Canterbury Tales Guesthouse

[Daveo]

A Child called 'It' by Dave Pelzer.

 

In today @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop -- Book exchange -- Guesthouse -- Cafe, Pattaya --Thailand.

 

As a Child Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games, mind games and games that left one of her three sons nearly dead.

She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave, not a boy, but an 'it'.

 

His bed was an old rotten army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and stank and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dog's bowl.

The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors.

But throughout Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him, this book re-lives the early years of his life and is an affecting an inspirational book of the horrors of child abuse and the amazing steadfast determination of one child to survive.

[Daveo]

24 Hours by Greg Iles

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop -- Book exchange -- Guesthouse -- Cafe, Pattaya --Thailand.

We have a good selection of Greg's books.

 

24 HOURS

That's the time it takes for a madman to pull off the perfect crime.

It's not the first time? he has done it before, he will, without doubt, do it again, and no one can stop him?

 

But now this time, he's just picked on the wrong family to terrorize.

Will and Karen Jennings are not going to watch helplessly as he victimizes them.

And they are not going to let him get away with it.

[Daveo]

The Swedish Girl (DCI Lorimer) by Alex Gray.

In today @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, Pattaya.

Another gripping Lorimer novel from Alex Gray, evoking Glasgow like no other writer can.

Eighteen year old Kirsty Wilson can't believe her luck when she lands a room in a luxury Glasgow flat owned by the beautiful Eva Magnusson, a wealthy fellow student from Stockholm. 
But her initial delight turns to terror when Kirsty finds the Swedish girl lying dead in their home and their male flatmate accused of her murder. 
Kirsty refuses to accept that he is guilty and, inspired by family friend Detective Superintendent Lorimer, sets out to clear his name. Meanwhile, Lorimer calls on his trusted colleague, psychologist Solly Brightman, to help unravel the truth behind the enigmatic Eva's life and death. 
But it is not long until another woman, bearing a marked resemblance to Eva, is brutally murdered in Glasgow. 
Horrified, Lorimer and his team realize that Kirsty could be right.
Is it possible that Glasgow's finest
detective has put the wrong man behind bars? 
And is there a cold blooded killer out there orchestrating the death of their next innocent victim?
In this absolutely gripping read, Alex Gray sends her dynamic Scottish detective from the gritty heart of Glasgow to the snowy streets of Stockholm in his toughest case yet.

[Daveo]

Dancing in the Light by Shirley Maclaine.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse -- Cafe / #Pattaya -- Thailand.

 

Now, at a major turning point in her life, comes her most open and exciting book yet.

Outspoken, controversial, talented and perceptive Shirley MacLaine takes us on an intimate and fascinating personal jourey.

In 1984 Shirley won an Oscar, starred on Broadway, wrote the best selling play "Out on a Limb" and reached fifty years old.

At this special time, in this special year, she was now ready to resume the spiritual journey she had begun in her early forties. Dancing in the Light, Shirley MacLaine bares her innermost self and explores the lives, both past and present, which touched and affected her own.

She sheds new light on her loves, her losses, her childhood, her passions, and her inner drives and ambitions.

Shirley asks poignant questions and receives surprising answers?

Follow Shirley @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop Pattaya.

[Daveo]

The Kill Clause by Gregg Hurwitz.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse -- Cafe / #Pattaya -- Thailand.

 

Tim Rackley is as dangerous as they come, a man of honor, a deputy U.S. marshal who is very good at his job, until everything he believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his own daughter.

 

Betrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches helplessly when the killer walks free on a legal technicality. Devastated, furious, burning with a righteous need for vengeance, he is forced to explore his own deadly options, a quest that leads him into a shadowy no man's land between justice and the law and into the welcoming fold of "the Commission."

[Daveo]

The Living and the Dead in Winsford by Håkan Nesser.

 

Brand new in @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop -- Book exchange -- Guesthouse -- Cafe, Pattaya.

 

There is nobody in the world who knows that we are here?

 

A woman arrives in the village of Winsford on Exmoor.

She has travelled a long way and chosen her secluded cottage very carefully.

Her sole intention is to outlive her beloved dog Castor and to survive the torrent of memories that threaten to overwhelm her.

Read the rest of this excellent Author at Canterbury Tales Bookshop #Pattaya

[Daveo]

Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy;

by Gerald Corey.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse -- Cafe / #Pattaya -- Thailand.

 

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY.

A great aid for you develop your own counseling style.

With this text, you will gain a firm foundation in the major counseling theories (psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems, feminist, and postmodern approaches) as they are used in practice.

By means of the case of "Stan," you will see how the theory presented in each text chapter informs therapeutic decision making.

