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The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium #4) by David Lagercrantz - Stieg Larsson (Creator)

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She is the girl with the dragon tattoo - a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit.

He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution. Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States.

The source has been in contact with a young female super hacker - a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well.

The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Salander for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda.

The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals, and governments around the world, and someone is prepared to kill to protect it . . . The duo who captivated millions of readers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest join forces again in this adrenaline-charged, uniquely of-the-moment thriller.

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Blake by Peter Ackroyd...

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Poet, painter, engraver and visionary, Blake's was a radical spirit fired by genius.

Yet his life has remained an enigma, in this magnificent biography Peter Ackroyd discloses the true nature of William Blake's life and art.

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De Valera, Volume 1: Rise, 1882-1932 by David McCullagh...

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From the host of RTÉ’s Primetime and author of The Reluctant Taoiseach, the widely acclaimed biography of John A. Costello, Rise 1882-1932 is the first volume of a major two-part reassessment of the man who shaped modern Ireland. Eamon de Valera is the most single most consequential Irish figure of the twentieth century. He was a leader of the Easter Rising, the figurehead of the anti-treaty rebels during the dark days of the Civil War and later, as the founder of Fianna Fáil and President of Ireland, the pivotal figure in the birth of the Republic. While de Valera the statesman, the rebel, the visionary, has passed over into a sort of myth, de Valera the man remains an elusive, almost opaque presence. Precious little is known of his background, his motivations - the roots, in short, of his ferocious devotion to a very particular brand of Irish nationalism.

Here, in the first part of a major two-volume reassessment, historian and broadcaster David McCullagh considers the man behind the colossal achievements. McCullagh sketches a ground-breaking portrait of de Valera, his times and his complex, ever-shifting legacy. The concluding volume of this work, Rule 1932-1975, will be published in autumn 2018.

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Dark Star by Alan Furst....

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Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937.

In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris.

As deputy director of a Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising when he recruits an agent in Berlin who can supply crucial information.

Dark Star captures not only the intrigue and danger of clandestine life but the day-to-day reality of what Soviet operatives call special work.

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The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø....

 

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The Redbreast is a fabulous introduction to Nesbø’s tough-as-nails series protagonist, Oslo police detective Harry Hole.

A brilliant and epic novel, breathtaking in its scope and design - winner of The Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel and selected as the best Norwegian crime novel ever written by members of Norway’s book clubs.

The Redbreast is a chilling tale of murder and betrayal that ranges from the battlefields of World War Two to the streets of modern-day Oslo.

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Thai Ramayana Hardcover – 1967

by M. L. Manich Jumsai King Rama I Of Siam.

 

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This story is also depicted in Frescos on the walls of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace in Bangkok...

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Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors and Other True Cases by Ann Rule. . . .

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Author and Queen of true crime Ann Rule’s sixteenth volume in her True Crime Files series, Deadly Neighbors delves into the unsolved case of a billionaire’s son mysteriously falling off a balcony to his death and more. In July 2011, billionaire Jonah Shacknai’s Coronado, California, mansion was the setting for two horrifying deaths only days apart - his young son’s plunge from a balcony and his girlfriend’s ghastly hanging.

What really happened? Baffling questions remain unanswered, as these cases were closed far too soon for hundreds of people; Rule looks at them now through the eyes of a relentless crime reporter.

The second probe began in Utah when Susan Powell vanished in a 2009 blizzard. Her controlling husband, Josh, proved capable of a blind rage that was heartbreakingly fatal to his innocent small sons almost three years later in a tragedy that shocked America as the details unfolded.

If anyone had detected the depth of depravity within Josh Powell, perhaps the family that loved and trusted him would have been saved. In these and seven other riveting cases, Ann Rule exposes the twisted truth behind the façades of Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors. These doomed relationships are the focus of Queen of true crime Ann Rule’s sixteenth all-new Crime Files collection. In these shattering inside views of both headlined and little-known homicides, Rule speaks for vulnerable victims who relied on the wrong people. She begins with two startling novella-length investigations.

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Candle In The Wind by Peter Essex ....

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Reven Forrester is a British Chief Inspector of Police whose special task is to break the vicious Triad gangs who tyrannise Hong Kong. Communist rule will come soon, but still the refugees pour across the border from China.

When eight-year-old refugee Kit Ling comes into his care, raped and helpless, Forrester sees in her the embodiment of all that is lovely and good.

He wishes to protect her, but he has made a deadly enemy in Eddie Woo, and Kit Ling becomes the tragic victim of their feud. Fired by anger and disgust, Reven Forrester plans a relentless and illegal campaign in pursuit of the rapist of Kit Ling.

But Forrester's vendetta is hindered by an ever deepening love for Woo's beautiful sister Shen, who knows nothing of her brother's darker side.

