Charles Alverson

• May-2014
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When Harry Castor opens a bar to support his family, no sooner do the doors open than local gangster Charlie Rizzo waltzes through, demanding a cut of the action. With his entire life's savings invested in the bar, Harry Castor can't afford to pay Ri...

• Mar-2014
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It's the summer of 1953, and the months before Christopher McClaren is set to go to Stanford are shaping up to be pretty boring. With his mother away in Europe and his brother fighting in Korea, Christopher passes his summer days working at his uncle...

• Feb-2014
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When Josh Nordland moves to a new high school, he only wants to think about three things: girls, blues and football. But when he saves scrawny Billy Cotton from a teammate's beating in the school parking lot, Josh quickly finds himself a social outca...

• Feb-2014
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• Feb-2014
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"Don't buy me. I'll kill the man who buys me!"

These are Caleb's first words to his new Master.

Educated as a rich white boy's companion in Boston and promised freedom, Caleb is instead sold down South to cotton farmer Boyd Jardine. Jardine, ...

• Feb-2014
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Hailed as "...the next best thing to finding a new and unsuspected Raymond Chandler phantasmagoria" (The New Yorker), this hard boiled case might just be Joe Goodey's last. After the San Francisco PD dismisses Joe Goodey from the force and runs him o...

• Feb-2014
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A razor-witted satire of Hollywood and the American Dream. Broke, silver-tongued producer Jake Borden wants to make it big in Hollywood. Unfortunately, his business, luxury car and other luxuries purchased with borrowed cash are about to be taken awa...

• Feb-2014
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The sequel to the novel hailed as "...the next best thing to finding a new and unsuspected Raymond Chandler phantasmagoria" (The New Yorker), this hard boiled mystery for fans of John D. MacDonald and Robert Parker might put Joe Goodey to sleep - per...

• Feb-2014
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Praised as "an intriguing premise with surprising results" (Terry Jones, co-creator of "Monty Python"), "The Word" is a moving, witty novel unlike any other.

When Joe Dixon is released from Folsom Prison, he vows never to return. But Joe, a lifet...

• Oct-2013
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Freshman Malcolm Brewster just wants to be something more than invisible at his new high school. He gets his wish when, upon saving a girl from being harassed in the stairwell, he inadvertently injures the star of the basketball team with a fire axe....