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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunnedby Walter MosleyISBN 0671014994 (0-671-01499-4)
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Among the Thugsby Bill BufordISBN 0679745351 (0-679-74535-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among the Thugs'Book summary:They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson. [via]
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And Never Let Her Goby Ann RuleISBN 0671868713 (0-671-86871-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And Never Let Her Go'Book summary:From America's most celebrated true-crime writer comes the heartbreaking real-life drama of a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of sexual intrigue, political manipulation, and emotional deception by her charming and successful -- but ultimately deadly -- lover.
The author of fifteen "New York Times" national bestsellers, Ann Rule, a former Seattle policewoman, has researched thousands of homicides and understands every facet of murder investigation. Now, in the most complex and shocking book of her long career, she delves into the motivation that drove a seemingly successful man to kill, and she explores heretofore unknown aspects of a fatal affair between a beautiful young woman who moved confidently in the heady world of the upper echelons of government and a widely admired millionaire attorney who was an immensely popular political figure.
On June 27, 1996, thirty-year-old Anne Marie Fahey, who was the scheduling secretary for the governor of Delaware, had dinner with a man she had been having a secret affair with for more than two years. "Tommy" Capano, forty-seven, was perhaps the most politically powerful man in Wilmington. Son of a wealthy contractor, former state prosecutor, partner in a prestigious law firm, advisor to governors and mayors, Tom Capano had a soft-spoken and considerate manner that endeared him to many. Although recently estranged from his wife, he was a devoted father to his four beautiful young daughters, the trusted son of his widowed mother, and the backbone of his extended family. But sometime after 9:15 that night when Anne Marie and Tom left a Philadelphia restaurant, something terrible happened to Anne Marie. It would beforty-eight hours before her brothers and sisters realized that she had disappeared entirely.
Ann Rule brilliantly traces the lives of both Fahey and Capano as she discloses the intimate details of their ill-fated bonding. A vulnerable, trusting woman becomes spellbound by a charming, duplicitous married man, and what begins as a seemingly unremarkable affair is slowly transformed into an obsessive, convoluted, and deadly relationship.
Through her impeccable research, Rule peels away layer after layer of deception to reveal a man who lived a secret life for decades, a man so greedy that he would sacrifice "anyone" to gain what he desired. One of his many mistresses -- all of whom were unknown to one another -- was Deborah MacIntyre, an attractive and wealthy member of one of Wilmington's oldest families and an administrator of an elite private school. She, too, would become part of the mystery surrounding Anne Marie's disappearance.
As three prominent families are destroyed to satisfy one man's jealous obsessions, this unfathomable tragedy becomes a tale that few would believe if it were presented as fiction. Shockingly, it is all true. Destined to become a classic, ..."And Never Let Her Go" is a riveting account of forbidden love and murder among the rich and powerful, and a chilling insight into the evil that sometimes hides behind even the most charming faade. [via]
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The Arctic Incidentby Eoin ColferISBN 0613629272 (0-613-62927-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arctic Incident'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. With two trusty sidekicks in tow, he hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairyfolk of their pot of gold. [via]
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Armadillos & Old Laceby Kinky FriedmanISBN 067186923X (0-671-86923-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Black Fridayby James PattersonISBN 0613277430 (0-613-27743-0)
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Black Marketby James PattersonISBN 0671610872 (0-671-61087-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Bloody Murderby Julian SymonsISBN 0670800961 (0-670-80096-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Book of Evidenceby John BanvilleISBN 0684191806 (0-684-19180-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Evidence'Book summary:John Banvilles stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer.
Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display. [via]More editions of The Book of Evidence:
Booked to Dieby John DunningISBN 0684193833 (0-684-19383-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Burnt Orange Heresyby Charles WillefordISBN 0679732527 (0-679-73252-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Casinoby Nicholas PileggiISBN 0671001604 (0-671-00160-4)
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Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegasby Nicholas PileggiISBN 0671665707 (0-671-66570-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Chelsea Girl Murdersby Sparkle HayterISBN 0688155189 (0-688-15518-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chelsea Girl Murders'Book summary:Robin Hudson has reason to believe that the only cosmic order ruling her existence is Murphy's Law. What else could a woman think when her pious, next- door neighbor's electric Jesus display shorts out and burns down their East Village apartment building? Bad enough that she's just returned from a disastrous PR trip for TV network WNN. Who knew that touching Thai children's heads put a curse on them, or that in Russia, an even number of flowers is appropriate only for a funeral, not for a dinner party? Who knew that certain colleagues are plotting to oust her from the network, and that Pierre, her recent French fling, isn't calling. Now she's homeless. It's a good thing her friend Tamayo has offered her the use of an apartment in the famed artists' haven, the Chelsea. A little peace and quiet in an artistic setting is just what Robin needs.
But when a teenager named Nadia shows up on Tamayo's doorstep eager to be reunited with her fiancé, courtesy of Tamayo's underground lovers' railroad, Robin finds herself playing nurse to a spoiled-rotten Juliet. And when Nadia goes missing before her Romeo (Rocky) arrives, the next person at the door is enough to cross anyone's stars: Gerald Woznik--art dealer, lecher, and all- around cad, who stumbles across the threshold and inconsiderately dies.
Between finding Nadia, feeding Rocky, and fending off the police, Robin embarks on a one-woman campaign to solve the woes of the world--and opens a sizeable can of worms. What was socialite Grace Rouse doing clinging to the Chelsea fire escape the night Gerald was murdered? Why is art doyenne Miriam Grundy lying about meeting Nadia? And who is the "Baby" that everyone is talking about?
More comic novel than mystery, The Chelsea Girl Murders takes its readers on a rollicking jaunt through the Big Apple. Whodunit isn't nearly as important as what's-Robin-gonna-do-about-it, and some of her solutions are pricelessly funny. As in her previous Robin Hudson outings (Revenge of the Cootie Girls, Nice Girls Finish Last, What's A Girl Gotta Do, The Last Manly Man), Sparkle Hayter's observations on New Yorkers and their loony obsessions have just the right dash of caustic wit. Fans of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum can add another star to the pantheon of Northeastern femmes formidables. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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The Children of Menby P. D. JamesISBN 0571167411 (0-571-16741-1)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children of Men'Book summary:Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
Crime & Detectionby Brian Lane, Gary Ombler, Andy CrawfordISBN 067989117X (0-679-89117-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Crime And Society In England, 1750-1900by Clive EmsleyISBN 058225146X (0-582-25146-X)
Softcover, Longman Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900'Book summary:This widely used book, first published in 1987, examines changes in crime and the criminal justice system against the larger changes in an industrialising society. Challenging the simplistic view of crime as the work of a criminal class, and changes in the justice system as solely due to humanitarian reformers, it also takes issue with analyses which explain crime patterns wholly in terms of the economic cycle. Recent growth in women's history has helped shift interest from property crime to violent crime, and a main feature of this extensively reworked Second Edition is an entirely new chapter on crime and gender. [via]
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Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900: ISBN 058225146X (0-582-25146-X)
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Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800by J. M. BeattieISBN 0691101663 (0-691-10166-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750by J. A. SharpeISBN 0582238897 (0-582-23889-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750'Book summary:Still the only general survey of the topic available, this widely-used exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of people who would otherwise have left little mark on the historical record. This new edition - fully updated throughout - incorporates new thinking on many issues including gender and crime; changes in punishment; and literary perspectives on crime.
