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The Last Godfathers: Inside the Mafia's Most Infamous Family

by John Follain

 

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"The Last Godfathers " (a classic) charts the spectacular rise and the fall of one of the richest and most powerful criminal organizations in history, the Sicilian mafia's Corleone clan.

From humble origins in the town of Corleone, they manipulated the Cosa Nostra's code of honor, deceiving and bludgeoning to the summit of the secret brotherhood, purging rivals and launching terrorist campaigns which decimated anti mafia judges, police and politicians.

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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

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The One Man by Andrew Gross.

 

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It's 1944.

Physics professor Alfred Mendel and his family are trying to flee volatile Paris when they are caught and forced onto a train along with thousands of other Jewish families.

At the other end of the long, torturous train ride, Alfred is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are thrown onto the roaring fire,

his books, his papers, all his life's work.

The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed.

And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it.

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Buried Secrets by Joseph Finder.

 

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Nick has returned to his old home town of Boston to set up his own shop.

There he’s urgently summoned by an old family friend.

Hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus desperately needs Nick’s help.

His teenage daughter, Alexandra, has just been kidnapped.

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The Revenant by Michael Punke

 

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A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth century American frontier, the astonishing story of real life trapper Hunter and frontiersman Hugh Glass.

 

It's 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life.

Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker.

But when a scouting mission puts him face to face with a gruesome grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive.

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The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age by John Horgan...

 

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The Midnight Line by Lee Child.

 

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Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town, he sees a class ring in a pawn shop window.

West Point 2005.

A tough year to graduate, Iraq, then Afghanistan.

The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside.

Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years.

He decides to find out and find the woman, then return her ring.

Why not he thinks?

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The Murder of Tutankhamen by Bob Brier.

 

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Tutankhamen conjures up all the fascination that people seem to have with Egypt over many years.

Ironically very little is known about the boy king, he was born in one of the most traumatic times in Egypt's 3000 year history.

The nations religion was changed to monotheism, as was the nations capital city.

Leading Egypotologist Bob Brier brings to life the dramatic story of Tutankhamen , the " boy king " who died mysteriously at the very young age of twenty.

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The Farang Wife by Tony Crossley.

 

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"A sizzling and amusing tale of gender rivalry"

 

An English graphic designer working in Bangkok loves his lovely if prim and proper wife, but he finds models at the photography studio he part owns far too beautiful to resist.

On the wife finding her marriage under threat, to cure her husband's habitual philandering she decides to be more 'sexy'.

Little did she know the effect this would have on her psyche....

 

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Culture shock #Thailand, Southeast #Asia & the #Orient.

 

Includes; Burma/Myanmar - #Cambodia - China - Hong Kong - Indonesia - Japan - #Laos - Malaysia - Philippines - Singapore - South Korea - Taiwan - Thailand - #Vietnam.

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Many good tips on Thailand and Southeast Asia,

How to? what to? Warnings? When to? Why not? Money, Culture and much more.

brand new; includes Pattaya maps....*****180 baht*****

Includes Pattaya maps of the Bar's Go Go's Walking Street and general street map.

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Ice by Shane Johnson...

 

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In the late 1960's, NASA proposed hardware and mission parameters for an extended Apollo program that had flaws and never materialized.

Decades later, the existence of ice beds at the lunar south pole was discovered by NASA’s space probe Clementine and confirmed by the lunar satellite Lunar Prospector.

Now, author and Apollo missions historian Shane Johnson explores the fantastic possibilities of what might have transpired, had the more ambitious version of the Apollo program gone forward as originally planned.

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If You Can't Stand The Fun, Stay Out Of The Go-Go

by William Peskett.

 

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Go-Go bars as a cultural asset, dentists, chicken’s feet, soapy massage, trousers, being struck by lightning, tattoos, luck, breast enhancements, beards and being a foreigner, these are just some of the aspects of living in Pattaya.

Thailand’s most exciting city, that come within range in this lively and engaging book.

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Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now? by Ian Dunt...

 

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An easy to read guide to how Brexit will change Britain....

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Brother Number One by David P Chandler

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

 

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Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Ruby Award.

 

It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot of thievery.

 

Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist, books......

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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down, by Colin Woodard

 

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In the early eighteenth century a number of the great pirate captains, including Edward "Blackbeard" Teach and "Black Sam" Bellamy, joined forces.

This infamous "Flying Gang" was more than simply a thieving band of brothers.

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

 

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A bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States”

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The Frumious Bandersnatch by Ed McBain

 

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The kidnapping was audacious, and there were plenty of witnesses...

 

But no one attending the dazzling launch party for up and coming pop idol Tamar Valparaiso knew what they were seeing when, halfway through her performance, masked men whisked the sexy young singer off a luxury yacht and into a waiting speedboat.

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The Janson Equation by Robert Ludlum.

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US Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agents turned private security consultants Janson and Kincaid to locate his teenage son Gregory. 
Gregory's girlfriend Lynell, a translator, has been found dead in a Seoul hotel, and Gregory has fled the city. 

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Child of God by Cormac McCarthy.

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In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape, haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. 

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The Lost Army of Cambyses Paul Sussman.

 

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In 523 BC, the Persian emperor Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's western desert to destroy the oracle of Amun at Siwa.

Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Sand Sea his army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and destroyed.

Fifty thousand men were lost.

 

Two and a half thousand years later a mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor, an antiques dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo, and an eminent British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara.

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The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
by Philip Carlo

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There were times at home when Richard would have one of his outbursts and break things and then lock himself in his office. 
Merrick would ask him to please calm down, to “please relax, Daddy.” 
During these episodes, Richard would explain in a matter-of-fact way, “You know if . . . if I kill Mommy, if something happens and she dies, I’ll have to kill you all . . . I can’t leave any witnesses.”

“Yes, Daddy. I know, Daddy,” she said.

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Top Secret (A Clandestine Operations Novel Book 1)
by W.E.B. Griffin.

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In Pursuit of the Truth by Clive Driscoll.

 

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Former Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll is most famous for being the man who finally secured convictions for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, a case previously mired by claims of institutional racism and corruption.

For Clive, it was the pinnacle of a 35 year shining career with the world’s most famous police force, the Metropolitan Police Service.

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