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  • Book : All Involved A Novel - Gattis, Ryan
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    Book : All Involved A Novel - Gattis, Ryan

    -Titulo Original : All Involved: A Novel-Fabricante : Ecco Press-Descripcion Original: A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as The Wire, from a writer hailed as the West Coasts Richard Price-a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge, and loyalty, set in the chaotic streets of South Central L.A. in the wake of one of the most notorious and incendiary trials of the 1990s At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth officer. Less than two hours later, the city exploded in violence that lasted six days. In nearly 121 hours, fifty-three lives were lost. But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: violence that occurred outside of active rioting sites by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores. A gritty and cinematic work of fiction, All Involved vividly re-creates this turbulent and terrifying time, set in a sliver of Los Angeles largely ignored by the media during the riots. Ryan Gattis tells seventeen interconnected first-person narratives that paint a portrait of modern America itself-laying bare our history, our prejudices, and our complexities. With characters that capture the voices of gang members, firefighters, graffiti kids, and nurses caught up in these extraordinary circumstances, All Involved is a literary tour de force that catapults this edgy writer into the ranks of such legendary talents as Dennis Lehane and George V. Higgins. Review “ALL INVOLVED is a symphonic, pitch-perfect, superlative novel. It is visceral and adrenalin-fuelled, yet tender and even darkly comic. It is audacious, unflinching and subversive. It doesn’t judge. It swallowed me whole.” -- David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas “A heartbreaking portrait of a city tearing itself apart.” -- Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train “Corrosive, timely, vividly realized scenes of urban warfare and thwarted dreams by a writer who clearly knows his subject: the netherworld of Los Angeles in the early 1990’s.” -- Joyce Carol Oates “ All Involved is a monumental achievement. Ryan Gattis takes the reader into the broken, outraged heart of Los Angeles during the ‘92 riots and doesn’t blink once at what he finds there.” -- Dennis Lehane “It’s a propulsive, sun-baked, blood-soaked read that captures one of the most turbulent times in recent Los Angeles history. It’s all the more remarkable an achievement considering Gattis...was barely in high school, in Colorado, at the time three LAPD officers who assaulted King were acquitted.” -- Interview Magazine “In the end, this isn’t a story about the events of the L.A. riots...it’s about the city and its ability to rise from the ashes...Like the historical events it’s based on, this page-turner is horrific, heartrending, and-maybe-just a bit hopeful.” -- Publishers Weekly “An overwhelming and fully immersive performance from Gattis, who finds the humanity and poetry in the most inhumane of circumstances. A solid addition to all fiction collections, though not for the fainthearted.” -- Library Journal From the Back Cover A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as The Wire, from a writer hailed as the West Coast’s Richard Price-a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge, and loyalty At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and the city exploded in violence. Fifty-three lives were lost. But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: murders that occurred outside active rioting sites, including some committed by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores. A gritty and cinematic work of fiction, All Involved vividly re-creates this turbulent and terrifying time through seventeen interconnected first-person narratives. Focusing on a...
  • Book : Sweetgirl A Novel - Mulhauser, Travis
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    Book : Sweetgirl A Novel - Mulhauser, Travis

    -Titulo Original : Sweetgirl: A Novel-Fabricante : Ecco Press-Descripcion Original: With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter’s Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest. As a blizzard bears down, Percy James sets off to find her troubled mother, Carletta. For years, Percy has had to take care of herself and Mama-a woman who’s been unraveling for as long as her daughter can remember. Fearing Carletta is strung out on meth and that she won’t survive the storm, Percy heads for Shelton Potter’s cabin, deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. A two-bit criminal, as incompetent as he his violent, Shelton has been smoking his own cook and grieving the death of his beloved Labrador, Old Bo. But when Percy arrives, there is no sign of Carletta. Searching the house, she finds Shelton and his girlfriend drugged into oblivion-and a crying baby girl left alone in a freezing room upstairs. From the moment the baby wraps a tiny hand around her finger, Percy knows she must save her-a split-second decision that is the beginning of a dangerous odyssey in which she must battle the elements and evade Shelton and a small band of desperate criminals, hell-bent on getting that baby back. Knowing she and the child cannot make it alone, Percy seeks help from Carletta’s ex, Portis Dale, who is the closest thing she’s ever had to a father. As the storm breaks and violence erupts, Percy will be forced to confront the haunting nature of her mother’s affliction and finds her own fate tied more and more inextricably to the baby she is determined to save. Filled with the sweeping sense of cultural and geographic isolation of its setting-the hills of fictional Cutler County in northern Michigan-and told in Percy’s unflinching style, Sweetgirl is an affecting exploration of courage, sacrifice, and the ties that bind-a taut and darkly humorous tour-de-force that is horrifying, tender, and hopeful. Review ” A riveting novel... far, far funnier than it has any right to be. If you’re a fan of Charles Portis and Denis Johnson--and if you’re not, then you should be--then this is book is exactly what you’ve been wanting, what you’ve been waiting for.” -- Brock Clarke, author of The Happiest People in the World “[ Sweetgirl is] filled with true wit, cunning, and the unwanted wisdom of a child denied a childhood. This novel comes on like the blizzard at its center, and leaves you dazzled and dazed not only by how much Travis Mulhauser knows, but how deeply he cares.” -- Michael Parker, author of All I Have in this World “There’s a big old neon heart pulsing on every page of Sweetgirl, like the sign to a bar you can’t help but enter. I felt thrilled and shocked, and I couldn’t stop turning the pages. Travis Mulhauser is a writer to be reckoned with.” -- Lindsay Hunter, author of Ugly Girls and Dont Kiss Me “ Sweetgirl is a gritty, compelling novel of a world where even a sixteen-year-old must confront what Edith Wharton called ‘the hard considerations of the poor.’ Mulhauser depicts his people and their landscape with uncompromising fidelity.” -- Ron Rash “[A] compulsively readable novel...finish the first chapter and you will be hooked...violent, dark, and impressively redemptive... Sweetgirl is a upper-Midwestern homage to great American quest novels like True Grit and Winter’s Bone. It is a truly memorable and remarkable read.” -- Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs “The perfect balance of humor and heartache... a masterful debut... as wise as it is suspenseful, as funny as it is tragic... written with guts, grit, and grace, Sweetgirl is the book you want to keep you company on a cold winter’s night.” -- Ploughshares, Best Books of the New Year “ Sweetgirl works on so many levels, it’s difficult to know how to classify it... hilarious, heart...
  • Book : Ill Sleep When Im Dead The Dirty Life And Times Of...
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    Book : Ill Sleep When Im Dead The Dirty Life And Times Of...