The Case of Stan and Lecturettes" is an extension of the text. "At a Glance" charts pinpoint the major differences between theories in areas such as multicultural focus, basic philosophies, and limitations.

[Daveo]

The Murder of Sonny Liston; A Story of Fame, Heroin, Boxing & Las Vegas by Shaun Assael.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop -- Book exchange -- Guesthouse -- Cafe / #Pattaya -- Thailand.

 

On 5th January 1971, former heavyweight champion Sonny Liston was found dead at his Las Vegas home.

Sonny Liston’s death, noted as an overdose, has long hung over Las Vegas and the boxing world, leaving unanswered questions about his ties to the drug Lords, mob kingpins, billionaire hoteliers and powerful cash hungry promoters.

Against the backdrop of the pivotal era in the history of Las Vegas when the Gangsters turned a sleep desert oasis into a gambling paradise.

The Murder of Sonny Liston is both a riveting murder hunt and a stunning portrait of a city that was home to the Rat Pack, race riots and glittering high rises along the famous strip.

[Daveo]

The Krays: The Prison Years by David Meikle & Kate Beal Blyth.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse - Cafe - #Pattaya #Thailand

 

As it says on the cover; read Ronnie's and Reggie's time on the inside at Canterbury Tales Bookshop Pattaya in the True Crime section

[Daveo]

Aloha, Mr. Lucky by Corson Hirschfeld

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse -- Cafe / #Pattaya -- Thailand.

 

There's a lot of trouble brewing in sunny Hawaii.

 

It has been not a good month for free spirited journalist Star Hollie, not only does he owe money to Mako, a feared and dangerous loan shark, but he also runs a personal ad with dangerous and unanticipated results.

When one of the beautiful and lonely women who answers his ad turns up dead on the beach, Star is pulled into a conspiracy that could keep Hollywood in B movies for years.

Bringing him face to face with an ex-military sadist, two dim witted Appalachian twins, and a financier with dreams of turning an earthly paradise into the ultimate golf resort.

Star finds himself not attracting beautiful women, but attracting a whole monsoon of trouble that keeps this unlikely sleuth dodging bullets, lava, and legends.

[Daveo]

The Double Eagle (Tom Kirk #1) by James Twining

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse -- Cafe / #Pattaya -- Thailand.

 

They are the most valuable coins on earth, only a handful are still thought to exist, each one worth millions of dollars.

Now they have vanished from an seemingly impenetrable fortress and the killings have begun.

 

Somehow, impossibly, someone has invaded Fort Knox and stolen five of the world's last remaining Double Eagles, the $20 gold coin ordered destroyed by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression.

Now, one has resurfaced during an autopsy in France, in the stomach of a murdered priest.

[Daveo]

By Christopher Parnell; Hell's Prisoner, The True Story Of An Innocent Man? Jailed For Eleven Years In Indonesia's Most Notorious Prisons.

 

In today @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, Pattaya.

 

If you're thinking of doing Illegal stuff in Thailand or Southeast Asia read this or books like it, may save you a lot of grief? Available in the true crime section at Canterbury Tales Bookshop. Pattaya

[Daveo]

The Dogs Of War by Frederick Forsyth.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse - Cafe, Pattaya.

 

An amazing discovery has been made in the remote African republic of Zangaro, a discovery which could change the course of a nation's history forever.

But such a important discovery cannot be kept secret for long and Sir James Manson will stop at nothing to protect his find.

 

A ruthless and bloody minded tycoon, Manson immediately hires an army of bloodthirsty mercenaries and with this deadly crew behind him he sets out to topple the government and replace its dictator with a puppet president.

 

Continue this, another good read from Freddy at Canterbury Tales Bookshop, Pattaya.

[Daveo]

The Lovers by John Connolly.

 

Back in today @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, Pattaya.

 

Charlie Parker is a sad lost soul.

Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny from the police, Charlie takes a job in a Portland bar.

But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different type of investigation, an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers.

It's a search that will eventually lead Parker to really question all that he believed true about his beloved parents, and about himself

[Daveo]

Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story Of A Doctor Who Got Away With Murder by James B. Stewart.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse - Cafe, #Pattaya.

 

Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart's book about serial killer doctor Michael Swango and the medical community that decided to turn a blind eye to his deathly criminal activities.

 

No one would hardly believe that this suave young doctor could be a serial killer.

Wherever he was hired, in Ohio, Illinois, South Dakota, New York, Michael Swango seemed the model physician.

Then his patients began falling very ill and then dying under suspicious circumstances.

 

Become intrigued by this horror at Canterbury Tales Bookshop, True Crime section.

 

[Daveo]

The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer.

by Jason Moss & Jeffrey Kottler.

