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The Pardon by James Grippando.

 

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Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney has spent years rebelling against his father, Harry, now Florida's governor.

Their estrangement seems complete when Harry allows one of Jack's clients, a man Jack believes is innocent, to die in the electric chair.

 

But when a psychopath bent on serving his own twisted version of justice places both Jack and Harry in extreme jeopardy, the two have nowhere to turn but to each other.

Together they must find a way to overcome their cunning tormentor's manipulation, even as the stakes are being raised to far more perilous heights.

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City of Gold by Len Deighton.

 

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January 1942.

Rommel’s seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt, perhaps soon to threaten Cairo itself.

And Rommel has a spy in the city, a source so well informed that the German commander knows in advance every movement of the allied forces.

 

Amongst the teeming streets and bazaars, the British, led by Major Albert Cutler, must find him.

But Cairo is a city of fool’s gold, where nothing and nobody, not even Cutler, can be taken at face value…

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Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin.

 

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Peter Ames Carlin’s bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty five years to be written with the cooperation of Bruce Springsteen himself; “Carlin gets across why Mr. Springsteen has meant so much, for so long, to so many people”.

 

In Bruce, acclaimed music writer Peter Ames Carlin presents a startlingly intimate and vivid portrait of a rock icon.

For more than four decades, Bruce Springsteen has reflected the heart and soul of America with a career that includes twenty Grammy Awards, more than 120 million albums sold, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award.

Peter Ames Carlin masterfully encompasses the breadth of Springsteen’s astonishing career and explores the inner workings of a man who managed to redefine generations of music.

 

Peter Ames Carlin’s bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty five years to be written with the cooperation of Bruce Springsteen himself; “Carlin gets across why Mr. Springsteen has meant so much, for so long, to so many people”

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The Woods by Harlan Coben.

 

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County prosecutor Paul Copeland is still getting over the decades old loss of his sister, the night, twenty years ago, she walked into the woods, never to be seen again.

Now, as Cope struggles to raise his six year old daughter alone and try one of the biggest cases of his career, evidence links him to a man who has been viciously murdered.

The victim could be the boy who disappeared along with Cope’s sister.

But, as hope rises that his sister could still be alive, dangerous Secrets from his family’s past threaten to tear apart everything he’s been trying to hold together…

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Micro by Michael Crichton & Richard Preston. 

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An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park, this boundary pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichton’s greatest adventures with its combination of pulse pounding thrills, cutting edge technology, and extraordinary research

Three men are found dead in a locked second floor office in Honolulu.
There is no sign of struggle, though their bodies are covered in ultra fine, razor-sharp cuts, with no evidence, the police dismiss it as a bizarre suicide pact. 
But the murder weapon is still in the room, almost invisible to the human eye.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start up company.
Nanigen MicroTechnologies sends them to a mysterious laboratory in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open up a whole new scientific frontier.
But this opportunity of a lifetime will teach them the true cost of existing at the cutting edge.

The group becomes prey to a technology of radical, unimaginable power and is thrust out into the teeming rainforest, armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, the young scientists face a hostile wilderness that threatens danger at every turn.

To survive, they must harness the awe-inspiring creative and destructive forces of nature itself.

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The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill.

 

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A fast moving, stunning new standalone psychological thriller from the award winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series

 

Wolf Hadda has lead a charmed life.

From humble origins as a woodcutter’s son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the girl of his dreams.

 

A knock on the door one morning ends it all.

Thrown into prison while protesting his innocence, Wolf retreats into silence, 7 years later prison psychiatrist Alva Ozigbo makes a breakthrough: Wolf begins to talk.

Under her guidance he gets parole, returning to his rundown family home in rural Cumbria.

 

But there is a mysterious period in Wolf’s youth when he disappeared from home and was known to his employers as the Woodcutter.

And now the Woodcutter is back, looking for the truth; and revenge.

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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

 

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The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world.

Drifters in search of work, George and his simple minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other and a dream, a dream that one day they will have some land of their own.

Eventually they find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of his own strength.

Tackling universal themes such as the friendship of a shared vision, and giving voice to America’s lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men has proved one of Steinbeck’s most popular works, achieving success as a novel, a Broadway play and three acclaimed films.

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Eyeless in Cooley: A Blade Macken Crime Thriller

by David M. Kiely.

 

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In 2000 an octogenarian retired schoolteacher is brutally murdered in the little town of Carlingford, close to the border that divides Ulster from the Irish Republic.

 

Is it a paramilitary killing?

Or something infinitely more sinister?

 

Blade Macken, detective superintendent with Dublins elite Special Branch, is assigned to the case.

But forces higher than the law are attempting to thwart his investigations.

Using the age old strategy of "divide and conquer", they succeed in isolating Macken from his partner, the lovely Detective Sergeant Orla Sweetman, who finds herself and her parents under threat from enemies unknown.

Nothing is what it seems at first Blush in this complex riddle.

To solve it, Blade has to dig back into history and expose a very murky Vatican secret.

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The Whisperers by John Connolly.

