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Night School Hardcover – November 7, 2016

by Lee Child.

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It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in the army.

In the morning they give him a medal and in the afternoon they send him back to school.

That night he’s off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind.

 

Two other men are in the classroom, an FBI agent and a CIA analyst, each is a first rate operator, each is fresh off a big win - and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there.

 

Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received an unexpected visitor a Saudi courier, seeking safe haven while waiting to rendezvous with persons unknown.

A CIA asset, undercover inside the cell, has overheard the courier whisper a chilling message: “The American wants a hundred million dollars.”

 

For what?

And who from?

Reacher and his two new friends are told to find the American. Reacher recruits the best soldier he has ever worked with: Sergeant Frances Neagley.

Their mission heats up in more ways than one, while always keeping their eyes on the prize:

If they don’t get their man, the world will suffer an epic act of terrorism.

 

From Langley to Hamburg, Jalalabad to Kiev, Night School moves like a bullet through a treacherous landscape of double crosses, faked identities and new and terrible enemies, as Reacher maneuvers inside the game and outside the law.

 

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Did you watch the latest Jack Reacher Movie? what did you think? Did you notice Lee Child was actually in the Movie? 

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Thai Lottery... and Other Stories from Pattaya, Thailand

by Matt Carrell.

 

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Sarai wasn’t like the other go-go dancers.

She knew that a few thousand pounds a year would be enough to take care of her whole family, but Sarai wasn’t dancing just to send money home every month.

She had discovered that selling tickets for the illegal Thai Lottery was more dangerous than she could ever have imagined and now she owed a great deal of money.

Thai Lottery is the story of the lengths a girl will go to when a debt becomes a matter of life and death; and of the westerners who have bought their own tickets to a more personal lottery.

They come to Thailand looking for something that's missing from their lives.

Some may be lucky but for a few the result will be utter despair. Thai Lottery and twelve other short stories are contained in this intriguing debut work.

An insightful must read, whether you're a seasoned traveler to Thailand or embarking on your first trip to the Land of Smiles.

 

Matt Carrell Books have had great reviews from Canterbury Tales Bookshop Patrons and well worth reading.

Some great insights into Pattaya and Thai girls.

 

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The Hedge Fund Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It's Too Good to Be True by Simon A. Lack.

 

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The dismal truth about hedge funds and how investors can get a greater share of the profits

Shocking but true: if all the money that's ever been invested in hedge funds had been in treasury bills, the results would have been twice as good.

 

Although hedge fund managers have earned some great fortunes, investors as a group have done quite poorly, particularly in recent years.

Plagued by high fees, complex legal structures, poor disclosure, and return chasing, investors confront surprisingly meager results. Drawing on an insider's view of industry growth during the 1990's, a time when hedge fund investors did well in part because there were relatively few of them.

The Hedge Fund Mirage chronicles the early days of hedge fund investing before institutions got into the game and goes on to describe the seeding business, a specialized area in which investors provide venture capital type funding to promising but undiscovered hedge funds.

Today's investors need to do better, and this book highlights the many subtle and not so subtle ways that the returns and risks are biased in favor of the hedge fund manager, and how investors and allocators can redress the imbalance.

 

The surprising frequency of fraud, highlighted with several examples that the author was able to avoid through solid due diligence, industry contacts, and some luck

Why new and emerging hedge fund managers are where generally better returns are to be found, because most capital invested is steered towards apparently safer but less profitable large, established funds rather than smaller managers that evoke the more profitable 1990's

Hedge fund investors have had it hard in recent years, but The Hedge Fund Mirage is here to change that, by turning the tables on conventional wisdom and putting the hedge fund investor back on top.

 

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The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell.

 

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The Argentine pampas and the Chaco territory of Paraguay provide the setting for The Drunken Forest. With Durrell for interpreter, an orange armadillo, or a horned toad, or a crab-eating raccoon, or a baby giant anteater suddenly discovers the ability not merely to set you laughing but actually to endear itself to you.

