Based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century who became infatuated with the Western outlaw heroes they had read about in Ned Buntline's stories and left their homes to join them.The outlaws the girls find are the demoralised re...
Ward once again explores the alchemy of stubborn yearnings and unrealized dreams amidst the well-tended rowhouses of his native city. There’s a mounting fury in Tommy Fallon’s heart in the fall of 1965. He’s finally found his life’s calling â...
Daredevil DEA agent Jack Walker cruises down Hollywood Boulevard into the best unscheduled party of his career: a car-jacking Featuring a .38 semiautomatic and his own movieland heroics. When he saves sexy Charlotte Rae, a Former B-movie bombshell, h...
Akashic Books charges forth with its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with BROOKLYN NOIR. Each book is comprised- of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. ...
Broke, recently divorced, and a total deadbeat, Bob Wells has spent his life as a psychiatrist only doing good in the world. When one of his patients with clear paranoid delusions starts to lose a grip, Bob has no choice but to intervene. Emile Barda...
L.A. FBI agents are up against an unstoppable cop killer in this thriller by the PEN West Awardâ€"winning author Four Kinds of Rain.Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo are two of the smartest, toughest FBI agents in Los Angeles. But they’ve met their mat...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
F.B.I. Agents Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo are burned out from too many cases so they schedule a two week vacation. Jack plans to hang out with his son, followed by some fishing in Baja. Then Jack gets a phone call from his snitch and on-again-off-a...
Do you believe in dragons? Now, for the first time, the long-lost research of renowned nineteenth century dragonologist Robert Ward is presented in all its eccentric glory, happily bridging the gap between dragon legend and fact. This incredible eBoo...
Lenora and Roger Work's tropical honeymoon in Key West is a distant memory. One bit of business remains. On their final night in paradise, a musician they befriended has an odd request. A "deadbeat" dad from their hometown, Philadelphia, the musician...
From the bestsellnig author of Shedding Skin, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, and Red Baker comesThe Sandman. In this thrilling medical drama, anesthesiologist Dr. Cross' job is to alleviate pain . . . but someone is now accusing him of murder....
A tour of the 1950s and 1960s recounts the author's coming-of-age experiences in a period torn between idealism and despair, chronicling his journey between Baltimore and Haight-Ashbury and his witness to the historical events of the time.This classi...
Two people are inextricably bound together by something neither of them can understand or explain. At times it seems elemental and destructive but at others it appears to be a cause for hope and fulfilment. Though their lives follow very different pa...
The Stone Carrier is a brilliant and suspenseful novel which takes place in New York City during the wild ’70s.
Terry Brennan is a gonzo journalist for all the major magazines. He does a feature piece on super-novelist Thaddeus Bryant and t...
Following in the footsteps of her father, Diana Westphal goes to work as a nuclear physicist at Rocky Flats Nuclear Plant in Denver, Colorado. But an accident at the plant exposes her to a dangerous amount of radiation, affecting her health and he...