Month: October 2012
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The White Elephant
A white elephant is something no longer wanted or of value (or a gift that is a curse); it can also refer to an Asian elephant. These meanings work in tandem in this illustrated chapter book, inspired by an event in ancient Siam and told with tender realism. Young orphan Run Run toils with Walking…
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God of Darkness
God of Darkness set in Bangkok follows a group of expats who work for a telecommunications company. As the economic Crisis mounts, the pressures to find and keep a job increases. The lead character, Hurley, is from Seattle and lives inside a Thai family compound. His girlfriend is pressing him for marriage. At the same…
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Little Angels
The real-life stories of the novice monks in Little Angels reflect the lives of many youths in rural Thailand who are trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty, broken homes, illiteracy and drug abuse. When all else fails, Buddhism becomes their last resort: providing them with physical shelter and spiritual refuge. It heals their childhood…
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Unbroken Connection
Against all odds, the couple that swept you away in TAKEN BY STORM is back. Michael is in Thailand diving his dream. Leesie is at BYU living hers. And they just can’t leave each other alone. Their romance rekindles, deeper than before. They grow desperate to see one another again. To hold one another again.…
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Lali’s Passage
Loosely based on true events, Lali’s Passage is a novel which follows Lali, a beautiful young Burmese lady, as she is ‘discovered’ by Lee who arranges with her ‘mama sang’ to take her to the States to embark on a modeling career. They get to San Francisco and hook up with Jeremiah who does a…
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Sightseeing
Starred Review. The Thailand of Westerners’ dreams shares space with a Thailand plagued by social and economic inequality in this auspicious debut collection of seven plaintive and luminous stories. In the title tale—an exquisite meditation on human dependency—a son and his ailing mother must accept the dismal reality of her encroaching blindness and what it…
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Upriver Journal: Travels Along the Mekong
In 2009, I spent a few months traveling in Laos and Thailand by bicycle and boat. This is the collected blog entries I made along the way, originally published on http://goplaces.wordpress.com.
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Thai Women in the Global Labor Force
This text is an ethnographic examination of young women migrants in rural and urban Thailand. The author focuses on the hundreds of thousands of young women who fill the factories and sweatshops of the Bangkok metropolis, following them as they travel from the village of Baan Naa Sakae.
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The Nation
Welcome to The Nation’s new designed to break new grounds for users of iPhone interested in and care about what is happening in Thailand. This is one of the world’s first few first-source paid news websites. Why? Because we believe that you should receive 1) the best news and analytical content for knowledge and general…
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Sleepless in Bangkok
In its initial release in Thailand, ‘Sleepless in Bangkok’ engendered a tremendous amount of controversy. It was unofficially banned for review in the press on the basis that it was ‘uncensored’. Sex in Thailand – as the world knows – is available in any and every conceivable format, but apparently such goings on cannot be…
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Bangkok A-Zon the cheap
An A-Z look at Bangkok, based on a six month jaunt, with helpful information on getting the right accommodation, travel tips, eating and drinking haunts, plus much more, and doing it all on a budget. I have also covered my experiences on visa runs, taking in a world cup, experiencing a military coup, and how…
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The Hunted
The Adventure of a Lifetime Becomes an Unimaginable Nightmare. A thrilling new novel from the Every Man series! John Majors and three friends–Mike, Hollis, and Dave–go to Thailand for the eco-adventure of a lifetime rafting on the Pai River. But they find more than they bargained for. From the fleshpot temptations of Bangkok to the…
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Learn Thai with Me
Two English teachers arrive in Saudi Arabia from the US in 1980–one a hunchback, the other “gay as your Uncle Harry.” As their friendship develops and they connect with the local population, they find themselves in the middle of a political situation that has the US channeling funds and arms through Saudi Arabia to an…
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The Queen of Patpong
Life in Bangkok is good for writer Poke Rafferty and his unlikely family. Poke’s new book is selling well, and he’s happily in love with wife Rose, once a Patpong bar girl. Daughter Miaow, just a few years removed from living on the streets, is enrolled in a good private school and becoming a feisty…
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Bangkok Today – 2011
Bangkok is the capital, largest urban area and primary city of Thailand. Known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (กรุงเทพมหานคร or กรุงเทพฯ) Krung Thep, meaning “city of angels” for short, it was a small trading post at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River during the Ayutthaya Kingdom. It came to the forefront of…
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Even Thai Girls Cry
Tippawan Bongkot is a young Thai woman on the run. Life as she knew it, ended the night she caught her fiancé with his lover. Her world collapsed the day she lost her job. Desperate to find work, Tippawan escapes to the resort city of Pattaya hoping that things will change and her bad luck…