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Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness,all the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the centre of this powerful, popular American classic, yet still he prevails. Resourcefully, doggedly, Jacky nurtures his spirit of independence, his capacity to love, and his faith in a nation's dream in a journey that takes him from Wichita to Corpus Christi and from poverty to possibility.

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The fiction of Lucius Shepard has more to do with Joseph Conrad than Isaac Asimov. Fascinated by deception and decay, and generally labeled a cyberpunk writer, his work transcends the limits of genre fiction. This dazzling collection of seven stories explores the dark side where sci-fi meets horror.

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Bringing historical fact spiritedly to life, Fraser tells the rollicking tale of how "the Black Ajax" became as famous a figure in England as Napoleon -- and just as much a threat to its establishment -- before he passed into boxing legend and created a precedent for modern black prizefighters.

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In this steamy novel of bondage and abandon, Richard, an Englishman in Hamburg, is introduced by Margaret Wagner to her beautiful niece Helena, and with them experiences the thrills of sexual slavery and transvestism. Then Richard finds himself in the sensual tutelage of one of Margaret's business acquaintances.

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The longtime editor in chief of Variety takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most iconic films of the '60s and '70s and details his own whirlwind journey to the forefront of a Hollywood revolution.

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The first collection of writings about Tom Waits-spanning the artist's thirty-year career in music, film, and theatre-and featuring the most revealing, bizarre, provocative, and hilarious interviews, profiles, reviews, and conversations with the world's favourite bohemian bandleader

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A seemingly impossible murder in a London rooming house sends master sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. Watson, on a perilous search for a killer that leads them from England to Egypt, India, and Singapore, as they encounter formidable foes, including the evil Harat and corrupt Lord Barrin

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In a crafty new novel featuring the world's greatest literary detective, Vanneman extends the boundaries of the Sherlock Holmes canon with a knotty investigation that takes the celebrated sleuth and his cohort, Dr. Watson, far from the cozy Victorian comforts of 221B Baker Street.

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A one-of-a-kind anthology that captures the bizarre romance and mystery of the world's oldest and oddest traveling institution

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A novel of rural Ireland: "Furious, raging, passionate and . . . very, very funny."--"Boston Globe." "At once a rueful elegy to a vanished spirit and a comic celebration. For those who wear the green, this book will provide a bounty of tears and laughs."--"Publishers Weekly."

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A twist on the assassination of JFK explores the life and times of Richard Nagell, a man who insisted that he had been hired to kill Oswald and then spent years in prison trying to prove that he was sane.

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"The MIT-educated Saylor exhibits a deep knowledge of the mobile world, and gives readers a peek free of boring geek-speak."-USA Today

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First published in 1934, this novel tells the compelling story of a remarkable German Jewish family confronted by Hitler's rise to power. Three generations of this well-established Berlin family face discrimination, deceit, betrayal, and a tragedy that history has proved to be as true as this novel's tale.

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Rabon provides an "unsentimental portrait of Eastern European Jewish life, with none of the Shubert Alley schmaltz of "Fiddler on the Roof" or the mythopoetic grandeur of Isaac Bashevis Singer's fictions" ("New York Newsday"). The eerie power of this book lies in its unerringly accurate depiction of human frailty.

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In a harrowing tale of misadventure, a ruthless industrialist and a seaman down on his luck set out on an Arctic safari that confronts them with not only the perils of the polar seas, but also a horrifying moral disaster. "A crackling good read".--"Chicago Tribune".

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An extraordinary new literary voice brings together the comic milieu of David Sedaris with the spot on perceptions of Adam Haslett's You Are Not a Stranger Here.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Helter Skelter comes a provocative book on agnosticism