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Dark Knight Returnsby Frank MillerISBN 0606240020 (0-606-24002-0)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Dead Famousby Ben EltonISBN 0593048059 (0-593-04805-9)
Softcover, Bantam Press
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Degree of Guiltby Richard North PattersonISBN 0679420649 (0-679-42064-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Dirty Tricksby Michael DibdinISBN 0671695452 (0-671-69545-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Egyptian Cross Mysteryby Ellery QueenISBN 0575006161 (0-575-00616-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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The End of the Dreamby Ann RuleISBN 0671793578 (0-671-79357-8)
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Enquiryby Dick FrancisISBN 0671543628 (0-671-54362-8)
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False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakesby Thomas HovingISBN 0684831481 (0-684-83148-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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First Born: The Death of Arnold Zeleznik, Age Nine Murder, Madness, and What Came Afterby John KatzenbachISBN 0689114044 (0-689-11404-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The First Casualtyby Ben EltonISBN 0593051122 (0-593-05112-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Frequent Flyerby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0688081665 (0-688-08166-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straightby Jimmy BreslinISBN 0670333964 (0-670-33396-4)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight'Book summary:1969 Viking Press BCE hardcover with dust jacket as shown. Tight spine, clear, crisp pages, no writing, no tears, smoke free. Dust jacket shows light edge/corner wear, small cuts, now covered with a mylar archival dust jacket. Fiction [via]
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Ghosts: An 87th Precinct Novelby Ed McBain, Evan HunterISBN 0670338060 (0-670-33806-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Glimpses of the Moonby Edmund CrispinISBN 0575022590 (0-575-02259-0)
Hardcover, V. Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Glimpses of the Moon'Book summary:Professor Gervase Fen is in Devon working on his masterpiece critique of the modern novel, but keeps getting distracted - by the local animals (several pigs, a mildly insane cat, a horse with sleeping sickness), by the spectacular failures of the local electrical board, by the vicar's practical jokes, by the retired major yearning for another jolly war. Oh, and by the dismembered body, found in a nearby field, whose head keeps turning up in the most unlikely places.
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Gone Bambooby Anthony BourdainISBN 0679448802 (0-679-44880-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone Bamboo'Book summary:The author of Bone in the Throat, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, delivers a wry thriller pitting a CIA-trained assassin against a cross-dressing Mafioso wreaking havoc in the Caribbean. 15,000 first printing." [via]
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The Green Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0671041789 (0-671-04178-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile'Book summary:Read this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to cliffhanger -- in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list -- simultaneously -- and delighted millions of fans the world over. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs...and yours. [via]
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The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novelby Stephen KingISBN 0671032658 (0-671-03265-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel'Book summary:This novel taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades later. Maybe it's a little too cute, maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. As Time magazine put it, "Like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions ... the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does." And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome can be easily skipped by the squeamish. The Green Mile was nominated for a 1997 Bram Stoker Award. [via]
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Greenwich Killing Timeby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0688064094 (0-688-06409-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Gun Sellerby Hugh LaurieISBN 067102082X (0-671-02082-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gun Seller'Book summary:Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.
Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang's out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot. [via]
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Hell's Angelsby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 067960331X (0-679-60331-X)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hell's Angels'Book summary:"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again." Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson's vivid account of his experiences with California's most no-torious motorcycle gang, the Hell's Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial An-gels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, "For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson's book is a thoughtful piece of work." As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell's Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.
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A History of Violenceby DC Comics StaffISBN 0671004662 (0-671-00466-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In the Cutby Susanna MooreISBN 0679422587 (0-679-42258-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Journalist and the Murdererby Janet MalcolmISBN 0679731830 (0-679-73183-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Jupiter's Bonesby Faye KellermanISBN 0688156126 (0-688-15612-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Keys to the Streetby Ruth RendellISBN 0679774033 (0-679-77403-3)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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The Last Danceby Ed McBainISBN 0671025708 (0-671-02570-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Last Good Kiss: A Novelby James CrumleyISBN 0671498894 (0-671-49889-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Legsby William KennedyISBN 0698106725 (0-698-10672-5)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legs'Book summary:A fictionalized narrative of the erratic, stylish life and deadly career of notorious twenties gangster Legs Diamond, told with equivocal disbelief by his attorney, Marcus Gorman. [via]
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Lion in the Valleyby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0689116195 (0-689-11619-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Look to the Lady {Large Print}by Margery AllinghamISBN 0708902936 (0-7089-0293-6)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Lucky: A Memoirby Alice SeboldISBN 0684857820 (0-684-85782-0)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucky: A Memoir'Book summary:Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go.
Sebold fulfills a promise that she made to herself in the very tunnel where she was raped: someday she would write a book about her experience. With Lucky she delivers on that promise with mordant wit and an eye for life's absurdities, as she describes what she was like both as a young girl before the rape and how that rape changed but did not sink the woman she later became.
