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First published in 1925, "Manhattan Transfer" by American author John Dos Passos is an engrossing portrayal of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age. Critically acclaimed and widely considered to be his most important work, Dos Passos tells the story of the city as it grows and changes through the perspectives of many of its inhabitants. The city itself is a central character of the novel. It is exciting and glamorous, but...
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[2014]
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148 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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"As our story begins, we meet Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s. Annie dreams of offing her mother, Elsie, whom she blames for abandoning her for a job soon after her husband, a cop, is shot and killed. Now, employed by her husband's best friend--an over-the-hill and perpetually soused private eye--Elsie finds herself covering up his missteps as she is drawn into a case of a mysterious client, who leads her into...
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The Phantom Ship (1839) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the legend of the Flying Dutchman, a fabled ghost ship doomed to sail the seas until the end of time, The Phantom Ship is a tale of adventure and Gothic horror from an author who served for decades in the British Royal Navy. Philip Vanderdecken had always feared this day would come. Raised by his mother in Terneuzen, he had grown accustomed to life without a father. During a voyage...
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An escaped convict encounters an enterprising prostitute at the start of this hard-boiled masterpiece. When Timothy Sunblade opens the door of his blue Packard to Virginia, their fates are forever intertwined. "Maybe if you saw her you'd understand," he reminisces. "Face by Michelangelo, clothes they drape on those models in Vogue, and a past out of a tabloid front page … Virginia, who came for one paid hour - and stayed for all eternity." After...
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Arthur Beauchamp mysteries volume 3
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Is someone systematically killing the judges of the B.C. bar? At least one has been, murdered and several have disappeared. Arthur Beauchamp returns from retirement once again to take on the case, this time defending his former nemesis, backwoods poet Cudworth Brown, and tracking down a mystery novel that Brown's unreliable former lawyer has been, writing, all this just as his own wife, Margaret, has announced her candidacy for the Green Party in...
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Filomena Buscarsela mysteries volume 3
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Bang. The door to your cell is shut. You have survived the arrest, you are mad that you weren't more careful, you worry that they will get others too, you wonder what will happen to your group and whether a lawyer has been called yet-of course you show none of this. The weapon, the fake papers, your own clothes, all gone. The prison garb and the shoes they've thrown at you are too big-maybe because they want to play silly games with you, maybe because...
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From the writer of the Miki Radicci Series and Cities That Eat Islands comes an erotic crime story about two women getting their dues.
While waitressing at her new job, she falls for the bosses wife. Now she's helping her escape and hatching a plan to get what is due to them from the husband.
This story is taken from the crime collection A Sandwich Can't Stop a Bullet.
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Un vrai livre pour ado!
Puisqu'il n'y a pas de justice, Lili en fait son affaire !
À la fois drle, tragique et émouvant.
Je m'appelle Lili. Si vous lisez les péripéties de ma vie de rebelle, vous vous direz sans doute que je suis méchante et vous aurez raison. Je suis très méchante avec les méchants parce que je ne crois pas à la loi des hommes. La justice, je m'en charge. Ça vous plaît? Alors, suivez-moi!
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Lay preacher Obadiah Wheeler is responsible for conducting a group of missionaries into "unassigned territory," a stretch of Nevada wilderness open to evangelistic efforts. Obadiah's faith is shaky at best and no match for the tempting charms of the co-proprietor of a desert museum, raven-haired beauty Delandra Hummer. Together the two set off into the vast emptiness of the Mojave in search of a buyer for the museum's prize exhibit, an extraterrestrial...
10) Jook
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Zelmont Raines has slid a long way since his ability to jook, to outmaneuver his opponents on the field, made him a Super Bowl-winning wide receiver, earning him lucrative endorsement deals and more than his share of female attention. But Zee hasn't always been good at saying no, so a series of missteps involving drugs, a paternity suit or two, legal entanglements, shaky investments, and recurring injuries have virtually sidelined his career.
That...
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Imaginative but socially inept Jerrie Howard has always perceived herself as a moth surrounded by people full of beauty, color and light. Undeterred by lingering childhood struggles, she managed to achieve high academic honors and graduates from a prominent college by the age of 20.
Now 23, she is co-founder and editor in chief of Lion Publishing Group. With her promising career, bewitchingly gorgeous boyfriend, Leo, and an endless bank account,...
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A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna's past that she would like kept secret. But missing from the crime scene is a valuable artwork painted in 1926 by a renowned Belgian artist that might bring it all back. An acquaintance, Clay Fontenot, who has enabled a wide variety of personal violations in his life, some of which he has enjoyed, is the scion of a powerful...
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Money talks.
But who will pay the price?
The sky is dark and heavy when Private Investigator Edgar "Doc" Holiday discovers the body of Hollywood's most famous animal trainer at a ranch in the San Fernando Valley. Titus, the canine star of a major motion picture is still missing, and his disappearance is costing the movie business more than just money.
But as Doc continues his search for the invaluable dog, he soon unearths a deadly secret more complex...
14) Chieu Hoi Saloon
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It's 1992 and three people's lives are about to collide against the flaming backdrop of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. Vietnam vet Harry Hudson is a journalist fleeing his past: the war, a failed marriage, and a fear-ridden childhood. Rootless, he stutters, wrestles with depression, and is aware he's passed the point at which victim becomes victimizer. He explores the city's lowest dives, the only places where he feels at home. He meets Mama...
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From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics....
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Colin, a photographer, is working in Cornwall when he meets Morveren and finds himself inexplicably drawn towards her and she to him. Their fates intertwine with events that took place during the reign of Queen Mary 1st, also known as Bloody Mary. As the story unfolds, the link between the past and present becomes apparent, the past dictates the future of Colin's and Morveren's relationship, from which there is no escaping.
18) Nearly Nowhere
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Fifteen years ago, Kate Ryan and her daughter Ruby moved to the secluded village of Zamora in northern New Mexico to find a quiet life off the grid. But when, Kate invites the wrong drifter home for the night, the delicate peace of their domain is shattered.
Troy Mason manages to hang onto Kate for a few weeks, though his charm increasingly fails to offset his lies and delusions of grandeur. It is only a matter of time before the lies turn abusive,...
19) 180 segundos
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Zico, el jefe de una pequeña banda de ladrones, que hace robos elaborados utilizando tecnología y tácticas particulares, decidió que es hora de retirarse. Impulsado por la inminente salida del país de su hermana Angélica, planea un último robo perfecto antes de marcharse con ella. Para llevarse un millón de dólares producto de un negocio de cambio de moneda, necesitará de una estrategia perfecta y un equipo afilado: su hermana Angélica,...
20) Night Watch
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A classic military romance from a genre veteran
When U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Wes Skelly was sent to L.A. on assignment, he agreed to go on a blind date with beautiful single mother Brittany Evans, sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL. After all, he had been secretly in love for years, albeit with a woman who belonged to another man. So, what did he have to lose?
Plenty, it turned out. Because suddenly, the woman he thought he could never have was available....
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