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"A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee...
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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
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Beauregard "Bug Montage" es un marido, padre, y mecánico honesto. Pero alguna vez fue reconocido, desde Carolina del Norte hasta las playas de la Florida, como el mejor piloto de carreras clandestinas de la región. Igual que su padre desaparecido hace muchos años.
Su vida empezaba a encaminarse, parecía que podía dejar atrás definitivamente el mundo del crimen que lo marcó desde pequeño. Pero su situación financiera se ha vuelto imposible:...
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PREMIO ANTHONY A LA MEJOR NOVELA DEL AÑO
Un padre negro. Un padre blanco.
Dos hijos asesinados. Una misión de venganza.
Ike Randolph salió hace quince años de la cárcel. Desde entonces no ha tenido ni siquiera una multa por exceso de velocidad. Sin embargo, un hombre negro siempre teme a la policía. Lo último que espera escuchar es que su hijo Isiah haya sido asesinado junto a su marido blanco, Derek. Ike nunca había aceptado completamente...
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"Adam Lazarre-White's narration is multifaceted. His deep, resonating voice creates an enveloping soundscape, and he fully embodies the unique main characters of Cosby's latest crime novel." —AudioFile on Razorblade Tears
Award-winning New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby’s debut novel My Darkest Prayer is republished in a new edition, with a new introduction from the author.
“I handle the bodies.”
Whether it's working at his cousin's...
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"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...
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"Triumphant!"-THE LIBRARY JOURNAL, Starred Review
"Visceral, cutting" -BOOKLIST, Starred Review
**"Powerhouse anthology" -Publishers Weekly
-Includes the Bram Stoker Award Nominated story:
Through the Looking Glass and Straight Into Hell,by Christa Carmen
Addiction is the perpetual epidemic, where swarms of human moths flutter to the flames of hell. Because that warm blanket of a heroin high, that joyful intoxication of a pint of vodka, that...
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Candlewick Press
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"For most of America's history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors' real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary authors--diverse in ethnic background, sexual orientation, geographic...
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"It?s been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories?a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there?s something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...