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Gary Phillips
Heat is building in the Rancho Tajuata Housing Projects-and not just because it's summer in L.A. When a Mexican family is killed by a firebombing, local rage threatens to grow…
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Private eye Ivan Monk takes on his most personal mystery to date-and chases answers deep into America's haunted past.
Private eye Ivan Monk takes on his most personal mystery to…
In the follow-up to One-Shot Harry, fearless crime photographer and occasional private eye Harry Ingram finds himself im the LAPD's crosshairs after capturing damning evidence of police brutality.
An atmospheric…
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The mystery that launched Gary Phillips's career- Black private eye Ivan Monk investigates the murder of a Korean shop owner in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
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"Black private eye Ivan Monk's search for a connection between three Black men murdered in Los Angeles leads to the unraveling of a white supremacist conspiracy that spans the West…
Essays illustrating the American Jewish experience during World War I.
An Equal Share of Freedom sheds new light on several important and interrelated dimensions of American, Jewish, and world history…
Gary A. Phillips
In this series of paintings and drawings, Lady Just Is appears in varying conditions, poses, and garbs juxtaposed with familiar biblical and secular symbols of covenant in states of ruination…
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Award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary Phillips gathers his most-thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in an 18-story collections that straddles the line between bizarro, science fiction, noir, and superhero…
Praise for The Self-Correcting Organization
A must-read for every manager! Gary’s best work to date. Doug Moynihan - Hospital CEO
With wisdom and good humor drawn from a life well…
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The Cocaine Chronicles joins The Speed Chronicles in launching Akashic’s new anthology series styled after the Noir series.
Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer seeking justice for a friend–perfect…
Subjects Suitable for Poetry is the latest collection from former Carrboro, North Carolina, poet laureate Gary Phillips. In these 20 poems, Phillips explores family, nature, and his rural upbringing, interwoven…
Twenty-one short stories written by Gary Phillips are included in TREACHEROUS: GRIFTERS, RUFFIANS AND KILLERS. Alan Cranis on bookgasm.com said, Phillips obviously loves his anti-heroes, as the stories’ major characters…
Gary Phillips is a child of Appalachia, a womanist, a singer. He is also the poet laureate of Carrboro, North Carolina. In The Boy The Brave Girls Phillips offers poetry…
Malcolm Cavanaugh Bleekston, MC Bleak, McBleak, enjoys hobnobbing with the one percenters and stealing from them. In The Extractors, he puts his life on the line to take a greedy…
"Mr. Dynamite," "Soul Brother No. 1," "The Godfather of Soul," deadbeat dad, convicted spousal abuser...
James Brown was all those things and so much more. Yet it can't be denied…
Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer seeking justice for a friend-perfect…
The Akashic Noir Series' forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles's most recognized neighborhoods.
A hard-boiled tour behind the Orange Curtain.
Plus, ‘But I’m gonna put a cat on you’ outspoken interview.
The first in a new series, MATTHEW HENSON AND THE ICE TEMPLE OF HARLEM is a re-imagined pulp novel that follows the exploits of Matthew Henson, a real life Arctic…
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Zelmont has slid a long way since gaining his ability to jook - to out manoeuvre his opponents on the field - winning wide receiver and earned him lucrative endorsement…
In Scoundrels, an all-original anthology featuring bestselling and Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers, you’ll read stories of desperate grifters, brokers hedging big bets for the big take, schemers working the…
Dave Gary Phillips
Hopefully this book will make people more aware of their sins. If you know how bad bad is, then you’ll know what good really means.
Gary Phillip Holdcroft
The true story of a volunteer fire-fighter who finds himself involved in fighting the largest wildfire in the history of the State of Arizona.
Danna Nolan Fewell,Gary A. Phillips
An examination of Samuel Bak’s collection of paintings. It describes Bak’s art that preserves memory of the twentieth-century ruination of Jewish life and culture by way of an artistic passion…
This comprehensive introduction to biomaterials discusses how materials are selected, designed, and modified for integration with living tissue. Biomaterials have applications in tissue engineering, medical devices, orthopedics, and other areas.
Whether their cover bands play Willie Dixon or Willie Nelson, juke joints and honky-tonks appeal to hard-working men and women looking for a good time. Offering hot music, cheap food…
Arnold Hano
Three thrillers from the 1950’s by a writer who used many pseudonyms, including Mike Heller and Gil Dodge, and worked in a variety of genres.
Gary Phillips,Dale Berry
In the turbulent era of late 1950s Manhattan-with jazz, the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, and the Red Scare as the volatile ingredients-three groundbreaking black cartoonists defy convention and pay the…
An incendiary collection of short stories revolving around riots, revolts and revolution.
Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem is the first in an exciting new retro, rollicking adventure series. This re-imagined pulp novel follows the Doc Savage-style adventures of the…
Christa Faust,Gary Phillips
Adapting what may be the most popular of graphic novels, by the celebrated noir authors, adding layers and exploring the nature of morality.
Batman created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger.
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Occupied Earth is a groundbreaking anthology that explores the idea of what the world would look like years after its conquest.
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi,Gary Allen Phillips
The first volume in English to introduce the work of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and to demonstrate how his interpretive insights, already influential in the European study of ethics and hermeneutics…
Jennifer Evans Kramer
!El oceano es un lugar misterioso, donde los animales grandes y chicos juegan a las escondidas! ?Puedes imaginarte un tiburon escondido a plena luz? ?Que tal un pez payaso a…
PHILLIP, GARY SMITH
A true Story set in the Country’s Most Rugged Endurance Ultra Runs at the Superior National Forest. The book starts as a story of Preparation, Training and Competition; Ending as…
Gary Phillips,Gar Anthony Haywood
Inspired by recent true events, the all-original stories in [this book] are set in motion by the act of witnessing; the characters who populate these pages are not themselves the…
