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The Queen of the Ring

by Jeff Leen

“In a class by itself. A serious history of one of this country’s goofiest pastimes. . .one senses that [Leen has] left no stone unturned in researching Burke’s story.” —The…

Pot Planet

by Brian Preston

“A gimlet-eyed and often hilarious account of the author’s round-the-world reefer safari. With Britain’s downscaling of penalties for marijuana possession currently stirring up controversy, Preston’s book comes along at a…

Playing Through the Whistle

by S. L. Price

From a Sports Illustrated senior writer, a moving epic of football and industrial America, telling the story of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, its now-shuttered steel mill, and its legendary high school team….

Pinball

by Jerzy Kosinski

“Kosinski has created a suspenseful, readable, and unsentimental tale that showcases his love for and knowledge of music and examines the nature of fame and success and the frightening alienation…

Painting the Darkness

by Robert Goddard

“[Painting the Darkness] has all the ingredients of a first-class melodrama . . . engaging and satisfying.” —Times (UK)…

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosinski

“Of all the remarkable fiction that emerged from World War II, nothing stands higher than Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird. A magnificent work of art, and a celebration of the…

The Old Turk’s Load

by Gregory Gibson

“Gibson’s elliptical, ever-evolving plot seems a marriage of Raymond Chandler complexity and Donald E. Westlake comic haplessness, but he imbues his characters with a . . . desperate humanity ….

Night People

by Barry Gifford

“Night People is the work of a talented writer with a strange and original way of looking at the world. . . . The stories [are] gory and deviant ….

Monster

by Sanyika Shakur

“Radiates [power] with dangerous aplomb . . . Attests not only to Mr. Shakur’s journalistic eye for observation, but also to his novelistic skills as a storyteller [and] an ear…

Moist

by Mark Haskell Smith

“Smith’s energetic thriller is an ode to the hard-boiled Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, spun out in brighter-than-life Starburst colors.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review…