: Designing a Life, by Kai-Yin Lo

    Designing a Life: A Cross-Cultural Journey

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    Diamond Hill: Memories of growing up in a Hong Kong squatter village

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  • Don’t Joke on the Stairs: How I learnt to navigate China by breaking most of the rules

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  • Dragon Bones: Two Years Beneath the Skin of a Himalayan Kingdom

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  • Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon Walled City 1985

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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 - Forty Nights, by Chris Thrall

    Forty Nights (Eating Smoke #2)

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  • Book cover image: Great Leaps, by Colin Flahive

    Great Leaps: Finding home in a changing China

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  • Hong Kong Beat: True Stories From One of the Last British Police Officers in Colonial Hong Kong

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  • Book cover image - Hong Kong Confidential

    Hong Kong Confidential: Life as a Subversive

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  • Book cover image - Hong Kong on the Brink

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

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    It Won’t Be Long Now: The Diary of a Hong Kong Prisoner of War

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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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  • Book cover image: Love, Money and Friendships

    Love, Money and Friendships

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  • Master of None: How a Hong Kong high-flyer overcame the devastating experience of imprisonment

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  • My Private China

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    No Minister & No, Minister: The True Story of HarbourFest

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  • Paper Tigress: A life in the Hong Kong government

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