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71 brilliant stories from Lawrence Block - non-stop suspense from the grandmaster of crime.Grandmaster and Edgar award-winning author Lawrence Block has brought together71 of his best stories featuring his most popular series characters. From Matt Scudder in 'The...
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Orion
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2011-01-20
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‘A dazzling and savage first novel’ New York TimesAngels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-30
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Mosley and his new hero return, in a series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir.A mystery caller sends Leonid McGill to an uptown address 'just to check a girl's OK'. There's no explanation -- just a name, Angelique -- a reward, and the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-03-18
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Leonid McGill mysteries
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FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERRECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding...
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Penguin
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2010-03-04
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In the style of literary greats Teri Woods and Vicky Stringer, Kia DuPree tells an engrossing and heart-wrenching story about a young woman living on the streets of Washington D.C.Camille Logan feels trapped. After she is sexually and emotionally abused by her...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2010-01-26
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From New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley, the third collection of Socrates Fortlow tales, "a thought-provoking exploration of wickedness—and what's to be done about it" (Seattle Times). Living in south central L.A., Socrates Fortlow...
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Basic Books
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2009-09-29
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'McGill is an engaging creation, saddled with a faithless wife, an adoring mistress and a son who appears to be planning a murder of his own . . . Mosley ensures the reader hopes to meet [him] again soon' Sunday TelegraphFrom the creator of Easy Rawlins, Walter Mosley's...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2009-06-25
Collection :
Leonid McGill mysteries
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An astounding, intense novel by the Booker-prize winning author of Midnight’s Children.In the summer of 2000 New York is a city living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Into this tumultuous city arrives Malik Solanka. His life has been a sequence...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-12-29
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Urban lit meets classic noir in this "absolutely sensational" debut thriller from a major new voice in crime fiction (Teri Woods). As a child, Eddie Santiago grew up on the mean streets of his Puerto Rican neighborhood in Chicago, where he witnessed his father's...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2008-09-15
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'An absolute triumph of a novel' Guardian'Compulsive' IndependentWelcome to L.A. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the...
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John Murray
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2008-09-04
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A collection of very short, great stories written for Cosmopolitan Magazine between 1924 and 1929. Once again, Maugham proves himself to be a master of the short fiction form in this brilliant collection of 29 stories which, like so much of his other books, are...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-03-24
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Vincent returns from Montreal to Tokyo, where his lover has passed away in tragic circumstances. So begins a sensual and disturbing tale of love and grief, of foxes, artists, and taxidermy, somewhere between the Sumida River, the Tsukiji fish market, and a contemporary...
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Baraka Books
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2022-06-01
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Full of humorous stories about gangsters, bootleggers, gamblers, and their women inhabiting New York's Broadway. A world of speakeasies and dancing girls where a gambler or bootlegger is perfectly normal and respectable in every way. Those familiar with "Guys and Dolls"...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-04
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It is 1971 and Bellport, Massachusetts is a dying factory town. But the coming urban redevelopment will have even more implications for the residents. Sydney Stallworth has left her law studies to support her husband’s dream of opening a business in the heart of the...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2020-05-01
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When aspiring stage-manager Rebecca Weir falls for the married director of SenseInSound theatre company, she initiates a love triangle and working collaboration which go on for two decades. Set in Toronto at the start of the 1980s, You’ll Know Even Then explores the...
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Stonehouse Originals
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2019-11-01
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Lucy Frank is a 20-something old aspiring screenwriter who takes up digital sex-work to pay the bills. Circulating a confused social atmosphere of half-engagement with lovers, friends, and co-workers in present-day Montreal—Lucy struggles with her self-image, an eating...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2019-09-15
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Karen Hofmann’s empathetic and cathartic novel, What is Going to Happen Next, pieces together the lives of five members of the Lund family following their enforced dispersal after the death of the father and the hospitalization of the mother in the remote West Coast...
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NeWest Press
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2017-09-15
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Xue Yiwei’s life has been marked by that of the legendary Montreal surgeon Norman Bethune, who died in China in the cause of Communism. Like other Chinese of his generation – the generation that has turned China into the world power it is today –Xue Yiwei was inspired...
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Linda Leith Publishing
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2017-09-02
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Set in the fictional town of Fletcher, the connected stories in Smells Like Heaven span thirty years. Fletcher is a town the characters strive to escape, but keep returning to, as they stumble through life searching for ways to connect and transcend their claustrophobic...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2017-06-01
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Set against a backdrop of the 2012 student protests, Accordéon is an experimental novel, a piercing deconstruction of Québécois culture, and an ode to Montréal—a city where everything happens at once and all realities exist simultaneously. Against a satirical Ministry...
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Arbeiter Ring Publishing
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2016-11-01
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