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1) Don't eat me
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"Dr. Siri Paiboun, the ex-national coroner of Laos, may have more experience dissecting bodies than making art, but when he manages to smuggle a fancy movie camera into the country he devises a plan to shoot a Lao adaptation of War and Peace with his friend Civilai. The only problem? The Ministry of Culture must approve the script before they can get rolling. That and they can't figure out how to turn on the camera. Meanwhile, the skeleton of a woman...
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1980: The People’s Democratic Republic of Laos is proud to be competing in its first-ever Olympics. Of course, half the world is boycotting the Moscow Summer Olympic Games to protest the Soviet Union’s recent invasion of Afghanistan, but that has made room for athletes from countries that are usually too small or underfunded to be competitive — like Laos. Ex-national coroner of Laos Dr. Siri Paiboun may be retired, but he and his wife, Madame...
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Jimm Juree mysteries volume 1
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
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374 pages : map ; 21 cm.
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English
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Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family -- a mother who might be drifting mentally; a grandfather -- a retired cop -- who rarely talks; a younger brother obsessed with body-building, and a transgendered, former beauty pageant queen, former older brother. When Jimm is forced to follow her family to a rural village on the coast of Southern Thailand, she's convinced her career -- maybe her life --...
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Jimm Juree mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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324 pages : map ; 23 cm.
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In rural Thailand, former crime reporter Jimm Juree must grapple with her quirky family, a mysterious mother and daughter on the lam and the small matter of a head on the beach. When Jimm Juree's mother sold the family house and invested in a rundown 'holiday camp' at the southern end of Thailand on the Gulf of Siam, the family had little choice but to follow. Jimm Juree, who was well on her way to achieving her goal of becoming the primary crime...
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