David Gordon
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With its stylish new package, updated information on the health and environmental benefits of insect eating, and breed-your-own instructions, this new edition of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook is the go-to resource for anyone interested in becoming an entomological epicure. Before Andrew Zimmern and Anthony Bourdain began seeking out exotic and outright bizarre foods,The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook established insect cuisine as the new food frontier and has sold...
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 1
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative new thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected--from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes. Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class...
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 2
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-black-ops-specialist-turned-strip-club-bouncer Joe Brody has a new qualification to add to his resume: an alliance of New York City's mob bosses has deemed him its "sheriff." In the straight world, when you "see something" you "say something" to the law. In the bent world, they call Joe. Still reeling from a particularly difficult operation, and having plummeted back into the drug and alcohol addiction that got him kicked out of the military as...
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 3
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Strip club bouncer and retired Special Forces operative Joe Brody, who moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in New York, must take out a shadowy figure named Zahir who has been invading the mob's territories to sell a powerful new brand of heroin.
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 4
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Expulsed Harvard student and ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe that it turned him to drug and alcohol abuse, Joe Brody is getting his life back together, living with his grandmother in Queens and taking what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his night reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio Caprisi, now head of New York's Italian...
6) The pigeon
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 5
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Harvard dropout and ex-Special Forces operative Joe Brody is climbing the ranks in the criminal underworld. After successfully executing multiple missions for the various crime syndicates that run New York City, he has come to earn the trust and respect of the city's most dangerous denizens. Which is why his newest task--retrieving a pet pigeon snatched from a rooftop coop in Brooklyn--has Joe puzzled...until he learns that the bird is valued at...
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Three little rigs look for help when the big, bad wrecking ball comes to destroy their garages. "Little rig, little rig, let me come in!" "Not by the chrome on my chinny chin chin." "Then I'll crash and I'll bash and I'll smash your house in." When the three little rigs set out to build their own garages, each one thinks that his is going to be the strongest. But then the big bad wrecking ball comes to call and threatens to smash their new homes to...
11) Deadline at dawn
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Quinn first meets Bricky, she's working as a partner-for-hire at a dancehall and he's struggling to shake the anxiety of his guilty conscience. Earlier that day, the young man took advantage of a found key and used it to rob a stranger's home and now, with tthe purloined money in his pocket, Quinn is unable to escape the memory of his wrongdoing. When the club closes, he and Bricky--now linked by a budding romance--return to the scene of the...
12) Big tree down
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After a summer thunderstorm knocks down Big Tree, a young boy watches his neighborhood come together to clean up and plant Little Tree"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"The oldest mystery bookstore in the world, The Mysterious Bookshop, has for most of its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its customers, written exclusively for the store and never published elsewhere--before now. The prompt for the story requires three elements: that it be set at Christmastime, that it involve a crime of some kind, or the suspicion of one, and that it be set at least partially in...
14) Dune
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family - and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. --from Amazon.
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