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Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647001897
Size: 24.55 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-04-07
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Burnt Orange Heresy Movie Tie In Edition eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A driven art critic’s plan to steal a painting leads to murder in this classic neo-noir novel by the author of the Hoke Moseley series. Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything—blackmail, burglary, and beyond—to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living—and most reclusive—artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality’s limits to a bigger payoff? Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford creates a novel of dark hue and high aesthetic polish. The Burnt Orange Heresy—the 1970s crime classic now back in print—has lost none of its savage delights as it re-creates the making of a murderer, calmly and with exquisite tension, while satirizing the workings of the art world as the ultimate con. Now a major motion picture starring Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger Praise for The Burnt Orange Heresy “Stunning . . . A novel full of genuine fun that also manages to make a level statement about the art world and its hermetic credulities.” —New Yorker

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307488217
Size: 42.57 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009-08-19
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Miami Blues eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over ten years of cases wondering who would want to beat him into unconsciousness, steal his gun and badge, and most importantly, make off with his prized dentures. But the pieces never quite add up to revenge, and the few clues he has keep connecting to a dimwitted hooker, and her ex-con boyfriend and the bizarre murder of a Hare Krishna pimp. Chronically depressed, constantly strapped for money, always willing to bend the rules a bit, Hoke Moseley is hardly what you think of as the perfect cop, but he is one of the the greatest detective creations of all time.

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Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743247221
Size: 72.82 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2003-09-23
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Fahrenheit 451 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.

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Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553897608
Size: 65.87 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2003-06-03
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Years Of Rice And Salt eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know. . . . “A thoughtful, magisterial alternate history from one of science fiction’s most important writers.”—The New York Times Book Review It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur—the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe’s population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been—one that stretches across centuries, sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, and spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation. Through the eyes of soldiers and kings, explorers and philosophers, slaves and scholars, Robinson navigates a world where Buddhism and Islam are the most influential and practiced religions, while Christianity is merely a historical footnote. Probing the most profound questions as only he can, Robinson shines his extraordinary light on the place of religion, culture, power—and even love—in this bold New World. “Exceptional and engrossing.”—New York Post “Ambitious . . . ingenious.”—Newsday

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1471914399
Size: 52.40 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2014-08-14
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Machine In Ward Eleven eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 'I had a hunch that madness was a predominant theme and normal condition for Americans living in the second half of this century' Charles Willeford Willeford's pulp classic features six incisive tales as fresh as the day they were first published in 1963. Writing at a time when we still had some faith in our elected leaders, Willeford laid bare the American Dream - and 50 years later his revelations are as chilling and relevant as ever.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307490858
Size: 41.42 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2009-08-26
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Shark Infested Custard eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From the master of Miami noir comes this tale of four regular guys living in a singles apartment building who experience firsthand that there's more than one type of heat in Miami. Larry Dolman is a rather literal minded ex-cop who now works private security. Eddie Miller is an airline pilot who's studying to get his real estate license. Don Luchessi is a silver salesman who's separated from his wife but too Catholic to get a divorce. Hank Norton is a drug company rep who gets four times as many dames as any of the other guys. They are all regular guys who like to drink, play cards, meet broads, and shoot a little pool. But when a friendly bet goes horribly awry, they find themselves with two dead bodies on their hands and a homicidal husband in the wings—and acting more like hardened criminals than upstanding citizens.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468306901
Size: 71.51 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013-08-11
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Cockfighter eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the criminal underbelly of the 1960s rural South, a silent, iron-willed man is ready to sacrifice anything to rise to the top. A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford (1919-1988) is best known for his Miami-based crime novels featuring hard-boiled detective Hoke Moseley, including Miami Blues and Sideswipe. His career as a writer began in the late 1940s, but it was his 1972 novel Cockfighter that announced his name to a wider audience. Frank Mansfield is the titular cockfighter: a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. Mansfield haunts the cockpits, bars and roads of the rural South in the early 1960s, adrift but always capable of nearly anything... First published in complete form in 1972, and adapted by Willeford for a Monte Hellman film in 1974 (which became infamous for its use of real animals in the fight scenes), the novel Cockfighter has been out of print for nearly 20 years. Praise for Charles Willeford and Cockfighter “One of our most skilled, interesting, accomplished and productive writers.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post “Charles Willeford renders the sport [of cockfighting] with such knowledge and attention to detail that . . . I had the almost inexpressible impression of being on my knees again beside the great fighting pits of the southern circuit.” —Harry Crews “No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford.” —Elmore Leonard “Entertaining every step of the way... Willeford opens up for most of us a whole undiscovered world, and conveys it wonderfully.” —Publishers Weekly

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Book Detail:
Author: Elmore Leonard
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061832960
Size: 51.26 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2009-10-13
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF City Primeval eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you’ll find….The action never stops, the language sings and stings.” —Washington Post The City Primeval in Elmore Leonard’s relentlessly gripping classic noir is Detroit, the author’s much-maligned hometown and the setting for many of the Grand Master’s acclaimed crime novels. The “Alexander the Great of crime fiction” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) shines in these urban mean streets, setting up a downtown showdown between the psychopathic, thrill-killing “Oklahoma Wildman” and the dedicated city copy who’s determined to take him down. The creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of TV’s Justified fame, Elmore Leonard is the equal of any writer who has ever captivated readers with dark tales of heists, hijacks, double-crosses, and murder—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker included—and nobody then or now is better.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Blackmask.com
ISBN: 9781596544512
Size: 47.98 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2007-03
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Honey Gal eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Willeford's amazing novel of the Right Reverend Deuteronomy Springer, a white novelist who finds himself ministering to a black congregation in Florida.