It is Alice's indomitable spirit that we come to know in these pages. The same young woman who sets her sights on becoming an Ethel Merman-style diva one day (despite her braces, bad complexion, and extra weight) encounters what is still thought of today as the crime from which no woman can ever really recover. In an account that is at once heartrending and hilarious, we see Alice's spirit prevail as she struggles to have a normal college experience in the aftermath of this harrowing, life-changing event.
No less gripping is the almost unbelievable role that coincidence plays in the unfolding of Sebold's narrative. Her case, placed in the inactive file, is miraculously opened again six months later when she sees her rapist on the street. This begins the long road to what dominates these pages: the struggle for triumph and understanding -- in the courtroom and outside in the world.
Lucky is, quite simply, a real-life thriller. In its literary style and narrative tension we never lose sight of why this life story is worth reading. At the end we are left standing in the wake of devastating violence, and, like the writer, we have come to know what it means to survive. [via]
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The Mile High Club: Library Editonby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0671047434 (0-671-04743-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Milk and Honeyby Faye KellermanISBN 0688086039 (0-688-08603-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Milk and Honey'Book summary:In the silent pre-dawn city hours -- alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand miles away in New York -- LAPD detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered in blood that is not hers. It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps forward to claim the little girl. Obsessed more deeply by this case than he imagined possible, Decker is determined to follow the scant clues to an answer. But his trail is leading him to a killing ground where four bodies lie still and lifeless. And by the time Rina returns, Peter Decker is already held fast in a sticky mass of hatred, passion, and murder -- in a world where intense sweetness is accompanied by a deadly sting.
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Mischiefby Ed McBainISBN 0688102212 (0-688-10221-2)
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The Mousetrap and Other Playsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0606191976 (0-606-19197-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Necropolis Railwayby Andrew MartinISBN 0571209610 (0-571-20961-0)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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Nerveby Dick FrancisISBN 0671525220 (0-671-52522-0)
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The New Shoeby Arthur William UpfieldISBN 0684180200 (0-684-18020-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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No Beast So Fierceby Edward Bunker, William StyronISBN 0679741550 (0-679-74155-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Oswald's Tale : An American Mysteryby Norman MailerISBN 0679425357 (0-679-42535-7)
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A Painted Houseby John GrishamISBN 0613494512 (0-613-49451-2)
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Poets and Murderby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 068416180X (0-684-16180-X)
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Pretty Boy Floydby Larry McMurtry, Diana OssanaISBN 0671891677 (0-671-89167-7)
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Racing Gameby Dick FrancisISBN 0671530860 (0-671-53086-0)
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Rainbow's Endby Ellis PetersISBN 0688035183 (0-688-03518-3)
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronxby Adrian Nicole LeblancISBN 0684863871 (0-684-86387-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx'Book summary:"Random Family" tells the American outlaw saga lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. With an immediacy made possible only after ten years of reporting, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses the reader in the mind-boggling intricacies of the little-known ghetto world. She charts the tumultuous cycle of the generations, as girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation.
Two romances thread through "Random Family: " the sexually charismatic nineteen-year-old Jessica's dizzying infatuation with a hugely successful young heroin dealer, Boy George, and fourteen-year-old Coco's first love with Jessica's little brother, Cesar, an aspiring thug. Fleeing from family problems, the young couples try to outrun their destinies. Chauffeurs whisk them to getaways in the Poconos and to nightclubs. They cruise the streets in Lamborghinis and customized James Bond cars. Jessica and Boy George ride the wild adventure between riches and ruin, while Coco and Cesar stick closer to the street, all four caught in a precarious dance between life and death. Friends get murdered; the DEA and FBI investigate Boy George's business activities; Cesar becomes a fugitive; Jessica and Coco endure homelessness, betrayal, the heartbreaking separation of prison, and throughout it all, the insidious damage of poverty. Together, then apart, the teenagers make family where they find it. Girls look for excitement and find trouble; boys, searching for adventure, join crews and prison gangs. Coco moves upstate to dodge the hazards of the Bronx; Jessica seeks solace in romance. Both find that love is the only place to go.
