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Stoner author John Williams's first novel is a searing look at a man's relationship with his absent father, and how early trauma manifests throughout one's life John Williams's first novel is a brooding psychological noir. Arthur Maxley is a young man at the end of his emotional rope. Having dropped out of college, he's holed up in a big-city hotel, living off an allowance from his family, feeling nothing but alone and doing nothing but drinking to...
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Wire in the Blood volume 3
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Tony returns home from a disappointing book tour to assist Carol in her investigation of a divorced woman's violent death. When another victim turns up-this time an elderly man-Tony struggles to find a connection.
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A biography of a brilliant novelist underappreciated in his own time who became a twenty-first-century bestseller, from the New York Times—bestselling author.
When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet the quietly powerful tale of Midwestern college professor William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and anguish, eventually found an admiring audience...
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By 1975, Hammer Films was nearly broke and hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Trying to get a profitable film into production, they had been working with EMI, their British distributor, and a German company on the Dennis Wheatley TO THE DEVIL...A DAUGHTER. When it came out in 1976, it was a big hit. But it did not save Hammer in the end. Read the crazy story behind TO THE DEVIL...A DAUGHTER by David Taylor from the very beginning when...
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Little Shoppe of Horrors #31We have an interesting balance of films we are covering in this issue, with lots of inside information, great stories, and photos!
Featuring —Hammer 1971 DEMONS OF THE MIND.A truly original story that was hardly distributed in the UK or the USA, but was thought provoking, beautifully photographed and acted. Not a classic but one of Hammer better films of the 1970s. y Bruce G. Hallenbeck. - Interviews with¨ Frank Godwin...
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Entertainment One Film USA
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[2015]
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Based on the novels by Val McDermid, this is the story of a clinical psychologist, Dr Tony Hill, who is called upon by the police to investigate mysterious killings across the north of England that are too baffling for most detectives. The hit dramatic crime series that doesn't pull any punches in its depiction of the darker side of the human psyche, which only serves to make each episode particularly intriguing, and often authentically gruesome.
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"When 12-year-old Dory Byrne's pop left New York City's Lower East Side to fight Hitler, he promised her and her brothers that they'd be safe. Like he always said, "the neighborhood will give you what you need." There's the lady from the bakery, who saves them leftover crullers. The kind landlord who checks in on them. And every Thursday night, the Byrnes enjoy a free bowl of seafood stew at Mr. Caputo's restaurant. . . which is where Dory learns...
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Entertainment One Film USA
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[2015]
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Based on the novels by Val McDermid, this is the story of a clinical psychologist, Dr Tony Hill, who is called upon by the police to investigate mysterious killings across the north of England that are too baffling for most detectives. The hit dramatic crime series that doesn't pull any punches in its depiction of the darker side of the human psyche, which only serves to make each episode particularly intriguing, and often authentically gruesome.
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"Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage--and hoping...
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The Brown sisters volume 1
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"Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost--but not quite--dying, she's come up with seven directives to help her "Get a Life", and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family's mansion. The next items? Enjoy a drunken night out. Ride a motorcycle. Go camping. Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex. Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage. And... do...
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Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
19) The Night Hawks
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"The Night Hawks, a group of metal detectorists, are searching for buried treasure when they find a body on the beach in North Norfolk. At first Nelson thinks that the dead man might be an asylum seeker but he turns out to be a local boy, Jem Taylor, recently released from prison. Ruth is more interested in the treasure, a hoard of Bronze Age weapons. Nelson at first thinks that Taylor's death is accidental drowning, but a second death suggests murder....
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"New York Timesbestselling author Joseph Finder returns with an explosive new thrillerabout a female judge and the one personal misstep that could lead to her--and her family's--undoing. It was nothing more than a one-night stand. Juliana Brody, a judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit, maybe someday the highest court in the land. At a conference in a Chicago hotel, she meets a gentle,...
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