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  • Opium Nation

    Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan

    by Fariba Nawa ...
    Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa delivers a revealing and deeply personal exploration of Afghanistan and the drug trade which rules the country, from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides and beyond. Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns calls Opium Nation “an insightful and informative look at the global challenge of Afghan drug trade. Fariba Nawa ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Talismans of Sin

    (Poison and Opium, Act II)

    by Alyssa Lauseng ...
    Series Book 2 - Poison and Opium
    A tithe of blood, an oath of loyalty.Lady Shadow’s plans are slowly coming together. Armed with the strength of two ancient dragon demons, there’s little standing in the way of her vision: a decimated Giahatian Empire.Yet, Kanashimi grows distant, Saigai refuses to be tamed, and the whereabouts of their four siblings remain unknown. To make matters worse, the Priestess of Shadow can’t shake the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drugging a Nation: The Story of China and the Opium Curse

    by Samuel Merwin ...
    In September, 1906, an edict was issued from the Imperial Court at Peking which states Chinas predicament with naïveté and vigour. “The cultivation of the poppy,” runs the edict, in the authorized translation, “is the greatest iniquity in agriculture, and the provinces of Szechuen, Shensi, Kansu, Yunnan, Kweichow, Shansi, and Kanghuai abound in its product, which, in fact, is found everywhere. Now ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of China

    A Captivating Guide to Chinese History, Including Events Such as the First Emperor of China, the Mongol Conquests of Genghis Khan, the Opium Wars, and the Cultural Revolution

    by Captivating History ...
    If you want to discover the captivating history of China, then keep reading...The history of China is complex—perhaps more complex than that of other nations. The ethnic groups that compose China go back to prehistoric times, and each group lent its own color to the enormous nation. It is not like a diluted mixture of all its cultures; rather, it is a collage.Yet there are immutable elements still ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robert B. Parker's Opium Rose

    by Robert Knott ...
    Series Book 11 - A Cole and Hitch Novel
    Lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch must quell a brewing showdown in the latest installment in the New York Times bestselling series.Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch haven't seen much trouble of late. Fact is, burgeoning Appaloosa and the territory had been without incident for months. But with recent reports of village raids, coupled with the arrival of a young widow from San Francisco, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Opium and Other Stories

    by Géza Csáth ...
    A rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe's moral and social decline on the eve of World War IGéza Csáth (pen name of Joszef Brenner) was a writer, playwright, musician, psychiatrist, and physician born in Hungary at the end of the 19th century. One of Sigmund Freud's earliest ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Modern China and Opium

    A Reader

    Edited by Alan Thomas Baumler ...
    The Chinese struggle to create a modern nation was tied closely to the opium trade. Throughout much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, China's economy, politics, and society were steeped in opium and opium money. All of China's modern governments took the crusade to liberate the nation from this "plague" as one of their essential tasks. However, the opium problem proved to be more ... Read more

    $93.49 CAD

  • Manchuria Opium Squad 11

    by Tsukasa Monma, Shikako ...
    Series Book 11 - Manchuria Opium Squad
    After escaping Jilin, Isamu returns to his poppy fields with his crew bigger than ever-only for the Opium King to threaten Isamu's newfound “family.” Their only way forward is to smuggle their goods overseas, but concealing contraband as cargo demands a middleman with the right skills and the wrong morals. Desperate for help, Isamu and Li Hua scour Dalian for someone they can trust-unaware they're ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • The Opium Business

    A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China

    by Peter Thilly ...
    From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inextricably bound up in local, national, and imperial finances, and the people who piloted the trade were integral to the fabric of Chinese society. In this book, Peter Thilly narrates the dangerous lives and shrewd business operations of opium traffickers ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Dance of Demons

    (Poison and Opium, Act I)

    by Alyssa Lauseng ...
    Series Book 1 - Poison and Opium
    Slave. Soldier. Spy.Daisuke’s always hoped for a life beyond what he has as a Northern Nomad raised in slavery. One evening, when the imperial military arrives in search of recruits, he seizes his chance to flee Okara’s plantations and start anew. However, becoming a footsoldier isn’t the easy escape he expected, and he soon finds himself struggling for a place within the infantry and Giahatian ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smoke and Ashes

    Opium's Hidden Histories

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy, Literary Hub, and The MillionsGhosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family―the climax of a yearslong project.When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Opium War

    Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

    by Julia Lovell ...
    Series series Picador Collection
    ‘A gripping read as well as an important one’ – Rana Mitter, The GuardianIn The Opium War, professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature Julia Lovell offers a compelling account of the causes and fallout of the Opium Wars.In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD