Books tagged: far east

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The Tenth Avatar    by Gary  Naiman
Price: $3.99 USD. 218810 words. Published by Fideli Publishing on July 8, 2009. .

Follow four strangers as they are guided to a prophetic battle with apocalyptic implications at the roof of the world. Drawn together by an ancient prophecy, they climb toward a downed aircraft in the Himalayas, unaware that the plane’s cargo will change the world forever…
When the Tiger Weeps    by Mike O'Connor
Price: $9.99 USD. 18890 words. Published by Pleasure Boat Studio on August 21, 2009. .

This book is a far-ranging journey through disparate cultures; a history beginning in the West with the American Civil War and culminating in the wisdom-sage tradition of the Far East. Along the way—in poetry, prose and translations—the work dramatizes individual and collective responses to oppression—war, tyranny and social injustice— and the triumphs and tragedies of those responses.
Teaching Abroad: an alternative life    by David Jenkins
Price: $5.99 USD. 69680 words. Published on January 8, 2011. .

Teaching Abroad combines travelogue, cultural description and teaching tips into a memoir giving a first hand account of what it's like to teach and earn a living overseas. The journey takes us from Central Europe to Oman, from Micronesia to East Asia. As creative nonfiction, it reminds us that success is not a destination; it is a journey.
Thailand Old Hand    by Peter Jaggs
Price: $4.99 USD. 37930 words. Published by bangkokbooks on April 24, 2011. .

Peter Jaggs has the unerring ability of being able to blunder into a good story wherever he travels in Asia.
Beasts of Burden    by Sylvan Scott
Price: Free! 5540 words. Published on March 20, 2012. .

In the royal household the lord's eldest son, Kan, lives a life of privilege. Chosen by God and fate, he will one day assume his father's throne. But in a land where divine providence comes with giant stature and dominion over the giant, shaggy beasts that toil on the Komasaru plains, Kan senses that something is wrong. What he discovers threatens the very foundation of his entire world.