Ah Fong, Forrester's superstitious old amah, believes Shen and her brother to be two forms of a single spirit, set to void the life-essence from Only Son, Reven.

To save him she must destroy the very woman he loves..

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The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership by Joachim Fest. . . . .

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In these searing profiles the author dissects the lives of fifteen infamous Nazis, including Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, Ernst Röhm, Hans Frank, Rudolph Höss, Albert Speer, and Hitler himself.

He also analyzes the archetypal roles of the officer corps, intellectuals, and women.

This work provides fresh perspectives into how dysfunctional psyches, personal ambitions, and ruthless rivalries impacted the creation and evolution of Hitler's Third Reich.

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How to Establish a Successful Business in Thailand by Philip Wylie....

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This is the perfect book for anyone thinking of starting or buying a business in Thailand.

This book will save readers lots of headaches, time and money.

This guide is full of information on how to run a business in Thailand including practical tips by successful foreign business people from different trades, such as guest house, bar trade, e-commerce, export and restaurant.

This is an essential guide for all foreigners thinking of doing business - or improving their business - in Thailand.

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Rumrunners: The Smugglers from St. Pierre and Miquelon and the Burin Peninsula from Prohibition to Present Day by J.P. Andrieux

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Rumrunners is a history of the smuggling trade between the French Island colonies of St. Pierre and Miquelon and the United States, the Bahamas, and Newfoundland.

The distribution of contraband alcohol has always been an element of the culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. However, with the advent of the American Prohibition era (1919–1933), the French Islands’ illegal practice took on worldwide proportions.

This book details the rise and fall of the bootlegging industry in Atlantic waters, the efforts made by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to curb these criminal activities, and the evolution of laws from the Prohibition era to present day that have brought the trade to a virtual standstill.

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Shadow Kill by Chris Ryan...

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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.

Rebels are threatening to take over the country and its diamond mines - and to massacre all foreigners.

Porter and Bald find themselves fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Regiment psychopath who is already embedded in the country.

But it soon becomes clear that the Firm has lied to them about the true nature of the mission.

What seems at first to be a battle to control Sierra Leone diamond mines will turn out to about a much greater evil - and with a trail that leads back to both Westminster and the Kremlin.

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All the Light We Cannot See: by Anthony Doerr.

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A stunningly beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works.

When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea.

With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined.

Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance.

Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

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War God: Return of the Plumed Serpent by Graham Hancock....

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The conquistador Hernán Cortés is hell-bent on conquering Mexico for the Aztecs’ gold.

Having destroyed the Maya at Potonchan, Cortés now marches on Tenochtitlan, the Golden City of the Aztecs, wrapped in the aura of a returning, vengeful god. His small force of just five hundred men will have to defeat the psychotic emperor Moctezuma and the armies of hundreds of thousands he commands. Cortés expects that the warlike Tlascalans, hereditary enemies of the Aztecs, will join him, but instead finds himself locked in a deadly struggle and a fight for his life.

Even as Cortés risks all in the bloody campaign against the Tlascalans, he plays mind games with Moctezuma, aiming to dismantle the Aztec emperor’s confidence and defeat him psychologically before ever having to face him on the battlefield. The supernatural and compelling rich history combine in this tale of love, brutal courage and triumphs. War God: Return of the Plumed Serpent is a story of staggering magnificence.

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Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard...

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Legendary author Elmore Leonard returns with three of his favorite characters: Jack Foley from Out of Sight, Cundo Rey from LaBrava, and Dawn Navarro from Riding the Rap. Fresh out of prison, Foley hooks up with Dawn Navarro, the common-law wife of Foley's extremely wealthy friend, Cundo Rey, in a plan to relieve Cundo of his fortune. What's "trust" among friends when money is involved?

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A Plague of Secrets by John Lescroart ...

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Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt return in a compelling and timely legal thriller filled with blackmail, political intrigue, and multiple murder.

The first victim is Dylan Vogler, a charming ex-convict who manages the Bay Beans West coffee shop in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.

When his body is found, inspectors discover that his knapsack is filled with high-grade marijuana. It soon becomes clear that San Francisco's A-list flocked to Bay Beans West not only for their caffeine fix.

But how much did Maya Townshend-the beautiful socialite niece of the city's mayor, and the absentee owner of the shop-know about what was going on inside her business? And how intimate had she really been with Dylan, her old college friend?

As another of Maya's acquaintances falls victim to murder, and as the names of the dead men's celebrity, political, and even law- enforcement customers come to light, tabloid-fueled controversy takes the investigation into the realms of conspiracy and cover-up.

Prosecutors close in on Maya, who has a deep secret of her own-a secret she needs to protect at all costs during her very public trial, where not only her future but the entire political landscape of San Francisco hangs in the balance, hostage to an explosive secret that Dismas Hardy is privilege-bound to protect.

