Canterbury Tales Guesthouse

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Thoughts & More Thoughts from the Pattaya Orphanage - Patrick McGeown. 

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Russia: Experiment With A People: by Robert Service

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Nirun - soi Arunothai, not far from Big C Extra, Pattaya Klang, Studio condo for sale, 700,000 baht, 5th floor.

Edited September 6, 2023 by Daveo

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Dune #1
Dune
by Frank Herbert

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...

When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.

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The Hours: A Novel.

by Michael Cunningham.

The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home.

By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.

The Hours is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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The Last Don.

by Mario Puzo.

A masterful saga of the last great American Mafia family and its powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas, from the author of The Godfather

The Last Don is Domenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless old man who is determined to see his heirs established in legitimate society but whose vision is threatened when Secrets from the family's past spark a vicious war between two blood cousins.

The Last Don is a mesmerizing tale that takes us inside the equally corrupt worlds of the mob, the movie industry, and the casinos where beautiful actresses and ruthless hitmen are ruled by lust and violence, where sleazy producers and greedy studio heads are drunk on power, where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, and where one man controls them all.

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Tears in Thailand
by Graeme Bourke.

After suffering a series of traumatic emotional issues I was virtually shanghaied by my stepdaughter who booked me on flight to Thailand with two of my friends.
Several trips later and into my second Thai girlfriend, I was introduced to her friend, a petite bar girl on the infamous Bangla Road in Patong Beach.
This is a true story of love, life and cultural education.

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Titans of War - September 19, 2023
by Wilbur Smith.

A brand-new Ancient Egyptian epic from the master of adventure, Wilbur Smith.

Global author of River God and The New Kingdom, Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series.

A RUTHLESS ENEMY. A CIVILISATION IN RUINS. A QUEST FOR SALVATION.

For over fifty years Egypt has known nothing but war and devastation at the hands of the Hyksos, a bloodthirsty barbarian people from the distant east who continue to advance, crushing armies in their wake. Times are desperate, but throughout the conflict, a brave resistance fights on under the great Taita, a slave who has risen far beyond his ranks.

Piay, entrusted into Taita's care by his parents at the age of just five, has been trained to become a great spy, unmatched by any other. Determined to prove his worth, he embarks on a dangerous mission to the north - to Mycenae and through the heart of Hyksos land and across the great sea - to find allies to help defend Egypt.

As the situation becomes increasingly precarious, and the fate of the kingdom is hanging in the balance, can Piay succeed in his quest or will this mean the end of the glory that is Egypt once and for all?

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Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins.

by Garry Kasparov.

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game.

That moment was more than a century in the making, and in this breakthrough book, Kasparov reveals his astonishing side of the story for the first time.

He describes how it felt to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent with the whole world watching, and recounts the history of machine intelligence through the microcosm of chess, considered by generations of scientific pioneers to be a key to unlocking the Secrets of human and machine cognition.

Kasparov uses his unrivaled experience to look into the future of intelligent machines and sees it bright with possibility. As many critics decry artificial intelligence as a menace, particularly to human jobs, Kasparov shows how humanity can rise to new heights with the help of our most extraordinary creations, rather than fear them. Deep Thinking is a tightly argued case for technological progress, from the man who stood at its precipice with his own career at stake.

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Forbidden American English.

by Richard A. Spears.

Containing approximately 1400 words and phrases that should not be used by educated speakers of English, this dictionary of offensive and often inflammatory vocabulary is designed to inform rather than to offend or entertain.

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Follow Paultain across 30 years worth of Southeast Asian hedonism, as told from the local pub.

You'll be taken from Manila to Pattaya and points in between, on a roller coaster ride of chasing tail, getting pissed, and the odd cameo of famous faces and (in)famous places.

There is no better way to learn the ways of the mongering world than from this firsthand account.

The Paultain Experience is a must read for the uninitiated and the veteran whore monger alike.

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The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World.

by Mark Hertsgaard.

On September 11, 2001, Mark Hertsgaard was completing a trip around the world, gathering perceptions about America from people in fifteen countries.

Whether sophisticated business leaders, starry-eyed teenagers, or Islamic fundamentalists, his subjects were both admiring and uneasy about the United States, enchanted yet bewildered, appalled yet envious.

Exploring such paradoxes, Hertsgaard exposes truths that force natives and outsiders alike to see America with fresh eyes. In a world growing more American by the day, The Eagle's Shadow is a major statement about and to the place everyone discusses but few understand.

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Four Hours in My Lai.

by Michael Bilton & Kevin Sim.

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Coming soon...having a bookshop, I thought I may as well write a book, the book actually much more than something as flippant as that, triggered by something that happened 5 years ago here in Pattaya Thailand. As well as suffering life in a wheelchair for the past 6 years with a muscle wasting illness. Somewhat of a life story from a Country boy from Canterbury, Kent. Living my dream as a gamekeeper, then that years later falling apart and taking up voluntary work with the Samaritans, which led to running the listener scheme in Standford hill and Elmley prison on the isle of Sheppey. Things from there... well you couldnt make that sh*t up...

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJH4423G?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860&fbclid=IwAR3nS6b9CnCSWBi7AaOH0C6fjiLO0JU1bXLcR7htVReS5H10-57zmlJWJvY

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available now at Amazon - Paperback and ebook.

https://www.amazon.com/Gamekeeper-David-Collier/dp/B0CJH4423G/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1695554762&sr=1-1

Edited September 28, 2023 by Daveo

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