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"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...
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In 1959 Montana, when a fatal car accident shatters his world, 10-year-old Lucas finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humor and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up during the Space Race, the brutal racism of segregation and the hope of a new generation to move us forward.
3) Montana Noir
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Akashic Books noir series volume 0
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Grady and Graff, both Montana natives, masterfully curate this collection of hard-edged Western tales.
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"Acclaimed as one of today's best contemporary noir writers, Massimo Carlotto reaches new heights in the most complex "Alligator" novel to date. Rich with biting humor, humanity, and psychological insight, this is an exemplary noir novel from a crime writer at the top of his game. Marco Buratti, a.k.a. the Alligator, and his partners Max the Memory and Beniamino Rossini have fallen into a trap laid by their worst enemy, Giorgio Pellegrini, a wanted...
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Set against the backdrop of the riots sparked by the beating of African American motorist Rodney King, Vietnam vet and reporter Harry Hudson wanders the city to forget his troubled past. Trying to cope with the posttraumatic stress disorder that has plagued him since his military tour, the overweight, depressed, and sex-obsessed Hudson stumbles through the underbelly of South Central LA, where he meets Mama Thuy, a Vietnamese woman...
6) The rage
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Vincent Naylor has just been released from prison and has already begun to plot his next heist-the robbery of an armored car. Det. Sgt. Bob Tidey has been caught perjuring himself to protect fellow officers. He's also found the link between an unsolved murder case and the recent execution of a corrupt banker in serious financial difficulty. An old acquaintance will change the course of the investigation. A retired nun living on regrets and bad memories...
7) Snitch World
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"The Miata jumped the curb and sheared off a light pole. The impact deployed the airbags, but Chainbang was ready. He knifed Klinger's before it was fully inflated and his own before it could crush the glass pipe in his breast pocket. The six-inch blade went through the nylon like a pit bull through a kindergarten."
Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the gritty night...
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur directors influenced by the events of the turbulent mid-twentieth century. Films such as Force of Evil, Night and the City, Double Indemnity, Laura, The Big Heat, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly and, more recently, Chinatown and The Grifters are indelibly...
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"Fans of Lawrence Block's Keller stories are going to love One More Kill. I certainly did. Matt Hughes kept me up all night, turning pages."-George R.R. MartinHe was a trained killer, an orphaned kid who rose from raw recruit to the rank of major in the US Army Rangers. He was looking forward to retiring at the end of a thirty-year hitch, but when he developed a low-grade form of leukemia, the Army pushed him out and left him feeling alone and useless...
10) Rail Birds
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Colin is a cash game poker pro, so is Jordan, but Jordan has something that Colin does not. A beautiful girlfriend named Isabelle. What happens when sex, money and deceit fill the air between them? This story is a original screenplay written by James Paul Nelson. In this story, James writes about themes he knows quite well. Gambling, drugs, sex, and fast money. Characters are forced to look at themselves and their situations and deal with the consequences....
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¿Dónde esta el mal? ¿En una persona, una circunstancia, una acción? ¿O bien es algo difuso e impalpable como una polvadera, tan fría y silenciosa que podrían pasar años antes de percatarnos de su presencia? Podríamos no ver cómo se acumula en torno a nosotros, sino encontrarla de improviso en nuestra mesa, murmurándonos tonterias al oído, observándonos burlona desde el espejo».
¿Es oportuno confesar mi interés por los relatos de...
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Wu Boqiang, who was from a low-income family, traveled to Tokyo, Japan to pursue his studies. However, a number of issues developed as a result of the green mold on the ham he brought. The butler first said that the ham shouldn't have been hung on the wall and then chastised him for not hanging the ham in the toilet. Boqiang didn't earn the butler's respect until his friend Zichen paid him a visit and invited the butler to eat the ham. He still chose...
13) Leroy
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Living in an age before computers, Leroy was footloose and fancy-free. He hid behind the pulpit, however in real time, he was a monster to his wife and a lover to the world. This short story hopefully captivates the black soul of a Bible-preaching man. Don't be a Leroy.
14) Lumberjack
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One of the Twelve Best Indie Horror Books of 2023 - The Lineup
Nebraska city, 1901.
There's a curse on Arbor Lodge-an elusive demon reclaiming the illustrious home in the name of the prairie-and its owner,
J. Sterling Morton, proud statesman, is desperate.
It couldn't be more fortuitous for lumberjack Neville, whose greatest desire is to prove himself a true man to the world.
Morton offers respect, security, pride, even the father...
15) Dannie
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No matter what the logical cost, follow your dreams. Dannie had a rough start. She was born into wealth, however, she had no say in her life. She broke thru the mold and slowly went after her dream. Dreams don't die unless you let them.
16) Calling
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On a bus outside Vegas, a washed-up gambler meets a strange preacher As the bus rolls away from the Las Vegas strip, Timber Goodman screws his eyes shut and tries to keep his stomach from lurching. He came to Vegas in hopes of jump-starting his fading broadcasting career, but he leaves hung over and dead broke. Beside him sits a preacher in cowboy boots, whose only luggage is a Bible, a bottle of bourbon, and a razor-sharp bowie knife. This is Ezekiel...
17) Boxcars
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What is the secret Adam Goodman carriesin his heart? A return to the home where he grew up means running into the ghosts of the past. Memories of adventures, growing up and getting away from a small town life he could never forget. Or forgve.
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Mike Strong has a face the bad guys like to punch. Valkyrie City is full of killers, mobsters, and thieves-and that's just on the surface. In the city's underbelly lurks something far worse. Generally, the citizens of Valkyrie City are blissfully unaware of the supernatural beings who live among them. Harvard professor turned soldier Mike Strong returned from the battlefield a changed man. The evil he encountered gave him powers he never thought imaginable....
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"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
20) Angel of Evil
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A new novel from the author of the bestseller Farlight and the award-winning The Angel Baby Taneisha Guidry must discover if the terrifying stories about the Laularie Parish Sanitarium are true. Inside the derelict building, she begins to see and hear those who didn't survive the barbaric treatments. Worse yet, the paranormal encounters awaken an ancient evil, more frightening and more deadly than any of the terrors haunting the sanitarium, including...
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