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The Secret History by Donna Tartt...
Traded in @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop *-* Book exchange.
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil.

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The Nowhere Man (Orphan X #2) by Gregg Hurwitz...
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He was once called Orphan X. As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from a children's home, raised and trained as part of a secret government initiative buried so deep that virtually no one knows it exists.
But he broke with the programme, choosing instead to vanish off grid and use his formidable skill set to help those unable to protect themselves. One day, though, Evan's luck ran out . . . Ambushed, drugged, and spirited away, Evan wakes up in a locked room with no idea where he is or who has captured him.
As he tries to piece together what's happened, testing his gilded prison and its highly trained guards for weaknesses, he receives a desperate call for help. With time running out, he will need to out-think, out-manoeuvre, and out-fight an opponent the likes of whom he's never encountered to have any chance of escape. He's got to save himself to protect those whose lives depend on him.
Or die trying . .

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The Hunter (Victor the Assassin #1) by Tom Wood.
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Note: The Hunter is the UK title. It is titled 'The Killer' in the US. Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. Forget Jack Bauer. Meet Victor: He's an assassin - a man with the no past and no surname.
But when a job in Paris goes spectacularly wrong, Victor finds himself running for his life across four continents accompanied by a woman too beautiful to trust . . . pursued by enemies too powerful to escape. The hunter has become the hunted .. Victor is a freelancer, a professional, a killer, the best there is.
He’s ice cold, methodical, and deadly. He lives alone. He operates alone.
No one knows his background, or even his name. For him, business is a straight transaction. He’s given a job; he takes out the target; he gets paid. He’s in Paris to perform a standard kill and collect for an anonymous client. The contract is simple, routine, and Victor completes it with trademark efficiency, only to find himself in the middle of an ambush and fighting for his life. Faced with powerful and determined enemies, and caught in the crossfire of an international conspiracy unfolding across four continents, Victor is forced to go on the run across a winter-ravaged Europe.
Pursued by the authorities, hired assassins, and intelligence agencies from both sides of the Atlantic, he discovers that no place is safe for him anymore and there is no one he can trust. But Victor is no easy target, and he’s every bit as ruthless as those hunting him. He will find out who wants him dead and why, one corpse at a time.

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge...
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“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed.
He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific, the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary, into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles.
Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War.
Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division - 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.”
By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic. Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater.
Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill and came to love his fellow man.

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The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth

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The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: a Mafia-like organization called Odessa, a real life fugitive known at the "Butcher of Riga", a young German journalist turned obsessed avenger...and ultimately, of a brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish the worldwide power of SS mass murders and to carry out Hitler's chilling "Final Solution."

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Bookshots by James Patterson and other Authors are high impact short stories - all fast paced and designed for reading in one session.

Look out for these at 60 baht each @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange.

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Shattered by Dick Francis..
 
Find a lot of Dicks and even more Koontz @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange...
 
After his friend is killed in a horse-racing accident, up-and-coming glass artisan Gerard Logan finds himself embroiled in a deadly search for a stolen videotape, a videotape that just might destroy his own life.

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How to Be a Footballer 

by Peter Crouch...

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You become a footballer because you love football and then you are a footballer, and you’re suddenly in the strangest, most baffling world of all.

A world where one team-mate comes to training in a bright red suit with matching top-hat, cane and glasses, without any actual glass in them, and another has so many sports cars they forget they have left a Porsche at the train station.

Even when their surname is incorporated in the registration plate. So walk with me into the dressing-room, to find out which players refuse to touch a football before a game, to discover why a load of millionaires never have any shower-gel, and to hear what Cristiano Ronaldo says when he looks at himself in the mirror. We will go into post-match interviews, make fools of ourselves on social media and try to ensure that we never again pay £250 for a haircut that should have cost a tenner.

We’ll be coached and cajoled by Harry Redknapp, upset Rafa Benitez and be soothed by the sound of an accordion played by Sven-Goran Eriksson’s assistant Tord Grip. There will be some very bad music and some very bad decisions. I am Peter Crouch. This is How To Be A Footballer. Shall we?

