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Adventure fiction. Audiobooks. fiction Fiction. novel Suspense fiction. Thrillers (Fiction)Osborne, Lawrence
Summary: In order to escape his boring English life, Robert, a twenty-eight-year-old teacher, re-imagines himself in Cambodia where he befriends an unstable American, falls in love with a wealthy young woman, and is threatened by the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OSBMedina, K. T.
Summary: "Tess Hardy thought she had put Luke, her violent ex-husband, firmly in her past. Then he calls from Cambodia, where he is working as a mine-clearer, and there's something in his voice she hasn't heard before: Fear. Two weeks later, he's dead. Against her better judgment, Tess is drawn to Cambodia and to the killing fields. Keeping her relationship to Luke a closely guarded secret, Tess joins...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDWright, Camron Steve.
Summary: Sang Ly struggles to survive by picking through garbage in Cambodia's largest municipal dump. Under threat of eviction by an embittered old drunk who is charged with collecting rents from the poor of Stung Meanchey, Sang Ly embarks on a desperate journey to save her ailing son from a life of ignorance and poverty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2012
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Summary: Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events-- involving a bag of “jinxed” money, a suave American, a trunk full of heroin, a hustler...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSBFay, Kim.
Summary: It's 1925 and the treasure-hunting scene is a man's world. Irene Blum is passed over for the curator position at a Seattle museum but is not willing to accept defeat. Irene comes into possession of a map believed to lead to a set of copper scrolls the tell the lost history of Cambodia's ancient Khmer civilization. Irene travels from Seattle to Shanghai to the Cambodian jungles in search of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012