Author: Chao Tzang Yawnghwe
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Keywords: shan, memoirs, history, local, exile, burma
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 1987-12
List price: $24.25
ISBN-10: 9971988623
ISBN-13: 9789971988623
In this highly personal account, the author, Chao Tzang Yawnghwe, a son of the first President of the Union of Burma, tells of his youth and involvement in the Shan resistance movement. He gives his version of Shan history and explains the complexity of Shan politics covering the issues of autonomy, Shan-Burmese relations, opium, and other contraband trade. He discusses the personalities involved in the war that is now more than twenty years old. The final part of this book is a compendium of who’s who in Shan history and politics. The author passed away in July 2004.
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Keywords: darren, cirque, shan, freak, saga, assistant, vampire, book
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0316905720
ISBN-13: 9780316905725
Darren Shan was just an ordinary schoolboy - until his visit to the Cirque Du Freak. Now, as he struggles with his new life as a Vampire’s Assistant, he tries desperately to resist the one temptation that sickens him, the one thing that can keep him alive. But destiny is calling... the Wolf Man is waiting.
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Keywords: darren, cirque, shan, freak, saga, death, trials, book
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0316603953
ISBN-13: 9780316603959
The trials: seventeen ways to die unless the luck of the vampire is with you. Darren Shan must pass five fearsome Trials to prove himself to the vampires clan - or face the stakes of the Hall of Death. But Vampire Mountain holds hidden threats. Sinister, potent forces are gathering in the darkness. In this nightmarish world of bloodshed and betrayal, death may be a blessing...
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Keywords: darren, cirque, shan, freak, saga, mountain, vampire, book
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0316905747
ISBN-13: 9780316905749
In the fourth book of the bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, Darren Shan and Mr. Crepsley embark on a dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world. But they face more than the cold on Vampire Mountain-the vampaneze have been there before them.Will a meeting with the Vampire Princes restore Darren’s human side, or turn him further toward the darkness? Only one thing is certain-Darren’s initiation into the vampire clan is more deadly than he can ever have imagined.
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Keywords: darren, cirque, shan, freak, saga, blood, tunnels, book
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0316905739
ISBN-13: 9780316905732
Darren Shan, the Vampire’s Assistant, gets a taste of the city when he leaves the Cirque Du Freak with Evra and Mr. Crepsley. When corpses, drained of blood, are discovered, Darren and Evra are compelled to confront a foul creature of the night who may prove to be the end of them all...
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Keywords: darren, cirque, shan, freak, saga, prince, vampire, book
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0316602744
ISBN-13: 9780316602747
Branded a traitor, betrayed by a friend, hunted by the vampire clan-Darren Shan, the Vampire’s Assistant, faces certain death. Can Darren reverse the odds and outwit a Vampire Prince? Darren’s initiation on Vampire Mountain draws to a stunning, bloody conclusion-but the Saga continues ...
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Keywords: darren, cirque, shan, freak, saga, nightmare, living, book
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0316905712
ISBN-13: 9780316905718
In the tradition of Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot, Cirque Du Freak is the frightening saga of a young boy whose visit to a mysterious freak show leads him on a journey into a dark world of vampires. Filled with grotesque creatures, murderous vampires, and a petrifying ending, Cirque Du Freak will chill, thrill, and leave readers begging for more.
