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“james eckardt”

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  • Running with the Sharks

    by James Eckardt ...
    Running with the Sharks is a novel of stark human conflict set in the lawless isolation of an uninhabited island off Thailand's Andaman coast.Tony DeLupo, alias "Loopy da Loop", is a man with a past. On an around-the-world orgy of spearfishing — "I enjoy killing things. And then eating them." — he retreats to the coral world of Koh Adang in the Andaman Sea, but, instead of finding the solitude he ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bangkok People

    by James Eckardt ...
    From boxers, business tycoons, bargirls and body-snatchers to street vendors, slum-dwellers, socialites and singers, Bangkok People takes the reader into the daily lives of city denizens, both Thai and expat, and from the filthy rich to the just plain filthy. Penned by one of Thailand's best-known expat writers, this fascinating, funny, sometimes serious, and occasionally odd collection plunges ... Read more

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  • Boat People

    by James Eckardt ...
    Boat People is a panoramic novel of greed and compassion, violence and family love, desperation and hope. It is September 1981, the high tide of boat people flight from Vietnam. From the Mekong Delta port of Rach Gia, one boat, crammed with fishermen, farmers, political refugees, and urban hustlers, runs a 300-mile gauntlet of pirates and storms for the safe haven of Songkhla Refugee Camp. Here ... Read more

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  • Alabama Days

    by James Eckardt ...
    Alabama Days by James Eckardt, cover design by Colin CotterillA few weeks after the 1965 Selma March, four teenage Catholic seminarians from Long Island arrive in Birmingham, Alabama, to work for Father Edmund Fraser in a door-to-door voter registration campaign. Nights, they return to the same black neighborhoods to play guitars and lead crowds in singing freedom songs. While their celibacy is ... Read more

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  • Thai Jinks

    by James Eckardt ...
    Legendary expat writer and beer connoisseur James Eckardt proves that just because you're middle-aged doesn't mean you can't be immature. Here, among other high jinks, he mounts elephants with polo mallet in hand, skitters about slippery yacht decks, presides over songfests at the Peachy Flophouse School of Journalism, stars in a Thai movie and soap opera, and is adopted as a guitar-playing mascot ... Read more

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  • Singapore Girl

    by James Eckardt ...
    This is the true story of a long-vanished Singapore and the dangerous carnival known as Bugis Street. James Eckardt arrived in 1970s Singapore only to fall in love with a Singaporean nymph named Milly. Thirty years later an email arrived that would lead Eckardt to discover what had happened to the Singapore girl, who, at the time he had loved her, had not technically been female. ... Read more

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  • Gone Viking II

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A father’s sudden death leaves one of his sons holding a dangerous secret in this masterful thriller from “a legal literary legend” (USA Today).“A pleasure to read . . . a good yarn.”—The Washington PostA pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self—a sick, lonely old man who has ... Read more

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  • Summer of Night

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    This masterfully crafted horror classic, featuring a brand-new introduction by Dan Simmons, will bring you to the edge of your seat, hair standing on end and blood freezing in your veinsIt's the summer of 1960 and in the small town of Elm Haven, Illinois, five twelve-year-old boys are forging the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. From sunset bike rides to shaded hiding ... Read more

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