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Paperback. Condizione: New. On January 22, 2004, Darnell Riley broke into the home of Girls Gone Wild founder, Joe Francis. Throughout the night he filmed a blackmail video, and arrange for payment so that the video didn't go viral.What Is Real: The Life and Crimes of Darnell Riley explores the nine years he spent in the custody of California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. On his journey from facility to facility, we see how Riley had to adjust to the reality that the rules inside the walls are not perfect, but if followed, they would allow you to survive. From county lock up to the historically violent Corcoran State Prison, where he shared facilities with Charles Manson and the gang leaders whose influence extend beyond the confines of the walls, the author confronts the question of which version of himself is real-the young, mild-mannered kid from Los Angeles, known to his friends and family as Riley Perez, or the man who pleaded guilty to robbery and attempted extortion, known to the State of California as Darnell Riley.With neither self-pity nor self-aggrandizement, this memoir takes a cold hard look at a life of crime, the toll it takes, the reality of life inside California's prisons, and the price paid by an inmate's friends, family, and loved ones.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. In this elegant but pocketable edition in the Ross's Discoveries series, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has curated his favorite literary quotes spanning a multitude of important life topics from the collection of over 1500 well-read books on his shelves. In Ross's Life Discoveries Michael Ross brings together quotes from such a new perspective even the authors themselves will probably find this book useful and insightful.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. In this elegant but pocketable edition in the Ross's Discoveries series, passionate bibliophile Michael Ross has curated his favorite literary quotes spanning a multitude of important life topics from the collection of over 1500 well-read books on his shelves. In Ross's Life Discoveries Michael Ross brings together quotes from such a new perspective even the authors themselves will probably find this book useful and insightful.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social movement, punishable offense, badge of authenticity, reason to drink beer forever, or an aesthetic of belligerent incompetence. And if someone has a strong belief about what punk is, odds are they have even stronger feelings about what punk is not. Sam McPheeters championed many different versions. Over the course of two decades, he fronted Born Against, released dozens of records and fanzines, and toured seventeen times across the northern hemisphere. In this collection of essays, profiles, criticism, and personal history, he examines the diverse realms he intersected, New York hardcore, Riot Grrrl, Gilman street, the hidden enclaves of Olympia, and New England, and downtown Los Angeles, and the forces of mental illness and creative inspiration that drove him, and others, in the first place.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Callie and Cash are back! For fans of Scott Turow, Lee Child, and Raymond Chandler."When you get out of jail, don't ever come back here."Callie James thought those were the last words she'd ever speak to Cash Logan. Two years later, in Danger in Plain Sight, Callie and Cash become an improbable team taking on lethal adversaries.Now, in Rough Justice, Callie and Cash are back, and their world is about to explode. It's been a year since they saved her ex-husband's life and faced unexpected, terrifying adversaries. During that process-confronting kidnapping, murder, and the destruction of her restaurant-they came together, and against all odds, fell passionately in love.The smooth sailing abruptly ends when Sara, a twenty-five-year-old, half-Algerian woman, unexpectedly shows up at the restaurant and insists on telling them her shocking, unbelievable story. Someone has stolen her identity, and they're trying to kill her. Sara needs their help now, and she has a stunning, life-changing secret to tell.Again, Cash and Callie assemble their unconventional ragtag family-including peg-legged Andre, and Itzac, "the Macher." Together, they go to war with formidable adversaries to save Sara and ultimately their own lives. The fierce global battle leads them to Cuba, where they launch an audacious offensive that shocks even them.and will absolutely take your breath away.With Rough Justice, Burt Weissbourd elevates not only his deeply rich and complex characters, but the entire thriller genre.