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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny.

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Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper

by Art Pepper, Laurie Pepper.

 

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Not for the faint hearted.

Art Pepper's autobiography is painfully honest as the great saxophonist describes a life of drugs, alcohol and the occasional foray into crime, having spent five of his best years incarcerated in San Quentin.

Read on this and many other Bio's etc at Canterbury Tales Bookshop.

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Fury by Colin Falconer.

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

 

In Germany a Jew and a gentile fall in love during the turbulent time of Nazi indoctrination, while in Palestine an Arab and a Jewish kibbutz worker are drawn together, but know there is no future for them.

All converge on Palestine after the war to continue the struggle for happiness.

If you have never read Falconer give him a try at Canterbury Tales Bookshop....Pattaya..

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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance.

 

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In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides the first inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur.

 

If you know the name, you will want to read this brand new book from Canterbury Tales Bookshop Pattaya.

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City of Sins by Daniel Blake.

 

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The heart pounding thriller featuring FBI agent Franco Patrese, in New Orleans on the hunt for a deranged serial killer as Hurricane Katrina threatens the City.

New Orleans, Summer 2005, New FBI agent Franco Patrese is intrigued when the attractive PA to the city's richest man requests an unofficial secret meeting.

She has information regarding an unthinkable conspiracy, and will trust no one, other than him.

The next day she's dead, the victim of a bizarre ritual murder, and Patrese finds himself drawn into the murkiest of underworlds, piecing together connections between the city's seediest players and her top officials.

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Stealing Life (Dreams of Inan #2) by Antony Johnston

 

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Nicco Salarum is a pretty good thief, a stealthy gentleman burglar who makes his dubious living on the rough streets of Azbatha

 

Nicknamed the 'Pit-On-Stilts' a dangerous, overcrowded and corrupt city in the island nation of Turith.

But Nicco is in trouble after he ditched an expensive stolen shipment rather than kill a security guard.

That shipment 'belonged' to a local mob boss...........

 

Continue this Fantasy at Canterbury Tales Bookshop.....

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Sea Change by Ian Dickens.

 

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Twenty one years of corporate life had looked after Ian Dickens pretty well. A directorship. A comfortable house, flashy car, and exotic holidays. A happy home with an understanding wife and two children who had entered their teens with no signs of rebelliousness. He had a dog that didn't bite when he walked in through the door.

 

Forwarded by Ranulph Fiennes so has to be worth a read in the Biography section at Canterbury Tales Book exchange....

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Red Mercury Blues (Artie Cohen #1) by Reggie Nadelson

 

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Artie Cohen is a handsome New York City cop with a taste for pretty women, jazz and no intention of looking back to the past he left behind over twenty five years earlier in Moscow.

In Red Hot Blues, he is faced with a case that leaves him no choice but to confront that vivid past.

When a former KGB general is shot dead live on TV, Artie is compelled to take the case, the general was a friend of his father's.

Artie doesn't have to go far until he is led into the heart of the Brighton Beach mafia, where the most lethal weapon on the street is rumored to be an elusive substance known as Red Mercury.........read on at Canterbury Tales legendary Bookshop, Pattaya.

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Pacific Fury, How Australia and Her Allies Defeated the Japanese, by Peter Thompson.

 

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Peter Thompson presents, for the first time, an account of the conflict that places Australian voices and action at the heart of the struggle.

Based on exclusive interviews with eyewitnesses and written with all the pace and verve you would expect of a master storyteller, Pacific Fury brings the people and the battles of the Second World War to life in a sensational history not to be bettered in a generation.

 

Another good addition to Canterbury Tales War section in Pattaya....

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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45...by Stephen E. Ambrose.

 

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WWII military historian Stephen Ambrose, author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, hits the interest again with this exciting and compelling look at the courageous young men who flew the massive B-24 bombers over Germany during the last two years of World War II.

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Sex In The Afternoon by June Flaum Singer.

 

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Obsessed by the most beautiful and alluring woman he has ever seen, millionaire Jonathan West is drawn into a tight web of mystery and frustration as he attempts to discover the identity of his tormentor.

 

Oooh have a bit of a raunchy rumpass at Canterbury Tales Bookshop with June....

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The Flame Bearer by Bernard Cornwell.

 

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Britain is at an uneasy peace.

After their bloody defeat of Danish held East Anglia, the West Saxons stand victorious while the Mercians have taken back their land on the border of Northumbria, the last kingdom of Britain still ruled by the pagan northmen.

