Portland Noir
Title | Portland Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Sampsell |
Publisher | Akashic Books |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1933354798 |
In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities. Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich (illustrated by Joelle Jones), Dan DeWeese, Zoe Trope, Luciana Lopez, Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron, Ariel Gore, Floyd Skloot, Megan Kruse, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, and Jonathan Selwood. Editor Kevin Sampsell is a bookstore employee and writer. He is the author of a short story collection, Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus Press), and the upcoming memoir The Suitcase (HarperPerennial, summer 2009). He is also the editor of The Insomniac Reader (Manic D Press) and the publisher of the micropress Future Tense Books.
Seattle Noir
Title | Seattle Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Curt Colbert |
Publisher | Akashic Books |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1933354801 |
Brand new stories by: G. M. Ford, Skye Moody, R. Barri Flowers, Thomas P. Hopp, Patricia Harrington, Bharti Kirchner, Kathleen Alcal , Simon Wood, Brian Thornton, Lou Kemp, Curt Colbert, Robert Lopresti, Paul S. Piper, and Stephan Magcosta. Early Seattle was a hardscrabble seaport filled with merchant sailors, longshoremen, lumberjacks, rowdy saloons, and a rough-and-tumble police force not immune to corruption and graft. By the mid-50s, the town had added Boeing to its claim to fame, but was still a mostly blue-collar burg that was infamously described as "a cultural dustbin" by the Seattle Symphony's first conductor. Present-day Seattle has become a pricey, cosmopolitan center, home to Microsoft and Starbucks. The city is famous as the birthplace of grunge music, and possesses a flourishing art, theatre, and club scene that many would have thought improbable just a few decades ago. But some things never change--crime being one of them. Seattle's evolution to high-finance and high-tech has simply provided even greater opportunity and reward to those who might be ethically, morally, or economically challenged (crooks, in other words). But most crooks are just ordinary people, not professional thieves or crime bosses--they might be your pleasant neighbor, your wife or lover, your grocer or hairdresser, your minister or banker or lifelong friend--yet even the most upright and honest of them sometimes fall to temptation. Within the stories of Seattle Noir, you will find: a wealthy couple whose marriage is filled with not-so-quiet desperation; a credit card scam that goes over-limit; femmes fatales and hommes fatales; a delicatessen owner whose case is less than kosher; a famous midget actor whose movie roles begin to shrink when he starts growing taller; an ex-cop who learns too much; a group of mystery writers whose fiction causes friction; a Native American shaman caught in a web of secrets and tribal allegiances; sex, lies, and slippery slopes . . . and a cast of characters that always want more, not less . . . unless . . . Curt Colbert is the author of the Jake Rossiter & Miss Jenkins mysteries, a series of hard-boiled, private detective novels set in 1940s Seattle. The first book, Rat City, was nominated for a Shamus Award in 2001. A Seattle native, Colbert still resides in his hometown.
Phoenix Noir
Title | Phoenix Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Millikin |
Publisher | Akashic Books |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1933354852 |
"Patrick Millikin...as if to prove his witty claim that 'sunshine is the new noir, ' offers one superb specimen, 'Whiteout on Van Buren, ' in which author] Don Winslow makes skillful use of a city street at high noon to provide the perfect metaphor for life and death."--New York Times Book Review Brand-new stories by: Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin, Laura Tohe, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, and Stella Pope Duarte. Patrick Millikin is a bookseller at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale. As a freelance writer, his articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Publishers Weekly, Firsts Magazine, Paradoxa, Yourflesh Quarterly, and other publications. Millikin currently lives in central Phoenix.
City of Weird
Title | City of Weird PDF eBook |
Author | Gigi Little |
Publisher | Forest Avenue Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2016-10-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1942436246 |
City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers and game show hosts. Set in Portland, Oregon, these thirty stories blend imagination, literary writing, and pop culture into a cohesive weirdness that honors the city’s personality, its bookstores and bridges and solo volcano, as well as the tradition of sci-fi pulp magazines. Including such authors as Rene Denfeld, Justin Hocking, Leni Zumas, and Kevin Sampsell, editor Gigi Little has curated a collection that is quirky, chilling, often profound—and always perfectly weird.
Sovnarkom PDX
Title | Sovnarkom PDX PDF eBook |
Author | J D Mann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2021-02-28 |
Genre | |
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Life as an officer of the Portland Police Bureau isn't what Detective Ethan Grant expected when he swore his oath to protect the public. Sovnarkom PDX takes readers into the world of the war on drugs in Portland, as the last detectives of the Narcotics and Organized Crime Unit try to stem the seemingly endless flow of corruption into the streets. It doesn't take long for Ethan to realize that the corruption isn't flowing from the needles or pipes, but the political forces within the city of Portland's government. As Ethan confronts the reality that he may be fighting a battle that cannot be won, he comes face to face with the sickness of his city and his badge. What begins as a battle against drugs and an incompetent mayor evolves into so much more, as Portland devolves into chaos.Sovnarkom PDX: A Portland Police Noir is a political thriller that attempts to grapple with the issues of our time: police reform, the war on drugs, social justice, and fascism. It is J.D. Mann's first novel.
Pacific Pinot Noir
Title | Pacific Pinot Noir PDF eBook |
Author | John Winthrop Haeger |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2008-11-17 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 0520253175 |
Praise for North American Pinot Noir: "Every religion needs its scripture. Now pinot noir worshipers have theirs."—Carol Emert, San Francisco Chronicle "A great resource . . . . Exciting, thought-provoking reading."—Tara Q. Thomas, Wine & Spirits magazine
Ballet Noir
Title | Ballet Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Miller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2017-02-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780998169767 |
An American prima ballerina is pursued by love, death and the paranormal during a whirlwind tour of the great capitals of Europe.