    -Titulo Original : Ill Sleep When Im Dead: The Dirty Life And Times Of Warren Zevon-Fabricante : Ecco Pres...
  • Book : Israel A Concise History of a Nation Reborn - Gord...
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    Book : Israel A Concise History of a Nation Reborn - Gord...

    -Titulo Original : Israel: A Concise History Of A Nation Reborn-Fabricante : Ecco Press-Descripcion Original: The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" () living and writing in Jerusalem.Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world’s attention, aroused its imagination, and lately, been the object of its opprobrium. Why does such a small country speak to so many global concerns? More pressingly: Why does Israel make the decisions it does? And what lies in its future?We cannot answer these questions until we understand Israel’s people and the questions and conflicts, the hopes and desires, that have animated their conversations and actions. Though Israel’s history is rife with conflict, these conflicts do not fully communicate the spirit of Israel and its people: they give short shrift to the dream that gave birth to the state, and to the vision for the Jewish people that was at its core. Guiding us through the milestones of Israeli history, Gordis relays the drama of the Jewish people’s story and the creation of the state. Clear-eyed and erudite, he illustrates how Israel became a cultural, economic and military powerhouse—but also explains where Israel made grave mistakes and traces the long history of Israel’s deepening isolation. With , public intellectual Daniel Gordis offers us a brief but thorough account of the cultural, economic, and political history of this complex nation, from its beginnings to the present. Accessible, levelheaded, and rigorous, sheds light on the Israel’s past so we can understand its future. The result is a vivid portrait of a people, and a nation, reborn...
  • Book : You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense -.
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    Book : You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense -.

    -Titulo Original : You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense-Fabricante : Ecco Pres...
  • Book : Congo: The Epic History of a People - David Van Re...
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    Book : Congo: The Epic History of a People - David Van Re...

    -Titulo Original : Congo: The Epic History Of A People-Fabricante : Ecco Press-Descripcion Original: From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, traces the history of one of the most devastated nations in the world. Esteemed scholar David Van Reybrouck balances hundreds of interviews with a diverse range of Congolese with meticulous historical research to construct a multidimensional portrait of a nation and its people.Epic in scope yet eminently readable, both penetrating and deeply moving, Congo—a finalist for the Cundill Prize—takes a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the Congolese perspective, and returns a nation's history to its people...
  • Book : Zombie: A Novel - Joyce Carol Oates
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    Book : Zombie: A Novel - Joyce Carol Oates

    -Titulo Original : Zombie: A Novel-Fabricante : Ecco Pres...
  • Book : Ham on Rye: A Novel - Charles Bukowski
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    Book : Ham on Rye: A Novel - Charles Bukowski

    -Titulo Original : Ham On Rye: A Novel-Fabricante : Ecco Press-Descripcion Original: In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, woman, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence, offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression...
  • Book : Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n...
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    -Titulo Original : Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?: A Rock N Roll Memoir-Fabricante : Ecco Pres...
  • Book : Just Kids - Patti Smith
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    Book : Just Kids - Patti Smith

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  • Book : The Crusades: The Authoritative History Of The War...
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    Book : The Crusades: The Authoritative History Of The War...

    -Titulo Original : The Crusades: The Authoritative History Of The War For The Holy Land-Fabricante : Ecco Press-Descripcion Original: is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, )—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this  big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge’s book is a magnificent epic of Holy War between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeu...
  • Book : I Am No One You Know: Stories - Joyce Carol Oates
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    Book : I Am No One You Know: Stories - Joyce Carol Oates

    -Titulo Original : I Am No One You Know: Stories-Fabricante : Ecco Press-Descripcion Original: contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In "The Girl with the Blackened Eye," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in "Three Girls," two adventuresome NYU undergraduates seal their secret love by following, and protecting, Marilyn Monroe in disguise at Strand Used Books on a snowy evening in 1956. These vividly rendered portraits of women, men, and children testify to Oates's compassion for the mysterious and luminous resources of the human spirit...
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