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Sold by Tess Stevens.

 

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What kind of a woman would sell her own child?

A monster.

Tess was just eleven years old when her mother sold her to a rich elderly man.

Grace ran a brothel in Croydon and she plunged her young daughter into a terrifying world of sex and depravity.

Grace was absolutely ruthless in her pursuit of money and had a toxic mix of low cunning and high ambition.

Dangerous criminals visited the brothel every day, and Tess was exposed to things no little girl should see.

A timid child who longed for her mother's love, she grew up in a world of unimaginable horrors with no one to turn to.

Her mother ensured that Tess followed her footsteps and began selling herself.

She later opened a brothel too, but became known for looking after her girls and running it as cleanly and as fairly as she could.

Along the way she encountered some fascinating characters, including Christine Keeler, the Kray twins and Myra Hindley, as well as numerous well known actors and politicians.

Amazingly, after such a horrendous start in life, Tess has left prostitution and completely turned her life around.

HOW COULD YOU DO IT, MUM?

Offers readers a heart wrenching and shocking insight into a criminal underworld and is a compelling account of one woman's recovery from the ultimate betrayal.

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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See.

 

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Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research.

See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world.

Includes 0ver 80 photo's.

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Death of a Red Heroine: by Qiu Xiaolong.

 

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Shanghai in 1990.

An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control.

Chief Inspector Chen, a poet with a sound instinct for self-preservation, knows the city like few others.

 

When the body of a prominent Communist Party member is found, Chen is told to keep the party authorities informed about every lead. Also, he must keep the young woman's murder out of the papers at all costs.

When his investigation leads him to the decadent offspring of high ranking officials, he finds himself instantly removed from the case and reassigned to another area.

 

Chen has a choice: bend to the party's wishes and sacrifice his morals, or continue his investigation and risk dismissal from his job and from the party.

Or worse . . .

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The Diary of Jack the Ripper, The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick; by Shirley Harrison.

 

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The pages of The Diary of Jack the Ripper reveal the unimaginable that more than a century ago, the legendary serial killer at work in London's Whitechapel kept a record of his bestial mutilations of women.

The writer of the horrific journal is James Maybrick, a depraved, drug taking, womanizing, 49-year-old Liverpool cotton merchant with a history of domestic violence.

In this analysis of his diary, investigative author Shirley Harrison explains all about the origins of the text and the rigorous scientific analysis it has endured while revealing startling new information about Maybrick's shadowy background.

This evidence, along with a chilling confession scratched into a watch "I am Jack.

J Maybrick," provide powerful justification that Maybrick was Jack the Ripper.

The diary itself is reproduced in full, so that readers can judge whether these are the deeply distributing words of Jack the Ripper himself, reaching out from across the abyss of more than a century.

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A Winter In China by Douglas Galbraith.

 

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Just down from Cambridge in the summer of 1937, Sally Marsden contemplates her future without enthusiasm.

So many have assumed she will marry Hugh Jerrold it is, practically, an engagement.

When Hugh returns from his diplomatic posting to China they will be married, but before submitting to the strictures of upper middle class life, Sally embarks on one last adventure, travelling to China herself, where she will spend the winter.

 

The Sino-Japanese war begins shortly after Sally's arrival and a disastrous miscalculation separates her from Hugh and leaves her trapped in Nanking, one of two dozen Europeans and Americans to witness the capture and sack of the city by the Japanese Imperial Army.

The experience is shared with Peter Moss, an American photo-journalist and friend of Hugh.

Bystanders in a racial war, Sally and Peter emerge physically unscathed but utterly changed, and all their attempts to carry on as before quickly founder.

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Flying with the Owls Crime Squad by Paul Allen.

 

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Meet the Owls Crime Squad.

The firm that became notorious for pulling off the most audacious invasions and legendary battles no matter how the odds were stacked.

What they lacked in organisation they made up for in sheer ferocity. Always up for it and never prepared to give any ground, they caused mayhem up and down the country, both on and off the terraces.

