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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) The threat
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"Melvin Levin is dissatisfied-with his job, with life, with it all. He's too polite and too boring, and the monotony of his days is only broken when he has to clean up after his neighbor's frequently vomiting cat. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Under the thrill of potentially getting murdered, Melvin begins to feel truly alive again. The threat gives Melvin a sense of self-importance-someone wants him dead-and, ironically,...
4) 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...
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....
6) 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...
8) 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.
9) 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...
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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...
11) 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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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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DESTINATION : Fontaine de Jouvence, îles Bimini, archipel des Bahamas.
NATURE DU VOYAGE : Quête d'une source d'eau régénératrice.
NOMBRE DE VOYAGEURS : 2
Paméla vit le pire cauchemar de tout parent : son fils Éloi souffre d'un cancer au cerveau qu'aucun médecin n'est en mesure de traiter.
Elle est prête à tout pour le guérir. Vraiment tout. Y compris le traîner au milieu de l'océan dans un lieu resté secret depuis des siècles et qui...
14) The Salt Cutter
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PART OF THE BLACK SPRING CRIME SERIES ENDORSED BY UK GIANTS OF CRIME FICTION INCLUDING IAN RANKIN AND LEE CHILD
Bolivia. 1991. A soldier arrives in the small town of Uyuni. A place where people endure rather than enjoy. Survive than live. The soldier k
15) Boomerang
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Book 6 of Jack Freestone's series The Great Escape, set in Australia and New Zealand. The sequel to Weirdly Bland, and prequel to Bruce Grove. Novella based upon the author's experiences surfing, gambling, and traveling in Australia and New Zealand.
16) Girl Vengeance
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Five years ago, Lucille Bowman's mother, Pamela, was ripped out of her life with little warning. Pamela was not a victim, more like she suffered the consequences of her own actions. However, the sentence she got did not fit her actual crimes. Everyone around Lucy got to make decisions regarding her life except for Lucy. At only twelve years old, she didn't have much choice then. Well, things have changed. Little Lucy isn't so little anymore. Freshly...
17) Man Drowning
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Nick Banning was a man drowning in a land of far horizons, a land that had all the vigor sucked out of it ages ago by the Arizona sun. But it wasn't the blasting heat of an Arizona desert that bothered Nick-it was the heat of his own emotions, his desire for Sherry, the woman who had told him no. But Nick was winding up, faster and faster. He meant to have Sherry-or else.
18) Actus Reus
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In the chilling heart of a city gripped by fear, a relentless detective and a ruthless serial killer are locked in a deadly dance. The Scythe, a murderer who leaves no woman untouched and no secret buried, obsesses over the tenacious detective who matches him in cunning even as she conceals her own darkness. Detective Arima Williams plays cat-and-mouse with a ruthless serial killer, blurring the line between hunter and hunted as their obsessions...
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Late in night a sharp knife was pierced into the heart of an investor from other place by a mysterious killer, police had put all its efforts to solve the case without making any progress. From then on many dead bodies were left in street by the mysterious killer with a knife, and people in the city were scared by what they heard about the cases. Instructor FineElegance Li of the group of the criminal investigation of the municipal bureau of public...
20) Bless This Mess
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The Y-Siccum virus has taken the lives of all humans containing the Y chromosome, including Johanna's husband and son. Humanity has begun adapting to their new reality, but Johanna is struggling with acceptance. Lost in her grief and animosity she begins to unravel. Johanna believes she has been chosen to put the fear of God back in the hearts of her community. She begins murdering local lesbians (slackies). A local detective grows suspicious of Johanna,...
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