Walter Mosley
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
From “master of the genre” (Washington Post) Walter Mosley, Detective Easy Rawlins’ latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia—blinding him to reason and risk.
January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All...
January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools and practical advice needed to write a novel in a single year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the reader through the fundamental building blocks of fiction to deliver a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of conversational and instructive chapters, Mosley breaks down the art of fiction to its most...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two people brought together by a horrific act are united in a common cause by the powers of the Silver Box. The two join to protect humanity from destruction by an alien race, the Laz, hell-bent on regaining control over the Silver Box, the most destructive and powerful tool in the universe. The Silver Box will stop at nothing to prevent its former master from returning to being, even if it means finishing the earth itself.
Two people struggle to...
44) Rubia peligrosa
Author
Publisher
RBA Libros
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
Español
Description
1967. Dos de los hombres m̀s peligrosos de Los ℓngeles han desaparecido y el detective Easy Rawlins tiene que encontrarlos antes de que se produzca un bąo de sangre. El primero es su amigo Mouse, que ha sido acusado de asesinar a un padre de familia. El segundo es un veterano de Vietnam que el gobierno ha convertido en una m̀quina de matar y que ha dejado a su hija adoptiva al cuidado de Easy. Aunque est̀ pasando por un infierno personal tras...
Author
Series
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin.
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Struggling with economic setbacks, family conflicts, and his best friend's cancer diagnosis, private investigator Leonid McGill takes the case of a beautiful young artist who spins a dubious tale about her reluctant marriage and threats on her life.
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 6
Publisher
distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An NPR Books Great Read: Two never-before-published stories from the archives of one of science fiction's all-time masters.
The novella "A Necessary Being" showcases Octavia E. Butler's ability to create alien yet fully believable "others." Tahneh's father was a Hao, one of a dwindling race whose leadership abilities render them so valuable that their members are captured and forced to govern. When her father dies, Tahneh steps into his...
The novella "A Necessary Being" showcases Octavia E. Butler's ability to create alien yet fully believable "others." Tahneh's father was a Hao, one of a dwindling race whose leadership abilities render them so valuable that their members are captured and forced to govern. When her father dies, Tahneh steps into his...
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"--