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USA noir : best of the Akashic noir series / edited by Johnny Temple.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Akashic noir seriesPublisher: New York, NY : Akashic Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 518 pages : map, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1617751847 (paperback)
  • 1617751898 (hardcover)
  • 9781617751844 (paperback)
  • 9781617751899 (hardcover)
Other title:
  • United States noir
  • United States of America noir
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Animal rescue / Dennis Lehane -- The confidential informant / George Pelecanos -- The golden gopher / Susan Straight -- The book signing / Pete Hamill -- Run kiss Daddy / Joyce Carol Oates -- Still air / Terrance Hayes -- White trash / Jerome Charyn -- Alice Fantastic / Maggie Estep -- The gospel of moral ends / Bayo Ojikutu -- When all this was Bay Ridge / Tim McLoughlin -- Crazy for you / Barbara DeMarco-Barrett -- Mastermind / Reed Farrel Coleman -- The clown and bard / Karen Karbo -- Mulholland Drive / Michael Connelly -- Our eyes couldn't stop opening / Megan Abbott -- Public transportation / Lee Child -- Too near real / Jonathan Safran Foer -- Ride along / James W. Hall -- Second chance / Elyssa East -- After thirty / Don Winslow -- Missing Gene / J. Malcolm Garcia -- Loot / Julie Smith -- The prison / Domenic Stansberry -- Helper / Joseph Bruchac -- Easy as A-B-C / Laura Lippman -- The rose red vial / Pir Rothenberg -- Amapola / Luis Alberto Urrea -- The Tik / John O'Brien -- Lighthouse / S.J. Rozan -- Secret pool / Asali Solomon -- Bums / William Kent Krueger -- Vic Primeval / T. Jefferson Parker -- Feeding frenzy / Tim Broderick -- Promised tulips / Bharti Kirchner -- If you can't stand the heat / Lawrence Block -- Phelan's first case / Lisa Sandlin -- A nice place to visit / Jeffery Deaver.
Summary: Collects over thirty of the best entries in the Akashic noir series, including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and T. Jefferson Parker.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Mystery Temple Johnny Available 33111007465541
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Launched with the 2004 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books has published over 60 volumes in its ground-breaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighbourhood or location within the city of the book. After nine years, hundreds of short stories from the world's greatest authors and unbridled praise from critics, the greatest hits of the Akashic Noir series can now be found in one book. Fans of the series and noir fiction in general will be engrossed by this excellent collection.

Animal rescue / Dennis Lehane -- The confidential informant / George Pelecanos -- The golden gopher / Susan Straight -- The book signing / Pete Hamill -- Run kiss Daddy / Joyce Carol Oates -- Still air / Terrance Hayes -- White trash / Jerome Charyn -- Alice Fantastic / Maggie Estep -- The gospel of moral ends / Bayo Ojikutu -- When all this was Bay Ridge / Tim McLoughlin -- Crazy for you / Barbara DeMarco-Barrett -- Mastermind / Reed Farrel Coleman -- The clown and bard / Karen Karbo -- Mulholland Drive / Michael Connelly -- Our eyes couldn't stop opening / Megan Abbott -- Public transportation / Lee Child -- Too near real / Jonathan Safran Foer -- Ride along / James W. Hall -- Second chance / Elyssa East -- After thirty / Don Winslow -- Missing Gene / J. Malcolm Garcia -- Loot / Julie Smith -- The prison / Domenic Stansberry -- Helper / Joseph Bruchac -- Easy as A-B-C / Laura Lippman -- The rose red vial / Pir Rothenberg -- Amapola / Luis Alberto Urrea -- The Tik / John O'Brien -- Lighthouse / S.J. Rozan -- Secret pool / Asali Solomon -- Bums / William Kent Krueger -- Vic Primeval / T. Jefferson Parker -- Feeding frenzy / Tim Broderick -- Promised tulips / Bharti Kirchner -- If you can't stand the heat / Lawrence Block -- Phelan's first case / Lisa Sandlin -- A nice place to visit / Jeffery Deaver.

Collects over thirty of the best entries in the Akashic noir series, including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and T. Jefferson Parker.

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