 

Contents

 

Explanation

1. Oven-birds and burrowing owls

2. Eggbert and the Terrible Twins

Interlude

3. Fields of flying flowers

4. The orange armadillos

5. Bevy of bichos

6. Fawns, frogs, and fer-de-lance

7. Terrible toads and a bushel of birds

8. The four-eyed bird and the anaconda

9. Sarah Huggersack

10. Rattlesnakes and revolution

Interlude

11. The Rhea Hunt

 

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Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied with String, by Michael Crawford.

 

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By turns hilarious, revelatory and desperately sad, here is the autobiography of the man whose TV and stage appearances such as Hello Dolly!,

Some Mothers Do `Ave 'Em and The Phantom of the Opera have made him a national institution.

The story of the true identity of his father, which is behind this book's title, leads into an evocative depiction of his tender childhood years. Whilst all the men were away at war, Crawford was surrounded by loving women.

For him this was an idyllic wartime childhood, but the return of the men in peacetime signalled darker times to come.

Crawford's infectious enjoyment of stage work illumines his account of his early struggles to make a name for himself in the theatre business and his early failures with girls are lifted by his abiding sense of the absurd.

Both in his private life and his work as a successful actor and TV comedian, he begins a lifetime's habit of pratfalls that he would later turn to good use in the character of Frank Spencer in smash hit 1970's TV comedy show Some Mothers Do`Ave 'Em. His talent for mimicry makes the great personalities in his life come alive on the page; people he has worked with, including Benjamin Britten who taught him to sing, John Lennon with whom he shared a villa and Oliver Reed, Michael Winner, Barbra Streisand, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.

 

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Two Brothers by Ben Elton.

 

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Berlin 1920

 

Two babies are born.

Two brothers.

United and indivisible, sharing everything.

Twins in all but blood.

 

As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love are tested to the very limits of endurance.

And the brothers are faced with an unimaginable choice....Which one of them will survive?

 

Ben Elton's most personal novel to date,Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour.

 

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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

 

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Think and grow rich is the most important financial book ever written.

Napoleon Hill researched more than forty millionaires to find out what made them the men that they were.

In this book he imparts that knowledge to you.

Once you've read this book you will understand what gives certain people an edge over everyone else.

By following the advice laid out clearly in this book you will be the one with an edge.

It's time to stop wondering what it's like to be rich and start knowing. This book will change your life?

 

 

Edited November 30, 2016 by Daveo

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A Prayer before Dawn, A Nightmare in Thailand by Billy Moore.

 

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A Prayer Before Dawn:

A Nightmare in Thailand is the true story of one man's fight for survival inside Klong Prem Prison, the notorious; Bangkok Hilton. Billy Moore travelled to Thailand to escape a life of drug addiction and alcoholism, but relapsed after trying ya ba, a highly addictive form of methamphetamine.

Moore's life descended into chaos, drug dealing and violence in Thailand until he was imprisoned in Klong Prem, a place where life has no value.

This is no ordinary prison memoir; it's the story of one man's struggle to survive.

In the True crime section at Canterbury Tales Bookshop Pattaya.

Edited November 30, 2016 by Daveo

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You'll never walk alone: A true story about the 'Bangkok Hilton'

by Debbie Singh.

 

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2nd updated edition.

A true story about the ‘Bangkok Hilton’ Debbie Singh’s life fell apart when she received a letter from her brother out of the blue.

He had been sentenced to 10 years in Klong Prem prison in Bangkok for attempting to cash false travellers cheques.

The severity of the sentence shocked Singh, who set of to Bangkok to support him and later to locate his Thai born son.

Appalled by the horrendous circumstances she found him in, she started to campaign to have him transferred to an Australian jail, something never achieved before.

