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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs...All three books in now.

 

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When he was young, Jacob revered his grandfather, whose adventures with monsters in other countries enthralled him, especially as they were much more exciting than his own ordinary life in Florida.

As he grew, however, Jacob sided with the rest of his family, calling his grandfather a paranoid, crazy old man and resenting him for telling lies.

But when a gruesome tragedy devastates the family, Jacob takes a chance on his grandfather’s unbelievable stories to search for the truth and journeys to an island off the coast of Wales.

Only what remains of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, where his grandfather grew up, can help Jacob uncover his grandfather’s story and help him begin his own.

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Stephen Clarke has a witty way with the French and all in his popular books.

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On 7/9/2018 at 12:14, davidge said:

Thanks

Hi Mate, after a search we dont have but I will keep in mind and if/when one comes in I will let you know.

Best regards Dave 

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3 minutes ago, Daveo said:

Hi Mate, after a search we dont have but I will keep in mind and if/when one comes in I will let you know.

Best regards Dave 

No problem. Thanks.

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Light (Gone) by Michael Grant.

Full set in now. ( Fantasy)

 

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It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared.

Gone.

 

In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil.

 

And now, the gaiaphage has been reborn as Diana's malicious mutant daughter, Gaia.

Gaia is endlessly hungry for destruction.

She yearns to conquer her nemesis, Little Pete, and then bend the entire world to her warped will.

As long-standing enemies become allies, Secrets are revealed and unexpected sacrifices are made.

Will their attempts to save themselves and one another matter in the end, or will the kids of Perdido Beach perish in this final power struggle?

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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux

 

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In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia.

In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change.

The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and Vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through.

He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot.

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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

by Tom Holland...

 

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In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war.

Tom Holland’s enthralling account tells the story of Caesar’s generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire.

From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary figures in history brought thrillingly to life.

Combining verve and freshness with scrupulous scholarship, Rubicon is not only an engrossing history of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a great civilization in all its extremes of self sacrifice and rivalry, decadence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world shaking ambition.

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Stephen King - Dark Tower books in now @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse - Cafe - Pattaya...

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Four: A Divergent Collection...by Veronica Roth..

 

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Fans of the Divergent series by author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories told from Tobias Eaton’s point of view.

 

DIVERGENT, INSURGENT and ALLEGIANT were major blockbuster movies in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

 

Readers first encountered Tobias Eaton as "Four" in Divergent.

His voice is an integral part of Allegiant.

Readers will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent Collection.

When read together, these long narrative pieces illuminate the defining moments in Tobias Eaton's life.

 

The first three pieces in this volume – "The Transfer," "The Initiate," and "The Son" – follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, and the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions.

 

The fourth story, "The Traitor," runs parallel with the events of Divergent, giving readers a glimpse into the decisions of loyalty – and love – that Tobias makes in the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov....

 

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The novel that first established Nabokov's reputation with a large audience tour-de-force of comic satire on sex and the American ways of life.

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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth

 

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Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media.

In this timely book, he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the Secrets of their success, and, most intriguing of all, what they think of one another.

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We have a good selection of Bill Bryson books on stock @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange - Guesthouse - Cafe - Pattaya - Thailand.

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The Life and Death of Lenin by Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

 

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Who was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin?

 

He was a man with vast potential for good and evil.

 

He was one of the twentieth century’s political geniuses.

 

He was the revolutionary leader who envisioned backward, feudal Russia as the world’s first socialist country.

 

He bent Karl Marx’s theories into a weapon for conquering state power, and built the Bolshevik Party into an efficient political machine capable of leading the workers and seizing power.

 

He held the Russian Revolution together through a bloody civil war, and yet he lived to see the betrayal of his ideals by the rise of Stalin.

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The story of Guns and Roses; Mick Wall,

Phil Collins, Not Dead Yet,

Steve Jones, Lonely Boy,

Bram Connolly, The Fighting Season..

A light that never goes out; The enduring saga of the Smiths.

Paul Simon, The Life

 

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Condo for rent;

7,000 baht per month plus water and electric via the meters which you can check yourself.

Includes A/C, fan, Large flat screen TV, King bed, Balcony, Microwave, Large fridge, kettle, electronic safe etc

Ideal for the independent traveler, cleaning - Laundry is your responsibility - If you're looking for a long term rental, discount for 6 months and 12 months. Good location, 10 mins from the beach, local public transport, key card security and 24 hour security staff on site as well as CCTV. Lots of on site amenities, 2 pools etc, Your own Internet available for 700 baht per month from local supplier. we can offer a room maid to clean - Laundry at little extra cost.

 

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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century

by Katie Hickman

 

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During the course of the nineteenth century, a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence, and wealth.

In doing so they took control of their lives and those of other people and made the world do their will.

 

Extremely accomplished, well educated, and unusually literate, courtesans exerted an incredible influence as leaders of society.

They were not received at court, but inhabited their own parallel world, the demimonde, complete with its own hierarchies, etiquette, and protocol.

They were Queens of fashion, linguists, musicians, accomplished at political intrigue, and, of course, possessors of great erotic gifts.

Even to be seen in public with one of the great courtesans was a much envied achievement.

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Body Politic & The Bone Yard Omnibus Edition by Paul Johnston....

 

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**BODY POLITIC**

An independent city dedicated to tourists attending the year-round Festival, where television is banned and crime is virtually non existent, Edinburgh in 2020 has its drawbacks for blues haunted private investigator Quintilian Dalrymple.

When a guardswoman is found brutally murdered, it looks like the 'Ears, Nose and Throat Man' has returned.

Quint is employed to investigate a conspiracy that reaches into a dark heart of corruption and threatens to dismember the body politic.

 

**THE BONE YARD**

Hogmanay 2021.

The night of the year when the guards are less vigilant.

The perfect time for murder...

And this is just the first.

Quint Dalrymple and his driver Davie are ordered by the Council of City Guardians to solve a series of murders in which cassette tapes are planted inside the victims.

Tapes which leave musical clues to the killer's identity.

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The Lightless Sky - An Afghan Refugee Boy's Journey of Escape to A New Life in Britain

by Gulwali Passarlay & Nadene Ghouri...

 

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To risk my life had to mean something.

Otherwise what was it all for?

Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age of twelve, after his father was killed in a gun battle with the US Army.

Smuggled into Iran, Gulwali began a twelvemonth odyssey across Europe, spending time in prisons, suffering hunger, making a terrifying journey across the Mediterranean in a tiny boat, and enduring a desolate month in the camp at Calais. Somehow he survived, and made it to Britain, no longer an innocent child but still a young boy alone.

In Britain he was fostered, sent to a good school, won a place at a top university, and was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in 2012.

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Camino Island by John Grisham....

 

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A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library.

Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.

 

Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida.

He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books.

Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts.