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Max Freeman volume 1
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The Edgar Award-winning debut of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: A tormented ex-cop's mission to solve a grisly murder and earn redemption for his dark past. After a shootout during a convenience store holdup led to the accidental death of a twelve-year-old, Max Freeman left behind the Philadelphia police department for a life in exile in the Florida Everglades. Since then, he has lived in seclusion, haunted by guilt, with the humid night...
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Book two of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: When a string of elderly women turn up dead in a poor Florida community, Max must put an end to the chilling scheme. When five elderly women are murdered in Fort Lauderdale, Max Freeman is determined to get to the bottom of it. His friend, the lawyer Billy Manchester, believes the murders are tied to a conspiracy to collect on the women's life insurance policies. But when Freeman uncovers a shocking...
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Max Freeman volume 3
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Eighty years after three men--a father and two sons--vanish without a trace while working on a project to build a road through the Florida Everglades, a descendant of the men enlists former police officer Max Freeman to uncover the truth.
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Book four of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: Max's investigation of a string of murders in south Florida leads him to the most shocking of suspects. After three young female bartenders were murdered in Miami and one went missing in Philadelphia, Freeman's ex-girlfriend Sherry Richards hires him to help with the case. Freeman grudgingly accepts the job, despite Sherry's insistence that a retired police officer who saved Freeman's life back...
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Max Freeman volume 5
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Book five of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: As a powerful hurricane rips through southern Florida, Max and his girlfriend must face down the Everglades' most menacing criminals. The peace and quiet of Max Freeman and Sherry Richards's vacation in the Everglades ends abruptly when Hurricane Simone slams into the Sunshine State. When Sherry suffers a devastating injury in the storm, the two are left stranded in the deadly swamp. As they...
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The "word game" was a challenge I would use to keep myself mentally fit for writing. I'd ask a friend to give me a word, and my challenge was to write an original poem, inspired by that word, in less than 5 minutes. It kept my mind fresh, open, and the nature of poetry very much alive. One night I had the idea to include my Twitter followers in the exercise, so I tweeted: "The first 10 followers that tweet me 1 word, I'll write a poem based on that...
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The "word game" was a challenge I would use to keep myself mentally fit for writing. I'd ask a friend to give me a word, and my challenge was to write an original poem, inspired by that word, in less than 5 minutes. It kept my mind fresh, open, and the nature of poetry very much alive. One night I had the idea to include my Twitter followers in the exercise, so I tweeted: "The first 10 followers that tweet me 1 word, I'll write a poem based on that...
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When a pregnant federal judge is abducted, Max Freeman pursues an eccentric gang deep into a hidden world he knows better than most: the shadowy waterways of the Florida Everglades US district judge Diane Manchester has looked across the courtroom into the eyes of evil before. But today, as she presides over the extradition hearing of a notorious Colombian drug lord, she is also eight months pregnant. Her chair is uncomfortable, her robe is constrictive,...
10) Love Stories
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New work from Tommy Orange, Anne Carson, Louise Erdrich, and others propels this tribute to love from Freeman's, "a powerful force in the literary world" (Los Angeles Times).
In a time of contentiousness and flagrant abuse, it often feels as if our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed series, Freeman's: Love asks this question,...
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Following his acclaimed debut issue of collected writing on the theme of "Arrival," the renowned editor and critic John Freeman circles a topic of constantly shifting definitions and endless fascination for writers: family.
In an essay called "Crossroads," Aminatta Forna muses on the legacy of slavery as she settles her family in Washington, DC-a place where she is routinely accused of cutting in line when she stands next to her white husband. Award-winning...
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In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem "Howl," and Jack Kerouac's seminal book On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching five times, first at the Naropa Institute and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to present the history of Beat Literature in his own inimitable way....
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A diverse anthology of poetry, fiction and essays from the most exciting writers around the world in this "fresh, provocative, engrossing" literary journal (BBC.com).
The literary anthology Freeman's, created by writer, critic, and former Granta editor John Freeman, has quickly gained an international following with wide acclaim. It has been called "bold [and] searching" by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and "impressively...
The literary anthology Freeman's, created by writer, critic, and former Granta editor John Freeman, has quickly gained an international following with wide acclaim. It has been called "bold [and] searching" by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and "impressively...
15) The Max Freeman Mysteries Volume One: The Blue Edge of Midnight, A Visible Darkness, and Shadow Men
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Three "gritty, vivid, and suspenseful" books in the Edgar Award–winning series featuring South Florida PI Max Freeman (Harlan Coben). From a writer who "adds new dimensions of depth and substance to the modern crime novel," this thrilling and critically acclaimed series follows a tormented ex-cop from Philadelphia to South Florida on a quest to earn redemption for his dark past (Michael Connelly). The Blue Edge of Midnight: After a shootout during...
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Three epic historical romances from the "compulsively readable" New York Times -bestselling author of A World Full of Strangers ( The Washington Post Book World ). With more than twenty-two million copies of her books sold, many of them New York Times bestsellers, Cynthia Freeman has delighted her legion of fans with sweeping historical epics of passion, heartbreak, duty, and family. The Days of Winter : In this New York Times -bestselling epic spanning...
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From a New York Times–bestselling author: Three epic historical novels that bring to life the spirit of the Jewish immigrant experience in America.
New York Times–bestselling author Cynthia Freeman is beloved for her multigenerational sagas of Jewish immigrant families in America, including her sensational debut, A World Full of Strangers, which sold more than a million copies. The three novels collected here center on ordinary, heroic women...
18) Freeman's: Power
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The "fresh, provocative, engrossing" literary journal explores the nature of power in its various forms with new stories, essays, and poetry (BBC.com).
Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is either demonstrated or deployed. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary anthology Freeman's explores who gets to say what matters in a time of social upheaval.
Margaret Atwood...
Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is either demonstrated or deployed. This thought-provoking issue of the acclaimed literary anthology Freeman's explores who gets to say what matters in a time of social upheaval.
Margaret Atwood...
19) California
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"A necessary piece in a literary California collection" with new work from Tommy Orange, Rabih Alamdeddine, Mai Der Vang, Jennifer Egan, and others (Los Angeles Times).
From immigration rights to climate change, California has been ground zero for the most crucial questions of our time. In a bravura essay, Rabih Alamdeddine remembers bartending during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. William T. Vollmann visits the Carr fire and discovers that...
20) Amenazada
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Con una vida monótona y tras romper con un novio apático, Julia Stein toma un vuelo de regreso a su ciudad y a su trabajo asfixiante. Sentada, de casualidad, junto a un agente del FBI, ella se sorprende al ver que en su expediente estaba la foto de su amiga asesinada hace ocho años. Estimulada a escapar de la monotonía y a buscar justicia, promete descubrir la verdad detrás de esta muerte que nunca se resolvió.
Hans Freeman está decidido a...
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