A precarious truce exists between Æthelflæd’s Mercia and Northumbria, now ruled by Uhtred of Bebbanburg’s son-in-law, Sigtryggr.

Continue this well versed Historical fiction and many more of Bernards at Canterbury Tales Bookshop.....

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Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth by M.C. Scott

 

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They are known as the Legion of the Damned.........

 

Throughout the Roman Army, the Twelfth Legion is notorious for its ill fete and fortune.

It forced into the harshest of postings, the toughest of battles and campaigns, the most vicious of Armies and opponents.

For one young man, Demalion of Macedon, joining it will be a baptism of fire and yet, amid all of the blood and violence and savagery of his life as a legionary, he realizes he has discovered his true vocation as a soldier and a leader of men. He has come to love the Twelfth and all the bloody minded, dark hearted soldiers he calls his brothers.

 

Another good Historical fiction book at Canterbury Tales Bookshop.....Pattaya....

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The Martian by Andy Weir.

 

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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.

 

Now, he’s sure he’s going be the first person to die there.

 

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

 

Read on this nail biting Space story at Canterbury Tales Bookshop.

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Conclave by Robert Harris.

 

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The Pope is dead.

Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the World will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election.

 

They are holy men, but they have ambition and they have rivals.

Over the next seventy two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.

Read this and other books by Robert Harris at Canterbury Tales Bookshop.

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Daddy's Little Earner by Maria Landon

 

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'Daddy's Little Earner' tells the utterly shocking story of a young girl forced into prostitution by her own father, and her painful journey to escape her horrific childhood and build a new life for herself and her sons.

 

Follow this harrowing True story at Canterbury Tales Bookshop.

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The Travelers by Chris Pavone.

 

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It s 3:00 am.

Do you know where your husband is?

Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he's living the wrong life. (Don't we all sometimes)

Then one night, on assignment for the award winning Travelers magazine in the wine region of Argentina, a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can't refuse.

Soon Will's bad choices and dark Secrets take him across Europe, from a chateau in Bordeaux to a midnight raid on a Paris mansion, from a Dive bar in Dublin to a magnificent mega yacht in the Mediterranean and an isolated cabin perched on the rugged cliffs of Iceland.

Read the rest of Chris's new Novel at Canterbury Tales Bookshop.....

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Spy Games by Adam Brooks.

 

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In a world full of lies, one man wants the truth.

 

Journalist Philip Mangan is trying to stay out of trouble in East Africa, his reputation and his life are all in tatters, but when he is caught in a terrorist attack in East Africa and a shadowy Chinese figure approaches him in the dead of night with information on the origins of the attack, Mangan is suddenly back in the eye of the storm.

 

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away on a humid Hong Kong night, a key British Intelligence source is murdered minutes after meeting spy Trish Patterson. From Washington, D.C. to the hallowed halls of Oxford University and dusty African streets, a sinister power is stirring, one which will use Mangan and Patterson as pawns, if they survive.....

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Nothing To Fear by Karen Rose Terry

 

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As director of an inner-city women's shelter, Dana Dupinsky safeguards many many hidden truth's.

Some are new identities, some are new addresses and some are even hidden truth's about herself.

Passionately dedicated to Hanover House and the women she protects, Dana has always been reluctant to look for true love. But now, just as a case puts her and a child in mortal danger, it seems that love has come looking for her.

 

Get into this good read from Karen at Canterbury Tales Bookshop, Pattaya.....

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Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

 

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Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her own story

A memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, also as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith Just Kids.

Get more into Kim at Canterbury Tales Book exchange, Cafe, Pattaya.

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Night Heron by Adam Brooks..

 

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Set in China, comes a debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the 21st century.

 

A lone man, Peanut - escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the ice cold desert of north west China.

 

More than two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British, now Peanut must disappear on Beijing's surveillance blanketed streets.

Desperate and relentless, he reaches out to his one time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering military Secrets in return for extraction.

 

But the Secrets prove more valuable than Peanut or Mangan could ever have known and not only to the British.

 

Get into this intrigue with Adam at Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange, Pattaya.

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Inside Alcatraz: My Time on the Rock by Jim Quillen.

 

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Read this Fascinating insight into life inside Alcatraz at Canterbury Tales Bookshop.

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Orphan X (Orphan X #1) by Gregg Hurwitz.

 

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The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers.

It is said that when he is reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them.

 

But he's no legend.

 

Read more of this future Classic at Canterbury Tales Book exchange.....

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Brother Number One by David P Chandler

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Read this and many more on Vietnam & Cambodia in stock.