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Oh, little one, ' he whispered, as he gently stroked her cheek, the first time he had touched her in fifteen years. 
'What have they done to you?
What have they done to us all?' 
In his latest dark and chilling Charlie Parker thriller, John Connolly takes us to the border between Maine and Canada. 
It is there, in the vast and porous Great North Woods, that a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place, run by a group of disenchanted former soldiers, newly returned from Iraq. 
Illicit goods, drugs, cash, weapons, even people, are changing hands. 
And something else has changed hands. 
Something ancient and powerful and evil.

The authorities suspect something is amiss, but what they can't know is that it is infinitely stranger and more terrifying than anyone can imagine. 
Anyone, that is, except private detective Charlie Parker, who has his own intimate knowledge of the darkness in men's hearts.
As the smugglers begin to die one after another in apparent suicides, Parker is called in to stop the bloodletting. 
The soldiers' actions and the objects they have smuggled have attracted the attention of the reclusive Herod, a man with a taste for the strange. 
And where Herod goes, so too does the shadowy figure that he calls the Captain, to defeat them, Parker must form an uneasy alliance with a man he fears more than any other, the killer known as the Collector.

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Matterhorn: A Story of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes.

 

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An incredible story, written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.

Matterhorn has been hailed as a “brilliant account of war”

It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain Jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood.

Standing in their way are not just the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain, sludge, leeches, Tigers, disease and malnutrition.

 

Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers.

But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all consuming terror of combat.

The experience will change them forever.

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Raconteur’s Pattaya Tales by Geoffrey Franklin.

 

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Somewhere between an international fantasy world and one of harsh reality, the characters in these varied stories become involved in humourous, dangerous, sometimes violent adventures, set against a colourful backdrop of flora and fauna, festivals, arcane beliefs and ghosts.

Here, dreams are often perceived as future indicators and reincarnation is seldom, if ever questioned.

Nothing is forever, or quite as it seems to be.

The only certainty is life is never dull or grey, these stories are fictional, but truth is often is often stranger than fiction and every good yarn has an essential thread of truth within it. Many of the events in these stories often involved or were witnessed by the author.

Geoffrey Franklin is an English Artist / Writer who studied Art and Design at the Birmingham and Royal College of Art, London.

A Pattaya resident for eight years, he has painted many of the delights of South East Asia, Angkor Wat, Cambodia in particular.

He is now writing books and short stories based on the strange, often mystical experiences he has encountered in Thailand.

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Das Reich, The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944 by Max Hastings

 

World renowned British historian Sir Max Hastings recounts one of the most horrific months of World War II.

 

June 1944.

The month of the D Day landings carried out by Allied forces in Normandy, France. Germany’s 2nd SS Panzer Division, one of Adolf Hitler’s most elite armor units, had recently been pulled from the Eastern Front & relocated to France in order to regroup, recruit more troops, & restock equipment.

With Allied forces suddenly on European ground, the division Das Reich- was called up to counter the invasion.

It's march northward to the shores of Normandy, 15,000 men strong, would become infamous as a tale of unparalleled brutality in World War II.

 

Das Reich is Sir Max Hastings’s narrative of the atrocities committed by the 2nd SS Panzer Division during June of 1944.

First, the execution of 99 French civilians in the village of Tulle on June 9th and second, the massacre of 643 more in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10th.

Throughout the book, Hastings expertly shifts perspective between French resistance fighters, the British Secret Service, who helped coordinate the French resistance from afar and on the ground and the German soldiers themselves.

With its rare, unbiased approach to the ruthlessness of World War II, Das Reich explores the fragile moral fabric of wartime mentality.

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Ben Elton's High Society

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The long standing war on drugs has been lost, but scared to face that fact, the whole world is fast becoming one huge criminal network. 
From the Groucho Club toilets to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, we are all partners in crime, & this story takes us through the landscape it has created.

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Drunkard by Neil Steinberg. A Hard Drinking life...

 

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Refreshingly unsentimental account of an addict’s descent into hell and tentative journey back through booze.

Fascinating true story.

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Detonator by Andy McNab.

 

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Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone has spent a lifetime getting in harm's way, but when someone he cares for very sincerely is murdered in cold blood, he can no longer just accept the pain.

 

A high level internecine conflict at the dark heart of the resurgent Russian Empire and an assassin's bullet on an isolated Alpine pass, propel him from an apparently run of the mill close protection task into his most brutal and challenging mission yet.

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Blood and Ashes by Matt Hilton.

 

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Brooke Reynolds died in a car crash.

A tragic accident reports police, but Brooke's father Don Hoffman knows otherwise.

He wants Joe Hunter to find the men responsible, Joe is not convinced until he is attacked by two troublemakers, and Don's other daughter is also threatened.

Looks like more than coincidence & sure enough, the entire family is soon under siege with only Joe to protect them.

The ensuing blood bath is the beginning of a trail of death that leads right to the heart of a racist conspiracy.

White supremacists aim to hold the government to ransom and they have got hold of a dirty bomb to add weight to their case.

Joe is on countdown, can he stop the plotters before they reduce the free world to ashes?

