Any Man's Death

Any Man's Death
Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2016-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 150403483X

A Detroit mob war draws Peter Macklin back into his old life as a Mafia assassin in award-winning author Loren D. Estleman’s riveting hard-boiled thriller The Reverend Thomas Aquinas Sunsmith is halfway through his sermon when killers open fire. He is preaching against the evils of gambling, which a cartel of mobsters is trying to legalize in Detroit. The hail of gunfire misses the reverend, but a choir member is cut down—the first victim in the battle for the soul of the Motor City. The Detroit mob has erupted into civil war, and professional killer Peter Macklin is caught in the middle. A former mob employee, he has since tried to stay away from the savagery of organized crime, but now they’re offering him a job too tempting to refuse. The mob will kill whomever it takes to bring gambling to Detroit, and Macklin is about to discover their secret weapon: a seventeen-year-old prodigy assassin, who happens to be Macklin’s own son. This suspenseful thriller from the three-time Shamus Award–winning author of the Amos Walker Mysteries rumbles with hard-boiled action and razor-sharp dialogue. Any Man’s Death is the 3rd book in the Peter Macklin Thrillers, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Mrs. Malory and Any Man's Death

Mrs. Malory and Any Man's Death
Author: Hazel Holt
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101155825

The village of Mere Barton would be a different place without local busybody Annie Roberts. Standing only five feet tall, the tireless retired nurse organizes and oversees all local activity with military precision. When Sheila Malory gets roped into Annie's latest project, a compilation of the village's history, she has a feeling it will lead to trouble. But the project is cut short when Annie is found dead from a nasty case of mushroom poisoning--and Mrs. Malory seems to be the only one who finds the death suspicious. Because of her nosy nature, Annie had discovered some dark secrets about her fellow villagers. Secrets someone might kill to keep quiet.

Any Man's Death

Any Man's Death
Author: Hazel Holt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9780749008857

When Sheila Malory is badgered by Annie Roberts to write the village history, she grudgingly agrees. When Annie suffers a fatal bout of food poisoning, Sheila questions whether her death is as accidental as it first seems.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476770115

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight,” For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. “If the function of a writer is to reveal reality,” Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, “no one ever so completely performed it.” Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.

Death of the Cheating Man

Death of the Cheating Man
Author: Maxwell Billieon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-02-14
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1593093993

"A revealing look at why men cheat, through the lives of two men; one a faithful business mogul and the other a celebrity addicted to infidelity."--Jacket.

No Man Is an Island

No Man Is an Island
Author: John Donne
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1988
Genre: Death
ISBN: 9780285628748

This meditative prose conveys the essence of the human place in the world -- past and present.

The Book Thief

The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0385754728

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

Death of a Lady's Man

Death of a Lady's Man
Author: Leonard Cohen
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 077101824X

To mark the publication of Leonard Cohen's final book, The Flame, McClelland & Stewart is proud to reissue six beautiful editions of Cohen's cherished early works of poetry. A freshly packaged series for devoted Leonard Cohen fans and those who wish to discover one of the world's most adored and celebrated writers. Originally published by McClelland & Stewart in 1978, Death of a Lady's Man reinvented Cohen on the printed page, featuring a daring series of poems and prose poems, each of which is addressed—and often rebutted—in accompanying pieces of commentary. Maddening, thrilling, and truly singular, Cohen's sixth book contains some of the most challenging and startling work of his oeuvre. It is a genre-busting masterpiece well ahead of its time.

Death of a Dying Man

Death of a Dying Man
Author: J.M. Redmann
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1602823626

New Orleans PI Micky Knight just had to get into a butch pissing contest with the journalist partner of a famous doctor working with her lover, Cordelia James. Micky’s insistence that the skills of a reporter are of no use to a PI backfires, and now she’s stuck with a drop-dead gorgeous assistant and the case of a dying gay man looking for a child he might have fathered. These chains of events—and an act of nature—will tear Micky’s life apart in ways that may never be put back together. Fifth in the Lambda Award-winning Micky Knight mystery series.