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Product Description: Launched with the summer '04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book...read more

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Product Description: Four people uncover a secret that has the power to shake the foundation of faith as we know it.Reverend Joshua Barker feels that it is his duty to bring the Word to the oppressed beings on alien worlds, to teach them to repent their sins and cherish the teachings of the Good Book...read more

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Product Description: Mr. Lincolns ARMY by Bruce Catton. Contents include: CHAPTER ONE PICTURE-BOOK WAR 1. There Was Talk of Treason 1 2. We Were Never Again Eager 14 3. You Must Never Be Frightened 27 4. Man on a Black Horse 43 CHAPTER TWO THE YOUNG GENERAL 1...read more

Product Description: Collector Benjamin Byrd has added a new and eerie item to his archives: a set of fangs embedded in silver. As he grows more and more obsessed with his new treasure, he finds himself experiencing dreams and visionary adventures. Soon Benjamin's normal, successful routine is transformed beyond anything he ever imagined; he has to confront the truth that he is no longer simply human...read more

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Product Description: "His Kakuta Hands" was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author Lian Hearn says, "'His Kikuta Hands' is set in Maruyama, the farthest city to the west in the Three Countries...read more

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