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Westies - T. J. English
A decades-long saga of murder and betrayal on Manhattan's gritty West Side It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, th... -
WATER FOR ELEPHANT - Sara Gruen
<span style="display: inline;" class="all hidden"> An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling au... -
The Viking Takes a Knight - Sandra Hill
SUMMARY: The Viking Is a Princess . . .All Ingrith wants is refuge for herself and a group of orphans from a vicious Saxon commander who would harm the children and destroy her hon... -
The Deeper Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams; John Lloyd
Does the sensation of Tingrith(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically when you see someone Ahenny(2)? Can you deal with a Naugatuck(3) with... -
The Broken Teaglass - Emily Arsenault
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher . . . a hidden cache of coded clues . . . a story written by a phantom author . . . an unsolved murder in a gr... -
Sunset and Sawdust - Joe R. Lansdale
FromStarred Review Whether he's writing Hap Collins-Leonard Pine mysteries, genre-bending horror novels, or his own blend of historical fiction and gritty country noir, cult-favor.... -
Roadwork - Richard Bachman; Stephen King
Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. In this gritty narrative, a lone man takes on the wheels of progress in a showdown of cataclysmic proportions. When a highway project pu... -
Rivals - Jilly Cooper
EDITORIAL REVIEW: One of the glorious Rutshire Chronicles.Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O’Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a ra... -
Reaction - Lesley Choyce
Review"A gritty, realistic story that chronicles the fear, confusion, and solitude that comes with teen parenthood. Told from the unique perspective of a teenage father, Reaction<.... -
Paris Noir - Aurelien Masson
From Publishers WeeklyRarely has the City of Light seemed grittier than in this hard-boiled short story anthology, part of Akashic's noir series that began in 2004 with Brooklyn No...