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What's Really Hood!: A Collection of Tales from the Streets
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Nikki Turner, KaShamba Williams, Joy · 283 pages
KL NOIR: RED
Adib Zaini, Khairulnizam Bakeri, Megat Ishak, Dayang Noor, Amir Hafizi, Brian Gomez, Preeta Samarasan, Marc de Faoite, Shaz Johar, Fadzlishah Johanabas, Dina Zaman, Eeleen Lee, Kris Williamson, Shivani Sivagurunathan · 270 pages
"KL NOIR: Red is the first of 4 volumes about the Malaysian capital city's dark side. There are 14 short stories and one essay about the seedy, the sinister and sometimes the spooky. You will find murder, drug-dealing, kidnapping, sexual depravity, prostitution, celebrity secrets, suicides, academic rivalry, gangsters, police brutality, cannibalism, black magic, creepy rituals, political corruptio
Manila Noir
Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra, Sabina Murray, Angelo R. Lacuesta, Budjette Tan, F.H. Batacan, Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., R. Zamora Linmark, Gina Apostol, Marianne Villanueva, Eric Gamalinda, Jonas Vitman, Lysley Tenorio, Rosario Cruz-Lucero · 258 pages
Tales From Da Hood
Nikki Turner · 304 pages
These stories are not fables or fairy tales. They are severe chronicles of gangstas, written by men and women who have starved and bled and survived by the code of the streets.Essence magazine's #1 bestselling author Nikki Turner has earned her rep as "the Princess of Hip-Hop" with gritty urban novels like A Hustler's Wife and The Glamorous Life. Now she lends her considerable street cred to this
Batman: Black and White
Ted McKeever, Bruce Timm, Joe Kubert, Howard Chaykin, Archie Goodwin, Walter Simonson, Jan Strnad, Kent Williams, Chuck Dixon, Neil Gaiman, Klaus Janson, Andrew Helfer, Matt Wagner, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dennis O'Neil, Brian Bolland, Katsuhiro Otomo
Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance
Lee Child · 400 pages
Features new stories in which characters take the law into their own hands in search of vengeance, with contributions by Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Karin Slaughter as well as up-and-coming new writers in the field.
Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories
Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Norbert Davis, John D. MacDonald, Benjamin Appel, Elmore Leonard, Jonathan Craig, David Goodis, Ross Macdonald, W.R. Burnett, Mickey Spillane, Gil Brewer, Leigh Brackett, Helen Nielsen, Evan Hunter, Jim Thompson, H.A. DeRosso, Michael Kerr, James Re · 540 pages
Dark Love
John Lutz, David J. Schow, Robert E. Weinberg, Richard Laymon, Bob Burden, George C. Chesbro, John Peyton, Kathryn Ptacek, John Shirley, Michael Blumlein, Ed Gorman, Lucy Taylor, Karl Edward Wagner, Douglas E. Winter, Michael O'Donoghue, Kathe Koja, Basil Copper · 408 pages
Contains: [Lunch at the Gotham Café](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781075W/Lunch_at_the_Gotham_Cafe) / Stephen King -- The psycho / Michael O'Donoghue -- Pas de Deux / Kathe Koja -- Bright blades gleaming / Basil Copper -- Hanson's radio / John Lutz -- Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow -- Ro Erg / Robert Weinberg -- Going under / Ramsey Campbell -- Hidden / Stuart Kamins
American Girls About Town
Jennifer Weiner, Lauren Weisberger, Adriana Trigiani, Judi Hendricks · 369 pages
Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King · 419 pages
Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four intense short stories with retribution as the central theme. Released in the fall of 2010 in hardcover and audiobook formats, Full Dark, No Stars is a powerful read featuring some of Stephen's most graphic and merciless content to date. ([source][1]) Contains: - [1922][2] - [A Good Marriage][3] - [Big Driver][4] - Fair Execution [1]:
Metatropolis: Original Science Fiction Stories in a Shared Future
John Scalzi, Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Tobias S. Buckell · 288 pages
" ... METAtropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers ... who combined their talents to build a new urban future and then wrote their own stories in this collectively-constructed world. The results are individual glimpses of a shared vision ..."--Dust cover flap.