This campaign changed her life and that of her family forever. With great honesty and heart,

You’ll Never Walk Alone tells the story of Singh’s great determination and strength in the face of adversity, the roller coaster ride of emotions she had to face in the six year struggle to help her brother, her ongoing charity work and the heartbreak she felt as her life was torn apart by a bitter twist in the tail. In 2014 with the encouragement of friends and people who have read her book Debbie decided to update her sixteen year journey and love for Thailand and its people.

 

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How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930–1975; by Ben Kiernan.

 

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How did Pol Pot, a tyrant comparable to Hitler and Stalin in his brutality and contempt for human life, rise to power?

This authoritative book explores what happened in Cambodia from 1930 to 1975, tracing the origins and trajectory of the Cambodian Communist movement and setting the ascension of Pol Pot's genocidal regime in the context of the conflict between colonialism and nationalism.

A new preface bring this edition up to date.

 

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Harry, The Ride of My Life: The Noel Harris Story, 
by Wally O'Hearn.

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One of the oldest jockeys still riding. 
Noel aka Handbrake Harry is the Keith Richards of the racing world. Talks of drugs, gambling and race fixing. 
His father is also a well known figure in the racing world. Bursting to prominence in the 1980's, Noel may 'smoke like a chimney, drink like a fish and eat like a sparrow' but he rides like a true champion. And he has outlasted many of his competitors, still leading them home in his late fifties after having notched up over 2000 wins. Along the way he has gained the loyalty of owners and trainers, the respect of fellow jockeys and the admiration of race goers. 
He has also had a few beers, a bit of fun and lots of laughs, enjoying life and loving racing. 
Colourful including green hair on occasions and sometimes outlandish, Noel has stood out for his singular riding style, his optimism, commitment, sense of humour and straight-shooting sincerity.
Racing is a game of wins and losses, highs and lows, and in this book, Noel takes us on the rollercoaster, from growing up in a racing family and apprenticeship days in a wild and scary Singapore, the rides and races of the NZ and Australian racing calendars and the trials, tribulations and triumphs of staying at the top. Noel gives us the goods on the horses, owners, trainers, jockeys, races and officials, friends and family, the emotions, experiences, anecdotes and accolades of a long and successful career.

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Snow by Orhan Pamuk.

 

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Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel.

An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars.

His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their headscarves.

But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced.

Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist.

A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre.

And finding god may be the prelude to losing everything else. Touching, slyly comic and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow is of immense relevance to our present moment.

 

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The Price of Politics by Bob Woodward.

 

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Based on 18 months of reporting, Woodward's 17th book is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile Republican and Democratic leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal government's fiscal condition over three and one half years.

Drawn from memos, contemporaneous meeting notes, emails and in depth interviews with the central players, THE PRICE OF POLITICS addresses the key issue of the presidential and congressional campaigns.

The condition of the American economy and how and why we got there, providing verbatim, day by day, even hour by hour accounts, the book shows what really happened, what drove the debates, negotiations and struggles that define, and will continue to define, the American future.

 

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Sitting at the Cafe/Bookshop today I couldn't help wondering how long its going to take for her arse to eat them shorts?

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Shorts for sale, offers; just as soon as I have finished sucking the stains out of them.

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New York by Edward Rutherfurd.

 

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Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America’s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, native born and immigrant, a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city’s fortunes. From this intimate perspective we see New York’s humble beginnings as a tiny Indian fishing village, the arrival of Dutch and British merchants, the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the convulsions of the Civil War, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near demise of New York in the 1970's and its roaring rebirth in the 1990's and the attack on the World Trade Center. A stirring mix of battle, romance, family struggles, and personal triumphs, New York:

The Novel gloriously captures the search for freedom and opportunity at the heart of our nation’s history.

 

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Kingdom of Make-believe: A Novel of Thailand by Dean Barrett.

 

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A New York publisher who once served in Thailand during the Vietnam War receives a plea for help from his late brother's Thai widow.

When he returns to Thailand after 20 years he finds that the nostalgic portrait he carried of Thailand Past bears little resemblance to reality, and he begins to uncover deception, danger and death.

