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Art of hearing heartbeats volume 01
Language
English
Description
When Julia Win's father disappears one day, her family is shocked and confused. That is, until they find a love letter he'd written many years ago to a woman in Burma. Intent on solving the mystery and piecing together her father's mysterious past, Julia decides to put her own budding legal career on hold to travel to the small mountain village of Kalaw. What Julia uncovers is a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will forever...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China--dubbed the true Shangri-La--and heads south into the jungles of Burma. But after the mysterious death of their tour leader, the carefully laid plans fall apart, and disharmony breaks out among the pleasure-seekers as they come to discover that the Burma Road is paved with less-than-honorable intentions, questionable food, and tribal curses. And then, on...
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Series
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English
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"Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father's native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend has recently left her and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted. One day, in the middle of an important business meeting, she hears a stranger's voice in her head that causes her to leave the office without...
5) Burmese days
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Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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Description
Honest and evocative, George Orwell's first novel is an examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier.
Burmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at the European Club to drink whisky and to alleviate the acute and unspoken loneliness of life in 1920s Burma where Orwell himself served as an imperial policeman during the waning days of British imperialism.
One of the men, James Flory, a timber merchant, has grown...
6) Ascent
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Series
Peak volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself." -- Publisher.
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English
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Rajkumar begins as a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, and ends by creating an empire in the Burmese teak forest. During the British invasion of 1885, when soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, the woman whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her.
9) Myanmar
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the geography, history, government, economy, culture, and peoples of Myanmar, which is also known as Burma.
10) Miss Burma
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world history, Miss Burma is a powerful novel of love and war, colonialism and ethnicity, and the ties of blood. Based on the story of the author's mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be, and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom"--
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Language
English
Description
What would you do if you saw the love of your life, whom you thought dead for a quarter of a century, walking towards you? Richard Flanagan's story, of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair with his uncle's wife, journeys from the caves of Tasmanian trappers in the early twentieth century to a crumbling pre-war beachside hotel; from a Thai jungle prison to a Japanese snow festival; from the Changi gallows to a chance meeting...
12) Tanner on ice
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English
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Once, Evan Tanner was known as the thief who couldn't sleep, living out the dangerous and glamour-filled fantasies others lived only in dreams - until the day his assignment for the super-secret intelligence agency that employed him went awry. And Tanner disappeared, courtesy of a single conspirator with one mean double-cross. Now Tanner is a little older, a quarter-century behind the times, and looking to play catch-up. No sooner has he returned...
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English
Description
"J.H. "Billy" Williams always had an affinity for animals. So, when he responded to a job offer with the East India Company to work with logging elephants his family wasn't surprised, though worried that he had already come back from World War I in one piece, would he be so lucky with India? Not only did he find his calling with the elephants in India, Billy and his elephants became war heroes. At the onset of World War II, Williams formed Elephant...
15) Elephant run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
16) All saints
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Based on the inspiring true story of salesman turned pastor Michael Spurlock, the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.
17) Myanmar
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"A book for young readers about the history and culture of Myanmar"--
18) Myanmar
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
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Description
"Young readers will learn all about the country, Myanmar"--
19) Wild prey
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The search for a missing girl sends Inspector Lu Fei undercover into the wild corners of Myanmar, and the compound of the deadly and mysterious woman warlord responsible for the illegal trafficking of exotic animals and possibly more, in the next book from Brian Klingborg, Wild Prey. Police Inspector Lu Fei has an unfortunate talent for getting himself into hot water with powerful and well-connected people. Which is why he's been assigned to a backwater...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
" In Myanmar, where civil war, repressive government, and the $40 billion a year jade industry have shaped life for decades, everyone is fighting for their own version of the truth. Until the World Shatters, takes us deep into a world in which journalists seek to overcome censorship and intimidation, ethnic minorities wage guerilla war against a government they claim refuses to grant basic human rights; devout Buddhists launch violent anti-Muslim...
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