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The first Callie and Cash thriller is now available in trade paperback!For fans of Scott Turow, Lee Child, and Raymond Chandler"Weissbourd has created an entire genre-Seattle Noir. I devoured the novel in a single night and I think you will, too." -Jacob Epstein, writer and executive story editor, Hill Street BluesCelebrated restaurateur Callie James is stunned when her estranged ex-husband, French investigative reporter Daniel Odile-Grand, strolls into her restaurant on what could have been any Seattle evening. After fourteen years, the story he tells is even more unlikely than his sudden appearance. As she throws him out into the darkness, her nightmare begins. Daniel is deliberately hit by a car, hurled through the front window of her restaurant-broken, bloody and unconscious.Reluctantly, Callie hides him. Returning to her restaurant, she is greeted by two assassins insisting that she produce Daniel or pay deadly consequences. Overwhelmed, and hopelessly out of her depth, Callie hires the only man she knows who can help her: Cash Logan. Callie can't imagine relying on Cash, a soldier of fortune. and her former bartender, a man she had arrested for smuggling ivory through her restaurant two years earlier, a man who still hasn't forgiven her. After a devastating attack on her restaurant, with danger in plain sight, Callie and Cash face kidnappers, murderers, weapons dealers, and treachery at every turn. Ultimately, Callie is forced to change- to become authentically self-aware-with stunning consequences.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Callie and Cash are back! For fans of Scott Turow, Lee Child, and Raymond Chandler."When you get out of jail, don't ever come back here."Callie James thought those were the last words she'd ever speak to Cash Logan. Two years later, in Danger in Plain Sight, Callie and Cash become an improbable team taking on lethal adversaries.Now, in Rough Justice, Callie and Cash are back, and their world is about to explode. It's been a year since they saved her ex-husband's life and faced unexpected, terrifying adversaries. During that process-confronting kidnapping, murder, and the destruction of her restaurant-they came together, and against all odds, fell passionately in love.The smooth sailing abruptly ends when Sara, a twenty-five-year-old, half-Algerian woman, unexpectedly shows up at the restaurant and insists on telling them her shocking, unbelievable story. Someone has stolen her identity, and they're trying to kill her. Sara needs their help now, and she has a stunning, life-changing secret to tell.Again, Cash and Callie assemble their unconventional ragtag family-including peg-legged Andre, and Itzac, "the Macher." Together, they go to war with formidable adversaries to save Sara and ultimately their own lives. The fierce global battle leads them to Cuba, where they launch an audacious offensive that shocks even them.and will absolutely take your breath away.With Rough Justice, Burt Weissbourd elevates not only his deeply rich and complex characters, but the entire thriller genre.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The first Callie and Cash thriller is now available in trade paperback!For fans of Scott Turow, Lee Child, and Raymond Chandler"Weissbourd has created an entire genre-Seattle Noir. I devoured the novel in a single night and I think you will, too." -Jacob Epstein, writer and executive story editor, Hill Street BluesCelebrated restaurateur Callie James is stunned when her estranged ex-husband, French investigative reporter Daniel Odile-Grand, strolls into her restaurant on what could have been any Seattle evening. After fourteen years, the story he tells is even more unlikely than his sudden appearance. As she throws him out into the darkness, her nightmare begins. Daniel is deliberately hit by a car, hurled through the front window of her restaurant-broken, bloody and unconscious.Reluctantly, Callie hides him. Returning to her restaurant, she is greeted by two assassins insisting that she produce Daniel or pay deadly consequences. Overwhelmed, and hopelessly out of her depth, Callie hires the only man she knows who can help her: Cash Logan. Callie can't imagine relying on Cash, a soldier of fortune. and her former bartender, a man she had arrested for smuggling ivory through her restaurant two years earlier, a man who still hasn't forgiven her. After a devastating attack on her restaurant, with danger in plain sight, Callie and Cash face kidnappers, murderers, weapons dealers, and treachery at every turn. Ultimately, Callie is forced to change- to become authentically self-aware-with stunning consequences.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Fans of Pat Conroy will enjoy John Russell's long-awaited second novel, a rich, multi-generational story of money and morals, power and race, sex and sanity, set in a changing America.Jack Callahan is an outsider in his adopted hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. A successful lawyer, he's spent years trying to move in all the right circles. But with his literary mother in a sanitarium, his society marriage on the rocks, and his biggest client-Raleigh's family-owned newspaper the Criterion-facing a hostile takeover, he's beginning to wonder if it's really worth it.Step by step readers are drawn into the "non-secret secrets" of an elite that wields power founded on intricate manners and unsolved crimes. Jack's mentor, World War II hero Hugh Symmes, is haunted by family misdeeds during the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. His client, Ward Forrest, third-generation newspaper heir, portions out liberal duty against riches amassed during the Jim Crow past. His friend, African-American judge Kai-Jana Blount, weighs the call to higher office against deals with men her civil rights crusading family had opposed.Together they face a threat from Wall Street raider Victor Broman, Jack's former client, who is hell-bent to acquire the Criterion for shadowy patrons. Jack tries his best to "do the hero-ing"-but questions the costs. Eventually, he takes counsel from his friend Lowry, a mysterious Native American mystic, who unveils a different path, away from all the right circles.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In the shadowy alleys of Fleet Street, Bleeders: The Terrible Tale of Sweeney Todd reimagines the infamous barber's story as a gothic revenge thriller. Falsely accused and orphaned by a corrupt system, Sweeney Todd sharpens his razors for a bloody crusade against those who destroyed his life. Partnering with Mrs. Lovett, a tannery owner with her own thirst for vengeance, his victims become both his justice and the source of a macabre leather trade that reflects the city's moral decay. A chilling exploration of trauma, corruption, and the cost of vengeance, Bleeders is perfect for fans of gothic horror and revenge-driven tales.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In a city suffocated by corruption, Revenger tells the story of a nameless figure who bends shadows and punishes the unforgivable. As The Revenger dismantles a sprawling criminal empire known as The Syndicate, he uncovers a web of betrayal that reaches into his own fractured past. Blending the gritty aesthetic of noir with the visceral terror of vengeance, Revenger explores guilt, corruption, and the thin line between hero and monster. This relentless and chilling addition to the Horror Noir genre will captivate fans of dark thrillers.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Flip City is the story of fifteen-year-old child model, James Daniel Ross, as he comes of age in 1970-a time of free love, dead rock stars, and serial killers. Escaping the psychiatric facility where his affluent father has placed him, James trades its restraints, prescription meds, and therapists, for freedom, illicit drugs, and the friendship of street kids surviving in the psychedelic shadows of Old Town, Chicago. But when one friend goes missing, James finds himself in an edgy cat-and-mouse game with a John Wayne Gacy-like serial killer whose victims are blond teenage boys. Will James be the killer's next victim? Or will the killer become James's. …

Hardback. Condizione: New. Fans of Pat Conroy will enjoy John Russell's long-awaited second novel, a rich, multi-generational story of money and morals, power and race, sex and sanity, set in a changing America.Jack Callahan is an outsider in his adopted hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. A successful lawyer, he's spent years trying to move in all the right circles. But with his literary mother in a sanitarium, his society marriage on the rocks, and his biggest client-Raleigh's family-owned newspaper the Criterion-facing a hostile takeover, he's beginning to wonder if it's really worth it.Step by step readers are drawn into the "non-secret secrets" of an elite that wields power founded on intricate manners and unsolved crimes. Jack's mentor, World War II hero Hugh Symmes, is haunted by family misdeeds during the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. His client, Ward Forrest, third-generation newspaper heir, portions out liberal duty against riches amassed during the Jim Crow past. His friend, African-American judge Kai-Jana Blount, weighs the call to higher office against deals with men her civil rights crusading family had opposed.Together they face a threat from Wall Street raider Victor Broman, Jack's former client, who is hell-bent to acquire the Criterion for shadowy patrons. Jack tries his best to "do the hero-ing"-but questions the costs. Eventually, he takes counsel from his friend Lowry, a mysterious Native American mystic, who unveils a different path, away from all the right circles.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Proclaimed "girl-pervert" Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and her own firebrand of what it means to live ecstatically. From accolades to agony, Girlvert illuminates the surreality of a life lived beyond all comprehension. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. A page-turner, frequently injected with laugh-out-loud humor, front row seat of fun debut that is being heralded as the earnest generation of authenticity of a nineties voyage, Susan Holmes McKagan shines in The Velvet Rose.In the early nineties, Scarlet, a painter and high fashion model, finds herself working in some of the world's most famous fashion capitals. As her adventure continues, she meets Johnny of The Westies, an up-and-coming band on the cusp of superstardom. What ensues is an unhinged ride of a novel following the audacious lead female protagonist as she navigates her life through fame, addiction, infidelity, and all the ups and downs of dating a legendary musician from one of the biggest rock bands in history. A riveting and heartfelt journey of figuring out one's own path and championing that aspect to finding their dreams. Rich in spirit and relatable for all those who have ever had the courage to chase their dreams and pursue an unconventional path in this glorious world.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Thirsty is the history of Los Angeles and its fraught relationship with water. As a city on the make since the early twentieth century, Los Angeles' resources fought hard to keep up with its unchecked growth. The city's water chief William Mulholland built an aqueduct to grab water over 200 miles away in Owens Valley, but it wasn't enough. Thirsty is the gripping tale of Los Angeles' epic battles for water, the larger-than-life characters that shaped a city's destiny, and the man-made tragedy that killed 400 and forever changed the way water would be harnessed and allocated.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Joe Bosco is an arrogant, hard-charging transplant surgeon whose ambition knows no bounds. He pursues his job with a take no prisoners approach and saving patients is not just his job, or even his passion-it's his religion. After doing his surgical residency, he passes on a job offer from Stanford, instead taking a position at a private hospital in San Francisco which pays Joe an exorbitant salary and where the bottom line is.the bottom line. Joe leaves behind academic medicine, much to the chagrin of his father- a German Jewish Holocaust survivor who is a world-renowned neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner-and his girlfriend, Kate, who sees Joe turning into a different man than the one she met at Harvard Medical School.Dr. Bosco makes it to the top as a star in the transplant world but soon realizes that the new world he inhabits is fraught with moral and ethical transgressions, some his partners commit and, eventually, some he commits. When the hospital administration sides against Joe in an operating room catastrophe, he is isolated, left with a career in shambles, a girlfriend who wants nothing to do with him, and a father who can't hide his disappointment.It is not until his life spins out of control that Joe must come to terms with his own failings and find his true purpose in life.in the most unlikely of places.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In a city suffocated by corruption, Revenger tells the story of a nameless figure who bends shadows and punishes the unforgivable. As The Revenger dismantles a sprawling criminal empire known as The Syndicate, he uncovers a web of betrayal that reaches into his own fractured past. Blending the gritty aesthetic of noir with the visceral terror of vengeance, Revenger explores guilt, corruption, and the thin line between hero and monster. This relentless and chilling addition to the Horror Noir genre will captivate fans of dark thrillers.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In the shadowy alleys of Fleet Street, Bleeders: The Terrible Tale of Sweeney Todd reimagines the infamous barber's story as a gothic revenge thriller. Falsely accused and orphaned by a corrupt system, Sweeney Todd sharpens his razors for a bloody crusade against those who destroyed his life. Partnering with Mrs. Lovett, a tannery owner with her own thirst for vengeance, his victims become both his justice and the source of a macabre leather trade that reflects the city's moral decay. A chilling exploration of trauma, corruption, and the cost of vengeance, Bleeders is perfect for fans of gothic horror and revenge-driven tales.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A Los Angeles Times bestsellerA CrimeReads 2019 most anticipated/best bookSet against two distinct epochs in the history of Pasadena, California, Arroyo tells the parallel stories of a young inventor and his clairvoyant dog in 1913 and 1993. In both lives, they are drawn to the landmark Colorado Street Bridge, or "Suicide Bridge," as the locals call it, which suffered a lethal collapse during construction but still opened to fanfare in the early twentieth century automobile age. When the refurbished structure commemorates its 80th birthday, one of the planet's best known small towns is virtually unrecognizable from its romanticized, and somewhat invented, past.Wrought with warmth and wit, Jacobs' debut novel digs into Pasadena's most mysterious structure and the city itself. In their exploits around what was then America's highest, longest roadway, Nick Chance and his impish mutt interact with some of the big personalities from the Progressive Age, including Teddy Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, Charles Fletcher Lummis, and Lilly and Adolphus Busch, whose gardens were once tabbed the "eighth wonder of the world." They cavort and often sow chaos at Cawston Ostrich Farm, the Mount Lowe Railway, the Hotel Green and even the Doo Dah Parade. But it's the secrets and turmoil around the concrete arches over the Arroyo Seco, and what it means for Nick's destiny, that propels this story of fable versus fact.While unearthing the truth about the Colorado Street Bridge, in all its eye-catching grandeur and unavoidable darkness, the characters of Arroyo paint a vivid picture of how the home of the Rose Bowl got its dramatic start.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. This is a children's book for adults-a comic manifesto for anyone navigating the emotional, psychological, and financial warfare known as raising kids in the twenty-first century.In Man, F*** Them Kids, Charlie Mac flips the traditional picture-book format on its head, pairing bright, cheerful illustrations with brutally honest, outrageously funny commentary on modern parenting, discipline, and generational burnout. The result is a razor-sharp satire that skewers helicopter culture, fragile egos, screen addiction, and the daily absurdities of life with children. Equal parts humor, catharsis, and social critique, Man, F*** Them Kids is not about hating children. It's about surviving them-with sanity, laughter, and just enough restraint to avoid prison. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social movement, punishable offense, badge of authenticity, reason to drink beer forever, or an aesthetic of belligerent incompetence. And if someone has a strong belief about what punk is, odds are they have even stronger feelings about what punk is not. Sam McPheeters championed many different versions. Over the course of two decades, he fronted Born Against, released dozens of records and fanzines, and toured seventeen times across the northern hemisphere. In this collection of essays, profiles, criticism, and personal history, he examines the diverse realms he intersected, New York hardcore, Riot Grrrl, Gilman street, the hidden enclaves of Olympia, and New England, and downtown Los Angeles, and the forces of mental illness and creative inspiration that drove him, and others, in the first place.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A page-turner, frequently injected with laugh-out-loud humor, front row seat of fun debut that is being heralded as the earnest generation of authenticity of a nineties voyage, Susan Holmes McKagan shines in The Velvet Rose.In the early nineties, Scarlet, a painter and high fashion model, finds herself working in some of the world's most famous fashion capitals. As her adventure continues, she meets Johnny of The Westies, an up-and-coming band on the cusp of superstardom. What ensues is an unhinged ride of a novel following the audacious lead female protagonist as she navigates her life through fame, addiction, infidelity, and all the ups and downs of dating a legendary musician from one of the biggest rock bands in history. A riveting and heartfelt journey of figuring out one's own path and championing that aspect to finding their dreams. Rich in spirit and relatable for all those who have ever had the courage to chase their dreams and pursue an unconventional path in this glorious world.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Legendary Black Veil Brides' founder and frontman Andy Biersack curated his favorite Edgar Allan Poe tales, presented here in their original language with supplemental materials. Dive back into classics like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Oval Portrait, and The Mask of the Red Death with accompanying original artwork and a foreword from Andy himself. This compact, small but mighty, Poe collection is made to be a staple on your shelf.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Legendary Black Veil Brides' founder and frontman Andy Biersack curated his favorite Edgar Allan Poe tales, presented here in their original language with supplemental materials. Dive back into classics like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Oval Portrait, and The Mask of the Red Death with accompanying original artwork and a foreword from Andy himself. This compact, small but mighty, Poe collection is made to be a staple on your shelf.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Thirsty is the history of Los Angeles and its fraught relationship with water. As a city on the make since the early twentieth century, Los Angeles' resources fought hard to keep up with its unchecked growth. The city's water chief William Mulholland built an aqueduct to grab water over 200 miles away in Owens Valley, but it wasn't enough. Thirsty is the gripping tale of Los Angeles' epic battles for water, the larger-than-life characters that shaped a city's destiny, and the man-made tragedy that killed 400 and forever changed the way water would be harnessed and allocated.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The follow-up to the cult favorite The Rogue to Nowhere follows Jason Christopher as he criss-crosses the country from the glitz and glam of Sunset Boulevard, to the hollows of Woodstock, New York, and back again in search of the next score, the next gig, and the next girl-though not always in that order. Bleeding Internally Since 1971 is a no-holds-barred peak at the will to follow your dream, the drive to get sober, and the many stops along the way.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Flip City is the story of fifteen-year-old child model, James Daniel Ross, as he comes of age in 1970-a time of free love, dead rock stars, and serial killers. Escaping the psychiatric facility where his affluent father has placed him, James trades its restraints, prescription meds, and therapists, for freedom, illicit drugs, and the friendship of street kids surviving in the psychedelic shadows of Old Town, Chicago. But when one friend goes missing, James finds himself in an edgy cat-and-mouse game with a John Wayne Gacy-like serial killer whose victims are blond teenage boys. Will James be the killer's next victim? Or will the killer become James's. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. The follow-up to the cult favorite The Rogue to Nowhere follows Jason Christopher as he criss-crosses the country from the glitz and glam of Sunset Boulevard, to the hollows of Woodstock, New York, and back again in search of the next score, the next gig, and the next girl-though not always in that order. Bleeding Internally Since 1971 is a no-holds-barred peak at the will to follow your dream, the drive to get sober, and the many stops along the way.…

Hardback. Condizione: New.