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  Memories of My Melancholy Whores

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  A New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this... (more)
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  Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Book 1

  The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl

  by Belle de Jour

  Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London.This is her story. From debating the literary merits of the works of Martin Amis with naked clients, entering a hotel with two whips strapped to the lining of her coat, and juggling her love-life with her professional one, Belle's no-holds-barred account of her experiences as a prostitute is frank, funny and completely compelling. Since... (more)
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  The Apocalypse and Satan's Glory Hole

  by Timothy W. Long, Jonathan Moon

  Armageddon arrived on a weekday, which was really inconvenient for a lot of people, including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. After their appearance on The Kayla Mangrabler talk show, they decided to go their separate ways and cause as much havoc as possible.  Jesus has been stuck at the craps table for three days, sipping vodka and Red Bull, completely missing the end of the world. But he is about to... (more)
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  The Border Trilogy: Book 3

  Cities of the Plain

  by Cormac McCarthy

  In this magnificent novel, the National Book Award-winning author of "All the Pretty Horses" fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where ranch hands John Grady Cole and Billy Parham become ensnared in events resonating with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy.
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  Naked Lunch

  by William S. Burroughs

  Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson, on the relationship of art and obscenity, and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. Reedited by Burroughs scholar Barry Miles and Burroughs's... (more)
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  Our Man in Havana

  by Graham Greene

  Graham Greene’s classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greene’s "entertainments," it tells of MI6’s man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out... (more)
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  Tropic of Cancer

  by Henry Miller

  Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in the USA for 27 years after its publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young... (more)
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  Moll Flanders

  by Daniel Defoe

  Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the new World.
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  The Killer Inside Me

  by Jim Thompson

  In a small town in Texas there is a sheriff's deputy named Lou Ford, a man so dull that he lives in cliches, so good-natured that he doesn't even lay a finger on the drunks who come into his custody. But then, that would be too easy, for Lou's sickness requires other victims. . . . A nightmarish book of psychopathic evil.
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  Eleven Minutes

  by Paulo Coelho

  Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of... (more)
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  Morganville Vampires: Book 1

  Glass Houses

  by Rachel Caine

  From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don't stay out after dark. This is the first book in the Morganville Vampires series. Morganville is a small college town filled with quirky characters. But when the sun goes down, the bad comes out. Because in Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows, one that will spill out into the bright light... (more)
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  Taxi Driver (Faber Reel Classics S.)

  by Paul Schrader

  A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationship with the political campaign worker Betsy, leads to an inevitable descent into psychosis and violence. This volume also contains an extended interview between Schrader and Martin Scorsese in which they discuss... (more)
• (CHANDA'S SECRETS BY Stratton, Allan(Author))Chanda's Secrets[Paperback]Annick Press(Publisher)Allan Stratton

  

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  (CHANDA'S SECRETS BY Stratton, Allan(Author))Chanda's Secrets[Paperback]Annick Press(Publisher)

  by Allan Stratton

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  Days Between Stations

  by Steve Erickson

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  The Candle Man

  by Alex Scarrow

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  Ardin's List

  There is No Otherwise

  by Ardin Lalui

  Three cowboys work as ranch hands on the Tobin Ranch east of El Paso. With Mrs Tobin dying in her bed and Mr Tobin drinking himself into an early grave, the three take the night off to get drunk at a bar in Las Cruces. They find a mysterious bar called 'La Luna' and it looks like it will treat them alright. The bartender even calls some girls he knows to come show them a good time. What they do find at... (more)
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  Evergreen Gallant

  by Jean Plaidy

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  The Measure of a Lady

  by Deeanne Gist

  Rachel van Buren arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with two wishes: to protect her younger siblings and to return east as soon as possible. Both goals prove more difficult than she could imagine as her brother and sister are lured by the city's dangerous freedom and a missionary-turned-gambler stakes a claim on her heart. Rachel won't give up without a fight though, and soon all will learn an eloquent but... (more)
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  Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack and the Extraordinary Story of Harris' List (Revealing History)

  by Hallie Rubenhold

  The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of Samuel Derrick, Jack Harris, and Charlotte Hayes, whose complicated and colorful lives were brought together by the publication of Harris' List, an infamous guidebook of prostitutes which detailed addresses, physical characteristics and "specialties." The true history of the book is a tragicomicedy motivated by poverty, passionate love, aspiration, and shame. Its... (more)
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  Pirate Latitudes

  by Michael Crichton

  "Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action.. A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure.. History as entertainment.. "It's not an ironic pirate novel. It's not a pirate novel with a secret gimmick. It's simply an entertaining tale filled with crafty privateers, despicable villains, treasure hoards, double crosses and a sea monster. "The plot sucks you in like the giant kraken monster that nearly... (more)