1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Mysterious letters lead the 11-year-old Harry Potter into a kingdom of sorcerers, who send their mail by owl messengers and travel on brooms.
2. The Very First Love
By Guang Yu (
The joys and travails of love, told through two diaries.
3. A Happy History of Three Kingdoms
By Kevin Tsai (
The first package in an ambitious 40-CD audio series dramatizing the history of the Three Kingdoms.
4. It Is Not Necessary for Love to Be Perfect
By Liu Yung (
The popular writer expands his interpretation of love in his latest book. Topics include the contradictory love from parents, about the role-shift between a husband and a wife, and about how to deal with the trauma of divorce and your attitude toward love.
5. Happiness is a Choice, Really
By Eric Wu (
A collection of essays on love, sex, and the war of two sexes. Each essay is followed by some multiple choice tests.
6. Life Is But an Amatory Idiocy: A Collection of Ancient Love Poems 人生自是有情癡:千古情詩選
Ed. Hao Kuang-tsai (
A collection of love poems from around the world.
7. Little Prince (pocket book)
By Antoine De Saint-Exupery (
A pocket-sized book with both Chinese and English translations of the story.
8. Polish Your Wisdom With Humor
By Lai Shu-hui (
Laugh, the world laughs with you; weep, you weep alone. This book is a guide to spice up your life with humor.
9. Find Your Own Happiness
By Chu Kai-lei (
Find the way to joy and happiness through the author's acute observations.
10. Lost: Love is Somewhere but Everywhere
失戀雜誌 SUMMER 2000 愛情在野黨
By Shuiping Chinyu (
Love politicized. Love in the opposition. The alternation of power to the parties in love. Another way of viewing love.
11. Fang Fu
By Chang Man-chuan (
12. I Am a Piece of Cloud in the Sky
By Hsu Chih-mo (
Hsu was a romantic poet who pursued love, freedom, and beauty all his life. This book collects his most distinguished poems.
13. The Human Nature You Have To Know
By Liu Yung (
The author reveals the dark side of human nature with stories that happened to the people around him. The book also looks at humanity's weakness from a constructive perspective.
14. Humor of love
By Wu Tan-ju (
A collection of short love stories by the modern romance expert.
15. Motivational Experts 激勵高手
By Tai Chen-chih (
Stories that show how other people survive the difficulties in their lives.
16. Motivational Experts Part II
By Tai Chen-chih (
A collection of 31 short stories that highlight the wisdom needed to survive adversity.
17. Protein Girl
By Wang Wen-hua (
A collection of humorous stories about two young men's quest for love and the loves they meet. First published in a literature column of the China Times.
18. Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
By Jack Canfield (
19. Toto's Words
By Toto (
If you do not feel achievement in your life, it is okay. You can create it. As long as you truly love yourself, nothing will be difficult to you. True confidence is to believe in yourself and never compare yourself with anyone else
20. The First Intimate Encounter
By Tsai Chih-heng (
A love story that is becoming quite common in modern society: an Internet romance.
Source: Kingstone Books (金石堂書店)
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