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Modern Noir Mostly Southern, a little bit redneck gothic, kinda gritty, somewhat bleak; but all good. |
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by Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow
The Nevels, struggling to survive as sharecroppers, join the great migration of rural Americans and move to Detroit where there is the promise of work in the booming industries of war. The abject hell of the public housing where they live is described in details based on the author’s own experiences.
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by Frank Bill
A debut collection features protagonists who test the boundaries of their sanity and survival skills, from a man who violently snaps and flees when his wife falls terminally ill to a former hunting dog breeder who clashes with a Salvadoran drug smuggler.
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by Matt Bondurant
Running moonshine liquor during the prohibition years, a notorious trio of brothers continues their illicit business after Prohibition and plays a central role in a violent conspiracy trial -- a story that is investigated in 1935 by a magazine journalist.
also available as audio CD, eAudio, and paperback. |
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by Taylor Brown
Rory Docherty returned from Korea, bringing home a wooden leg and a damaged psyche to his grandmother's cabin in the mountains of western North Carolina, where he faces dim prospects and a troubled past. His options are limited to running moonshine and outrunning the government revenuers in his beloved Ford, Maybelline
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by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Short stories peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but they have not figured out how to prosper in the twenty-first century.
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by Wiley Cash
Pastor Carson Chambliss, horribly burned in a meth lab explosion, honed his preaching skills in a Georgia prison, but now he has a small North Carolina congregation in his thrall. He decides that a laying on of hands will cure an autistic boy, but instead his efforts lead to the boy's death and the destruction of a family.
Also available as an eAudio. |
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Pearl is a 14-year-old girl living with her mother in an old car next to a crummy trailer park and the town dump in central Florida. The car has been their home since Pearl was born. |
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Paris Trout by Pete DexterParis Trout -- a disheveled, miserly, eccentric, and amoral but nonetheless locally respectable hardware-store owner and loan shark -- is the murderer; his victim is a 14-year-old black girl named Rosie Sayers, whom he kills in a shooting spree brought on by a black boy's failure to repay a loan. |
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by Tom Franklin
African-American Constable Silas Jones must confront his white former friend Larry Ott, who has lived under suspicion for 20 years since a girl disappeared while on a date with him, after another girl disappears and Larry is blamed once again.
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by Jordan Harper
Fresh out of jail, Nate thrusts his 11-year-old daughter into a world of robbery and violence in an effort to keep her safe from the prison gang that has put a bounty on his head and murdered her mother.
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by David Joy
When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he's chased for years, he never expected he'd accidentally shoot a man digging ginseng. Worse yet, he's killed a Brewer, a family notorious for vengeance and violence. With nowhere to turn, Darl calls on the help of the only man he knows will answer, his best friend, Calvin Hooper.
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by Lee Clay Johnson
Bound by alcohol and petty crime, a group of people from a mine-polluted corner of Virginia struggle with challenges ranging from torn loyalties and moral ambiguities to psychopathic tendencies and relentless traumas.
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by Clayton Lindemuth
On his last day in office, Sheriff Bittersmith investigates the brutal murder of a farmer and the disappearance of the farmer's daughter, while the man suspected of the crime prepares to defend himself against his accusers.
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by Philipp Meyer
Follows the lives of two young men bound by family, responsibility, inertia, and the ties of home to a dying Pennsylvania steel town, who dream of a future beyond that of the abandoned steel mills, deserted houses, factories, and pollution that rules the world they know.
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by Chris Offutt
Set in rural Kentucky between the Korean War and 1970 and follows the efforts of a young veteran and bootlegger who is pushed into a life-altering act of violence by threats against his family.
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by Brian Panowich
Taking a job as sheriff to distance himself from his drug-running family and keep the peace in their Georgia mountain territory, Clayton Burroughs is approached by a federal agent who claims he wants to help shut down the family's operations.
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by Jayne Anne Phillips
Set against the backdrop of the Korean War in the 1950s, a multi-layered novel about family, the power of loss and love, the repercussions of war, old secrets, and the bonds that unite and sustain personal relationships focuses on a single family -- Lark, her brother Termite, their mother Lola, their aunt Nonie, and Termite's soldier father, Robert Leavitt.
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by Donald Ray Pollock
A dark tale set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia between World War II and the 1960s that follows the experiences of tormented and violent individuals whose respective struggles culminate in the adult patterns of an orphaned son.
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by Ron Rash
Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders onto a neighbor's property in the woods, discovers a crop of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap.
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by Daniel Woodrell
Doyle Redmond, the maverick college boy from an Ozark family of dirt farmers and convicts, escaped to California and semi-fame as a midlist author. He returns to his roots with gusto when he agrees to help his infamous brother Smoke with the season's marijuana harvest. A nice plan, to be sure, except for the generations-old blood feud between the Redmonds and the Dollys. It all goes bad, of course.
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