Hong Kong Noir
By: Jason Y. Ng
3.73
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Fourteen of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting…
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1. Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #1)
By: Lawrence Block
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profes… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
2. To Have and Have Not
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.52
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into runnin… read more
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- crime
- fiction
"He was mad and plenty brave."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
3. Rio Noir
By: Luis Fernando Verissimo , Tony Bellotto , Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza , Raphael Montes , Adriana Lisboa , Luiz Eduardo Soares , Marcelo Ferroni , Clifford Landers , Guilherme Fiuza , Flávio Carneiro , None , None , None , None , None
3.00
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 wi… read more
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4. Clandestine
By: James Ellroy
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950's -- a town blinded to i… read more
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5. Ask the Dust (Arturo Bandini, #3)
By: Charles Bukowski , John Fante
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ask the Dustis the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for … read more
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6. Gentlemen of the Road
By: Michael Chabon , Gary Gianni
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
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7. Los Angeles Noir
By: Denise Hamilton
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Brand-new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, Patt Morrison, R… read more
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8. Hong Kong Noir
By: Jason Y. Ng
3.73
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Fourteen of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting… read more
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- asia
- the world
- short stories
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- china
- crime
9. Harbor Lights
By: James Lee Burke
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” ( Denver Post ), the… read more
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- short stories
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
10. Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more
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- fiction
"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
11. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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- asia
- china
- fiction
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
12. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
13. Amsterdam Noir
By: René Appel
3.43
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Amsterdam is a very welcome, if long overdue, installment in the Akashic Noir Series. Akashic Bo… read more
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- short stories
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
14. A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
By: Keigo Higashino
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- fiction
"Takes all sorts to make a world. It's hard to generalize what's odd and what's not."-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
"Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether the killer gets caught or the investigation is brought to a successful conc…"-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
15. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
By: J.B. MacKinnon
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more
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"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
16. La Papeterie Tsubaki
By: Ito Ogawa
4.17
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
Hatoko a vingt-cinq ans et la voici de retour à Kamakura, dans la petite papeterie que lui a léguée… read more
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- asia
- fiction
"Mourir, c’était peut-être vivre éternellement."-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki
"Elle s'est levée. Elle était sublime. Elle était l'incarnation personnifiée de cette vieille expression qui dit qu'une femme debout a la grâce de la pivoine de Chine, celle de la pivoine arbustive qu…"-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki
"- C'est la formule secrète du bonheur, que j'ai appliquée toute ma vie, a-t-elle dit en riant. - Apprenez-la moi ! - Eh bien, il faut se dire à l'intérieur : « Brille, brille. » Tu fermes les yeux et…"-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki
17. Quarry's Blood (Quarry #16)
By: Max Allan Collins
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns for his final act. By Quarry’s cr… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- noir
18. Shoko's Smile: Stories
By: Choi Eunyoung
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young wri… read more
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- asia
- short stories
- fiction
"We should distinguish love from affection."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
"I wish you the blessing of oblivion, and that you will find the strength to exist moment by moment."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
"Film, art in general, only revealed it’s true face to hardworking geniuses, not hardworking mediocrities."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
"Time passes, people leave, we become alone again. If we don't accept that fact, memory erodes the present and exhausts the mind until it ages us and ails us."-Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories
19. Denver Noir
By: Cynthia Swanson
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Denver enters the Noir Series arena with a wide range of mile-high misgivings and perils. Featur… read more
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- fiction
20. When Brooklyn Was Queer
By: Hugh Ryan
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
The groundbreaking, never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from… read more
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21. South Central Noir (Akashic Noir)
By: Gary Phillips
3.91
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
The Akashic Noir Series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Ang… read more
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- short stories
- noir
- fiction