A gifted prose stylist and a profoundly compassionate observer, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc has slipped behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding inner-city life and come back with a riveting, haunting, and true urban soap opera that reveals the clenched grip of the streets. Random Family is a compulsive read and an important journalistic achievement, sure to take its place beside the classics of the genre. [via]
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Road Killby Kinky FriedmanISBN 068480378X (0-684-80378-X)
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The Run of His Lifeby Jeffrey ToobinISBN 0679441700 (0-679-44170-0)
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The Run of His Life: The People vs. O. J. Simpsonby Jeffrey ToobinISBN 0684842785 (0-684-84278-5)
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Sacred Gamesby Vikram ChandraISBN 0670999229 (0-670-99922-9)
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Savage Nightby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679733108 (0-679-73310-8)
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Serpico *by Peter MaasISBN 0670634980 (0-670-63498-0)
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Somebody's Husband Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripperby Gordon BurnISBN 0670803286 (0-670-80328-6)
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Spanking Watsonby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0671047426 (0-671-04742-6)
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The Spy Who Came in from the Coldby John Le CarreISBN 0698109163 (0-698-10916-3)
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Stalkerby Faye KellermanISBN 0688156134 (0-688-15613-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalker'Book summary:Faye Kellerman's latest thriller features Cynthia Decker, daughter of Peter Decker, familiar to readers of the author's previous novels featuring the L.A. detective and his Orthodox Jewish wife Rina Lazarus. In Kellerman's earlier books, we've met Cynthia briefly as a difficult adolescent upset by her parents' divorce and later as an Ivy League college student with an interest in following her overly protective father into the family business: solving crimes. Now Cynthia's a young L.A. cop who's the subject of what at first seems like innocent-enough teasing from her colleagues. They think she's snooty and standoffish and riding on her father's reputation. Actually, she's all of those things, which makes for a somewhat less than sympathetic heroine:
Beaudry said, "Every time we start shooting the bull, talking about the day, you say things like, 'Yeah, my father once had a case like that.'"
As the teasing escalates, Cindy's stalked, threatened, and finally frightened, although it pains her to admit it. There's a killer on the loose, and even if she's not the best cop on the force, she knows enough to turn to her father for help. But first, she has a brief affair with one of the men under his command. It seems a little too obvious a ploy for Daddy's attention and hardly adds to her character--we already know she's immature and a bit of a bitch. But at least this maneuver brings Peter back on the scene, allowing Kellerman to hit her stride as she gets back to a character who holds the reader's interest because he's more than two-dimensional. Sadly, Cindy's not quite ready for prime time; perhaps she'll grow up in her next outing. Or better yet, Kellerman will bring us more adventures by Peter and Rina. --Jane Adams [via]"I'm trying to relate."
"It pisses people off. It makes them think that their experiences are nothin' special. Everyone wants to feel special. You already feel special because you've got all this college. You gotta remember that the average Joe on the force is a high school graduate, maybe a couple of years at a junior college like me. If you're real smart, okay, you do a four-year state, then enter the academy with the idea of doing the gold."
"Like my dad--"
"Stop mentioning your dad. He isn't a legend, Decker, he's a pencil pusher."
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A Swell-Looking Babeby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679733116 (0-679-73311-6)
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The Tiger in the Wellby Philip PullmanISBN 0679826718 (0-679-82671-8)
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"Pullman is fast becoming a modern-day Dickens for young adults. The setting is the same, the strong eye for characters is there, as are the brooding atmosphere, the social conscience, and the ability to spin plot within plot. Sally Lockhart is now a young woman, left alone with a toddler. Nothing prepares her for the shock of receiving a summons from a man she has never even heard of, suing for divorce and the custody of her beloved Harriet. Sally struggles against the net closing around her, seeking to find out who is persecuting her and why. The writing style is lively and direct, and there's lots of action. This is a suspense novel with a conscience, and a most enjoyable one."--School Library Journal. [via] 
The Transgressorsby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679740163 (0-679-74016-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Underground Manby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0679768084 (0-679-76808-4)
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The Valachi Papersby Peter MaasISBN 067163173X (0-671-63173-X)
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Walter Mosley Prepacked Boxed Setby Walter MosleyISBN 0671906070 (0-671-90607-0)
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White Butterflyby Walter MosleyISBN 0671019856 (0-671-01985-6)
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