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1) John Woman
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2018. | First edition, first Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. | Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic | 377 pages ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive | Grove Atlantic | English | Available Online
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2018 | Grove Atlantic | English | Available Online
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2018. | Center Point Large Print edition. | Center Point Large Print | 512 pages (large print) ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
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At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets...
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[2002] | Washington Square Press | 263 pages ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
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c1990 | 1st ed. | Norton | 219 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
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1993 | Thorndike Press | 288 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
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In a Los Angeles bar, "Easy" Rawlins, a black war veteran just fired from his job, wonders how he'll pay his mortgage. DeWitt Albright, a quietly vicious white man, walks in and offers Easy good money if he'll find Daphne Monet.
Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles.
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[2019] | First edition. | Grove Press | xii, 115 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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"In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools and practical advice needed to write a novel in a single year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the reader through the fundamental building blocks of fiction to deliver a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of conversational and instructive chapters, Mosley breaks down the art of fiction to its most...
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2011 | Riverhead Books | 359 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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p2011 | Library ed. | Books on Tape | 7 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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A beautiful young woman walks into PI Leonid McGill's office with a stack of cash. She's an artist, she tells Leonid, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Will sorting out the woman's crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death's door?
5) Blonde faith
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2008, c2007 | Grand Central Publishing | 308 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
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p2007 | Hachette Audio | 6 sound discs (ca. 7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Chrismas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that the ex-marine Black is probably dead, or will be soon. Easter's appearance is only the beginning, as Easy is immersed in a sea of problems. The love of his life is marrying another man and his friend Mouse is wanted for the murder of a father of 12. As he's searching...
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2020. | First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. | Grove Press | 328 pages ; 24 cm. | English |
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"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved,...
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2016. | First edition. | Doubleday | 305 pages ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2016. | Center Point Large Print edition. | Center Point Large Print | 415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Life for Easy Rawlins is surprisingly... easy. He's living off the proceeds of his last case, trying to keep out of trouble. Of course it's not going to last. Because Easy's old friend Mouse knocks on his door. Mouse is one of the deadliest men in America. And Mouse wants a small favor. He wants Easy to help a man he says is wrongly imprisoned, a friend of Charcoal Joe. Charcoal Joe is a mythical figure in the LA underworld - he pulls all the strings...
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2004 | 1st ed. | Little, Brown and Co | p. cm. | English | On Shelf
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p2004 | Time Warner AudioBooks | 7 sound discs (ca. 7.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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It is 1965, and the devastating Watts riots are ravaging Los Angeles. A white man attempts to escape from a mob by running into a nearby apartment building. A few days later he is accused of killing a woman known as Little Scarlet who is found dead in the building. But when Easy Rawlins starts to investigate, he suspects the killer to be someone else-someone whose rage is racially motivated and as deep as his passion. For those who always wanted to...
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2002, c2001 | Warner books ed. | Warner Vision Books | 351 p. ; 18 cm. | English |
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p2001 | Unabridged [ed.] | Chivers North America/Chivers Sound Library | 8 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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A fantastic thriller set in 1950s Los Angeles featuring a new hero to the mystery genre.
10) Blood grove
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2021. | First edition. | Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company | 307 pages ; 25 cm. | English |
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"After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else."--Publisher description.
1969. Easy Rawlins, the Black private...
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[2020] | First edition. | Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company | 166 pages ; 19 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building his reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instincts and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip "Catfish" Worry comes knocking. Catfish is a ninety-four-year-old Mississippi blues-man who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. The opportunity...
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[2015] | First edition. | Doubleday | 272 pages ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2016. | Center Point Large Print edition. | Center Point Large Print | 381 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English |
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Investigating the murder of a client he initially refused to help, Leonid navigates difficult personal elements in his own life while uncovering dark secrets about the victim's old-money family and its missing heiress.
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2008 | 1st U.S. ed. | Distributed to the trade by Macmillan | 180 p. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together--years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig...
14) Known to evil
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2010 | Riverhead Books | 325 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power behind the throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control every little thing that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can't fix -- and he's come to Leonid McGill for help. It seems a young woman has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to Rinaldo to track her down.
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[2012], 2013 | New American Library | 326 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
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When Zella Grisham is accused of both shooting her boyfriend and stealing more than six million dollars from the Rutgers Assurance Corp., Leonid McGill investigates, while his own family life begins to unravel around him.
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c1996 | 1st ed. | Norton | 300 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
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1996 | Thorndike Press | 447 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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[2014] | First edition. | Doubleday | 308 pages ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2015. | Large Print edition. | Center Point Large Print | 432 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
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When a boxer-turned-revolutionary kidnaps the daughter of a weapons manufacturer and threatens to publicly execute her in exchange for a lucrative ransom, Easy Rawlins is tapped by the LAPD to make a difficult border crossing to navigate an ensuing standoff.
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2015. | First edition. | Tor | 300 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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"Two people brought together by a horrific act are united in a common cause by the powers of the Silver Box. The two join to protect humanity from destruction by an alien race, the Laz, hell-bent on regaining control over the Silver Box, the most destructive and powerful tool in the universe. The Silver Box will stop at nothing to prevent its former master from returning to being, even if it means finishing the earth itself" --
Two people struggle...
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1997 | 1st ed. | Black Classic Press | 244 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2006 | 1st ed. | Little, Brown and Co | 308 p. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
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2006 | Thorndike Press | 417 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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