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Book Detail:
Author: Douglas E. Winter
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN: 9780451159090
Size: 10.33 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1989
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Prime Evil eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This collection of twelve original horror tales includes contributions by such noted writers of the genre as Stephen King, Dennis Etchison, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, and Peter Straub

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Author: American Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 60.44 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1839
Category: Slavery
Language: en
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Status: Available

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Download PDF American Slavery As It Is eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143137220
Size: 19.29 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2022-03-15
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Bless Me Ultima eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A collectible hardcover 50th-anniversary edition of the bestselling Chicano novel of all time, featuring a new foreword by Erika L. Sánchez, the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter A Penguin Vitae Edition Although only six years old, Antonio Marez is perceptive beyond his years. He was brought into the world with the help of Ultima, a curandera, or folk healer, in touch with nature and the spirit world. Revered by some as a wisewoman but rebuked by others as a witch, Ultima has now come back to stay with Tony’s family in New Mexico. As Tony seeks out his destiny—torn between his mother’s farming forebears and his father’s wandering vaquero roots, between Spanish Catholicism and the gods of his indigenous ancestors—Ultima’s loving tutelage will help him navigate questions of life and death, good and evil, and reveal to him the vastness of the heritage that shapes him, in this pioneering work of literature. Penguin Vitae—loosely translated as “Penguin of one’s life”—is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Ray Willeford
Publisher: Wits End Publishing
ISBN: 9781930997295
Size: 48.97 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2003
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Second Half Of The Double Feature eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A posthumous collection of short stories and autobiographical sketches, seven of them never before published, by the author of the Hoke Moseley crime series.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Size: 27.84 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2022-01-17
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Main Street eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the Main Street takes place in the 1910s, with references to the start of World War I, the United States' entry into the war, and the years following the end of the war, including the start of Prohibition. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents of Gopher Prairie.

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Book Detail:
Author: Donald Kenrick
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810864401
Size: 13.85 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2007-07-05
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Historical Dictionary Of The Gypsies Romanies eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Originating in India, the Gypsies arrived in Europe around the 14th century, spreading not only across the entirety of the continent but also immigrating to the Americas. The first Gypsy migration included farmworkers, blacksmiths, and mercenary soldiers, as well as musicians, fortune-tellers, and entertainers. At first, they were generally welcome as an interesting diversion to the dull routine of that period. Soon, however, they attracted the antagonism of the governing powers, as they have continually done throughout the following centuries. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) seeks to end such prejudice by clarifying the facts about this nomadic people. Through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics, the history of the Gypsies and their culture is told.

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Book Detail:
Author: Simon Mawer
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590513975
Size: 50.73 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009-10-27
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Glass Room eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House becomes an instant masterpiece. Viktor and Liesel, a rich Jewish mogul married to a thoughtful, modern gentile, pour all of their hopes for their marriage and budding family into their stunning new home, filling it with children, friends, and a generation of artists and thinkers eager to abandon old-world European style in favor of the new and the avant-garde. But as life intervenes, their new home also brings out their most passionate desires and darkest secrets. As Viktor searches for a warmer, less challenging comfort in the arms of another woman, and Liesel turns to her wild, mischievous friend Hana for excitement, the marriage begins to show signs of strain. The radiant honesty and idealism of 1930 quickly evaporate beneath the storm clouds of World War II. As Nazi troops enter the country, the family must leave their old life behind and attempt to escape to America before Viktor's Jewish roots draw Nazi attention, and before the family itself dissolves. As the Landauers struggle for survival abroad, their home slips from hand to hand, from Czech to Nazi to Soviet possession and finally back to the Czechoslovak state, with new inhabitants always falling under the fervent and unrelenting influence of the Glass Room. Its crystalline perfection exerts a gravitational pull on those who know it, inspiring them, freeing them, calling them back, until the Landauers themselves are finally drawn home to where their story began. Brimming with barely contained passion and cruelty, the precision of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession, and the fear of failure - the Glass Room contains it all.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jim Thompson
Publisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN: 031619588X
Size: 30.65 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2012-05-01
Category: Fiction
Language: en
View: 2010
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Download PDF The Alcoholics eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Dr. Peter S. Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El Healtho clinic. A recovery center for the most severe cases of alcoholism in the state -- even if no one ever does quite seem to get dry there -- El Healtho has been the bane of Dr. Murphy's existence ever since he started running it. But now that its doors are about to close forever, Dr. Murphy finds he'll do anything to keep it open. Up to and including admitting Humphrey Van Twyne III, a patient with an extremely violent past whose wealthy family has the means to keep El Healtho open for business. Sure, the man isn't exactly an alcoholic. And yes, what he really needs is to be under the care of the surgeons who performed the lobotomy that's rendered Van Twyne all but a vegetable. But the money's good -- until the rag-tag group of ne'er-do-wells at El Healtho begin to wreak havoc with Dr. Murphy's plans, and suddenly no one day has ever seemed so long. A literary precursor to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Alcoholics is Thompson like you've never read him before, a pitch-black, mad-cap portrait of deviant behavior that is at once darkly comic, humane and harrowing.

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Book Detail:
Author: T.E. Lawrence
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN: 8184304986
Size: 65.18 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2020-01-01
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Seven Pillars Of Wisdom eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Because it seems almost impossible that one man can be this brilliant and do so much. A masterpiece of autobiography.

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Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781773233413
Size: 40.51 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2018
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF Look Homeward Angel Ebook Nc Digital Library eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A large family with a great appetite for living is dominated by the father until an older son, Gant, is able to free himself.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Joyce
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 2322460672
Size: 69.10 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2022-10-19
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Ulysses eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Loosely based on the Odyssey, this landmark of modern literature follows ordinary Dubliners in 1904. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast of supporting characters, Joyce pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. Captivating experimental techniques range from interior monologues to exuberant wordplay and earthy humor. A major achievement in 20th century literature.

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