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- Sarah Rose Etter - Ripe
Sarah Rose Etter - Ripe
- 2023
- Etter, Sarah Rose
- 256
- anglické
One millennial woman's journey through our late capitalist hellscape and offers a brilliantly incisive look at the absurdities of modern
- Sunburn
Sunburn
- 2023
- Howarth, Chloe Michelle
- 288
- anglické
Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds peop
- Driven - Sallis James
Driven - Sallis James
- 2012
- Sallis, James
- 160
- anglické
Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who doublecrossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West and founded a successful business back...
- Drive J. Sallis
Drive J. Sallis
- 2012
- James Sallis
- 192
- anglické
Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery and payback...
- Monte Carlo or Bust
Monte Carlo or Bust
Almost everyone is familiar with Monte Carlo's association with gambling, and its famous Casino. Many may also have come across the Monte Carlo fallacy, so-called after the...
- Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Wild Ducks Flying Backward
- 2006
- Robbins, Tom
- 256
- anglické
From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an...
- Murder Unmentioned
Murder Unmentioned
A newly-discovered gun casts light on a family secret long kept... a murder the Sinclairs would prefer stayed unsolved. As old wounds tear open, the d
- Gentlemen Formerly Dressed
Gentlemen Formerly Dressed
After narrowly escaping the terror of Nazi Germany, Rowland Sinclair and his companions land in London, believing they are safe. But they are wrong. A
- After Agatha
After Agatha
After Agatha: Women Write Crime is the first book to examine how British, American, and Canadian female crime writers pursue their craft and what they think about crime writing....
- Beyond the Heros Journey
Beyond the Heros Journey
Telling a story is simple, right? You take a 'hero' and send them on a 'journey'. There's a beginning, middle and an end. But what if your story doesn't fit into that basic...
- PROSTrATE CANCER
PROSTrATE CANCER
- 2022
- Sharpe, Graham
- 336
- anglické
Prostate cancer really is the little understood male killer. It is the second most commonly occurring cancer in men and the fourth most commonly occurring cancer overall. About...
- Dracula
Dracula
- 2022
- Morgan, Giles
- 224
- anglické
Few fictional characters have proven to be as enduringly popular as the legendary Count Dracula. First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's gothic masterpiece thrilled and disturbed...
- Short History of Disease
Short History of Disease
This second edition contains an afterword on COVID-19, looking at the origins and nature of the virus, and how governments across the globe dealt with the most serious public...
- All the Tears in China
All the Tears in China
Shanghai in 1935 is a 20th century Babylon where fortunes are made and lost. Into this cultural melting pot, Rowland Sinclair arrives from Sydney to r
- Dangerous Language
Dangerous Language
A Communist agent is murdered on the steps of Parliament House and Rowland finds himself drawn into a dangerous world of politics and assassination. O
- Give The Devil His Due
Give The Devil His Due
When Rowland Sinclair is invited to take his yellow Mercedes onto the Marouba Speedway, popularly known as the Killer Track, he agrees without caution
- Stargazer
Stargazer
- 2022
- Laurie Petrou
- 256
- anglické
A darkly compelling coming-of-age story, perfect for fans of Donna Tartt's The Secret History or Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies. It is the fall of 1995 at Rocky Barrens...
- House in the Country
House in the Country
- 2022
- Matthews, Simon
- 256
- anglické
For nearly 150 years living in a house in the country has been what many of us aspire to. This book explores how this idea was imported from the US by Ebenezer Howard, founder...
- Suspects
Suspects
- 2022
- Thomson, David
- 352
- anglické
Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime--these are a few of nearly 100 names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts to compose short biographies of some...
- Silver Light
Silver Light
- 2022
- Thomson, David
- 384
- anglické
From 1865 to 1950, the multi-faceted world of the American West, its rich, colorful characters, and its many faces - historical, mythic, and cinematic - are captured in the...
- Simenon
Simenon
- 2022
- Forshaw, Barry
- 256
- anglické
Georges Simenon was the most successful writer of crime fiction in a language other than English in the modern age, and his detective Maigret is rivalled only by Sherlock...
- British Traitors
British Traitors
- 2022
- Kerr, Gordon
- 288
- anglické
British Traitors explores the lives and motivations of a number of the traitors who betrayed their country during the twentieth century. From Kim Philby to Lord Haw-Haw, Wilfred...
- 10,000 Ways to Die
10,000 Ways to Die
Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other...
- Brother Kemal
Brother Kemal
- 2013
- Arjouni, Jakob
- 192
- anglické
Valerie de Chavannes, a financier's daughter, summons private investigator Kemal Kayankaya to her villa in Frankfurt's diplomatic quarter and commissions him to find her...