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Buddha’s Tooth Trilogy
Enjoy the calamitous adventures, as three Englishmen men embark on a voyage of discovery in Thailand,.where they become embrolled in a deadly chase to recover a stolen holy relic [Buddha’s Tooth]. Follow their antics as they continue with their escapades into Cambodia and encounter more adversaries as they attempt to recover the relic which has…
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Sex For Sale: Memoirs of a Bangkok Ladyboy
Synopsis: ‘Sex For Sale’ the memoirs of a Bangkok ladyboy prostitute is shocking but perfectly true. Nice, the star character of ‘Living With Ladyboys’ tells his side of the story and there are quite a few surprises. ‘Sex For Sale’ vividly describes the typical daily life of a male prostitute in Thailand’s capitol city Bangkok,…
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THE ORCHID FILE
Set on a sweeping canvas stretching from Australia’s Sunshine Coast to the bustling streets of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and on to the hills of Thailand’s Golden Triangle, this action thriller tells a gripping story of mystery and intrigue, deception and romance. Steven Carlson, Australian Secret Service agent, is assigned to investigate a Thai orchid…
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Bangkok Blondes
Very few books on Thailand are written by women. ‘Bangkok Blondes’ is one of the first. It reflects the lives of creative women who live and write in Thailand – The Bangkok Women’s Writers Group. Bangkok Blondes shows you everything in the tourist package and more…
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Bangkok Haunts
At the start of Burdett’s superb third mystery-thriller to feature Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo), Jitpleecheep shows old friend Kimberley Jones, an American FBI agent, a vicious snuff film he’s received depicting the murder of an ex-lover of his named Damrong. Jitpleecheep and Jones maintain their complex platonic relationship…
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Sustainable Democracy
A public lecture by Anand Panyarachun, the Former Prime Minister of Thailand at Brussels on June 24, 2008. Anand Panyarachun is a leading senior statesman in Asia. He served as Prime Minister of Thailand in 1991 and 1992. Anand was educated in Thailand and Dulwich College, London and entered Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where…
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Chicken Sex on Bamrung’s Day Off
The voices are those of Bangkok based freelance journalists and their invited guests. Each Saturday morning, over coffee, the members of Chairs gather to share the latest gossip, scandals, myths, dangers, exploits, and loves that bind together their small community. Sam Kohl is a narrator of the main stories, and Sam reveals, with perfect timing…
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Bucky Stone #5: Bad News in Bangkok
The mission trip had seemed like a dream come true for Bucky, but it was suddenly becoming a nightmare. He was 9,000 miles from home, hopelessly lost on the streets of Bangkok. Panic screamed at his senses, making it difficult to think. He couldn’t speak the language. He had no money. And he was running…
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Meditation in Modern Buddhism
In contemporary Thai Buddhism, the burgeoning popularity of vipassana meditation is dramatically impacting the lives of those most closely involved with its practice: monks and mae chee (lay nuns) living in monastic communities. For them, meditation becomes a central focus of life and a way to transform the self. This ethnographic account of a thriving…
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Here a Monk, There a Monk
With six weeks to spare, return tickets to Thailand, a change of clothing and accomodation booked for the first night (or so they thought!), two intrepid, middle-aged, would-be backpackers boarded the plane… About the Author I was born in London, in 1954, and spent my childhood on a farm in Kent. Married to Graham, we…
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A Killing Smile
In 1957 Richard Mason’s The World of Suzie Wong shocked the world with an exotic tale set in Hong Kong, then in 1973 Paul Theroux’s Saint Jack followed with a powerful story set in Singapore, and in 1991 Christopher G. Moore’s A Killing Smile has registered a tour de force with a haunting drama set…
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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.
