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John Pomfret’s “The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom” ...

 

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A remarkable history of the two centuries old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day

 

From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined.

For more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations.

While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns, rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment were set in motion hundreds of years earlier.

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Spymaster: A Thriller by Brad Thor...***Coming Soon****

 

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Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats.

Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset.

In the balance hang the ingredients for all out war.

 

With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career avoiding.

But, as with everything else he does, he intends to rewrite the rules, all of them.

 

In Spymaster, Scot Harvath is more cunning, more dangerous, and deadlier than ever before.

 

If you have never read a Brad Thor novel, this is the place to start!

 

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Labyrinth (Languedoc #1) by Kate Mosse

 

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In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a Cave and makes a startling discovery, two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth.

Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father.

The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail.

Now, as crusading armies gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take a tremendous sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe.

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Shadow Kill by Chris Ryan...

 

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Original Strikeback hero John Porter is here united with SAS antihero John Bald on a mission to Africa.

Held up by rebel forces in a brutal siege, John Porter is tested to the limit in the African Jungle.

 

Strikeback hero John Porter is sent on a mission with Regimental scallywag John Bald.

Where Porter plays it by the book, Bald will always want to break the rules.

 

They are sent to Sierra Leone to extract Ronald Soames, a former CO of the Regiment and now right hand man to the President.

 

But when Porter and Bald arrive the Englishman has disappeared, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.

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Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips

 

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For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it.

His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself.

Widely acknowledging Phillips as one of the nation's most perceptive thinkers, reviewers have called him a latter-day Nostradamus and our "modern Thomas Paine." Now, in the first major book of its kind since the 1930's, he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he calls "the Second Gilded Age" at the turn of the twenty first century.

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SS-GB by Len Deighton

 

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1941, and England invaded and defeated by the Germans...

 

The King is a hostage in the tower, the Queen and Princesses have fled to Australia, Churchill has been executed by a firing squad, Englishmen are being deported to work in German factories and the dreaded SS is in charge of Scotland Yard. London is in shock.

The very look of daily life is a walking nightmare of German uniforms, artifacts, regulations.

There are collaborators.

There are profiteers.

But there are others working in hope, in secret, and desperate danger, against the invader.

And still others are living strangely ambiguous lives, none more so than Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer ("Archer of the yard" as the press like to call him), trying to maintain a peculiarly, almost sacredly, British institution under a Nazi chief.

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Don’t Send Flowers by Martin Solares.....

 

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A twisty, darkly captivating novel about a police detective hired to investigate the disappearance of a rich businessman’s daughter several years after rampant corruption forced him to retire and made him a target of everyone still on the force in cartel controlled, northern Mexico.....

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A Pocket History of the 1916 Rising by Tony Potter.....

 

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The Easter Rising was arguably the most important event in Irish history.

It was an armed insurrection that occurred mainly in Dublin during Easter Week, 1916, mounted by Irish republicans intent on ending British rule in Ireland and establishing an independent Irish Republic.

While not immediately successful, its consequences changed the course of Irish history forever.

This book explains what happened in the years before and after the Rising, as well as providing an exciting day by day account of the events themselves, and biographies of the leading figures.

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George: A Memory of George Michael by Sean Smith

 

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George is the story of two extraordinary lives, the private man and the public legend.

 

Georgios Panayiotou was just eighteen when he decided to adopt the stage name of George Michael.

Sometimes his two worlds would collide with shattering consequences.

 

Biographer Sean Smith has gone back to the neighbourhoods of North London to trace the astonishing journey of a sensitive but determined boy who grew up to be one of the biggest British pop stars of all time.

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A Sea of Troubles by Donna Leon...

 

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The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the close knit community of the island, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia.

When the boss' secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where she has relatives, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders, concerns for Elettra's safety, and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her.....

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The Late Show by Michael Connelly.....

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Detective Renée Ballard works 'The Late Show', the notorious graveyard shift at the LAPD.

It's thankless work for a once promising detective, keeping strange hours in a twilight world of crime.

Some nights are worse than others and tonight is the worst yet.

Two shocking cases, hours apart: a brutal assault, and a multiple murder with no suspects.

Ballard knows it is always darkest before dawn, but what she doesn't know, yet, is how deep her investigation will take her into the dark heart of her city, the police department and her own past...

The Late Show will keep you up all night: it's time to meet Detective Renée Ballard.

[Daveo]

The Hidden Man by Charles Cummings...

 

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From the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012 for Best Thriller of the Year comes a gripping and suspenseful spy novel. Perfect for fans of John le Carré, Charles Cumming is ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ 

Mark and Benjamin Keen have not seen their father, Christopher, for more than twenty years.

 

Hoping for a reconciliation, Christopher reappears, but he has only just begun to shed light on his life in the secret service when he is murdered in cold blood by an unidentified assassin.

 

Was his death connected to his MI6 past?

Did Christopher uncover a dangerous conspiracy involving his elder son?

And what were his links to Moscow, Afghanistan and the Russian mafia in London?

 

To discover the truth and avenge their father’s death the brothers are drawn into the legacy of his life as a spy.

 

And inheritance can be deadly

Edited July 24, 2018 by Daveo

[Daveo]

So many books; so little time...

[Daveo]

The Invasion Year by Dewey Lambdin.

 

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For a fellow like Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, who despises the French worse than the Devil hates Holy Water, it's hellish hard to gain a reputation for saving them, not once but twice, when the French refugees from Haiti surrender to England rather than the vengeful ex-slave armies in November of 1803.

 

After that, it could be "all claret and cruising" in the Caribbean, but for a homebound sugar convoy, one so frustrating as to make even the happy go lucky Alan Lewrie tear his hair out, kick furniture, and curse like . . . well, like a sailor.

[semi-retired member]

10 hours ago, Daveo said:

So many books; so little time...

You just need to learn to speed-read, Dave !

I'm going through a lot of books, up here in rainy wet Chiang Mai, waiting to finish-off some painting once it's dry enough !

Fat Chance of that, anytime soon !

[Daveo]

19 minutes ago, semi-retired member said:

You just need to learn to speed-read, Dave !

I'm going through a lot of books, up here in rainy wet Chiang Mai, waiting to finish-off some painting once it's dry enough !

Fat Chance of that, anytime soon !

Keeps the mind occupied and a great pastime...Painting in the rain sounds fun....take care Ricardo..

by the way the old fella (Jeronimo ) one of the soi's Characters passed away last week.

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2 hours ago, Daveo said:

by the way the old fella (Jeronimo ) one of the soi's Characters passed away last week.

Sorry to hear that, he joined us for a cuppa or even breakfast, many a time. 

R.I.P.

 

[Daveo]

Harvest by Tess Gerritsen

 

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Medical resident Dr. Abby Matteo is elated when the elite cardiac transplant team at Boston's Bayside Hospital taps her as a potential recruit.

But faced with a tormenting life and death decision, Abby helps direct a crash victim's harvested heart to a dying teenager, instead of the wealthy older woman who was supposed to receive it.

The repercussions leave Abby shaken and plagued with self-doubt.

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Just in today....

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How to Help your Child become a Prodigy...How to Educate your Child in the new Millenium....2 books in one..380 pages on how to help your kids......

 

Includes; Instant Guides to types of Intelligence - Early signs of a clever Kid - The stages in your Baby's Development - Indications of a High IQ - Identifying the gifted School Child - Should I have my Child tested by an Educational Psychologist? - How to Nurture a Prodigy.

 

200 baht includes shipping anywhere in Thailand..

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More books in daily....