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- Mystery Writers of America presents odd partners : an anthology / by Perry, Anne,editor.; Mystery Writers of America.;
"Throughout the annals of fiction, there have been many celebrated detective teams: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Nick and Nora Charles. Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. The latter were the creation of beloved mystery writer Anne Perry, the editor of Odd Partners. With this collection, Perry has enlisted some of today's best mystery writers to craft all-new stories about unlikely couples who join forces--sometimes unwillingly--to solve a mystery. From Perry's own entry, in which an English sergeant and his German counterpart set out to find a missing soldier during WWI, to William Kent Krueger's story of a fly-fisherman and a gray wolf in the Minnesota woods trying to protect their land from a brash billionaire, to Robert Dugoni's psychological tale of an airplane passenger who wakes up unsure of who he is and must enlist his fellow passengers to help him remember, each mystery deals in the complexities of human (and animal) interactions. The collection features stories by New York Times bestselling authors Ace Atkins, Allison Brennan, and Robert Dugoni, as well as Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale and selected members of Mystery Writers of America. With each author's signature brand of suspense, these stories give new meaning to the word teamwork"-- Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Short stories.; American fiction;
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- Golden prey / by Sandford, John,1944 February 23-author.;
"The man was smart and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Lucas Davenport's first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but for the U.S. Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. He gets to pick his own cases, whatever they are, wherever they lead him. And where they've led him this time is into real trouble. A Biloxi, Mississippi, drug-cartel counting house gets robbed, and suitcases full of cash disappear, leaving behind five bodies, including that of a six-year-old girl. Davenport takes the case, which quickly spirals out of control, as cartel assassins, including a torturer known as the "Queen of home-improvement tools" compete with Davenport to find the Dixie Hicks shooters who knocked over the counting house. Things get ugly real fast, and neither the cartel killers nor the holdup men give a damn about whose lives Davenport might have saved; to them, he's just another large target. Filled with his trademark razor-sharp plotting and some of the best characters in suspense fiction, Golden prey is further reason why 'Sandford has always been at the top of any list of great mystery writers' (The Huffington Post)"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character); United States marshals; Murder; Assassins; Cartels;
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- Kin : a memoir / by Rodenberg, Shawna Kay,author.;
"A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrepresented people, from Rona Jaffe Writer's Award winner Shawna Kay Rodenberg. When Shawna Kay Rodenberg was four, her father, fresh from a ruinous tour in Vietnam, spirited her family from their home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky to Minnesota, renouncing all of their earthly possessions to live in the Body, an off-the-grid End Times religious community. Her father was seeking a better, safer life for his family, but the austere communal living of prayer, bible study and strict regimentation was a bad fit for the precocious Shawna. Disciplined harshly for her many infractions, she was sexually abused by a predatory adult member of the community. Soon after the leader of the Body died and revelations of the sexual abuse came to light, her family returned to the same Kentucky mountains that their ancestors have called home for three hundred years. It is a community ravaged by the coal industry, but for all that, rich in humanity, beauty, and the complex knots of family love. Curious, resourceful, rebellious, Shawna will ultimately leave her mountain home but only as she masters a perilous balancing act between who she has been and who she will become. Kin is a mesmerizing memoir of survival that seeks to understand and make peace with the people and places that were survived. It is above all about family-about the forgiveness and love within its bounds-and generations of Appalachians who have endured, harmed, and held each other through countless lifetimes of personal and regional tragedy"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Rodenberg, Shawna Kay.; Move (Christian sect); Appalachians (People); Ex-cultists; Women authors, American; Women;
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- Sulfur Springs : a novel / by Krueger, William Kent,author.;