Scenes in the novel range from Manhattan's Greenwich Village to a typhoon ravaged Hong Kong to Thailand's notorious nightlife and warlord betrayals inside the Golden Triangle.

A gripping mystery and exotic thriller, it is also the story of a man coming to terms with reality and himself.

Dean Barrett's books have always been some of the best reviewed books on Thailand for more than 11 years since we opened Canterbury Tales Bookshop in Pattaya.

 

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The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow.

 

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel comes an explosive novel of the drug trade that takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge.

 

The prequel to The Cartel, and set about 10 years earlier, The Power of the Dog introduces a brilliant cast of characters.

Art Keller is an obsessive DEA agent.

The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire.

Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker.

Father Parada is a powerful and incorruptible Catholic priest.

Callan is an Irish kid from Hell’s kitchen who grows up to be a merciless hit man.

And they are all trapped in the world of the Mexican drug Federación.

From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you’ve never seen it.

 

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Jim Thompson:The Unsolved Mystery by William Warren.

 

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Jim Thompson was already a legend for the James H.W. Thompson Silk Company that he founded, when he disappeared in the Cameron highlands in Malaysia in 1967.

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Digitally remastered 17 disc box set (16 CDs + DVD) containing all 14 original Beatles albums

฿2,500************SOLD***************

Available now @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop, Original - Not copies.

 

Digitally remastered 17 disc box set (16 CDs + DVD) containing all 14 original Beatles albums released between 1963 and 1970 plus the two CD Past Masters collection of non-album tracks and a bonus DVD containing all the mini documentaries that can be found as enhanced tracks on each of the individual CD releases.

The documentaries contain archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere.

The albums have been remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London utilizing state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings.

Within the CDs' the booklet includes detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes.

Edited December 5, 2016 by Daveo

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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

by Slavomir Rawicz.

 

In today @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Cafe, Pattaya.

 

Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer.

On 19th November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to 25 years in the Gulags.

 

After a three month journey to Siberia in the depths of winter he escaped with six companions, realising that to stay in the camp meant almost certain death.

In June 1941 they crossed the trans Siberian railway and headed south, climbing into Tibet and freedom nine months later in March 1942 after travelling on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world, including the Gobi Desert.

 

First published in 1956, this is one of the world's greatest true stories of adventure, survival and escape, has been the inspiration for the film The Way Back,

 

 

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By Stuart MacBride, A Song for the Dying.

 

In today @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Cafe, Pattaya.

 

A heart stopping crime thriller and the fourth consecutive No. 1 Bestseller from the author of the Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead.

He's back.

Eight years ago, 'The Inside Man' murdered four women and left three more in critical condition, all of them with their stomachs slit open and a plastic doll stitched inside.

And then the killer just ...disappeared.

Ash Henderson was a Detective Inspector on the initial investigation, but a lot can change in eight years.

His family has been destroyed, his career is in tatters, and one of Oldcastle's most vicious criminals is making sure he spends the rest of his life in prison.

Now a nurse has turned up dead on a patch of waste ground, a plastic doll buried beneath her skin, and it looks as if Ash might finally get a shot at redemption.

At earning his freedom. At revenge.

 

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The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay.

 

In today @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Cafe, Pattaya.

 

The Persimmon Tree is unashamedly a love story.

I have always wanted to write one but until now have been afraid to do so.

The reason is simple enough: most men in my experience have very little idea of what really goes on in a woman's heart or head.

Now, at the age of 74, I just might know enough and have sufficient courage to write on the subject, the way of a man with a woman, of a woman with a man.

 

My story is set in the Pacific, although not in the paradise we have always been led to believe exists there.

It is 1942 in Java and the Japanese are invading the islands like a swarm of locusts.

 

I have tried to capture the essence of love, how in a world gone mad with malice and hate, it has the ability to forgive and to heal.

As it is in this story, love is always hard earned but, in the end, a most wonderful and necessary emotion.

Without love, life for most of us would lack true meaning.

Over 700 pages in the great book.