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Dark Harbor by Stuart Woods.

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Stuart Woods's Dark Harbor, brings us the perfect mix of sexy intrigue and swift suspense that have earned him legions of fans over the years, the reason he's popular at Canterbury Tales Book exchange.

In this thriller, Stone enters the picturesque town Dark Harbor off the coast of Maine, where the shocking deaths of three people have cast a long shadow over this island haven, a locale as mysterious as it is exclusive.

 

Stone Barrington hasn't heard from his cousin Dick Stone, in years though he has fond memories of a teenage summer spent at his house in Maine.

Then, Lance Cabot of the CIA interrupts an otherwise pleasant meal at Elaine's with news of Dick's death apparently by his own hands.

Be intrigued by this as many other Stuart Wood's books?

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Exploring Life Through Literature. 1976 (Rare Book)

 

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Includes 1

Studies of two plays; Twelve Angry by Reginald Rose

and An enemy of the people by Henrik Ibsen.

2. The Short Story; Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, The Monkeys Paw by W . W Jacobs, and several others

3 Poetry, Karma by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Buffalo Bill by E E Cummings and many more.

4 Julius Caesar....Acts one to five.

5 Prose Forms....

6 Medieval Tales and Legends....

7 Three one act plays

A great learning - study book.

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Life; by Keith Richards.

 

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The frank autobiography of the guitarist, singer, songwriter and founder member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards.

 

Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll high life.

Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane, listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters songs, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones.

The Rolling Stones first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero, creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women."

His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones, tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction.

 

With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.

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Killing for the Company by Chris Ryan

 

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Chet Freeman makes his hard earned living in security, on a contract for the huge Grosvenor Group.

He catches a suspicious looking woman eavesdropping on a meeting the group is holding with the P.M.

The group's interests include arms manufacture and what Chet and the woman overhear seems to imply that it is bribing the Prime Minister to take his country to war?

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Fair Game by Stephen Leather.

 

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Dan (Spider) Shepherd is working for the MI5, investigating Somali Pirates with links to terrorism in the UK.

Meanwhile, the crew of an expensive yacht, including the prime minister's god-daughter, has been boarded and kidnapped by the Pirates and is being held hostage in war- torn Somalia.

A covert operation run by MI5 hopes to kill two birds with one stone, Shepherd goes undercover on a container ship they know will be targeted by the Pirates, and hopefully will discover not only where the yacht's hostages are being held but also the ringleaders behind the terrorist plans.

At the same time though, Shepherd is being hunted down by the Real IRA.

Now that he's on the container ship his family are alone and vulnerable?

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Payback Paperback by James Barrington.

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Action packed techno espionage thriller featuring suave British agent Paul Richter Hauled back early from an exercise with the SAS, Paul Richter is tasked with a short notice extraction job. 
It goes unexpectedly well, and as a kind of reward he’s given an easy one: he’s to investigate the case of James Holden, a middle aged Englishman living in Dubai, who appears able to predict terrorist attacks. 
It should be simple, a break in the sun and a couple of days’ work at most but, almost as soon as he arrives in Dubai, he is diverted to Bahrain. 
Then things get complicated, who is the secretive patient in the Manama hospital? 
Who has slaughtered a dozen people at a remote stable in Saudi Arabia just to steal one horse? 
Why has a US State Department jet carrying a specialist CIA team been diverted to Cairo? 
Nothing seems to make sense until Richter finally uncovers the outlines of a plot that will come to fruition during the world’s richest horse race.

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The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell,

 

Sixth in the Kurt Wallander series.

 

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An African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, the death of the unknown woman covered up by the police.

A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two horrific murders.

Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and keen bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his home and the body of a missing florist is discovered strangled and tied to a tree.

The only clues Wallander has are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men.

What ensues is a case that will test Wallander’s strength and patience, because in order to discover the reason behind these murders, he will also need to uncover the elusive connection between these deaths and the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman.

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The Secret Train Robber: The Real Great Train Robbery Mastermind Revealed by Lee Sturley

 

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The biggest train heist in Britain’s history, the Great Train Robbery.

In the early hours of Thursday, 8th August 1963, a fifteen strong gang stole £2.6 million from the Glasgow to London mail train at Sears Crossing, Buckinghamshire.

 

The crime was so amazing, every single development of the case was followed tirelessly by the press.

Countless books have since been published and, even today, films, television dramas and documentaries continue to study the smallest of details of one of the most daring and cleverly concocted criminal plans of all time.

 

Most of the gang were captured and received lengthy jail sentences, 50 years on, many still question who the real mastermind behind the plot?

For years most people accepted that Bruce Reynolds was but is that really the case?

One man knows the answer and the true identity of the man behind the robbery all too well.

 

In this mind-boggling biography, the only person who really knows the real mastermind revisits the Great Train Robbery and rewrites history as we all know it.

Full of explosive, fresh revelations, 'The Secret Train Robber' sees the final piece of the jigsaw firmly set in place and the name of one of Britain’s most sophisticated criminal minds ever is finally revealed.