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Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country by William Finnegan...

A fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs; jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L.A. suburb.

William Finnegan spent years embedded with families in four communities across the country to become an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in Cold New World. What emerges from these beautifully rendered portraits is a prescient and compassionate book that never loses sight of its subjects’ humanity.

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The Perfect Aquarium by Jeremy Gay..

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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann.....

In the 1920's, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma.

After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target - Her relatives were shot and poisoned - and it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.

In this last remnant of the Wild West - where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the “Phantom Terror,” roamed - many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.

As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case.

In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau.

The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, the book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister Secrets and reversals.

But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward American Indians that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly compelling, but also emotionally devastating.

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The Sirius Connection Murry Hope + some other books in recently

This extraordinary book explores the significance of the binary star Sirius, the brightest of the stars visible from Earth, in the early growth and culture of dynastic Egypt.

The author examines the question of whether the importance the ancient Egyptians attached to Sirius concerned simply its seasonal conjunction with the flooding of the Nile or expressed a belief that it played a sophisticated and profound part in spiritual life. Also considered are the origins of the ancient Egyptian pantheon and the means by which arcane knowledge was handed down in Egyptian society.

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Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments

by Dominick Dunne ..

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For more than two decades, Vanity Fair has published Dominick Dunne's brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time.

The pursuit of justice has become his passion - a passion that began during the trial of the man who murdered Dunne's daughter and who was sentenced to six and a half years and released in less than three.

Dunne's account of that trial and its shocking result became the first of his many classic essays on justice.

Dominick Dunne's essays do much more than simply describe; his investigations have shed new light on those crimes and their perpetrators - and demonstrated how it is possible for some to skirt, even flout, the law.

His persistence and personal involvement in the matter of Martha Moxley's murder was an important catalyst in bringing a dormant case back to life.

Here in one volume are Dominick Dunne's mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed.

Whether writing of Vicki Morgan's hideous death; Claus von Bülow's romp through two trials; the media frenzy of Los Angeles in the age of O.J. Simpson; the death by fire of multibillionaire banker Edmund Safra in Monaco; or the ominous silence surrounding the death of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the indictment - decades later - of Michael Skakel, Dominick Dunne tells it honestly and tells it from his unique perspective.

His search for the truth is relentless.

His courage and his storytelling skills shine from every page.

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Absolute Mayhem: Confessions of an Aussie Porn Star

 

Monica Mayhem

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Agent Running in the Field.

John le Carré.

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.

Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all.

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Gringo Nightmare: A Young American Framed for Murder in Nicaragua

Eric Volz.....and other books in recently

"In the spirit of "Midnight Express" and "Not Without My Daughter" comes the harrowing true story of an American held in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder he didn't commit."

Eric Volz was in his late twenties in 2005 when he moved from California to Nicaragua - he and a friend cofounded a bilingual magazine, "El Puente, " and it proved more successful than they ever expected.

Then Volz met Doris Jimenez, an incomparable beauty from a small Nicaraguan beach town, and they began a passionate and meaningful relationship.

Though the relationship ended amicably less than a year later and Volz moved his business to the capital city of Managua, a close bond between the two endured.

Nothing prepared him for the phone call he received on November 21, 2006, when he learned that Doris had been found dead -murdered - in her seaside clothing boutique. He rushed from Managua to be with her friends and family, and before he knew it, he found himself accused of her murder, arrested, and imprisoned.

Decried in the press and vilified by his onetime friends, Volz suffered horrific conditions, illness, deadly inmates, an angry lynch mob, sadistic guards, and the merciless treatment of government officials.

It was only through his dogged persistence, the tireless support of his friends and family, and the assistance of a former intelligence operative that Eric was released, in December 2007, after more than a year in prison.

A story that made national and international headlines, this is the first and only book to tell Eric's absorbing, moving account in his own words.

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The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York

Virginia McConnell..

At the turn of the 20th century, many affluent Brooklyn teens and young adults were bucking the constraints of their immigrant parents and behaving badly: drinking, having sex, staying out all night, stealing, scamming local businesses - and even more serious activities.

The culmination for twenty-year-old Walter Brooks was being murdered in a seedy Manhattan hotel in 1902.

The ensuing court case was front-page news throughout the country. The hearings featured testimony about these young people’s secret lives, which shocked parents and inspired much editorial commentary in the newspapers.

From start to finish, the case was viewed as a cautionary tale for parents, for boys who could be led astray, and for girls who risked their reputations to be popular.

Set against the colorful backdrop of Coney Island, roadhouses, forbidden dance halls, and vaudeville, The Belle of Bedford Avenue follows the young woman at the heart of the case from her trial for the murder of Walter Brooks to her adulthood.

The crime itself, interestingly, occurred in the location of Ground Zero and today’s September 11 memorial.

The trial was conducted by William Travers Jerome, who went on to become a legendary New York City prosecutor.

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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

Clifford Stoll..

Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U. S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security.

But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping" (Smithsonian).

Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system.

The hacker's code name was "Hunter" - a mysterious invader who managed to break into U.S. computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information.

Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases - a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA...and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.

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Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration

by Leonard David & Buzz Aldrin..

Any time an Apollo-era astronaut steps forward with ideas for our future in space, it's time to stop what whatever we're doing and pay attention. Buzz Aldrin, one of the first moonwalkers, has no shortage of these ideas.

And in Mission to Mars he treats us to how, when, and why we should travel there." - Neil deGrasse Tyson Legendary "space statesman" Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it.

As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing of Apollo 11- and as an aerospace engineer who designed an orbital rendezvous technique critical to future planetary landings - Aldrin has a vision, and in this book he plots out the path he proposes, taking humans to Mars by 2035.

Foreword by Andrew Aldrin Chapter 1: The View from Air Force One Chapter 2: Time for Decision-making Chapter 3: Your Space: Building the Business Case Chapter 4: Dreams of My Moon Chapter 5: Voyage to Armageddon Chapter 6: The March to Mars Chapter 7: Homesteading the Red Planet Chapter 8: The Clarion Call..

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Rooms available above the bookshop..

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We have 'nine' rooms above our bookshop - book exchange - available, depending on bookings - cheap and cheerful rooms - to large rooms with separate bedroom and lounge - central Pattaya - on soi Chaiyapoon, ( the happening soi ) close to LK Metro * & soi Buakhao - twee town etc, 10 mins walk to the beach, good monthly deals - great nightlife location - discreet back door or via the bookshop entry or exit!

email; [email protected]

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This budget but spacious room depending on availability - see on Airbnb - best booking site - we are on soi Chiayapoon - Pattaya...

note the shower room toilet not en-suite but a few yards along the corridor but is private to the room..

 

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Ancient Angkor by Michael Freeman & Claude Jacques..and...

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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin..

and some other books in recently..

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Stephen Leather was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series. For much of 2011 his self-published eBooks - including The Bestseller, The Basement, Once Bitten and Dreamer's Cat - dominated the UK eBook bestseller lists and sold more than half a million copies. The Basement topped the Kindle charts in the UK and the US, and in total he has sold more than two million eBooks. His bestselling book The Chinaman was filmed as The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan and grossing more than $100 million.

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Hi ya Dave

If I wanted to check what rooms you may have to rent, is it better to look through Air BnB or email you or PM you here?