1. Faith Conquers All (
By Tai Cheng-chih (
This is a collection of inspirational essays depicting how successful people in different professions pursue their dreams.
2. A Girl Called Feeling (
By Hiyawu
The story began six years ago when the boy accidentally met the cute girl at a cram school. He painstakingly courted her, but he found himself loved by another girl. How should he decide?
3. Cards on the Table
By Agatha Christie
Translated by Sha Hui (沙輝)
One of Christie's best works about four detectives, four potential murderers, and one corpse. Shaitana invites four detectives and four people he suspects may have gotten away with murder. Later, when the guests prepare to leave, it is discovered that Shaitana has been fatally stabbed. Who's the murderer?
4. Murder on the Orient Express
By Agatha Christie, Translated by Chen Yao-kuang
A remarkable set of characters are brought together for a journey on the Orient Express train as it travels from Istanbul to Paris. But who murdered the American passenger? How will Hercule Poirot, the dapper Belgian detective, unravel the mystery?
5. Goodbye, Kiulu
By Kengo Ishiguro (石黑謙吾) and Ryouhei Akimoto (秋元良平)
Translated by Lin Fang-erh (林芳兒)
This is the story of a guide dog for the blind, embellished with beautiful black-and-white photos. The book has sold close to a million copies in Japan.
6. The Bible of Reincarnation: Part I (
By Carmelita Chao
A mystical novel from the Hong Kong-born teacher of meditation who spent much of her life in Taiwan and is now based in the San Francisco area.
7. A Guide to Happiness
By Wu Tan-ju
What kind of happiness do you want? The famous essayist published her first account of her own marital love. This is the guide you will need in the quest for happiness.
8. Little S' Braces Diary
By Hsu Hsi-ti
This is a hotchpotch diary of cartoons sketches, photos and poetry from pop singer and TV host Hsu Hsi-ti
9. A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 (美麗境界)
By Sylvia Nasar
Translated by Fu Shih-che
Written by economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar, this is a book about John Nash -- one of the world's most brilliant mathematicians. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economic practice.
10. Incontinence of Love
By Jen Erh Hsiung
Another comic-essay book about love and relationships.
11. This is My Answer
By Hiyawu
A romance about a young man falling in love with a young girl who asks him to do a questionaire in front of a certain Eslite bookstore.
12. Irish Coffee
By Tsai Chi-heng
Short- and medium-length romantic stories initially published on-line.
13. My Mother's Golden Watch
By Chi-chun
This is a collection of essays about the author's memories of her childhood and the time she shared with her mother.
14. Dream-catcher
By Liu Yung
A collection of 54 very short essays and stories from the maestro of inspirational writings. This one covers inspiration you can find in religion, plants, animals and love, among other things.
15. Say it to Your Heart II
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By Liu Yung
A sequel to the successful inspirational book from the New York-based essayist Liu Yung.
16. Lavender
By Tu Hui-chuan
Another book of illustrated scribblings from a young triumvirate -- on the usual subject of young love. This one bears the distinction of refined art work and full-color printing.
17. Secret Lover at Paris Cafe
By Cheng Hwa-jiuan
The Germany-based author brings more amusing and heart-warming stories about life and relationships from her adopted home.
18. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
By J.K. Rowling, Translated by Peng Chien-wen
Harry, now 14, comes in touch with his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black, while Lord Voldemort and his sinister Death Eaters lurk on the Dark Side. Meanwhile, Hogwarts vies with two other magicians' schools in a Triwizard Tournament. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders?
Last week Joseph Nye, the well-known China scholar, wrote on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s website about how war over Taiwan might be averted. He noted that years ago he was on a team that met with then-president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), “whose previous ‘unofficial’ visit to the US had caused a crisis in which China fired missiles into the sea and the US deployed carriers off the coast of Taiwan.” Yes, that’s right, mighty Chen caused that crisis all by himself. Neither the US nor the People’s Republic of China (PRC) exercised any agency. Nye then nostalgically invoked the comical specter
April 15 to April 21 Yang Kui (楊逵) was horrified as he drove past trucks, oxcarts and trolleys loaded with coffins on his way to Tuntzechiao (屯子腳), which he heard had been completely destroyed. The friend he came to check on was safe, but most residents were suffering in the town hit the hardest by the 7.1-magnitude Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake on April 21, 1935. It remains the deadliest in Taiwan’s recorded history, claiming around 3,300 lives and injuring nearly 12,000. The disaster completely flattened roughly 18,000 houses and damaged countless more. The social activist and
Over the course of former President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) 11-day trip to China that included a meeting with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping (習近平) a surprising number of people commented that the former president was now “irrelevant.” Upon reflection, it became apparent that these comments were coming from pro-Taiwan, pan-green supporters and they were expressing what they hoped was the case, rather than the reality. Ma’s ideology is so pro-China (read: deep blue) and controversial that many in his own Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) hope he retires quickly, or at least refrains from speaking on some subjects. Regardless
Approaching her mid-30s, Xiong Yidan reckons that most of her friends are on to their second or even third babies. But Xiong has more than a dozen. There is Lucky, the street dog from Bangkok who jumped into a taxi with her and never left. There is Sophie and Ben, sibling geese, who honk from morning to night. Boop and Pan, both goats, are romantically involved. Dumpling the hedgehog enjoys a belly rub from time to time. The list goes on. Xiong nurtures her brood from her 8,000 square meter farm in Chiang Dao, a mountainous district in northern Thailand’s