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, Pattaya.

Dear Mr Manson............

 

It all started with a tough stressful college course assignment, then escalated into a truly dangerous obsession.

Eighteen year old honor student Jason Moss wrote to men whose body counts had made criminal history, men named Dahmer, Manson, Ramirez, and Gacy.

 

Dear Mr Dahmer........

Posing as their perfect victim, Jason mindfully seduced them with his words.

One by one they wrote him back, indulging him with their craziness and violent perverted fantasies.

The game spun out of control, John Wayne Gacy revealed all to Jason and invited his pen pal to visit him in prison......

 

Dear Mr Gacy.........

 

It was an offer Jason could not turn down, even if it made him?

 

The book that has drawn the complete attention of the national and International media, this may be the most revealing look at serial killers ever recorded and the most illuminating study of the dark places of the human mind ever attempted.

[Daveo]

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

by Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse - Cafe, Pattaya.

 

Shocking so it is, shock your mind while reading this True Story @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop, Pattaya.

[Daveo]

The Fourth Hand by John Irving.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse - Cafe, Pattaya.

 

While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand bitten off by a lion, millions of TV viewers witness the horror.

In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant, meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper.

A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one handed reporter her husband’s left hand, that is, after her husband is dead.

But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy.

[Daveo]

Thai Law for Foreigners; Benjawan Becker & Roengsak Thongkaew.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse - Cafe, Pattaya.

 

Thai law made easy for foreigners.

This unique book includes lots of information regarding history of Thai law, judicial system, immigration, civil and criminal law upheld in Thailand.

Very useful for both visitors and those who live in Thailand.

This book contains both the Thai text and full English translation.

[Daveo]

Moskva by Jack Grimwood

 

Traded in recently @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse - Cafe - Pattaya.

 

Christmas Eve 1985.

The shaved, exsanguinated body of a young man is found in Red Square; frozen solid, like stone to the touch and missing the little finger from his right hand.

 

A week later, Alex Marston, the fifteen year old daughter of the British Ambassador disappears in mysterious circumstances?

Army Intelligence Officer, Tom Fox is posted to Moscow following the death of his own daughter, is asked to help search for her.

 

But as Fox's investigation drags him deeper towards the dark heart of Soviet establishment, his fears for Alex's safety grow and grow as it looks like she could become a sadistic killer's next victim.

Continue reading this Grimwood book at Canterbury Tales Bookshop Pattaya.

[Daveo]

From Cradle to Grave: Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's Nine Children by Joyce Egginton.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, Pattaya.

 

Probes the strange and truly disturbing case of Marybeth Tinning.

A woman whose trial for the death of one of her infants led to the discovery that she killed all nine of her children......

 

Read this sad and macabre story from the shelves of Canterbury Tales Bookshop True Crime section.

 

[Daveo]

Crisis Four by Andy McNab.

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, Pattaya.

 

Crisis Four is Andy McNab's 4th book and his 2nd work of fiction, he has already established himself as a brand name and captures engrossing stories many of which grow from real situations. .

 

His trademark is the SAS and dirty operations, so it will come as no surprise to anyone that the hero, Nick Stone, is a hard but (fairly) fair ex-SAS man.

Now working for 450$ per day as a freelance agent for British Intelligence mostly on undercover missions which will be denied if they go wrong.

Continue with this and many other Andy McNab lively battles at Canterbury Tales book exchange, fiction section.

[Daveo]

Snowdon: The Biography by Anne de Courcy

 

@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse - Cafe - Pattaya - Thailand...

 

The parents of Antony Armstrong Jones, he was given the title Earl of Snowdon in 1961, were very different than normal.

He was completely and utterly Welsh , She was an exotic mixture of English and Jewish.

They divorced when he was five and Antony's relationship with his aloof glittering mother never really recovered.

His inventiveness was soon strongly apparent at Eton and then Cambridge, whereas cox in1950 he designed a new rudder for his winning Boat Race crew.

The engagement of this motorbike riding freelance photographer in 1960 to Princess Margaret was a bombshell.

 

Find out more about Snowdon in this Fascinating Biography along with many more @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - book exchange - Pattaya.

[Daveo]

The Heist, by Daniel Silva.

 

In Now @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, Pattaya..

 

Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional Spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio; Daniel Silva’s latest action packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.

 

Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one.

Follow the twists and turns of this Silva novel at Canterbury Tales Bookshop....

[Daveo]

Two of the best and most popular Historical Fiction Authors @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, Pattaya..

 

Ken Follett & Bernard Cornwell.

 

https://ken-follett.com/

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Follett

 

http://www.bernardcornwell.net/

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Cornwell