1. Super Nice to Me (
By Wu Ruo-chuan (
2. Don't Wear Out Your Love (
By Liu Yung (
3. 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. What to do?
4. Big-Mouthed A-Kuei (
By A-Kuei (
5. Death of a Writer (一個作家之死),
By Su Yu-chen (蘇玉珍)Half of this erotic novel is pulled from the author's real life, while the other half comes from her rich imagination of how a man lives a two-faced life among his wife and mistresses.
6. The Bible of Reincarnation: Part I (葬書:上),
By Carmelita Chao (趙慧娟) 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. This is My Answer (
By Hiyawu (
8. Faith Conquers All (
By Tai Cheng-chih (
9. Goodbye, Kiulu (
By Kengo Ishiguro (
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.
10. A Love Story in Maokung (
By Hiyawu (
A missent message on Hiyawu's mobile phone allows him get to know a sweet college girl. This is Hiyawu's second novel of love.
11. A Guide to Happiness (
By Wu Tan-ju (
12. Billie the Crazy Chicken (
By Wang Chiu-yi (
13. Say it to Your Heart II (
By Liu Yung (
A sequel to the successful inspirational book from the New York-based essayist Liu Yung.
14. Vicious Girls (
By Mica (
15. A Game of Thrones (
By George Martin
Translated by Tan Kuang-lei (譚光磊) This is the first book in George Martin's projected six-volume fantasy saga. Martin's Seven Kingdoms resemble England during the Wars of the Roses, with the Stark and Lannister families standing in for the Yorks and Lancasters. These two families and their struggle to control the Iron Throne, resulting in much bloodshed. Winner of the 1996 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
16. To Love Someone Secretly (
By Hiyawu and others (
17. One-Third of Me (
By Stephanie Hsiao (
18. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (
By J.K. Rowling Translated by Peng Chien-wen (
19. Pleasure Takes All (
By Chang Man-chuan (
20. Dream Catcher (捕夢網),
By Liu Yung (劉墉) A collection of 54 very short essays and stories from Taiwan's own maestro of inspirational writings. This one covers inspiration you can find in religion, plants, animals, love, among other things.
Growing up in a rural, religious community in western Canada, Kyle McCarthy loved hockey, but once he came out at 19, he quit, convinced being openly gay and an active player was untenable. So the 32-year-old says he is “very surprised” by the runaway success of Heated Rivalry, a Canadian-made series about the romance between two closeted gay players in a sport that has historically made gay men feel unwelcome. Ben Baby, the 43-year-old commissioner of the Toronto Gay Hockey Association (TGHA), calls the success of the show — which has catapulted its young lead actors to stardom -- “shocking,” and says
The 2018 nine-in-one local elections were a wild ride that no one saw coming. Entering that year, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) was demoralized and in disarray — and fearing an existential crisis. By the end of the year, the party was riding high and swept most of the country in a landslide, including toppling the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in their Kaohsiung stronghold. Could something like that happen again on the DPP side in this year’s nine-in-one elections? The short answer is not exactly; the conditions were very specific. However, it does illustrate how swiftly every assumption early in an
Inside an ordinary-looking townhouse on a narrow road in central Kaohsiung, Tsai A-li (蔡阿李) raised her three children alone for 15 years. As far as the children knew, their father was away working in the US. They were kept in the dark for as long as possible by their mother, for the truth was perhaps too sad and unjust for their young minds to bear. The family home of White Terror victim Ko Chi-hua (柯旗化) is now open to the public. Admission is free and it is just a short walk from the Kaohsiung train station. Walk two blocks south along Jhongshan
Francis William White, an Englishman who late in the 1860s served as Commissioner of the Imperial Customs Service in Tainan, published the tale of a jaunt he took one winter in 1868: A visit to the interior of south Formosa (1870). White’s journey took him into the mountains, where he mused on the difficult terrain and the ease with which his little group could be ambushed in the crags and dense vegetation. At one point he stays at the house of a local near a stream on the border of indigenous territory: “Their matchlocks, which were kept in excellent order,
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