For the first time, Paul Allen and Douglas Naylor piece together their years together in one of the most feared firms since the 70's.

This is an electrifying and intelligent account of the legendary decades when the Owls Crime Squad dominated casual violence.

It is an uncompromising look at football culture and the violence that surrounds it.

The names have been changed to protect the innocent...and the guilty?

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Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

by Zhao Ziyang.

 

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Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 for trying to stop the massacre.

Zhao spent the last years of his life under house arrest.

An occasional detail about his life would slip out, but scholars and citizens lamented that Zhao never had his final say.

 

But Zhao did produce a memoir, secretly recording on audio tapes the real story of what happened during modern China’s most critical moments.

He provides intimate details about the Tiananmen crackdown, describes the ploys and double crosses used by China’s leaders, and exhorts China to adopt democracy in order to achieve long-term stability.

His riveting, behind-the-scenes recollections form the basis of Prisoner of the State.

 

The China that Zhao portrays is not some long-lost dynasty.

It is today’s China, where its leaders accept economic freedom but resist political change.

Zhao might have steered China’s political system toward openness and tolerance had he survived.

Although Zhao now speaks from the grave, his voice still has the moral power to make China sit up and listen.

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Beyond the Blue Horizon: On the Track of Imperial Airways.

by Alexander Frater.

 

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In Beyond The Blue Horizon Alexander Frater reveals and relives the romance and breathtaking excitement of the legendary Imperial Airways Eastbound Empire service, the world's longest and most adventurous scheduled air route.

Written with an infectious passion, this is an extraordinarily original and genre defining piece of travel writing by one of our most highly respected travel correspondents.

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The Unicorn Road by Martin Davies.

 

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On the coast of southern Spain, an English father sits waiting for his son.

It is many years since Benedict, then still a child, set out with the famous scholar Antioch on a mission to find and collect the mysterious beasts of the East.

In all those years there has been no word, and the expedition is assumed lost.

But the boy's father is not the only person asking questions on the harbourside that summer, and as he learns more about his son's companions, he comes to realise that the fate of the expedition has implications for people far richer and more powerful than himself. The Unicorn Road tells of a journey into the unknown and of the secret motives and hidden passions of those it brings together. When Benedict is befriended by the interpreter, Venn, he becomes embroiled in an exotic, dangerous adventure.

It is a story of love and honour, greed and cruelty and, ultimately, about the power of words themselves.

As magically evocative as an ancient silk painting, The Unicorn Road is a novel of the medieval world which vividly and tenderly illuminates our own.

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Flamingo by John Gardner.

 

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Set in cosmopolitan Shanghai amid the Sino-Japanese wars of the 1930's is Harry Byrd, rakish owner of the Flamingo Cafe, fighting for existence against predatory local mandarins, corrupt officials and the sinister Japanese Black Dragon Society, part criminal and part military intelligence unit of the Imperial Japanese Army..

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Three Pagodas Pass by George Fetherling.

 

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Most western critics of the junta that has ruled Burma since 1962-violently suppressing the democracy movement and crushing human rights while dominating the international opium trade have hesitated to visit the country lest the cost of their trip help to prop up the regime.

George Fetherling shared these concerns.

But motivated by a Desire to see the situation first hand, he resolved to go anyway, as economically as possible.

Setting out from Greece, he hitchhiked on a reconditioned but very unseaworthy WW II troop ship that took him to South America round the Horn to Polynesia, where frequent-flyer points put him within range of Rangoon, Mandalay and the ethnic refugee settlements on the Thai border.

En route he explored such places as Casablanca, the Falkland Islands and Antarctica, as well as two of the most isolated yet most written about spots on earth: Easter Island and Pitcairn Island.

In the process, Fetherling saw in many forms the relics of European colonialism and the nationalist movements that followed and caught glimpses of a third age that lies round the corner.