Six Easy Pieces
Walter Mosley · 288 pages
"Ezekiel Rawlins now has a steady job as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, a nice house with a garden, a loving woman, and children. He counts the blessings of leading a law-abiding life, but is "nowhere near happy." Easy mourns the loss of his best friend, Mouse. Though Easy tries to leave the street life behind, he still finds himself trading favors and investigating cases of
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1,132 pages
Contains: - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Scandal in Bohemia - Red-Headed League - Case of Identity - Boscombe Valley Mystery - Five Orange Pips - Man with the Twisted Lip - Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - Adventure of the Speckled Band - Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Adventure of the Noble Bachelor - Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - Adventure of the Copper Beeches - Case-B
Welcome to Bordertown
Holly Black, Ellen Kushner · 517 pages
Bordertown: a city on the border between our human world and the elfin realm. Runaway teens come from both sides of the border to find adventure, and to find themselves. Elves play in rock bands and race down the street on spell-powered motorbikes. Human kids recreate themselves in squats and clubs and artist's studios of Soho. Authors including Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Cory Doctorow, Neil Ga
A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women
Elizabeth George · 560 pages
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century's worth of superb crime fiction penned by women. This veritable all-star team delivers tales of dark deeds that will keep you reading long into the night. Included are these works: "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell The Summer of People" by Shirley Jackson "The Irony of Hate" by Ruth Rendell "Country Lovers" by Nadine Gor
A Darker Shade of Sweden
Tove Alsterdal, Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser, Magnus Montelius, Dag Ohrlund, Malin Persson Giolito, Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo, Sara Stridsberg, Johan Theorin, Veronica von Schenck, Cilla Borjlind, Katarina Wennstam, Rolf Borjlind, Ake Edwardson, Inger Frimansson, Eva Gabrielsson, Anna Jansson, Asa La · 361 pages
"Containing seventeen stories, never before published in English, 'A Darker Shade of Sweden' illuminates this beguiling country and its inhabitants as never before. Included are stories from such Swedish literary luminaries as: Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, Asa Larsson, and Eva Gabrielsson."--Provided by publisher. Reunion -- Tove Alsterdal He liked his hair -- Rolf and Cilla Borjlind Ne
Dubliners
James Joyce · 226 pages
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation
Bordertown
Mark Alan Arnold, Emma Bull, Midori Snyder, Ellen Kushner · 256 pages
Points of Departure: Liavek Stories
Patricia C. Wrede, Pamela Dean · 363 pages
"Liavek is a hot, busy trade city, situated on the southern shore of the Sea of Luck at the mouth of the Cat River. In Liavek, magic is based on one's 'birth luck' and the length of time one's mother was in labor. Everyone has luck, but using it is another matter. Luck, or magic, must be invested annually in some object outside oneself; only then can it be used to power spells. And investing one's
Like a Charm
Denise Mina, John Harvey, Kelley Armstrong, John Connolly, Emma Donoghue, Jane Haddam, Laura Lippman, Peter Robinson, Fidelis Morgan, Peter Moore Smith, Lynda La Plante, Jerrilyn Farmer, Lee Child, Mark Billingham · 352 pages
KARIN SLAUGHTER, MARK BILLINGHAM, LEE CHILD, JOHN CONNOLLY, JOHN HARVEY,LYNDA LA PLANTE, DENISE MINA, PETER ROBINSON - A STUNNING COLLECTION BY CRIME FICTION'S BEST...Desire leaves a man destroyed - a young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden - an accidental encounter on a train ends violently - ambition leads to a curious exchange - an uncanny likeness changes two lives forever -
The Best American Noir of the Century
James Ellroy, Otto Penzler · 752 pages
From the Publisher: In his introduction to the The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, "Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes