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    James Sallis

    Nathan Ashman

    Once described as 'the best crime writer you've never heard of', James Sallis is a vastly underexplored figure in contemporary American literature. This companion, the first comprehensive examination of Sallis'…

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    One Illumined Thread

    Sally Colin-James

    A beautiful, enthralling and powerfully resonant story of three women, separated by centuries, yet connected to each other through a thread of longing, a yearning for independence and a singular…

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    One Illumined Thread

    Sally Colin-James

    A beautiful, enthralling and powerful story of three women separated by centuries, yet connected by a thread of longing and a singular creative spirit - for readers of Geraldine Brooks…

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    James and Sally’s Family History

    Jenny Bosworth

    Discover the captivating journey of uncovering family history in this insightful guide, perfect for teenagers.

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    Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction

    James Sallis

    For the first time ever, the complete short fiction of literary legend James Sallis is collected in one gorgeous volume-a must-have holiday gift for the crime, mystery, or speculative fiction…

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    The Saga of Sally

    James D Nunn

    A young woman struggles to find her way in the world. An achingly human & frighteningly accurate portrait of an entire generation's existential crisis, She rages against her own millennial…

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    A James Sallis Reader

    James Sallis

    The POINT BLANK READER series is dedicated to introducing you to the finest novelists in the mystery and crime fiction genres in carefully selected volumes that each include a full…

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    Sorrow’s Kitchen: Poems by James Sallis

    James Sallis

    This collection of poems is concerned with ageing, relationships, loss and love. The poems are suffused with happiness and the celebration of everyday events.

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    The James Sallis Reader (Point Blank)

    James Sallis

    The POINT BLANK READER series is dedicated to introducing you to the finest novelists in the mystery and crime fiction genres in carefully selected volumes that each include a full…

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    Louis Stettner

    David Campany, James Iffland, Sally Martin Katz, Karl Orend

    An authoritative, full-career retrospective of Louis Stettner, the great twentieth-century American photographer, reproducing his finest works in one stunning volume.

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    Death Will Have Your Eyes

    James Sallis

    David (as he’s currently known) was one of an elite corps of spies trained during the chilliest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for…

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    The Killer Is Dying

    James Sallis

    A hired killer on his final job; a burned-out detective whose wife is dying slowly and in agony; a young boy abandoned by his parents and living alone by his…

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    Ain’t Long Fore Day

    James Sallis

    Ain’t Long Fore Day are poems that carry on in the spirit of the blues. With music and enigma, James Sallis delivers lyrical and narrative poems steeped in the beauty…

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    Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany

    A critical appreciation of the acclaimed science fiction writer and his works

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    Death Will Have Your Eyes: A Novel about Spies

    James Sallis

    David, as he’s currently known, was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone, and…

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    Death Will Have Your Eyes: A Novel about Spies

    James Sallis

    David, as he’s currently known, was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone, and…

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    Death Will Have Your Eyes: A Novel about Spies

    James Sallis

    David, as he’s currently known, was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone, and…

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    Driven

    James Sallis

    This sequel to Drive, now an award-winning film, finds the Driver creating a new successful business in Phoenix, only to have his fiance pay the price for his past.

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    Ghost of a Flea

    James Sallis

    Lew Griffin is alone in the dark in his old New Orleans house. Behind him, on the bed, is a body. He thinks if he doesn’t speak, doesn’t think about…

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    Death Will Have Your Eyes

    James Sallis

    Originally published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

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    Drive: A Novel

    James Sallis

    The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, Drive is a dark thriller that was named an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year and a Washington…

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    Eye of the Cricket

    James Sallis

    Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. And he is a man subject to all of the frailties to which…

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    Bluebottle

    James Sallis

    As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to…

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    Ghost of a Flea

    James Sallis

    Somewhere, among the wastes of the world, is the key that will bring us back, restore us to our Earth and to our freedom, Pynchon wrote in Gravity’s Rainbow. Never…

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    Salt River

    James Sallis

    Two years have passed since Turners love, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. Then the sheriffs long-lost son comes ploughing down Main…

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    Sarah Jane

    James Sallis

    A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman’s journey to becoming a cop, by Sallis, master of both noir and the tender aspects of human nature and theauthor of…

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    The Long-Legged Fly

    James Sallis

    First published in 1992 by No Exit Press –Title page verso.

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    Moth

    James Sallis

    One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin’s dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, La Verne Adams is dead-and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into…

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    Black Hornet

    James Sallis

    A sniper has fatally shot five people. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. Though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to…

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    Eye of the Cricket

    James Sallis

    Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. And he is a man subject to all of the frailties to which…

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    Bluebottle

    James Sallis

    Includes an excerpt from Ghost of a flea.

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    Ghost of a Flea

    James Sallis

    Somewhere, among the wastes of the world, is the key that will bring us back, restore us to our Earth and to our freedom, Pynchon wrote in Gravity’s Rainbow. Never…

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    Sarah Jane

    James Sallis

    Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs…

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    The Guitar in Jazz: An Anthology

    Presents the history and development of the guitar as a jazz instrument. This volume traces the evolution of jazz guitar playing, from the pioneering styles of Nick Lucas and Eddie…

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    Driven

    James Sallis

    Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double-crossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West and founded a successful business back in…

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    Difficult Lives Hitching Rides

    James Sallis

    James Sallis’s (Drive) seminal biographical essays on crime fiction pioneers Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Chester Himes restored to print and joined by a handpicked collection of essays, reviews, and…

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    Drive

    James Sallis

    ‘Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would…

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    Jacaranda Live It Up 2 VCE Physical Education Units 3&4, 5e learnON & Print

    Vaughan Cleary, Kirsty Walsh, Sally Nelson, Mark Quinlan, Michelle O'Keeffe, Sam Millar, James W. Guthrie

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    The Long-Legged Fly

    James Sallis

    Black private detective Lew Griffin takes on a seemingly hopeless missing-person case in New Orleans. As the trail takes him through the steamy underbelly of the French Quarter with its…

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    Black Hornet: A Lew Griffin Mystery

    James Sallis

    A sniper appears in 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. Five people have been fatally shot. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin…

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    Bluebottle: A Lew Griffin Mystery

    James Sallis

    Shot while leaving a music club with an older white woman he’d just met, Lew Griffin awakes to find that most of a year has gone by. What happened? Who…

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    Eye of the Cricket: A Lew Griffin Mystery

    James Sallis

    A derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew’s novels. It is the start of a quest…

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    Moth: A Lew Griffin Mystery

    James Sallis

    Following the death of a close friend, Lew Griffin returns to the urban streets and to the rural South to search for the runaway daughter he didnt know his friend…

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    The Long-Legged Fly

    James Sallis

    As black private detective Lew Griffin pursues a seemingly hopeless missing-person case through the steamy French Quarter of New Orleans, he realizes that his own life has come to resemble…

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    The Long-Legged Fly

    James Sallis

    As black private detective Lew Griffin pursues a seemingly hopeless missing-person case through the steamy French Quarter of New Orleans, he realizes that his own life has come to resemble…

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    Moth

    James Sallis

    Following the death of a close friend, Lew Griffin returns to the urban streets and to the rural South to search for the runaway daughter he didn’t know that his…

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    Driven: The Sequel to Drive

    James Sallis

    At the end of Drive, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, “the only one he ever mourned,” ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him. Driven tells how that…

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    Bluebottle

    James Sallis

    Shot while leaving a music club with an older white woman hed just met, Lew Griffin awakes to find that most of a year has gone by. What happened? Who…

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