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An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an
assassin and a telepath! Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when
it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the
betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate
assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in
over his head! Twilight has overcome many challenges in putting
together the Forger family, but now all his hard work might come
undone when Yor’s younger brother Yuri pops in for a surprise
visit! Can Twilight outsmart Yuri, who actually works for the
Ostanian secret service?!
A graphic novel by a lifelong motorcycle club member, inspired
by the secrets of one percenters.
Phil Cross has been a Hells Angel for over 40 years. In the
world of outlaw motorcycle clubs, there are many stories that can't
be told, for a variety of reasons, but they have spurred Phil's
imagination to create a fictional story inspired by real
events.
One-percenter antiheroes populate these pagesa tougher and
wilder than any character ever played by Dennis Hopper, Peter
Fonda, or Marlon Brando. The guys in the tales Phil spins might
remind you of Easy Rider and The Wild One, but the hard glint in
their eyes proves that they are based on the real deal.
Illustrator Ronn Sutton provides stunning visuals to bring
Phil's stories to life. These bikers aren't going to ride off into
the sunset any time soon."
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Two-Way Murder
(Paperback)
E.C.R. Lorac; Introduction by Martin Edwards
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R260
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A lost novel from the golden age of crime, published for the very
first time. It happened on a dark and misty night; the night of the
ball at The Prince's Hall, Fordings. Abuzz with rumours surrounding
the disappearance of Rosemary Reeve on the eve of last year's ball,
the date proves ill-fated again when two homebound partygoers, Nick
and Dilys, come to a swerving halt before a corpse on the road.
Arriving at the scene to the news that Nick has been attacked after
telephoning for the police, Inspector Turner suspects there may be
more to the case than deadly accident. It's not long before Waring
of the local C.I.D. is drawn into the investigation, faced with the
task of unravelling an increasingly tangled knot of misleading
alibis and deep-rooted local grievances. Written in the last years
of the author's life, this previously unpublished novel is a
tribute to Lorac's enduring skill for constructing an ingenious
puzzle, replete with memorable characters and gripping detective
work. This edition also includes an introduction by the CWA Diamond
Dagger Award-winning author Martin Edwards.
In this exuberantly strange story collection, Flores asks: Whose
reality? What rules? --Jean Chen Ho, author of The New York Times
Book Review These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored
by Fernando A. Flores's deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation
of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where
so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives. --Kelly Link,
author of Get in Trouble Psychedelic, dazzling stories set in the
cracks of the Texas-Mexico borderland, from an iconoclastic
storyteller and the author of Tears of the Trufflepig. No one
captures the border--its history and imagination, its danger,
contradiction, and redemption--like Fernando A. Flores, whose
stories reimagine and reinterpret the region's existence with
peerless style. In his immersive, uncanny borderland, things are
never what they seem: a world where the sun is both rising and
setting, and where conniving possums efficiently take over an
entire town and rewrite its history. The stories in Valleyesque
dance between the fantastical and the hyperreal with dexterous,
often hilarious flair. A dying Frederic Chopin stumbles through
Ciudad Juarez in the aftermath of his mother's death, attempting to
recover his beloved piano that was seized at the border, while a
muralist is taken on a psychedelic journey by an airbrushed
Emiliano Zapata T-shirt. A woman is engulfed by a used-clothing
warehouse with a life of its own, and a grieving mother
breathlessly chronicles the demise of a town decimated by violence.
In two separate stories, queso dip and musical rhythms are bottled
up and sold for mass consumption. And in the final tale, Flores
pieces together the adventures of a young Lee Harvey Oswald as he
starts a music career in Texas. Swinging between satire and
surrealism, grief and joy, Valleyesque is a boundary- and
border-pushing collection from a one-of-a-kind stylist and voice.
With the visceral imagination that made his debut novel, Tears of
the Trufflepig, a cult classic, Flores brings his vision of the
border to life--and beyond.
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Devils
(Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs; Translated by Constance Garnett; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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R149
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Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P.
Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the
head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small
group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become
alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the
subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young
radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that
possessed the minds of many thinking people Russian society at the
time. The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their
naivety, ludicrous single-mindedness and readiness for murder and
destruction, might seem exaggerated - until we consider their
all-too-recognisable descendants in the real world ever since. The
key figure in the novel, however, is beyond politics. Nikolay
Stavrogin, another product of rationalism run wild, exercises his
charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality. His
unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual
crime - in a chapter long suppressed by the censor. This prophetic
account of modern morals and politics, with its fifty-odd
characters, amazing events and challenging ideas, is seen by some
critics as Dostoevsky's masterpiece.
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Subject 9
(Hardcover)
Bradley H Shprintz; Edited by Jason Shprintz
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Creed
(Paperback)
Margiad Evans; Introduction by Sue Asbee
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R339
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Marcille, now the lord of the dungeon, makes a wish...and it ends
up being a curse that threatens to envelop the entire world! Can
Laios and his party trick Marcille and stop the winged lion before
it’s too late!?
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Darkhold
(Paperback)
Steve Orlando, Daniel Kibblesmith, Ryan North
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