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Gorky Park (Arkady Renko #1) by Martin Cruz Smith

 

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A triple bloody murder in a Moscow amusement center, three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest and prfesional and cynical about everything except his profession.

To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible and tries to stay alive doing it.

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

 

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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.

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Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen

 

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In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur of the moment ski trip.

But when their SUV stalls on a snow choked mountain road, they are stranded with little or no help in sight.

As night falls, the group seeks refuge from the blizzard in the remote village of Kingdom Come, where twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned.

Something terrible has happened in Kingdom Come, Meals sit untouched on tables, cars are still parked in garages.

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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 he has painted many of the delights of South East Asia, Angkor Wat, Cambodia in particular.

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The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian

 

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Mr Jonathan Hemlock, Professor of Art, world renowned mountain climber and freelance assassin for the CII.

Hemlock is sent to Switzerland on a mission to climb the notorious Eiger peak of the Alps, whose north face has meant death to many a climber.

Hemlock's target: one of his three fellow climbers.

The only problem is, CII can't tell him which one...

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The Blood of Gods, Conn Iggulden.

 

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The 5th & final instalment of the Emperor series,

Julius Caesar has been assassinated.

A nation is in mourning, revenge will be bloody.

Rome’s great hero Julius Caesar has been brutally murdered by his most trusted allies.

While these self appointed Liberators seek refuge in the senate, they have underestimated one man.

Caesar’s adopted son Octavian, a man whose name will echo through history as Augustus Caesar.

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Unlucky 13: by James Patterson.

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When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident.

The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before. 

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Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

 

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Special Agent Pendergast one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction returns in Preston and Child's exhilarating novel Blue Labyrinth.

 

A long buried family secret has come back to haunt Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast...

 

It begins with murder.

One of Pendergast's most implacable, most feared enemies is found on his doorstep, dead.

Pendergast has no idea who is responsible for the killing, or why the body was brought to his home.

The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect crime, save for an enigmatic clue, a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased.

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The Lost Order by Steve Berry

 

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The Lost Order continues Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone series with another riveting, history based thriller.

The Knights of the Golden Circle, founded on July 4, 1854, was the largest, most dangerous clandestine organization in American history.

It formulated grand plans, to expand the United States, change the constitutional landscape, and forge a Southern empire, enslaving a ‘golden circle’ spanning two continents.

To finance its goals, the Order amassed an amazing trove of stolen gold and silver, which they buried in hidden caches across the United States.

Treasure hunters have searched for decades, but have never found any of the Order’s major hoards.

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Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz

 

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Every city has it's Secrets.

But none as terrible as this one.

His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight of reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death itself.

He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself.

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Sas Sniper The World Of An Elite Australian Marksman
by Rob Maylor, Robert Macklin.

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Here Rob Maylor tells the no holds barred story of his years on the front lines, from his early service with the Royal Marine in Northern Ireland, then from 2003 in the elite Australian SAS.

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An earth saving revolution: a means to resolve our world's problems through effective microorganisms (EM)

by Teruo Higa...

 

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The Missing and the Dead

 

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One mistake can cost you everything….....

 

When you catch a twisted killer there should be a apt reward, right?

What Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae gets instead is a ‘development opportunity’ out in the depths of rural Aberdeen-shire. Welcome to divisional policing, catching dodgy drug dealers, petty shop lifters, vandals and the odd escaped farm animal.

 

Then a little girl’s body washes up just outside the sleepy town of Banff, kicking off a massive manhunt.

The Major Investigation Team is up from Aberdeen, wanting answers, and they don’t care who they trample over to get them.

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A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson

 

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Winner of the prestigious UK Gold Dagger Award in 1999 for the best mystery, this complex literary thriller may be one of the most satisfying suspense novels to come along in some time.

Robert Wilson has written several political thrillers, most of which are set in West Africa, but they are, alas, largely unavailable in the U.S.

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My Wicked, Wicked Ways. The Autobiography of Errol Flynn by Errol Flynn.

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Known to millions as the pre-eminent swashbuckler of the silver screen, Errol Flynn was a complex man who lived a life far more adventurous than any of his films. 

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Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

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Awakenings, which inspired the major motion picture, is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. 
Frozen for decades in a trance like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. 
Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks.

 

In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.

Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations, patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts, who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects, who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities, whose limbs have become alien, who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.

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Zoo Station (John Russell #1) by David Downing

 

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By 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent fifteen years in Berlin, where his German-born son lives.

He writes human interest pieces for British and American papers, avoiding the investigative journalism that could get him deported.

But as war approaches, he faces the prospect of having to leave his son and his longtime girlfriend.

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The Birthday Girl by Stephen Leather

 

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Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was bateling for her life in war torn Yugoslavia.

Now she is his adopted daughter, the perfect all American girl, and the past is another country.

Or so it seems.

 

But Mersiha has been trained to kill.

And when she discovers that Freeman's company is subject to a sinister takeover bid, she decides to help.

Whatever the risks.

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Midnight in Burma: A Golden Triangle thriller by Alex O'Brien

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Realistic and dramatic, close to the dark truths of Burma, Rangoon an isolated and mysterious city, cut off even from its closest Asian neighbors has become home to jaded American lawyer Peter Henderson. 
A refugee from the pressures and failures of his career in the West, Henderson too, is lonely and isolated but prefers it that way. 
That is, until he meets Julie Yao, a beautiful, restless businesswoman who takes the life Henderson has made for himself in Burma by storm.

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Reefer Men: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Drug Ring

by Tony Thompson.

 

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For fifteen years the Ring smuggled vast shipments into the USA and Europe.

In 1988, they decided to carry out one final heist that would ensure they could retire forever.

It did indeed turn out to be their last heist, but not for the reasons they planned.

Their ship was seized, and the key Ring members all scattered all over the world.

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Funny Girl by Nick Hornby

 

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Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a full of life account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingénue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters.

 

Insightful and humorous, Nick Hornby's Funny Girl does what he does best, endears us to a cast of characters who are funny if flawed, and forces us to examine ourselves in the process.

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Mediators guide by Jess Peter Koffman.

 

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A Meditator's Guide is a compilation of talks by Venerable Pramote Pamojjo, one of the most revered Buddhist meditation masters in Thailand.

It includes teachings on the true meaning of mindfulness and how it is practiced, both in formal meditation and our daily lives.

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Erotic Online Diaries by Maxim Jakubowski...

 

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Fury by Salman Rushdie

 

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Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and world famous doll-maker, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family in London without a word of explanation, and flees for New York.

There’s a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves.

He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America’s wealth and power, seeking to “erase” himself. But fury is all around him.

An astonishing work of explosive energy, Fury is by turns a pitiless and pitch black comedy, a love story of mesmerizing force, and a disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature.

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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

by Rajiv Chandrasekaran.

 

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An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq.