Review - Canterbury Tales Cafe

[FuriousFrog]

I have been there few times, quite good place.

[Daveo]

Four Hours in My Lai by Michael Bilton & Kevin Sim ..

 

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Uncovering the Secrets behind the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, this is "a brutal, cautionary tale that serves as a painful reminder of the worst that can happen in war."

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Yeats: The Man and the Masks by Richard Ellmann

 

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One of the most influential poets of his age, W.B. Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him.

His life was complex in both its outer and inner events.

Yeats's mystical concerns, such as his involvement with spiritualism and construction of a transcendental world system in A Vision, coexisted and occasionally clashed with his active involvement in public affairs.

In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.

[Daveo]

Close Call by Stella Rimington

 

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From the former director of MI5, the new Liz Carlyle thriller taken from today’s headlines.

The Arab Spring has swept through the Middle East and Liz Carlyle and her compatriots in the Thames House’s counter espionage division are racing to investigate arms deals in Yemen.

There’s a UN embargo forbidding any member country from supplying arms to either side in the uprisings, but Andy Bokus, head of the CIA’s London Station, has evidence that the weapons being smuggled into Yemen are not only being sold to both sides, but are coming from a connection in the UK—a highly embarrassing black mark on the government and, if true, full of disastrous consequences.

[Daveo]

India in Slow Motion by Mark Tully

 

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Mark Tully is incomparable.

No one has a greater understanding of the passions, the contradictions, the humor, the tragedy and the staggering resilience that constitute India.

In his long awaited new book, he delves further than ever before into this country of one billion people.

Covering subjects as diverse as Hindu extremism, bonded child labour, Sufi mysticism, the crisis in agriculture, the persistence of political corruption and the problem of Kashmir, he paints a picture of India at once poignant, funny, startling and deeply humane....

[Daveo]

Playing With Fire by Gordon Ramsay

 

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Not a sausage.

That is what Gordon Ramsay had when he started out as a chef, working 16-hour days, 6 days a week.

When he was struggling to get his first restaurant in the black, he didn't think he'd be famous for a TV show about how to run profitable eateries, or that he'd be head of a business empire. But he is and he did.

Here's how.

[Daveo]

Born to Score by Dwight Yorke

 

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Dwight Yorke has been one of the most successful and prolific goal scorers in the Premier League's history over the past decade.

He was known first at Aston Villa and then Manchester United for his permanent smile, smoothness, and flair and for making headlines both on and off the pitch.

He was a key member of Manchester United's treble winning 1999 season and formed a deadly strike partnerships with Andy Cole.

His subsequent clubs have been Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Sydney FC, and Sunderland.

[Daveo]

Bodies by Jed Mercurio

 

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Inside every hospital exists a world no outsider has been allowed to see.

 

Written by a former doctor, Bodies is a novel of almost unbearable power and intensity.

It is also a moving portrait of the loss of innocence, the healing power of sexual love, and of a young man's quest for redemption in a world that's lost its sense of right and wrong.

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Diamonds and Dust by Sheryl McCorry

 

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Sheryl McCorry grew up in the outback carrying crocodiles to school for show and tell.

When she was 18 her family moved to Broome, and it was the first time she'd ever used a telephone or seen a television.

 

A year later, only hours after being railroaded into marriage by a fast-talking Yank, Sheryl locked eyes with Bob McCorry, a drover and buffalo shooter.

When her marriage ended after only a few months, they began a love affair that would last a lifetime and take them to the Kimberley's harshest frontiers.

[Daveo]

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

by Christopher Moore.

 

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The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday.

But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years,except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams"

[Daveo]

The Hidden Child by Camilla Läckberg.

 

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Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother’s possessions.

Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig deep into her family’s past and finally uncover the reasons why.

Her inquiries lead her to the home of a retired history teacher. He was among her mother’s circle of friends during the Second World War but her questions are met with bizarre and evasive answers.

Two days later he meets a violent death.

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Chanel: A Woman of Her Own by Axel Madsen.

 

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Alex Madsen brings to life Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the Queen of fashion who revolutionized women's styles forever.

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The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions

by David Berlinski.

 

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Militant atheism is on the rise.

Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have dominated bestseller lists with books denigrating religious belief as dangerous foolishness. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a far larger movement, one that now includes much of the scientific community.

[Daveo]

Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler

 

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In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist.

[Daveo]

Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

by Robert Hughes.

 

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From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome, as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.

[Daveo]

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

by Adam Hochschild...

 

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World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before.

He focuses on the long ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes.

Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper.

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The New Empire of Debt: The Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble by William Bonner & Addison Wiggin

 

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An updated look at the United States' precarious position given the recent financial turmoil.

 

In The New Empire of Debt, financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin return to reveal how the financial crisis that has plagued the United States will soon bring an end to this once great empire.

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Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

by David Haward Bain.

 

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After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most trans-formative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with twin bands of iron.

Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectively doubled in size, fought three wars, and began to discover a new national identity.

From self made entrepreneurs such as the Union Pacific's Thomas Durant and era defining figures such as President Lincoln to the thousands of laborers whose backbreaking work made the railroad possible, this extraordinary narrative summons an astonishing array of voices to give new dimension not only to this epic endeavor but also to the culture, political struggles, and social conflicts of an unforgettable period in American history.

[Daveo]

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

 

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The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.

A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters.

Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley.

The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920's Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates.

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Flanagan's Run by Tom McNab

 

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In 1931 Charles C. Flanagan, a grand-scale promoter in the P. T. Barnum vein, organizes a cross country footrace from Los Angeles to New York, with a purse of $150,000 for the winner. Two thousand runners from around the world gather to participate in the grueling trek, which takes them through mountains, deserts, plains, and cities, forcing some friends and some alliances, tempered of course by the intense competition of the situation.

Only a portion of the novel is set in Illinois, but organized fisticuffs in Springfield and organized crime in Chicago provide interesting and lively entertainment, along with period views of those cities.

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A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle.

 

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Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern Ireland, and in this extraordinary novel he brilliantly tells his story.

From his own birth and childhood on the streets of Dublin to his role as soldier (and lover) in the Irish Rebellion, Henry recounts his early years of reckless heroism and adventure.

At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a grand picaresque novel brimming with both poignant moments and comic ones, and told in a voice that is both quintessentially Irish and inimitably Roddy Doyle's

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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

 

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With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II.

Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.

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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture And The San Domingo Revolution, by C.L.R. James...

 

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The San Domingo Revolution was the only successful slave revolt in history.

It eventually led to the establishment of the state of Haiti. Toussaint L'Ouverture, who changed his name from Toussaint Bréda when he joined the revolt, was its undoubted hero. James says however that “Toussaint did not make the revolution.

It was the revolution that made Toussaint.”

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Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush

by Robert, Sam and Nat Parry...

 

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A real life who done it, Neck Deep unravels what may become one of history's great mysteries.

Who killed the American Republic?

How did plutocrat George W. Bush come to lead the United States at the start of the 21st century and how did he get away with using the 9/11 tragedy to overwhelm the constitutional safeguards that had protected the nation's liberties for more than two centuries?