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Since We Fell: A Novel by Dennis Lehane..
60 BAHT EACH @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange..
The novel from Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island
“Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations.” —Canterbury Tales Bookshop..
Since We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in.
In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband.
Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel’s marriage.
As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable fears and mind-altering truths.
By turns heart- breaking, suspenseful, romantic, and sophisticated, Since We Fell is a novel of profound psychological insight and tension.
It is Dennis Lehane at his very best.

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Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win - by Luke Harding...
 
This book Asia books price 434baht - no trade in value with them, from us 180 baht plus the 50% trade in when you have finished with it - only @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange. . . . .
 
With the recent indictments of Paul Manafort, Richard Gates, and George Papadopoulos, Russia expert Luke Harding lays out the most in-depth look to date at the Trump campaign’s dealings with Russia.
Beginning with a meeting with Christopher Steele, the man behind the shattering dossier that first brought the allegations to light, Harding probes the histories of key Russian and American players with striking clarity and insight.
In a thrilling, fast-paced narrative, Harding exposes the disquieting details of the “Trump-Russia” story - a saga so huge it involves international espionage, offshore banks, sketchy real estate deals, mobsters, money laundering, disappeared dissidents, computer hacking, and the most shocking election in American history.

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Culloden - Glencoe & The Highland Clearances by John Prebble
All 3 @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange..
This is the story of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of the time as 'Common Men'. There is little in this book about Bonnie Prince Charlie and other principals of the last Jacobite Rising of 1745. Culloden recalls them by name and action, presenting the battle as it was for them, describing their life as fugitives in the glens or as prisoners in the gaols and hulks, their transportation to the Virginias or their deaths on the gallows at Kennington Common.
The book begins in the rain at five o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, 16 April 1746, when the Royal Army marched out of Nairn to fight the clans on Culloden Moor.
It is not a partisan book, its feeling is for the 'Common Men' on both sides - John Grant charging with Clan Chatten and seeing the white gaiters of the British infantry suddenly as the east wind lifted the cannon smoke, and Private Andrew Taylor in a red coat waiting for Clan Chatten to reach him, likening them to 'a troop of hungry wolves'. Culloden reminds us, too, that many of the men who harried the glens as ruthlessly as the Nazis in Occupied Europe were in fact Scots themselves.
It recalls the fact that many men in Prince Charles' army had been forced to join him. It shows that a British foot-soldier's wish for a sup of brandy on a cold morning before battle is as much a reality as a Prince's pretensions to a throne.
The detail for the story told in Culloden has come from regimental Order Books and manuals, from contemporary newspapers and magazines, from the letters and memoirs of soldiers and officers, eye-witness accounts of atrocity and persecution, and the personal stories of the victims themselves. Culloden is the story not of a Prince, but of a people.

 

The Highland Clearances..
In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs.
Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty.
While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation or, evicted from the glens to make way for sheep, were forced to emigrate to foreign lands.

 

Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre..

 

'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe.

 

It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders.

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Gold Coast (John Sutter #1) by Nelson DeMille..
 
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Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America.
Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa, the Mafia don who seizes his piece of the staid and unprepared Gold Coast like a latter-day barbarian chief and draws Sutter and his regally beautiful wife, Susan, into his violent world.
 
Told from Sutter's sardonic and often hilarious point of view, and laced with sexual passion and suspense, The Gold Coast is Nelson DeMille's captivating story of friendship and seduction, love and betrayal.

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A Million Little Pieces: A shocking exploration of addiction by James Frey..
 
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'Easily the most remarkable non-fiction book about drugs and drug taking since Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'
 
James Frey wakes up on a plane, with no memory of the preceding two weeks.
His face is cut and his body is covered with bruises, he has no wallet and no idea of his destination.
He has abused alcohol and every drug he can lay his hands on for a decade - and he is aged only twenty-three.
What happens next is one of the most powerful and extreme stories ever told.
His family takes him to a rehabilitation centre and James Frey starts his perilous journey back to the world of the drug and alcohol-free living.
His lack of self-pity is unflinching and searing.
A Million Little Pieces is a dazzling account of a life destroyed and a life reconstructed.
It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice.

