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In this sequel to Kings Row, Parris Mitchell is definitely the proponent of the story - and not Kings Row itself. Parris has achieved his goal as psychiatrist (still a young profession in the Midwest of the First World War) in his hometown hospital - but he is still somewhat in need of his own medicine, as he tries to rationalize his marriage with Elise, emotionally a child-wife. Kings Row seems still to have a predominant percentage of abnormal personalities,...
62) Twisted
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Every day, normal people go about their normal lives. But what happens when one of them is twisted?
Experience the horror in a series of short stories about the darker side of daily life:
Trick and Treat - What happens when the devil decides to play his own game of trick or treat?
Bad Review - Some writers can be a little touchy.
Mistress Of Her Own Destiny - Susan has it all. And she's keeping it.
The Office - Helen adds to her list of secretarial...
63) Glass Factory
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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.
66) La justicière
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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!
67) 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,...
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Finde den Tod, bevor er dich findet: Die Jagd nach einem Serienmörder führt die Ermittler Gray und Sophia nicht nur zur tot geglaubten Sekte Fiordia, sondern auch tief in ihre eigenen psychischen Verstrickungen. Dabei merken sie nach und nach, wie viel die Morde mit ihnen selbst zu tun haben. Und machen die schmerzhafte Erfahrung: Du kannst die Gegenwart so lange ignorieren, bis sie dich als Vergangenheit einholt.
69) El Violador
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Este es un relato crudo, realista, objetivo y sin ninguna clase de sensacionalismos, de un gamberro que viola a una pequeña niña de seis años, tras lo cual, este delincuente pasa a vivir el resto de su vida en las peligrosas cárceles uruguayas, y termina sus días internado en un hospital psiquiátrico.
El hecho de que el autor de esta novela, Ernesto Thomas González (1968), le haya puesto su propio nombre a este personaje motivó una verdadera...
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Clay Blackburn has two jobs. Most of the time he's your average bisexual book scout in Berkeley. Some of the time, he's...not quite a private detective. He doesn't have a license, he doesn't have a gun, he doesn't have a business card, but people come to him for help and in helping them he comes across more than his fair share of trouble. And, trouble finds him seeking the fountain of youth, the myth of paradise, the pie in the sky...The Incredible...
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Burn, Baby, Burn.
An incendiary mixture of genres and voices, this collection of short stories compiles a unique set of work that revolves around riots, revolts, and revolution. From the turbulent days of unionism in the streets of New York City during the Great Depression, to a group of old women who meet at their local café to plan a radical act that will change the world forever. These original and once out-of-print stories capture the various...
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Orrie Hitt's first two novels in one volume!
I'll Call Every Monday
Her name was Irene . . .
She was right up close. I could see the smoke coming into her eyes, dreamy and hot. I pulled her to me and I wasn't gentle about it. For an instant I worried about her husband and her plan-but I couldn't take time out to care.
There's something about a bewitching woman that always gets to the other side of a man. The side where violence and love live, in...
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An anoymous tip has led a hard-boiled detective and two deputies into the desert on a recovery operation.
The overwhelming solitude lends the scene an air of remorse and quiet reverence. Lost in his thoughts, the detective draws parallels between violence on a massive scale and the ability of life to endure.
74) Soft Money
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Even the best cops burn out. 23 Shades of Black's Filomena Buscarsela returns, having traded in her uniform for the trials of single motherhood. Once a cop, always a cop. She may have left the department, but Filomena's passion for justice burns as hot as ever. And when, the owner of her neighborhood bodega is murdered-just another "ethnic" crime that will probably go unsolved and unavenged-Filomena doesn't need much prodding from the dead man's grieving...
75) Edge City
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Edge City, from the author of Low Bite, takes place in an every-noir-city (a thinly veiled portrait of San Francisco's North Beach), and its newest resident is Reno, an angry fledgling just hatched out of prison. Getting out is like a weird dream, and the streets of the City are a muddle of sensations pooling around her.
First, there's the bustle-everybody busy with mysterious businesses-an amplifying racket of choices. Staggering out onto the late...
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When professional ethicist Jack Waxman goes missing, his elderly father, Donald, takes the case. Donald thinks he's a hardboiled private detective, but he's just a retired writer of films and TV shows about hardboiled detectives. Jack's depressed daughter Samantha joins in the search, mainly to make sure Grandpa Donald doesn't hurt himself. Together they scour Los Angeles for leads, confronting past mistakes and making plenty of new ones. In the course...
77) The Underbelly
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White ex-convict Cal Winter returns to his home in Oakland, California, one day to find his gorgeous, young, black wife, Prudence, drowned in the swimming pool. Prudence couldn't swim, and Cal concludes she didn't go in the water willingly. Though theirs was a marriage of convenience, he takes the murder personally. Along with his prison homie Red Eye, Cal sets out to find out who did Prudence in. His convoluted and often darkly humorous journey takes...
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A RADICAL LABOR CLASSIC
Undoubtedly, the most popular book in American labor history, the I.W.W.'s Little Red Song Book has been a staple item on picket lines and at other workers' gatherings for generations, and has gone through numerous editions.
As a result, of I.W.W. efforts to keep up with the times, however, recent versions of the songbook have omitted most of the old-time favorites, especially the raucous lyrics of the free-spirited hoboes...
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Radicals, feminists, environmentalists. Activists for animal rights, human rights, civil rights. There are plenty of rebels and dissidents putting their asses on the line. Conversely, there's never been a shortage of reactionaries seeking to repress such vision and passion.
Learning how to fight and/or defend yourself is not the same as promoting belligerent, anti-social behavior. While talk of non-violence is understandable and the struggle for...
80) Butterfly Potion
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Perry wakes up in an arroyo, hungover and unsure how he got there. His wallet and cell phone missing, he walks back to the last place he remembers being before he blacked out the bar. Fueled by alcohol and a touch of companionship, Perry is determined to find out who rolled him, but standing in his way is an accident that happened six months earlier and the struggle his life has become since. In his search for the material things taken from him, he...
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