Author: Timothy Hallinan
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616957492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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"Exceedingly funny . . . this one's good for what ails you."—The New York Times Reluctant P.I. to the perfidious, Junior Bender, may be L.A.’s smoothest operator but when he breaks one of the cardinal rules of burglary (don’t take scores that you’re being paid way too much for) he finds himself once again on the wrong side of, well, the wrong side. Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender has a rule about never taking a job that pays too well: in the criminal underworld, if you’re offered more money than a job is worth, someone is going to end up dead. But he’s bending his rule this one time because he and his girlfriend, Ronnie, are in desperate need of cash to hire a kidnapper to snatch Ronnie’s two-year-old son back from her ex. The whole thing is pretty complicated and has Junior on edge. The parameters of the job do nothing to calm his nerves. A nameless woman in an orange wig has offered Junior fifty grand—twenty-five up front—to break into the abandoned house of a recently deceased 97-year-old recluse, Daisy Horton, and steal a doll from her collection. Junior knows no doll is worth 50K, so he figures there must be something hidden inside the doll that can get him in a heap of trouble. It doesn’t take long for Junior to realize he’s not the only one looking for the doll. When an old friend ends up murdered, Junior decides he will stop at nothing to figure out who the woman in the orange wig is, and why she wants the doll badly enough to leave a trail of bodies in her wake.
Author: Marjorie Barkentin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Author: Elin Schoen
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Author: Candice Yarbray Brucke
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438974671
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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This is a heart-warming tale about a little girl, Jacie, and her mom and the rituals of getting ready bedtime, including reading favorite bedtime stories. The illustrator captures the essence of Jacie and other characters in the beautiful facial expressions and colorful scenes throughout the book. There are many shapes and other hidden items within the story. Be sure to look for Jacie's favorite bunny, Floppy, a tiara, chocolate chip cookie, penguin, a star, a screw, a turtle, a crescent moon, and several other surprises!
Author: Maria Tymoczko
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520330242
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Author: Stanley Sultan
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195362543
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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This study explores the relations of T.S. Eliot and James Joyce with certain antecedents, such as Dante, Flaubert and Baudelaire; with contemporaries including Pound and Yeats; and with their readers, in order to illuminate the authors' historic mutual venture in English literature.
Author: David Cotter
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415967860
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Christy L. Burns
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791446133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Explores James Joyce's use of parody and humor in his representation of women, gays, and Irish nationalism, and discusses how his complex attitude toward parody and stereotyping is related to his aesthetic vision.
Author: Grace Mazur
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040187005
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Grace Dane Mazur uses the idea of the hinge to illuminate real and metaphysical thresholds in fiction, poetry, myth, and ordinary life. From ancient narratives of Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Parmenides, and Orpheus, to modern works by Katherine Mansfield and Eudora Welty, the exploration of the Other World acts as a metaphor for the entrancement of readin
Author: Erik Holmes Schneider
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853981821
Category : Prostitution
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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