"In William Kent Krueger's latest pulse-pounding thriller, Cork O'Connor's search for a missing man in the Arizona desert puts him at the center of a violent power struggle along the Mexican border, a struggle that might cost Cork everything and everyone he holds most dear. On the Fourth of July, just as fireworks are about to go off in Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor and his new bride Rainy Bisonette listen to a desperate voicemail left by Rainy's son, Peter. The message is garbled and full of static, but they hear Peter confess to the murder of someone named Rodriguez. When they try to contact him, they discover that his phone has gone dead. The following morning, Cork and Rainy fly to Coronado County in southern Arizona, where Peter has been working as a counselor in a well-known drug rehab center. When they arrive, they learn that Peter was fired six months earlier and hasn't been heard from since. So they head to the little desert town of Sulfur Springs where Peter has been receiving his mail. But no one in Sulfur Springs seems to know him. They do, however, recognize the name Rodriguez. Carlos Rodriguez is the head of a cartel that controls everything illegal crossing the border from Mexico into Coronado County. As they gather scraps of information about Peter, Cork and Rainy are warned that there is a war going on along the border. "Trust no one in Coronado County," is a refrain they hear again and again. And to Cork, Arizona is alien country. The relentless heat and absence of water, tall trees, and cool forests feel nightmarish to him, as does his growing sense that Rainy might know more about what's going on than she's willing to admit. And if he can't trust Rainy, who can he trust?"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); O'Connor, Cork (Fictitious character); Missing persons;
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- The beautiful ones / by Prince,author.; Piepenbring, Dan,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-276).Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of "Uptown" to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of "Paisley Park." But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, one of the greatest pop stars of any era. The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince-- a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is the memoir Prince was writing before his tragic death, pages that bring us into his childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us through Prince's early years as a musician, before his first album was released, via an evocative scrapbook of writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince's evolution through candid images that go up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book's fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain-- the final stage in Prince's self-creation, where he retells the autobiography of the first three parts as a heroic journey. The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring's riveting and moving introduction about his profound collaboration with Prince in his final months-- a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique he'd so carefully cultivated-- and annotations that provide context to the book's images. This work is not just a tribute to an icon, but an original and energizing literary work in its own right, full of Prince's ideas and vision, his voice and image-- his undying gift to the world.- Subjects: Biographies.; Prince.; African American musicians; Rock musicians;
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- Spaghetti westerns [videorecording (DVD)] / by Danton, Ray,1931-1992.; Harrison, Richard,1935-; Van Cleef, Lee,1925-1989.; Oates, Warren,1928-1982.; Lee, Chen; Hunter, Jeffrey,1925-1969.; Hilton, George,1934-; Palance, Jack,1919-2006.; Damon, Mark,1933-; Gemma, Giuliano,1938-; Mitchell, Cameron,1918-1994.; Madison, Guy; Widmark, Robert; Kinski, Klaus; Shatner, William; Stegani, Giorgio; Piehl, Vern; Baldanello, Gianfranco; Blasco, Ricardo; Petroni, Giulio; Tessari, Duccio,1926-; Santi, Giancarlo; Cicero, Nando; Lupo, Michele; Corbucci, Sergio,1926-1990.; Briz, Jose; Hellman, Monte,1932-; Brandt, Tony; Lucidi, Maurizio; Parolini, Gianfranco,1930-; Caiano, Mario,1933-; Girolami, Marino; Carnimeo, Giuliano; Freda, Riccardo; Mill Creek Entertainment.;
Disc 1. Beyond the law / Giorgio Stegani (director) 1968 (109 min.) -- Apache blood / Vern Piehl (director) 1975 (89 min.) -- This man can't die / Gianfranco Baldanello (director) 1967 (90 min.) -- Gunfight at Red Sands / Ricardo Blasco (director) 1964 (95 min.).Disc 2. Death rides a horse / Giulio Petroni (director) 1968 (114 min.) -- Sundance and the Kid / Duccio Tessari (director) 1969 (83 min.) -- Grand duel / Giancarlo Santi (director) 1974 (90 min.) -- Twice a Judas / Nando Cicero (director) 1969 (92 min.).Disc 3. The man from nowhere / Michele Lupo (director) 1966 (114 min.) -- Minnesota clay / Sergio Corbucci (director) 1965 (85 min.) -- White Comanche / José Briz Méndez 1968 (94 min.) -- China 9, Liberty, 37 / Monte Hellman, Tony Brandt (directors) 1978 (92 min.).Disc 4. It can be done, amigo / Maurizio Lucidi (director) 1973 (98 min.) -- God's gun / Gianfranco Parolini (director) 1975 (97 min.) -- The fighting fists of Shanghai Joe / Mario Caiano (director) 1972 (94 min.) -- Between God, the devil and a Winchester / Marino Girolami (director) 1968 (98 min.).Disc 5. Trinity and Sartana / Mario Siciliano (director) 1972 (102 min.) -- Find a place to die / Giuliano Carnimeo (director) 1968 (89 min.) -- Johnny Yuma / Riccardo Freda (director) 1966 (100 min.) -- Fistful of lead / Giuliano Carnimeo (director) 1970 (93 min.).Ray Danton, Richard Harrison, Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Chen Lee, Jeffrey Hunter, George Hilton, Jack Palance, Mark Damon, Giuliano Gemma, Cameron Mitchell, Guy Madison, Robert Widmark, Klaus Kinski, William Shatner, and other actors.Canadian home video rating : R- Subjects: Spaghetti Westerns.; Revenge; Western films.;
- © c2009., Mill Creek Entertainment,
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