Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. At age twelve, his street education begins as he learns trickology. By sixteen, his childhood abruptly ends,...
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Author: Goines, DonaldSummary:Genre: Thrillers (Fiction) -
Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:Between Leo Proudhammer's childhood and his arrival into the world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. There are love affairs with both a man and a woman. And...
Genre: Classic fiction -
Author: Hubbard, LadeeSummary:At seventy-two, Johnny Ribkins shouldn't have such problems: he's got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it's curtains. What may or may not be useful to Johnny as...
Genre: Domestic fiction, Fantasy fiction -
Author: Brin, DavidSummary:
One chill winter's day, a survivor in the aftermath of a devastating war borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker, and with it he rekindles the spirit of America through the power of a...
Genre: Apocalyptic fiction, Science fiction -
Author: King, StephenSummary:
A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman. "Tomorrow at noon, the...
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Author: Baxter, StephenSummary:
Feasting on Edinburgh's primeval basalt, the ten-dimensional superstring nanovirus Moonseed is steadily eating its way toward Earth's core. NASA "rock-jockey" Henry Meacher and...
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Due, TananariveSummary:
When Hilton was a boy, his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him from drowning. Thirty years later, he begins to suspect that he was never meant to survive, and that dark forces are working...
Genre: Horror fiction -
Author: Baxter, StephenSummary:
Signs of life have been found on Titan. But on the icy surface of Saturn's largest moon, a group of astronauts will discover the secrets of life's origins and reach for a human destiny...
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Banks, RussellSummary:
Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs and screams at people to stay away from her babies;...
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Owen, HowardSummary:Willie Black knew he had a father, even if he didn't know where he was buried. Artie Lee, a saxophonist and race man who did not suffer bigots gladly, died in a car crash. Willie knew that. When...
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Author: Arenson, DanielSummary:The old emperor is dead. His daughter, the sadistic Porcia Octavius, has won a bloodthirsty battle for the crown. But she will not rest easy on her throne. Already her brother sails to foreign...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:A classic memoir recounting Baldwin's early life in Harlem, the civil rights struggle, the murders of Malcolm X and MLK, and his eventual confrontation with the violent American South.
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Author: Arenson, DanielSummary:The Aelarian Empire, once a humble city-state, sends its tentacles across the Encircled Sea. Now the waters run red with blood. In the kingdom of Zohar, the wealthy Sela family commands the sea's...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Dundas, ChadSummary:A story of second chances and a sport at the cusp of major change. In 1921, former lightweight wrestling champion Pepper Van Dean accepts an offer to train Garfield Taft, a heavyweight contender...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Goines, DonaldSummary:Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend--both attractive, talented, and full of promise--are inexorably pulled into the living death of the...
Genre: Urban fiction