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Thailand Fever (English and Thai Edition) 
by Chris Pirazzi (Author),‎ Vitida Vasant

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So you have met the perfect Thai woman? 
You're dizzy with joy as her exotic world swirls around you, you have heard so many horror stories, but your heart tells you that she's for real because she is different. 
You want to understand her mysterious ways, and you wish she could understand yours.
Now, there's help. 
Thailand Fever is an astonishing, one of a kind, Thai / English bilingual exposé of the cultural Secrets that are the key to a smooth Thai /Western relationship.

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Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.

 

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Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth.

Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty.

Then this golden age ends and then the age of Mankind begins....

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Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

by Jonas Jonasson,

 

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A madcap new novel from author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

 

Hitman Anders, recently out of prison, is doing small jobs for the big gangsters.

Then his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets a female Protestant vicar (who also happens to be an atheist), and a homeless receptionist at a former brothel which is now a one-star hotel.

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The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike

 

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More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick.

The three divorcées, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, have left town, remarried, and become widows.

They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old acquaintance.

Why not, Sukie and Jane ask Alexandra, go back to Eastwick for the summer?

The old Rhode Island seaside town, where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne, is still magical for them.

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Behind The White Ball by Jimmy White (Signed)

 

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Nearly but not quite, this is the story of Jimmy White..

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The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

 

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When and how did the universe begin?

Why are we here?

Why is there something rather than nothing?

What is the nature of reality?

Why are the laws of nature so finely tuned as to allow for the existence of beings like ourselves?

And, finally, is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion, or does science offer another explanation?

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The Hand of God: The Life of Diego Maradona by Jimmy Burns...

 

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The subject of this book is one of the world’s most controversial and flamboyant (cheat) sportsmen, arguably the greatest footballer and (cheat) certainly the most widely-know (cheat) footballer of the modern age. .........................did I mention a cheat?

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Enzo Ferrari: A Life by Richard Williams.

 

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For tens of millions of people around the world, a single name evokes the world of speed, Enzo Ferrari.

Today's Formula One would be unthinkable without the presence of the Ferrari cars on the grid.

Win or lose, Ferrari attract more fans than all the other teams combined and the cars unique appeal, their mystique, their myth, has its origins in the story of one man with a dictator's will and the cunning of a Machiavelli.

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The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly

 

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It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years.

 

They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed. It will amaze the world.

 

Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed.

 

A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see its fabulous creatures for the first time.

 

Among them is Dr. Cassandra Jane ‘CJ’ Cameron, a writer for National Geographic and an expert on reptiles.

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The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf

by Mark Frost .

 

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From the author of the critically acclaimed The Greatest Game Ever Played comes The Grand Slam, a riveting, in depth look at the life and times of golf icon Bobby Jones. In the wake of the stock market crash and the dawn of the Great Depression, a ray of light emerged from the world of sports in the summer of 1930.

Bobby Jones, an amateur golfer who had already won nine of the seventeen major championships he had entered during the last seven years, mounted his final campaign against the record books.

In four months, he conquered the British Amateur Championship, the British Open, the United States Open, and finally the United States Amateur Championship, an achievement so extraordinary that writers dubbed it the Grand Slam.

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Killing Rain by Barry Eisler

 

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Now Rain has a new employer, the Mossad, which wants him to fix a “problem” in Manila with the aide of his new partner, Dox, whose good-ol’-boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself.

He also has a new hope, by using his talents in the service of something good, he might atone for all the lives he has taken. But when Rain’s conscience causes him to botch an assignment, he finds that he’s the Mossad’s next target.…

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The Gates of Rome (Emperor #1) by Conn Iggulden

 

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Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend.

Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history.

In a true masterpiece of historical fiction, Iggulden takes us on a breathtaking journey through ancient Rome, sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething passions.

What emerges is both a grand romantic tale of coming of age in the Roman Empire and a vibrant portrait of the early years of a man who would become the most powerful ruler on earth: Julius Caesar.

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The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell,

 

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January 2006.

In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred.

The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.

 

Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked.

Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has also been murdered.

She then discovers the nineteenth century diary of an Andrén ancestor, a gang master on the American transcontinental railway, that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers.........

 

Tyrant

by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

 

Sicily 412 BC.

The infinite duel between a man and a superpower begins.

The man is Dionysius, who has just made himself Tyrant of Syracuse.

The superpower Carthage, mercantile megalopolis and mistress of the seas.

 

Over the next eight years, Dionysius' brutal military conquests will strike down countless enemies and many friends to make Syracuse the most powerful Greek city west of mainland Greece.

He builds the largest army of antiquity and invents horrific war machines to use against the Carthaginians, who he will fight in five wars.

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Nutshell by Ian McEwan

 

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John.

She's still in the marital home, a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse, but not with John.

Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan.

But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine month old resident of Trudy's womb.

 

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True Colours by Stephen Leather

 

When a set of Russian oligarchs are assassinated in London, the Russian expat community become anxious.

One man appeals to the British government for protection and MI5 assigns Spider Shepherd to the case.

But he soon discovers that the killings are not political, they are personal, and the assassin is much nearer than anyone could conceive.

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Tom Clancy's True Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney

 

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A US Navy Commander is attacked while having dinner with his wife by an unidentified Russian man.

 

A CIA operative travelling on a Canadian passport is intercepted and interrogated at Tehran Airport.

 

A team of FBI officers are arrested by Indonesian police for travelling under fake passports in Jakarta.

 

These apparently unrelated incidents point to a compromise in US government security, and Jack Ryan and his team must find out where it is coming from.

From Maryland to Macedonia, they frantically battle shadowy forces who are looking to drag the US president into a ground war with ISIS.

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Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo

 

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Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove, its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies.

The novel brings to life 1970's Guyana, a world at a cultural and political crossroads and perfectly captures a child's keen observations, sense of wonder, and the growing complexity of consciousness that marks the passage from innocence to experience.

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The Clowns of God by Morris West

 

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What would happen if members of the Roman Curia discovered that the Pope was about to publicly state that he had received a private revelation that the world was about to end, an apocalypse coming at any moment?

Is he a madman, as his cardinals suspect, a mystic, or a fanatic grasping for an unholy power?

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Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of the Second World War - A Secret History, by Peter Padfield

 

 

When Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess set off for Britain on a peace mission in May 1941, he launched one of the great mysteries of the Second World War.

Had he really acted alone, without Hitler’s knowledge?

Who were the British he had come to see?

Was British intelligence involved?

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Cut Dead by Mark Sennen.

 

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DI Charlotte Savage is back, chasing a killer who was last at large ten years ago, a killer they presumed dead …

Now he’s back and more dangerous than ever.

 

When three headless bodies are found mutilated in a pit, it’s a particularly challenging case for DI Savage and her team.

The victims bear the hallmarks of a killer who butchered girls to their death; a killer who was never caught.

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Hyena Road: A Novel by Paul Gross

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Based on the new feature film starring Paul Gross, Rossif Sutherland and Allan Hawco

Reminiscent of American Sniper and the Academy Award–winning The Hurt Locker, Hyena Road plunges deep to the heart of the Afghanistan war zone. 
Three men stand at the intersection of modern warfare, a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems. Thrown together are Pete, a veteran ISAF intelligence officer, Ryan, a Canadian sniper, and The Ghost, a legendary mujahedeen warrior who has mysterious reappeared.

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