This unique narrative is a journey through politics and society as well as geography; a fascinating account of a search for the heart of the post-Cold War world.

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Journey Along the Andes: From Bolivia, Through Peru and Ecuador, to Colombia (Travellers' Tales) by Christopher Portway.

 

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Personal account of a journey following the Royal Road of the Incas from Bolivia through Peru to Ecuador and Columbia.

illustrated with 8 pages of colour photographs.

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Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child: Practical Storytelling Techniques That Will Strengthen the Global Family by Julia Simens.

 

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The only thing you can be sure you can move around the world is your child's ability to increase his or her interpersonal skills.

In today's global world, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help our children to thrive.

Emotional Resilience for the Expat Child provides a step-by-step guide that is designed to increase a child's emotional vocabulary and emotional intelligence.

Doing this will enable your child to achieve his or her fullest potential.

The bond between an adult and child is key to the psychological health of the child.

For the expatriate child, this bond is more vital than ever, this workbook has been created for you to use together and will provide the perfect place to connect for you and your family.

With easily understood and practical steps any parent can apply, you can start to create and enjoy your family's 'emotion stories'.

This book will help you to develop the mutually respectful and loving relationships with your kids that you've always wanted.

Working on these 'emotion stories', all children can develop a strong sense of personal narrative; they will find their own 'voice' and in so doing will grow into confident, happy teenagers.

When a child feels happy and confident, he will be more likely to construct and communicate his emotions.

The richer his vocabulary is in emotions, the more competent and powerful he will be in reflecting on his behavior and how his actions and interactions are intertwined.

Well written in an engaging, conversational tone, this book is sensible, straightforward and based on the experiences of expat families.

It will give your child what he or she needs to understand and express today in order to grow into a caring, emotional intelligent adult tomorrow.

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Little Hut of Leaping Fishes by Chiew-Siah Tei.

 

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Mingzhi is born to be a mandarin: as the formidable Master Chai's first grandson, his life is mapped from the moment of his birth.

But times are changing in China, and as Mingzhi grows, he begins to question his privileged heritage and the Secrets and shadows that lurk in the corners of the Chai mansion; eager to flee from the corruption, treachery and rivalries of his family.

Master Chai, who farms opium poppies and beats out orders with his dragon stick; the jealousy of his second mother and half brother; and his opium addict father.

Mingzhi soon realises his only path to freedom is through learning. But as the foreign devils begin to encroach on China, Mingzhi is torn between two cultures; he must make his choice between the past and the future.

 

A sweeping story of rebellion and discovery, "Little Hut of Leaping Fishes" traces one man's journey to find a life of his own in the slipstream of historic change.

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The Crossing Place by Philip Marsden.

 

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A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden’s classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres.

 

After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it.

With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded a civilization and underwent a diaspora that brought many of the great ideas of the East to Western Europe.

 

The Crossing Place is Philip Marsden’s gripping account of his remarkable journey through the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus in a quest to discover the secret of one of the world’s most extraordinary peoples.

 

Caught between opposing empires, between warring religions and ideologies, at the crossing place of history, the Armenians have somehow survived against the odds.

This is their story, told by one of the finest travel writers at work today.

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THAI Dating Code: The Guidebook for Getting to Know DECENT Thai Girls by Kulchulee Subsinudom.

 

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Author: Bee – Kulchulee Subsinudom.

The Well Known Matchmaker/Dating Coach in Thailand

 

Thailand is paradise for Westerners who want to date pretty young ladies.

Finding a date with a comely Thai woman is easy, but finding the right girl, with more to offer than a pretty face and an attractive figure like education, fluent English and a cosmopolitan background, is much more difficult.

And once you find her, getting a date, establishing a relationship and dealing with the inevitable problems of a cross-cultural relationship, including marriage and raising a family, can turn out to be a big headache.

 

Topics include:

Categories of Thai girls

Where to Meet

What Thai Girls Want

Approaching Thai Girls

Good Places for a First Date

How to Act on a First Date and Subsequent Dates

How to Tell If She Likes You

Dealing with Thai Personalities

Money Issues

Making Her Happy

Expressing Feelings of Affection

Meeting Her Family

Public Displays of Affection

Beyond the First Kiss

Ending a Relationship

Living Together

When to Marry

Engagement

Dowry

Wedding Ceremony

The Wife’s and Husband's Role

Raising Children

And etc.

 

Who said you can’t have it all?

You can, but you have to know what you are doing. This book provides the answers and a roadmap for dealing with dating, love and marriage in the Land of Smiles.

 

For over six years now, I have been running my own upscale matchmaking service company in Bangkok for professionals who are well educated, well-groomed, attractive and successful.

My work involves dealing with a wide range of clients, including Thais, Asians and foreigners.

I provide tips on dating, all the way from planning the first date to post date advice and follow up.

 

Trust me when I say that it matters not a jot how professional you may be.

When it comes to dating, we are all pretty much after the same thing, but there are significant differences in the way we go about it. These variations include the way we wish to be approached, the way we want to be courted and the way we expect to be treated.

 

Despite everyone aspiring to the same thing, most of us have few clues about how to go about the courtship process. It used to come as a bit of a surprise to me that a Western executive from a multinational company, who has to confront competitors on a daily basis and participate in heated boardroom discussions, hasn't a clue about how to deal with a lovely, petite Thai woman.

But more often than not, this is the case.

 

Perhaps this is to be expected. After all, it’s widely joked that men and women come from two different planets, the lady from Venus and the man from Mars.

And believe me, these planetary differences are greatly amplified when it comes to mixed race and multi-cultural relationships, like the ones I deal with on a daily basis.

 

The mistakes made by foreigners bent upon courting Thai women are numerous and relatively easy to categorise.

One of the most common errors is to assume that all Thai ladies are alike. They aren't!

 

I often have a difficult time explaining to well intentioned executives that the rules for dating a poorly educated Thai lady who works in a bar are completely different from those applying to a successful, well-educated lady who works for a large company.

The latter are far more shy and sensitive than a bar girl and courting her is an involved process with a lot of rules about how it should be conducted.

 

Many of my new male clients, for example, get turned down long before they even reach the starting point.

They are unable to get a date, failing miserably from being overly aggressive or showing too much interest.

Thai ladies often consider such behaviour to be annoying or, in extreme cases, even psycho.

 

Then there are the foreign men who give the young ladies a business card on the first date. After returning with positive reviews, I advise them to follow up with a second date soon.....

ps, found in the Fantasy section at Canterbury Tales Bookshop (only joking).

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New Model Thai-English Dictionary, Desk Edition by So Sethaputra.

 

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We have many variations of Language helpers in stock.

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Don't Mention the War ! by Stewart Ferris & Paul Bassett.

 

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This is a humorous account of the author's tour of Europe by Inter-Rail, wreaking havoc through France, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

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The Three Wars of Roy Benavidez by Roy P. Benavidez.

 

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Vietnam was Benavidez shooting war.

His other "wars" were growing up Mexican American in Texas and fighting the Pentagon bureaucracy to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Griffin tells his story with journalistic skill.

The major portion of the book is devoted to Benavidez two tours in Vietnam with the Special Forces, both ending with near-fatal wounds.

Clearly depicted is his character humble, loyal, and persevering. The battle descriptions are superb, with little comment on the efficacy of the war itself.

 

In the end, the devotion to duty is rewarded. .

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Raging Sea The Powerful Account Of The Worst Tsunami

by Dennis Powers.

 

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On Good Friday, 1964, the residents of Crescent City in Northern California were preparing for the Easter weekend.

Little did they know, but the worst earthquake in U.S. history was ripping Alaska apart.

The 9.2 magnitude quake caused a tsunami that sped across the Pacific faster than a jet liner.

The huge waves surged into U.S. coastal towns and aimed straight at the heart of the town, creating death, destruction, victims, and heroes alike in short time.

