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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...
2) 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...
3) Raw Deal
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Once freed, gangster Joe Sullivan and his girl friend Pat set off to find the mobster who set him up. The kidnapping of Ann Martin, the social worker who wrote to Joe in prison, leads the fugitive into a romantic triangle.
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El Ciudadano Reportero: otra historia conmovedora y motivada políticamente. En nuestra codicia, expansión y deseo por innovación, muchas veces pasamos por alto las consecuencias en nuestro ambiente. Es más fácil olvidar la gravedad de esto cuando vives en un área urbana que ha sido desarrollada por siglos.
Una mujer estaba en labor de parto. Algunas personas en la calle podían escuchar sus gritos. Aquellos que podían entender el dolor que...
5) 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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"Una intrincada novela negra con la que caminarás por calles y ambientes de la Barcelona de principios del siglo XX en los zapatos de un detective singular".
Del autor de Malnazidos: Noche de difuntos del 38.
Barcelona, 1901. El gran detective Byron Mitchell se ve forzado a abandonar su retiro para investigar el asesinato de Ramón Calafell, abogado de la familia burguesa que le arrenda un piso en el lujoso paseo de Gracia.
En la bulliciosa Barcelona...
7) 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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"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...
9) 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.
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The Animal Factory goes deep into San Quentin, a world of violence and paranoia, where territory and status are ever-changing and possibly fatal commodities. Ron Decker is a newbie, a drug dealer whose shot at a short two-year stint in the can is threatened from inside and outside. He's got to keep a spotless record or it's ten to life. But at San Quentin, no man can steer clear of the Brotherhoods, the race wars, the relentlessness. It soon...
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I do not know what second it will be, what minute it will be, what hour, or even day. But it will come. You may see it coming. You may not. Regardless, I can guarantee you; there will be a moment like no other when you will draw your last breath. Like it or lump it. And at that moment you will see your final view of the world. However, what I do not know, is whether your last glimpse will be the sympathetic countenance of a loved one or the grotesque,...
12) 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...
13) To Find a Penny
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London 1888. Ruby Myers won't let anyone step on her. After fighting her way to the top of a thriving underworld, the bisexual gangster protects her brothel workers at any cost. So the twenty-three-year-old madam sees red when her female lover is found dead with her throat slashed. As the local constabulary flounders to unearth a concrete lead, Ruby learns the murderer hasn't stopped with one corpse and his choice of victims all link back to her....
14) 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.
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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...
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Dans ce premier livre de la trilogie de la rivière Passaic qui se déroule en 1945, une guerre de diffusion entre les deux journaux de Newark tourne au sang lorsque les foules concurrentes de la ville mettent fin à leur trêve. La bataille fait rage dans le troisième quartier infesté de crimes de la ville, o des adolescents en première ligne sont des coureurs de numéros. Joey Bancik et Richie Maxwell, deux enfants de chœur catholiques, sont...
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Abyss Of Love And Blood, is a bloody and lovely story by Reza Taheri Bashar that tells the story of greed and love and Jealousy and grudge.that tells the story of conspiracy and Betrayal and spiteful in the royal family.A conspiracy and battle that kills each royal family member little by littleThis book is a rare and truly different story.
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The man was 100 yards from his moment of destiny. He was oblivious to it, of course. Murderers don't necessarily realise they are killers until a few seconds before it happens. Murderers are sometimes just like you and me. He would never have dreamed that such a thing might happen. Ridiculous. If anyone had told him that today was the day he would turn into a killer, he would have looked at them quizzically; questioning their sanity, instead of his...
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Úrsula está insatisfecha. Demasiado fea, demasiado hambrienta, demasiado sola..., su vida no transcurre en absoluto como le gustaría. Su hermana es más guapa, su vecina más feliz, y ¿quién puede mantener eternamente una dieta de sopa de verduras? La misteriosa llamada de chantaje que recibe, informándola de que su marido ha sido secuestrado y pidiendo un millón de rescate, la sacará de ese estado. Aunque hay un detalle: Úrsula no tiene...
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