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A provocative account of sexual addiction and murder is set inside the mind of a violent sex offender now in his twenty-third year of confinement, as told in erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old college girl, presently preying on a young boy herself. Reprint. NYT.

In the Miso Soup

by Ryu Murakami

From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psychothriller and director of Tokyo Decadence , comes this hair-raising roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyo’s sex industry. In the Miso Soup tells of Frank, an overweight American tourist who has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo’s sleazy nightlife. But Frank’s behavior is so strange that Kenji ... (more)

Happiness

by Todd Solondz

The screenplay of the award-winning film that delivers a provocative take on the meaning of happiness in America today. Winner by unanimous vote of the International Critics Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, Todd Solondz's Happiness paints a broad portrait of contemporary suburbia and the demons that haunt it. At its center are three sisters-Joy, Trish, and Helen-and the men in their lives: an... (more)

Fat Girl : A True Story

by Judith Moore

For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M.F. K.Fisher at her... (more)

The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes Of Richard Ramirez (Pinnacle True Crime)

The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes Of Richard Ramirez (Pinnacle True Crime)

by Philip Carlo

Twenty years after Richard Ramirez left thirteen dead and paralyzed the city of Los Angeles, his name is still synonymous with fear, torture, and sadistic murder. Philip Carlo's classic "The Night Stalker", based upon three years of meticulous research and extensive interviews with Ramirez, revealed the killer and his horrifying crimes to be even more chilling than anyone could have imagined. From watching his... (more)

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York.

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The End Of Alice

by A. M. Homes