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The Verdict by Nick Stone...
 
Crime fiction @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange..
 
Terry Flynt is a struggling legal clerk, desperately trying to get promoted.
And then he is given the biggest opportunity of his career: to help defend a millionaire accused of murdering a woman in his hotel suite.
 
The only problem is that the accused man, Vernon James, turns out to be not only someone he knows, but someone he loathes.
This case could potentially make Terry's career, but how can he defend a former friend who betrayed him so badly?
 
With the trial date looming, Terry delves deeper into Vernon's life and is forced to confront Secrets from their shared past that could have devastating consequences for them both.
For years he has wanted to witness Vernon's downfall, but with so much at stake, how can Terry be sure that he is guilty?
And what choices must he make to ensure that justice is done?

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The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith...
 
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In Botswana, Precious's assistant detective Grace's new husband Phuti suggests Academy name to Clovis Andersen, visiting author of their constant reference.
Their three puzzles are: mechanic apprentice Fanwell fixes stolen car, board member Ditso fires orphan mother Potokwane, and Phuti's builder is bankrupt, yet builds himself the best.

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Pax Britannica trilogy by Jan Morris..
 
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Reader review;
One of the most inspiring books, or rather three books, from an historical point of view that i have ever read. Incredibly informative and intelligent and, though I wouldn't often say this about a book on history, I found it extraordinarily 'un-put-downable'.
Very fair and articulately argued investigation of the strengths and weaknesses of the British Empire, beginning with the accession of the girl-Queen, Victoria in 1837 and finishing with the death of Churchill.
I found myself being amazed, encouraged and enraged by the actions of my forebears not quite in equal measure but all of those reactions certainly featured.
I found, by the end of the three books, that I was not quite so arrogantly high-handed in the dismissal of the Empire as perhaps I may sometimes have been.
Well worth reading from whichever perspective of the imperial march you gaze.

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Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy by Albert Ellis...
 
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Psychology Today recently named Dr. Albert Ellis one of the three most influential psychologists of the 20th century. In this revised classic, Dr. Ellis reveals the Secrets of his revolutionary Rational-Emotive Therapy, a technique that can help people overcome psychological and emotional disturbances in surprisingly few therapeutic sessions.

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The True Story Behind 'The King and I' by Anna Harriette Leonowens..
 
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Anna Leonowens - memoir of her six year as a governess in the Royal Palace of Bangkok was the inspiration for the beloved Broadway musical The king and I, as well as two award-winning films.
First published in 1870, Leonowens' memoir is the true story of a proper English governess who is hired by the King of Siam to tutor his many children.
A delightful portrait of an unlikely friendship between two headstrong personalities, it is also a revealing peak at two very different cultures.

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If truth be told: and other tales of Thailand by Peter Murrell..
 
Gay Tales of Thailand @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange..

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The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks...
 
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Stripped of both magical and political power, the people he once ruled told he's dead, and now imprisoned in his own magical dungeon, former Emperor Gavin Guile has no prospect of escape.
But the world faces a calamity greater than the Seven Satrapies has ever seen - and only he can save it.
 
As the armies of the White King defeat the Chromeria and old gods are born anew, the fate of worlds will come down to one question: Who is the Lightbringer?

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4 minutes ago, Coffee215pm said:

It's annoying how often an advertisement for a bookstore shows up at the top of my forum searches and the new post section...  IMO you're doing a disservice to the board with this thread...

I am sure you can just stroll on by, I get a lot of feedback favouring the book info so I guess I cant please all the people all the time but as I do myself if I don't want to read stuff I just scroll on by?

PS this is my Business owners thread.

 

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Love this thread. Will drop in when I arrive on the 31st to pick up some pool side readers. 

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The Falcon of Siam (The Falcon of Siam #1) by Axel Aylwen...
 
Traded back in today @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop - Book exchange..
 
The Falcon of Siam: An action-adventure thriller that weaves historical fiction, epic storytelling and high drama into an unforgettable journey where a young Greek stowaway on a British East India Company ship finds his destiny in opulent 17th-century Thailand.

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