Nature was on a rampage.

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Sex and Death to the Age 14 by Spalding Gray.

 

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This is a collection of six monologues by the master of one man drama.

Included are "Sex and Death at the Age of 14," "Booze, Cars, and College Girls," "47 Beds," "Nobody Wanted to Sit Behind a Desk," "Travels through New England," and "Terror of Pleasure: The House." Also includes a preface by the author.

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Crystal Power, Crystal Healing: The Complete Handbook

by Michael Gienger.

 

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It's crystal clear, these shining minerals, reflecting a rainbow of colors, have the power to heal body and mind, and develop our potential.

How did they became endowed with so many magic properties, and how can you reap their restorative qualities and spiritual values most effectively? Knowing the answers to these questions may change your life and attitude forever.

Look closely at the details of each crystal in dazzling color photographs, focusing on its shape and its facets.

Diagrams illustrate a variety of cubic, hexagonal, trigonal, orthorhombic, and triclinic systems, and you can determine which will work best for your lifestyle.

An easy-to-understand, precise guide shows you how to find the most helpful healing stones for your needs (including size, form, quality, roughness, and color) and how to apply them.

Think about whether they should be polished, in a pendant or pierced form and worn as jewelry.

Place a crystal directly on the area of the body you want to affect; arrange a "stone circle" and lie within it for subtle spiritual, mental, and emotional changes; meditate with stones resting against your skin; and take gem essences internally.

By positioning them properly in a room, crystals can affect the entire environment!

Try amethyst for encouraging spiritual wakefulness and sobriety, relieving grief, and releasing pain and tension, particularly headaches.

Citrine fosters individuality and self confidence, overcomes depression, stimulates digestion, and alleviates diabetes and stomach ailments.

Other crystals will spur you to enhance your dream work.

After you experience what crystals can do, you'll never be without them again!

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Hardship Posting: True Tales of Expat Misadventures in Asia,

by Stuart Lloyd.

 

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For centuries, expatriates from all corners of the world have come to Asia, seeking wealth, opportunity and adventure.

From this cultural relocation has sprung much misadventure, some of it intentional, some of it accidental, in any case the stuff of legend.

'Hardship Posting, true tales of expat misadventure' for the first time documents 400 amusing and amazing anecdotes from those that lived to tell their tale, and a few who almost didn't

 

It covers the whole of Asia, with 42 contributors telling their side of the story…digging up what Rachel Farnay, editor of The Expat Magazine in Singapore, describes as 'a mighty collection of tales…' Including:

 

* swapping a Rolling Stone magazine for a Vietnam visa

* the group that posed as Air Supply to get through an Indonesia roadblock

* the bloke that posed as the British High Commissioner in Bangkok bars

* the English lady shot by Macau gangsters

* the helicopter pilot they wanted to use as a case-study for VD research

 

These were compiled and edited by Stuart Lloyd, adman, writer and musician, who spent over 12 years in Asia, keeping his ear to the ground for a good story on the streets, in bars, airports, taxis, the office, the country clubs, and the media… high-profile expat 'misadventures' involving the likes of Nick Leeson in Singapore and Michael Wansley in Thailand made news worldwide.

 

'I found it was only really once I had left Asia that the full extent of that halcyonic weird and wonderful existence hit me,' says Lloyd. 'Expatriatism can be a very extreme lifestyle, and this book has really captured ordinary expats in some very extraordinary situations.

But at the end of the day, or at least a few years later, it's all good for a laugh,' he says.

 

And the laughs come thick and fast with central narrator Colonel Ken's beer-soaked observations from the barstool weaving all the chapters together.

As a seasoned raconteur, Col Ken adds a colourful and bawdy spin to every topic, the perfect caricature of the expat that's 'gone troppo' under the Asian sun.

 

'Hardship Posting' is many people's' story of the triumphs and tribulations of living thousands of miles from home and living life to the fullest in Asia.