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  • BLINDING LIGHT
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    BLINDING LIGHT
    PAUL THEROUX
    Slade Steadman's lone opus, published twenty years ago, was Trespassing, a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend Ava in tow, Steadman sets out for Ecuador's jungle in search of a rare hallucinogenic drug and the cure for his writer's block. Amid a gang of thrill-seeking tourists, he finds his dr...

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  • SUNRISE WITH SEAMONSTERS
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    SUNRISE WITH SEAMONSTERS
    PAUL THEROUX
    This collection of wide-ranging essays from the New York Times–bestselling travel writer is "a steamer trunk full of delights" ( Chicago Sun-Times). This collection of decidedly opinionated articles, essays, and ruminations, by the author of My Other Life and Kowloon Tong, transports the reader not only to exotic, unexpected places in the world but also into the interior life o...

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  • MURDER IN MOUNT HOLLY
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    MURDER IN MOUNT HOLLY
    PAUL THEROUX
    "A Vonnegut tinged absurdist satire . . . (a) tightly paced, expertly drawn comic romp" from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Mosquito Coast ( LitReactor). Paul Theroux, one of the world's most popular authors, both for his travel books and his fiction, has produced an off-beat story of 1960s weirdos unlike anything he has ever written. During the time of Lyndon Joh...

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  • KOWLOON TONG
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    KOWLOON TONG
    PAUL THEROUX
    In this "moody thriller," a family business is targeted for takeover as control of Hong Kong shifts from the British to the Chinese ( The New York Times).   Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, have lived here for years, mostly keeping apart from their foreign surroundings, except ...

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  • THE KINGDOM BY THE SEA
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    THE KINGDOM BY THE SEA
    PAUL THEROUX
    This “interesting, insightful book” by the author of Deep South reveals “a side of Britain few visitors see” (The New York Times Book Review). After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilar...

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  • RIDING THE IRON ROOSTER
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    RIDING THE IRON ROOSTER
    PAUL THEROUX
    The acclaimed travel writer chronicles a year of train travel across China in a revealing travelogue that “gives the reader much to relish and think about” (Publishers Weekly). The author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. The always irascible, inf...

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  • THE ELEPHANTA SUITE
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    THE ELEPHANTA SUITE
    PAUL THEROUX
    In this “candid, perceptive and intelligent” trio of novellas, the acclaimed travel writer presents tales of Westerners transformed by sojourns in India (Independent, UK). These three intertwined novellas by the author of The Great Railway Bazaar capture the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today’s India. Theroux’s Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subc...

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  • HOTEL HONOLULU
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    HOTEL HONOLULU
    PAUL THEROUX
    A writer turned Hawaiian hotel manager observes the many lives that pass through his rooms in this novel by the author of The Great Railway Bazaar. A New York Times Notable Book In this wickedly satiric romp, a down-on-his-luck writer finds escape from his life as the manager of a low-rent hotel a few blocks from the beach in Waikiki. His boss is quick to explain that the Hotel...

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  • SAINT JACK
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    SAINT JACK
    PAUL THEROUX
    An American pimp in Singapore finds his life of pleasure turning against him in this comic novel by the acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar.   Once a small-time American hustler, Jack Flowers found his calling when he jumped into the Straits of Malacca and hitched a ride to Singapore. Deftly identifying the fastest route to fame along the seedy port, Jack started hirin...

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  • RIDING THE RAILS WITH PAUL THEROUX
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    RIDING THE RAILS WITH PAUL THEROUX
    PAUL THEROUX
    The international bestselling author records his many insights and adventures traversing the world by train in these 3 classic travel memoirs.   The Great Railway Bazaar In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on his now-legendary journey from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Front...

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