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Author:        Pascal FIORETTO
Translator:    Tourmaline
Edition :        1st (September 09)
Pages :         240
Price:            225 baht

This is a French parody of the bestseller mystery-detective novel, Da Vinci Code by American author Dan Brown. With the book in hand, throw away the Eifel Tower or other classical Parisian destinations heard or known, and follow the funny and ironic mission of the new amateur detective duo who were accidentally caught in one of the most notorious gay-involved murder in Paris and struggled to prove themselves not guilty.

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Author / Creator :          Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Joann Sfar
Translator:    Aticha Munchunakorn Gabulon
Edition:           1st (July 09)
Page:               120
Price:               195 Baht (soft cover) / 495 (hard cover)

Based on the world-renounced novel of Antoine de St-Exupéry, The Little Prince has once again visited the literary world. This time, in the form of a graphic novel by Joann Sfar, a young-blood French comic artist and book creator who wrote Chat du Rabbin.

The story is about the little prince from a small faraway star who owned a couple of volcanoes and one special rose. Her arrogant and self-center made him confused and he left his star in search of the true meaning of friendship. During his journey, the little prince met several people: a drunk, a business man, a king, a conceited man, a geographer and a lamplighter, but found no answer. Finally, he arrived the planet earth. He met the fox and so many roses that looked so much like his special one. And that made him even more confused. However, with an agreement to tame the fox upon his request, the little prince has learned, finally, the true meaning of friendship and the things that make his rose different from others. Before leaving the earth, his thoughtfulness and his love for the rose deeply impressed the pilot who had landed on a nearby desert in a plane accident. And this pilot is the one who tells the tale.

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Author  :        Marjane Satrapi

Translator:    Natpatcha

Edition:          1st (Feb 09)

Page:              136

Price:              155 baht

Marjane Satrapi, the writer of a world-renowned graphic novel, Persepolis, shares stories of acquaintance on awkward relationships with men in their lives. Those are marital secrets which sometimes are funny, bawdy or even sad. 

 From the afternoon conversation of Iranian women with different age and experience who sit in circle, sib tea and start the ?discussion?, it is a great happiness as Satrapi?s grandmother said ? To speak behind others? backs is the ventilator of the heart.?

 "Humorous and bawdy?an amusing portrayal of independent women taking life in stride" - The Village Voice

 "funny, opinionated, controversial and surprising as any good comic or conversation should be." ? Time.com

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Author:        10decibel        
Edition:         1st (Fabruary 09)
Pages:          168
Price:            135 Baht

 Lab Fun Dee means Good-Night Sleep

A raw, pure, fine series of bed-time stories, mixed without sugar, color, odor but with pure happiness of the writer for a very good night sleep. With so many factors impeding us to reach our goals, we would sometimes love to escape into the dream world?even though in such world, we would not get all we love to get. Sometimes, we could be an unlucky guy who was abducted by a group of aliens with banana-shaped weapon, end up hungry in an unfortunate restaurant that could not satisfy our humble appetite for two sausages, travel to the future trial when all men and animals are equal, fight in a boxing stage for the virtue and dignity of a fighter, and say no to our dear love just because of the old shame. But who says that a good night sleep would comprise only of 'happy' and 'sweet' dreams.