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Corner : a Year in the Life of an Inner-city Neighborhood (97 Edition)
by David Simon Publisher Comments The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an...
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Freedomland
by Richard Price Publisher Comments In 1998, Richard Price returned to the gritty urban landscape of his national bestseller Clockers to produce Freedomland, a searing and unforgettable novel about a hijacked car, a missing child, and an embattled neighborhood polarized by racism, distrust,...
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Train: A Novel
by Pete Dexter Powells.com Staff Pick Dexter's language is electric. I recommended this page-turning noir about a black caddy and his enigmatic benefactor to two coworkers; both were so impressed that they began stocking up on Dexter's earlier fiction before even reaching the last page. As...
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Samaritan
by Richard Price Publisher Comments Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him beaten...
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Breaks Uk Edition
by Richard Price Synopsis Peter "Speedo" Keller is the first college graduate in his working-class family - majoring in English, minoring as class clown. His lurching entrance into adult life includes a fantasy-arousing interlude as a telephone sales solicitor and a mind...
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Bloodbrothers
by Richard Price Publisher Comments Eighteen-year-old Stony De Coco is trapped in a working-class world that offers him only one way of proving his loyalty, and no way out....
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Homicide
by David Simon Publisher Comments "Remarkable . . . a true crime classic . . . a journalistic masterpiece. . . . (A) saga of a brutal, bloody, bewildering year in the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit. . . . This is interior reporting at its finest".--"Associated Press". An...
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The Wanderers
by Richard Price Publisher Comments A teenage gang comes of age in the 1960s Bronx. Written when the author was twenty-four, this story was the basis for a major feature film....
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The Wire: Truth Be Told
by Rafael Alvarez Publisher Comments Welcome to the critically acclaimed HBO drama series The Wire, hailed as "the best show on television, period" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New York Times calls it "a vital part of the television landscape...unvarnished realism." Time declares...
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Freedomland
by Richard Price Publisher Comments A white woman stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked and her young son is still in the car. Under a white-hot media glare, Detective Lorenzo Council must take desperate measures to get to the bottom of...
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