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Death By Sheer Torture (Perry Trethowan #1) by Robert Barnard. . . .

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Inspector Perry Trethowan reads in the obituaries that his estranged father has died under peculiar circumstances: he was fooling around with a form of self-torture called strappado.

At the request of his supervisor, Peter returns to his ancestral home to determine if any of his cousins or siblings might have helped the old man to his bizarre end.

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What Doesn't Kill You...: My Life in Motor Racing by Johnny Herbert. . . . .

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Johnny Herbert was one of the most brilliant natural talents to emerge in motor racing, but for all his bravery and prowess, he's lucky to be alive.

After becoming British Junior Karting Champion (losing part of a finger in the process), then the Formula 3 title for Eddie Jordan in 1987, he was all set for a glittering debut season in Formula 1 when he was caught in a mass pile-up at Brands Hatch.

That horrific crash threatened to end his career, but Herbert made a miraculous recovery, was a hugely popular winner of the British Grand Prix in 1995, and enjoyed 25 years of competitive motorsport, becoming the only British driver to win the 24 hours of Le Mans followed by a Grand Prix. And all that despite driving every pace in extreme pain; in fact, as the first and only disabled driver in F1 history. While chronicling an extraordinary life behind the wheel with cheer and his trademark cheeky humour, What Doesn't Kill You... contains a wealth of stories from the hard end of Formula 1: on Johnny's team-mate Michael Schumacher, legends like Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, his fellow British adversaries Damon Hill, Martin Brundle and Nigel Mansell, and of course all those gruesome accidents.

With an encyclopedic knowledge and love of the sport, Johnny Herbert's memoir, much like the man himself, delivers brilliance from the back of the grid.

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The American Boy by Andrew Taylor. . . .

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Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant.

Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues.

Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear.

Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies - a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it.

And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious - what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?

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The Mark of the Assassin (Michael Osbourne #1) by Daniel Silva

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When a terrorist bomb blows Flight 002 out of the sky off the East coast, there is only one chilling clue.

A body found near the crash site bears the deadly calling card of an elusive, lethal assassin, three bullets to the face. Michael Osbourne of the CIA knows the markings. Personally.

Propelled by an obsession that threatens to consume his career, his family, his life, Osbourne is now hot on the assassin’s trail.

But in a world of shadows and lies, intrigue and cover-up, the man with a mission puts himself and his loved ones in the sights of the most ruthless, diabolical assassin on earth…

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The Killing Ground by Jack Higgins

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The master of suspense returns, with a chilling novel of modern terrorism and revenge. For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it begins with a routine passport check - but the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. The man he stops at Heathrow Airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as Rashid has just found out to his pain.

His thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped by Rashid's own father and taken to Iraq to be married to a man known as the Hammer of God, one of the Middle East's most feared terrorists.

Dillon has had his own run-ins with that clan, and when the distraught man begs Dillon for help, he sees a chance to settle some old scores-but he has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash, nor of the implacable enemies he is about to gain.

Before his journey is done, many men will die-and Dillon may be one of them.

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The Big Five for Life by John Strelecky.....

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This book should inspire you.

It may change your life in ways you can’t know now, but you’ll understand completely once you’re done reading it.

It will also forever enhance the way you look at your role as a leader.

That includes the way you lead at home, at work, in your community...and especially the way you lead you, at every given moment we are all called to be leaders.

If for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.After all, someone has to inspire you to get out of bed each day. And that someone, is you.It is told from the perspective of Thomas Derale, a man viewed by the people around him as the greatest leader in the world.

At fifty-five years of age he learns he is dying - yet even in that - the act of dying - he inspires everyone around him to live.

The principles in this book, such as the Big Five for Life and Museum Day Morning, have positively impacted millions of readers around the world.

Each in their own unique way as they have applied them to their life, their situation. Get your copy, begin to read, and let them inspire you.

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What's your name, I'm fine thank you: Mugged by reality in Bangkok and beyond by Roger Beaumont....

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Review by Jason Schoonover

I’m part of the Bangkok writing scene, having written in the 1980s the Bantam international bestseller Thai Gold, which, to my surprise, spawned a huge and whole genre of adventure-thrillers based in the bars, backstreets and brothels of Bangkok (and the region) with its colorful characters, from ex-spooks and Air America pilots to adventurers of all kinds.

I say this because I want to be up front about knowing Roger, and how much I admire his writing.

There’s few columnists (and I was once one myself) I have ever read anywhere, anytime period as consistently brilliant, original and thought provoking as Roger.

There’s few writers I know of his genius - yes, genius - who have only published one, single work and this is it.

He should have an international readership. I’m not the only established writer who has urged him innumerable time to sit down and write a bloody book.

I’m still doing so….

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The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher.

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This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power.

She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers.