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âPassersthrough touches upon the unique trials and rewards a paternal connection brings, with added ingredients including spirit possession, moving lakes full of bones, and murder houseâjust for good measure . . . Mourning things both alive and dead and accepting hard truths resonate deeply in these pages and will utterly chill you . . . but contentedly so.â
â FANGORIA
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Cover reveal for AESTHETICA by , coming November 2022!
In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her pastâand takes inventory of the damages that underpin the surface-glamour of social media.
At 19, she was an Instagram celebrity. Now, at 35, she works behind the cosmetic counter at the âblack and white store,â peddling anti-aging products to women seeking physical and spiritual transformation. She too is seeking rebirth. Sheâs about to undergo the high-risk, elective surgery Aestheticaâą, a procedure that will reverse all her past plastic surgery procedures, returning her, she hopes, to a truer self. Provided she survives the knife.
But on the eve of the surgery, her traumatic past resurfaces when she is asked to participate in the public takedown of her former manager/boyfriend, who has rebranded himself as a paragon of âwokeâ masculinity in the post- world. With the hours ticking down to her life-threatening surgery, she must confront the ugly truth about her experiences on and off the Instagram grid.
Propulsive, dark, and moving, Aesthetica is a Veronica for the age of âInstagram face,â delivering a fresh, nuanced examination of feminism, , and mother-daughter relationships, all while confronting our collective addiction to followers, filters, and faux realities.
Happy book birthday to ONE-SHOT HARRY by Gary Phillips đ
âPhillips is a storyteller first, and the social chronicling never becomes didactic or overtakes the narrative. The wounds of 1963, and the foreshadowing of both better days and harsher ones, feel unnervingly fresh, and a reminder that progress, much as we wish otherwise, never adheres to a linear timeline.â
âSarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review
Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillipsâs riveting historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer seeking justice for a friendâperfect for fans of Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, and George Pelecanos.
LOS ANGELES, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther Kingâs Freedom Rally, Ingram risks becoming a victim at every crime scene he photographs.
When Ingram hears about a deadly automobile accident on his police scanner, he recognizes the vehicle described as belonging to his good friend and old army buddy, a white jazz trumpeter. The LAPD declares the car crash an accident, but when Ingram develops his photos, he sees signs of foul play. Ingram feels compelled to play detective, even if it means putting his own life on the line. Armed with his wits, his camera, and occasionally his C**t .45, âOne-Shotâ Harry plunges headfirst into the seamy underbelly of LA society, tangling with racists, leftists, gangsters, zealots, and lovers, all in the hope of finding something resembling justice for a friend.
Master storyteller and crime fiction legend Gary Phillips has filled the pages of One-Shot Harry with fascinating historical cameos, wise-cracks, tenderness, and an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride of a plot with consequences far beyond one dead body.
âWith its setting, this novel might remind you of Easy Rawlins or Harry Bosch, but I would strongly recommend reading it as a counterpoint to the LA Quartet by James Ellroy. Gary Phillips authentically tells the other side â those who faced police and institutional racism in Los Angeles. And while, yes, itâs about race, the author succeeds in directing us well beyond that theme and towards something much bigger. Itâs about justice.â
âCrime Fiction Lover
"Vercher (Three-Fifths) strides back in the ring with the explosive story of a troubled Philadelphia MMA fighter whose career has stalled . . . expertly captures the brashness and discipline of combat sports as well as the harsh realities of the fighting life, delivering all of it in a swiftly paced triumph complete with a surprising one-two punch of a conclusion. This is simply brilliant."
âPublishers Weekly, Starred Review
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Happy (double) Book Birthday to Marcie R. Rendon! đ
â[Rendon] is one heck of a mystery novelist. Rendonâs Cash Blackbear books are gripping vehicles that tell broader stories about the historical persecution of American Indians.ââOprah Daily
"The vivid writing and keen eye keep the pages turning and readers hoping for another book in this series."âBuzzfeed
Introducing Cash Blackbear, a nineteen-year-old Ojibwe woman whose visions and grit help solve a disappearance and a murder in Minnesota's Red River Valley.
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