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  The Rice Mother

  by Rani Manicka

  At the age of fourteen, Lakshmi leaves behind her childhood among the mango trees of Ceylon for married life across the ocean in Malaysia, and soon finds herself struggling to raise a family in a country that is, by turns, unyielding and amazing, brutal and beautiful. Giving birth to a child every year until she is nineteen, Lakshmi becomes a formidable matriarch, determined to secure a better life for... (more)
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  Unclaimed Heart

  by Kim Wilkins

  Also published as the Pearl HunterThe rules for a young English woman in 1799 are simple: Do what you’re told; stay out of the way; and don’t, under any circumstances, ask questions. But Constance Blackchurch is insatiable, headstrong, and complex; and the quest to find her missing mother is too much to resist… …as is Alexandre Sans-Nom, the pearl diver who steals her heart, uproots all of her social... (more)
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  Severn House Regency

  Green Eyes

  by Karen Robards

  Anna Traverne will never forget that evening back in England when a bold intruder stole into her chambers -- a dark and daring jewel thief who came for treasures and inflamed her passions with a brazen caress. She thwarted the dashing rogue then. But now Julian Chase has followed her halfway around the world. Julian has come to take what he believes is rightfully his. And he has vowed to have his tender, sensuous... (more)
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  Picklehead

  From Ceylon to Suburbia: A Memoir of Food, Family and Finding Yourself

  by Rohan Candappa

  Humorist Rohan Candappa is the son of a Sri Lankan father and Burmese mother. He grew up small and round in South London, riding his chopper bike and supporting Leeds United. But every day his mother would conjur delicious meals out of thin air. His father cooked too, with fiery flavorings, black curries, and green coriander chutneys. Their home became the focus for family gatherings and feasts of such delicacy... (more)
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  The Hamilton Case

  by Michelle De Kretser

  A flamboyant beauty who once partied with the Prince of Wales and who now, in her seventh decade, has "gone native" in a Ceylonese jungle. A proud and ambitious lawyer who unwittingly seals his own fate when he dares to solve the sensational Hamilton murder case that has rocked the upper echelons of local society. A young woman who retreats from her family and the world after her infant son is found suffocated in... (more)
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  The Rifle And Hound in Ceylon

  by Sir Samuel White Baker

  By the English explorer and author. Baker founded an agricultural settlement in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and during his residence there he published this work as a result of many adventurous hunting expeditions.
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  Inside an Elusive Mind

  by M.R. Narayan Swamy

  The author Swamy has accomplished nothing less than enigma decryption by authoring an incomparable biography -- Asia Times, Hong Kong The book is an illustration of rigorous and meticulous research. It is a valuable reference book -- The Hindu, India
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  The English Patient

  by Michael Ondaatje

  With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion,... (more)
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  Sake & Satori: Asian Journals, Japan (Asian Journals)

  by Joseph Campbell

  In this second volume of his Asian journals, Campbell reports on his travels through east Asia and his five-month stay in Japan. Sake and Satori includes the never-before-published sequel to Campbell’s Baksheesh and Brahman and covers the author’s journeys through Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. It offers a snapshot of 1950s Asia and its rapidly changing postcolonial and Cold War... (more)
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  Geoffrey Bawa: The Complete Works

  by David G. Robson, Geoffrey Bawa

  Few architects of the twentieth century have achieved the harmonious and pleasurable fusion of local building traditions with modern forms and sensibility as has Geoffrey Bawa. The man and the buildings that he has created over the last forty years have become legendary in the region and influential around the world. Born in Sri Lanka in 1919 and educated at Cambridge University, Bawa initially worked in a Colombo... (more)
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  The Village in the Jungle

  by Leonard Woolf

  The classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), first published in 1913 and written Virginia Woolf's husband.
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  Le poisson-scorpion

  by Nicolas Bouvier

  Text: French
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  Sweet and Simple Kind

  by Yasmine Gooneratne

  The Sweet and Simple Kind is an engrossing and dramatic family saga set against the backdrop of Ceylon’s turbulent evolution into Sri Lanka. Resonant in its social insights and beautifully written, The Sweet and Simple Kind offers a richly imagined world of love, political chicanery and family turmoil in the newly independent Sri Lanka of the 1950s and 60s. As an intensely political family attempts to balance... (more)
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  Christine, a memoir

  by Christine Spittel-Wilson

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  Viduthalai Puligal (Tamil Edition)

  by Marudhan Marudhan

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  Sri Lanaka: Reign of Anomy

  by Charles Sarvan

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  The Cat's Table

  by Michael Ondaatje

  In the early 1950s, an 11-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting... (more)
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  Smoke Portrait

  by Trilby Kent

  Glen Phayre, a young English woman in her twenties, has left England to live with her aunt, who runs a tea plantation in Ceylon and fills her days with good works, among them the task of writing letters to a Belgian prisoner. But the letters go astray, and are received instead by Marten, eager to discover the wide world outside his small village, and desperately missing his older brother Krelis, who has vanished... (more)