Christina Hoag
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"Compelling." "Captivating." "Thrilling." "Real page-turner." "Gut-wrenching." "Authentic." "Brilliant book." "Gritty."
Cyco Lokos gang member Mags comes home to Los Angeles after serving prison time for a robbery. He wants nothing more than to start a new life. However, there's one obstacle he has to overcome first...his old life.
Mags tries to let go of his bitterness and stay out of gang life for the sake of his Salvadoran immigrant family and...
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"Gripping." "Scarily accurate." "Unputdownable." "Powerful." "Beautiful & shocking."
He was perfect. At first. The summer before senior year, seventeen-year-old Chloe starts an internship at a local newspaper. While on assignment, she meets Kieran, a quirky aspiring actor. Chloe is smitten with Kieran's charisma and his ability to soothe her soul, torn over her parents' impending divorce. As their bond deepens, Kieran becomes smothering and flies...
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The body of a twenties-something lawyer is found in a West Los Angeles alley and LAPD Detective Desi Nimmo is assigned to investigate. She soon finds that Sterling Parker was the victim of a BDSM sex lifestyle that went badly wrong. Desi must also deal with a new detective assigned as her partner, Finbar McNab, who is overly ambitious to redeem himself in the department after an accident drummed him out of a plum job. Undermining Desi at every chance...
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Rowena Aldus is a British scientist living in the Amazonian jungle of Venezuela, where she is studying spider venom, which may prove a cure for ED. She meets an angel investor and falls in love, only to have her dreams and her life shattered.
Guy Westerphal, venture capitalist and startup consultant, has tracked down Rowena and arranges to meet her. His interest in her research and his stated desire to fund it seems a dream come true to Rowena. He...
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He was the most wanted man in the world for decades. Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born terrorist, carried out a wave of attacks across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. A ruthless self-proclaimed revolutionary and notorious womanizer, he claimed to fight for the Palestinian cause and communist ideology, but also worked as a mercenary for rogue regimes and organizations. After bursting onto the world stage with the 1975 OPEC siege in Vienna, where...
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El era perfecto. Al prinicipio.Trabajando como periodista para un periódico local, Cloe, de diecisiete años, conoce a Kieran, un actor aspirante y algo excéntrico. Se enamoran locamente, pero en cuanto su relación se profundiza, Kieran se vuelve asfixiante, posesivo y se da a rabias aterradoras. Él le confía a Cloe que sufrió una niñez traumática. Si él se puede sanar, cree ella, su relación sería perfecta, pero sus esfuerzos fracasan...
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He was the most wanted man in the world for decades. Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born terrorist, carried out a wave of attacks across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. A ruthless self-proclaimed revolutionary and notorious womanizer, he claimed to fight for the Palestinian cause and communist ideology, but also worked as a mercenary for rogue regimes and organizations. After bursting onto the world stage with the 1975 OPEC siege in Vienna, where...
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Trabajando como periodista para un periódico local, Cloe, de diecisiete años, conoce a Kieran, un actor aspirante y algo excéntrico. Se enamoran locamente, pero en cuanto que su relación se profundiza, Kieran se vuelve asfixiante, posesivo y se da a rabias aterradoras. Él confía en Cloe que sufrió una niñez traumática. Si él se puede sanar, ella cree, su relación estaría perfecta pero sus esfuerzos fracasan y Kieran se vuelve violento....
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Have you ever been in a situation where all of those internal warning signals went off but you went forward anyway? Or in a situation where you started to drive forward and then something told you to stop? This anthology is a collection of stories of similar situations that our authors experienced. Read on to find out about their own red flags.
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He was the most wanted man in the world for decades. Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born terrorist, carried out a wave of attacks across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. A ruthless self-proclaimed revolutionary and notorious womanizer, he claimed to fight for the Palestinian cause and communist ideology, but also worked as a mercenary for rogue regimes and organizations. After bursting onto the world stage with the 1975 OPEC siege in Vienna, where...
11) The Blood Room
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The body of a young lawyer is found in an alley, and the suspicious circumstances of his death arouse Los Angeles PD Detective Desi Nimmo's interest. As she pursues a complex series of clues of what caused his demise, the trail leads her into LA's porn industry. She must also fend off the rivalry of disgraced Detective Fin McNab, who is desperate to regain his good standing with the brass and will stop at nothing to do so including snatching Desi's...
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When we think of gangs, we are likely overcome with images of fear and violence. But there is another side, that of the interventionists devoted to making peace in gang territories. Written by Aquil Basheer, a pioneer of the interventionist movement, Peace In the Hood takes us inside this dual world of violence and intervention, evoking the reality of gangland warfare while acknowledging the possibility of peace. Basheer has witnessed firsthand the...