Allison Whittenberg
With a new boyfriend, her own room (finally!), and a modeling agency trying to convince her to sign with them, Charmaine Upshaw's life is just about perfect. But a surprising face appears at the dinner table: ex-con Uncle E. Uncle E skipped town ... [... more]
Random House |
Saturday's Child
Strong Voices and Amazing Descriptions: Ex-con and unofficial P.I. Callum Innes has no choice but to help gang lord Morris Tiernan find an employee who's disappeared with some of Morris's money. But Tiernan's nasty son, Mo, has sinister plans for Cal, [... more]
CDN$27.95
Amazon CA |
The Attorney
From Amazon.com: Sleuthing California defense counsel Paul Madriani lands one of his twistiest cases to date. His client, sport fisherman Jonah Hale, won $87 million in a lottery but lost his heart. Jonah's got custody of his eight-year-old grandkid [... more]
CDN$21.95
Amazon CA |
Tough Guys Dont Dance
From Amazon.com: Tough guys don't dance--and tough authors can't direct. Or at least that was the case with Norman Mailer and this mid-1980s potboiler. An overheated murder mystery obviously written for the money, the book became Mailer's return to [... more]
CDN$15.98
Amazon CA |
Innocent
Everyone and their brother was out to get him: Matt Hunter is on the run and confused. He had a good life, a secure job, a lovely wife, a baby on the way, and was closing on a new house when his life fell apart. As a young man, Matt accidentally shot a [... more]
CDN$24.95
Amazon CA |
1959-1968 Newport Folk Festiv
From Amazon.com: These three CDs document some of the greatest moments of culture shock in American music. Most of the bluesmen who first came to Newport had never played before audiences so attentive, large, or white. And those listening had never [... more]
CDN$19.99
Amazon CA |
Soldiers in the Army of God
From Amazon.com: No topic on the American socio-political landscape is more divisive than abortion, but in a way, Soldiers in the Army of God may actually bring reasonable folks on both sides of the issue together. That's because directors Marc Levin and [... more]
CDN$24.98
Amazon CA |
Eastern Condors
From Amazon.com: A hugely entertaining, Dirty Dozen-style combat film about a group of Asian American ex-con GIs, dropped into postpullout Vietnam to destroy a cache of weapons the Yanks forgetfully left behind. ("Why are foreigners so stupid?" [... more]
CDN$11.98
Amazon CA |
Star Trak
From Amazon.com: Anton Corbijn has "a reluctance to impose" on his subjects that they admire, "a way of making you feel that you wouldn't mind experimentally making an arse of yourself--because he doesn't either," says Brian Eno, [... more]
CDN$70.18
Amazon CA |
Bringing Down The House
From Amazon.com: Lonely white yuppie lawyer meets woman on internet. Woman is street-smart soul-sister ex-con who teaches white boy a thing or two about Respect and Love. Much hilarity ensues. (Well, two out of three ain't bad.) But just as the odd [... more]
CDN$20.99
Amazon CA |
Song of the Road
poignant angst laden romance: In 1935, two months after her husband's death, a poor pregnant Mary Lee Clawson rides the bus on Route 66 to Cross Roads, New Mexico where her late father owned the Cross Roads Motor Court. When she finally arrives at the [... more]
CDN$18.02
Amazon CA |
Saturdays Child
Strong Voices and Amazing Descriptions: Ex-con and unofficial P.I. Callum Innes has no choice but to help gang lord Morris Tiernan find an employee who's disappeared with some of Morris's money. But Tiernan's nasty son, Mo, has sinister plans for Cal, [... more]
CDN$18.02
Amazon CA |