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Colin, a photographer, is working in Cornwall when he meets Morveren and finds himself inexplicably drawn towards her and she to him. Their fates intertwine with events that took place during the reign of Queen Mary 1st, also known as Bloody Mary. As the story unfolds, the link between the past and present becomes apparent, the past dictates the future of Colin's and Morveren's relationship, from which there is no escaping.
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Cuando Filomena Buscarsela, detective privado trabajando en Nueva York, lleva a su hija adolescente Antonia a Ecuador para que conozca a sus familiares, la visita se trastoca en más que un simple regreso a casa. Filomena no ha pisado Ecuador en años, y este viaje le devuelve episodios de su vida pasada en los que fue una revolucionaria. Ni siquiera logra tener tiempo de adaptarse a su nuevo entorno cuando es asesinado el sacerdote que, años atrás,...
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics....
69) 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...
70) 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...
71) 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...
72) 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...
73) Vampyr
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Nachtkommissar Gideon Voss untersucht widerwillig einen tödlichen Unfall und stolpert dabei über blutsaugende Okkultisten, hartnäckige Ermittlerkollegen und Gefühle für die Hauptverdächtige, die ihn mit tiefschwarzen Augen und angefeilten Eckzähnen manipuliert.
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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...
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What happens when a popular and young emperor suddenly dies, and the only person available to succeed him is his sister? How can people in an island country survive as climate change and martial law are eroding more and more opportunities for local sustainability and mutual aid? And, what can be done to challenge the rise of a new authoritarian political leadership at a time when the general public is obsessed with fears related to personal and national...
76) Dead Low Winter
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Late January of 1978. Football season is over; the lights from all of the Christmas trees are out. Full-time cabdriver, sometime card shark Keith Waverly is feeling good driving two exotic dancers to work. But his mood turns sour when he witnesses the violent abduction of a local street hustler. Later, when the man is found with his head ventilated by bullet holes, Waverly is dragged into a world of high-rolling gamblers, crooked politicians, sex,...
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Isla en negro recopila bajo el rubro "Historias de crimen y enigma" un conjunto de narraciones cortas escritas por autores cubanos contemporáneos que, desde una multiplicidad de variantes formales y argumentales, se acercan a tópicos de la narrativa policial y sus corrientes más modernas.
En este volumen encontrarán relatos de figuras conocidas del género (Rodolfo Pérez Valero y Lorenzo Lunar), otros más recientes (Yamilet García Zamora, Rebeca...
78) Bare Snow
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Featuring an insane cast of anthropomorphic characters, Bare Snow is based on Brett A. Brooks's Pussy Katnip Series and was first featured in A Hand of Gold and other stories in 2018.Jerry O'Hare is a journalist for the Herald, who is hoping to get the real scoop on Grizz Bigly and his dastardly schemes. When he and his apprentice witness a murder, Jerry's realizes he has more to worry over than the puddle of piss he left in Bigly's bed. Now, with...
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Pour qu'il y ait des survivants, ça prend des morts. J'ai survécu grâce à la mort de ma meilleure amie, Marie-Anne. On s'était promis que s'il arrivait quelque chose à l'une de nous deux, l'autre arrêterait la drogue. Alors je suis obligée de rester straight et d'écrire son histoire. Puis de mettre un timbre sur l'enveloppe qui contient mon livre. J'ai envoyé mon récit à un éditeur qui s'occupera de faire rayonner œuvre partout à travers...
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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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