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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Iron & Silk" comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Staff Pick From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester Staff Pick Krakatoa is the eloquent narrative of the cataclysmic destruction in 1883 of the volcanic island of the same name. Killing nearly 40,000 people (mostly from the resultant tsunamis), this violent eruption was "the most violent explosion ever recorded and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (P.S.) by Stephen Walker Publisher Comments A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world forever On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb—dubbed Little Boy by its creators—was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung Publisher Comments One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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