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Politics Noir: Thirteen Dark Tales From the Corridors of Power - Gary Phillips (Editor), Ken Bruen (Contributor), Jake Lamar (Contributor), Michelle Martinez (Contributor), and Mike Davis (Contributor)
Politics Noir is a chilling and subversive collection of new crime stories featuring greed, corruption, insatiable ambition, and murder in the very highest places.

Gary Phillips' acclaimed novels chronicle the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles through the jaundiced eyes of his African-American investigator Ivan Monk. He is a long-standing LA political activist and labor organizer.
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The Dead All Have the Same Skin - Marc Lapprand (Introduction by), Boris Vian, and Paul Knobloch (Translator)
TamTam Books is proud (as usual) to announce the publication of Vernon Sullivan's (or better known as Boris Vian) masterpiece of noir-gone berserk – The Dead All Have The Same Skin (Les morts ont tous la meme peau).
Written one year after the controversial (putting it mildly), I Spit on
Your Graves
, you think Vian would have known better. But no, he decided to do another viol...
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Geek Mafia - Rick Dakan
Hackers. Geeks. Thieves. Urban Pirates. Scams. Cons. Technology. Freedom. Off The Grid. All this and more, rolled up into a rollicking 'crime' novel navigating the edges of capitalism, consumer society, and the techno world we inhabit today. A smart, savvy, politically engaged novel for the new millennia.
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The Adventurous - Kass Fleisher
The Adventurous is a tale of two scribblers who dare to scale the heights of each other, of words, of genres, and of the institutions that make up such things as marriage and Others and words and genres. Our intrepid transmogrifiers encounter forces that lift and separate prose and poetry, she and he, molehill and mountain. Climbing, they get their words together--but the words veer off the trail. Ord...
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Gertrude Unmanageable - Deborah Schnitzer
This novel wonders about love and reproduction as two seemingly distinct forms of life intersect in a small town called Promise. On the one hand, there are the "born once," humans who follow the usual progression from birth to death. On the other hand, there are the "borneback," old ones, often presenting themselves in homes for the aged, who grow down toward their infancy. The crossing is made possible thro...
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The Hotel Of Irrevocable Acts - Carl Watson
In the warped underworld of Uptown Chicago, two petty thieves, Jack and Vince — Dostoevskyan in their criminal use of philosophy, exalting in the stealing of art as the highest human act — meet their target, their nemesis and their double: Madame Little-Ease, a Satanic Grandma Moses, who paints on refuse with polluted blood.
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Geek Mafia: Mile Zero - Rick Dakan
Key West-southernmost point in the United States, Mile Zero on Highway 1; and as far as you can run away from your past troubles without swimming to Cuba.

Key West-originally Cayo Huesos or Isle of Bones, for centuries a refuge for pirates, wreckers, writers, scoundrels, drunks, and tourists. Now home to a Crew of techno geek con artists who've turned it into their own private hunting ground.

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The Secret World Of Terijian - Anonymous and Bahiyyih (Illustrator)
For every forest destroyed... And so begins The Secret World of Terijian, a heart-wrenching story recounting the adventure of two youngsters and the secret world hidden behind their homes. Days are spent playing make-believe and enjoying the world among the woods, and one of the little ones begins his adventure to earn a Hawk's feather. However, when a looming force threatens to destroy their forest, ...
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Akiba: A Gnostic Novel - P. M.
In the 1980s, p.m.'s book bolo'bolo became an indispensable guide to new autonomous projects, a manual for "applied utopias"on a human scale, stressing cultural diversity, freedom of movement, ecological sustainability, and a relaxed attitude towards work — themes which remain essential in his new novel, Akiba.


When a tiny detail on a coin disappears for a moment, Marco Vilini,...
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My Brain Hurts - Liz Baillie
A group of teenage queer punks get in perpetual trouble with the police when they aren't flirting over loud music or postering their high school with flyers to allow same sex couples at prom. It's like they were your actual high school peers - pissing off the administration and taking care of each other when they get beat up by skinheads. Liz Baillie has a real talent for dialogue, characters, storytelling, ...
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