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Who can Kiam trust when friends behave as ruthlessly as enemies and the person that he is most loyal to is the very one that has a gun aimed at his back? Reeling in a bloodthirsty rage, he takes to the streets with only one mission on his mind - vengeance. Blood-stained hands and deceitful hearts have destroyed an undying allegiance. As Kiam unleashes his vicious murder game on known adversaries, he overlooks the true enemy which is nearest. However, spilled blood will lead him to the truth.

San Francisco Noir lashes out with hard-biting tales exploring the shadowy nether regions of scenic "Baghdad by the Bay". In this superb collection, virtuosos of the genre meet up with the best of SF’s literary fiction community to chart a unique psycho-geography for a dark landscape. From inner city boroughs to the outlands, each contributor offers an original story based in a distinct neighborhood.

Beneath the glitter of Mardi Gras lies the sleaze of Bourbon Street; under the celestial sounds of JazzFest, the nightmare screams of a city once at war within its neighborhoods, but after Hurricane Katrina, seemingly at war with nature and the rest of the country as well. New Orleans is a third world country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a Puritan nation.

Once, I was nothing. Hungry, abandoned, wandering, and alone. An adolescent street rat fighting for crumbs. Then a chance encounter changed my entire world. A man in an expensive suit asked me how much my life was worth. I didn't have an answer because I didn't know. He asked if I thought it was worth killing for. Impulsively, I said yes.... He found me, then fostered me, and, in the interim, turned me into a killing machine.

Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store.

Deborah Stark is a newscaster with ambition to spare and a take-no-prisoners attitude when it comes to love. Her latest whirlwind affair with the darkly sexy Marcus ends with D. never expecting to see him again. Then her mother dies right before Thanksgiving and Marcus shows up on the doorstep of D.'s childhood home in New Jersey - and the ice around her heart cracks a little. But for D., work comes first.

Theo, our scruffy, big-hearted, and quick-witted heroine, is not so much down on her luck as delivered luckless into a culture where the winners and losers have already been decided. Her adventures in getting over take her from San Francisco to New York City, from dyke bars to telemarketing outfits, casinos to free clinics.

A year after the AIDS-related death of filmmaker Clarence Laird, known to friends as Angel Clare, his young boyfriend, Michael, is still in deep mourning. Clarence’s older, sophisticated friends—male and female, gay and straight—find themselves the custodians of Michael, a callow kid they never liked much to begin with. What follows is a dark, intimate comedy about real grief and false grief, misunderstanding, friendship, love, and forgiveness.

Six women. Six abductions. Six souls in peril... London is in the grip of a barbaric serial killer, dubbed Herod by the tabloid press. Four pregnant women have been abducted in quick succession, their bodies mutilated and dumped. When a fifth pregnant woman, Julia Caton, is taken from her home in the dead of night, DCI David Rosen knows that time is running out to save her... Then Rosen gets a mysterious phone call from Father Sebastian Flint, an enigmatic priest who seems to know rather too much about the abductions.

Absorbing and escapist, The Villa on the Riviera is perfect summer listening for fans of Rachel Hore and Santa Montefiore. Polly Smith is struggling to make a living as an artist when her friend and patron, Oliver, invites her to the south of France. But her world is unexpectedly turned upside down when she digs out her birth certificate to apply for a passport. Her parents are not who she believed them to be - even her name is different.

Jack Fletcher is hired to take pictures of a dangerous, premier mysto surf spot off the Pacific Northwest. But disaster soon strikes when an Indian boy drowns - and the men from his reservation seek vengeance .

Una piccola città di provincia, un garage. Un gruppo di ragazzi che ogni martedì si incontra per giocare di ruolo. Per vent'anni, mentre fuori la vita va avanti, il mondo cambia, la provincia perde di senso e scopo. Desiderio di fuga o forma di resistenza? Quel continuo tessere mondi prende i contorni dell'opposizione a una forza centripeta che, come il "Nulla" della Storia infinita, divora il fuori, vaporizza la città, il paese, le relazioni, le vite.

In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.

My name is Salvador Rosas. Back in the barrio, my past is written on the walls: ESHB. Short for East Side Hollenbeck, my father's gang - my gang. Hell, it's a family tradition, one that sent both my brothers away. They used to call me "Ghost" because I haunted people's dreams. Now I've got nothing going for me except a hipster gringo mentoring me in a new career. An ex-con making craft beer? No mames. Still, people in this neighborhood look out for one another.

Award-winning poet and rapper Kae Tempest's electrifying debut novel takes us into the beating heart of the capital in this multigenerational tale of drugs, desire and belonging. It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it until you're driving through it, watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind. Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money.

Früher war mehr Liebe? Von wegen! Mitte vierzig ist ein komisches Alter, findet Bea. Mal fühlt sie sich wie eh und je - jung, fit, einigermaßen attraktiv -, dann wieder weisen sie die ersten Wechseljahrssymptome unsanft darauf hin, dass ihre romantische Hoch-Zeit womöglich vorüber ist. Nicht zuletzt, dass ihr langjähriger Freund sie wegen einer Jüngeren verlassen hat, macht ihr zu schaffen. Es kommt noch dicker: Sowohl ihre lebenslustige Mutter Rosi, 64, als auch ihre Tochter Mona, 22, tauchen mit neuen Liebhabern auf - beide in Beas Alter. Als ihr dann noch ein wichtiger Auftrag durch die Lappen geht, sieht Bea rot.

Früher war mehr Liebe? Von wegen! Mitte vierzig ist ein komisches Alter, findet Bea. Mal fühlt sie sich wie eh und je - jung, fit, einigermaßen attraktiv -, dann wieder weisen sie die ersten Wechseljahrssymptome unsanft darauf hin, dass ihre romantische Hoch-Zeit womöglich vorüber ist. Nicht zuletzt, dass ihr langjähriger Freund sie wegen einer Jüngeren verlassen hat, macht ihr zu schaffen. Es kommt noch dicker: Sowohl ihre lebenslustige Mutter Rosi, 64, als auch ihre Tochter Mona, 22, tauchen mit neuen Liebhabern auf - beide in Beas Alter.

Dr. Devlin Dane has had his sights set on my panties for months. But I've done a stellar job of fending him off. As Mercy Medical's most eligible bachelor, he has no problem in the panty-dropping department. He's tall, dark, and inked all over. I get the appeal; I'm not dead. I'm not stupid either. He's a walking heartbreak waiting to happen. But when Reese Dane comes crashing into my life - literally- the game suddenly changes. The two have an unstoppable pull like centrifugal force.

Was tun, wenn Flaute im Bett herrscht? Ganz klar: her mit heißen Höschen, Handschellen und allem, was den Göttergatten von der Glotze ablenken könnte! Anne und Teresa scheuen weder Mühe noch Spielzeuge, um ihre müden Männer in Fahrt zu bringen - mit ungeahnten Ergebnissen. Anne und Teresa teilen ein Problem: lendenlahme Männer. Anne wünscht sich ein zweites Kind, aber dazu müsste man wohl oder übel mal miteinander schlafen.

Elizabeth Gaskell's remarkable first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life portrays a love that defies the rigid boundaries of class with tragic consequences.