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Grace

Product Description: Life is cheap on the poor side of town. For more than two decades, young black kids have been disappearing from Richmond's East End. No bodies have ever been found, and the missing boys haven't received much attention from police or the media...read more

By Howard Owen

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9781579624347 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, October 20, 2016, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Life is cheap on the poor side of town.

The Bottom: Library Edition

Product Description: Richmond is in a panic. For the fourth time in eighteen months, a young girl or woman has been brutalized and murdered. This time the body of a fourteen-year-old girl is found in Richmond's Shockoe Bottom train station. On her ankle is the same perversely cartoonish tattoo that has led the cops and newspapers to dub the perpetrator the Tweety Bird killer...read more

By Howard Owen

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9781504616980 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 30, 2016), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Richmond is in a panic.

9781504616973 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 31, 2015), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Richmond is in a panic.

The Bottom

By Howard Owen

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9781579623920 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, August 31, 2015, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Richmond is in a panic.

Paperback:

9780393310559, titled "Blue Guide: France" | 3rd edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1994), cover price $29.95 | also contains Blue Guide: France | About this edition: Well established as the most comprehensive guidebook to France available in English, Blue Guide France is an essential companion for anyone who is interested in the history and culture of the country.

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9781504616997 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 31, 2015), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Richmond is in a panic.

Parker Field: Library Edition

Product Description: Les Hacker doesn t seem to have an enemy in the world other than whoever tried to kill him with a high-powered rifle while he was sitting on a park bench six floors below Willie Black s living room window. Les is the closest thing Willie has had to a father figure in a checkered life of drinking, divorces, and journalism...read more

By Howard Owen

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9781482994322 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 27, 2014), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Les Hacker doesn t seem to have an enemy in the world other than whoever tried to kill him with a high-powered rifle while he was sitting on a park bench six floors below Willie Black s living room window.

Parker Field

Product Description: [Read by Kevin Kenerly] In this third Willie Black novel, after Hammett Prize finalist Oregon Hill and The Philadelphia Quarry, Howard Owen brings back his flawed, ink-stained hero, a reporter who seems to do his best work when he's chasing a story nobody else wants, who can be his own worst enemy and the underdog's best friend...read more

By Howard Owen

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9781579623616 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, June 27, 2014, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Les Hacker doesn't seem to have an enemy in the world - other than whoever tried to kill him with a high-powered rifle while he was sitting on a park bench six floors below Willie Black's living room window.

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9781482994339 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 27, 2014), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [Read by Kevin Kenerly] In this third Willie Black novel, after Hammett Prize finalist Oregon Hill and The Philadelphia Quarry, Howard Owen brings back his flawed, ink-stained hero, a reporter who seems to do his best work when he's chasing a story nobody else wants, who can be his own worst enemy and the underdog's best friend.

9781482994346 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 27, 2014), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [Read by Kevin Kenerly] In this third Willie Black novel, after Hammett Prize finalist Oregon Hill and The Philadelphia Quarry, Howard Owen brings back his flawed, ink-stained hero, a reporter who seems to do his best work when he's chasing a story nobody else wants, who can be his own worst enemy and the underdog's best friend.

The Philadelphia Quarry

Product Description: Black is back. Willie Black was last seen, in Oregon Hill, risking the final tattered remnants of his checkered career - and his life - to free a man almost everyone else believed guilty. Willie's still covering the night police beat with its violent drug deals and dirt naps, still avoiding the hawk that periodically swoops down to pluck away a few more of his colleagues in a floundering business...read more

By Howard Owen

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9781579623357 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, July 15, 2013, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Black is back.

Paperback:

9781579623746 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, December 1, 2013, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Black is back.

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9781470898069 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 15, 2013), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.

9781470898083 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 15, 2013), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [Read by Kevin Kenerly](Sequel to Oregon Hill) Black is back.

The Philadelphia Quarry: Library Edition

Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.] [Read by Kevin Kenerly](Sequel to Oregon Hill) Black is back. Willie Black was last seen, in Oregon Hill, risking the final tattered remnants of his checkered career - and his life - to free a man almost everyone else believed guilty...read more

By Howard Owen

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9781470898090 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 15, 2013), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.

Oregon Hill

Product Description: Winner of the 2012 Hammett PrizePraising Oregon Hill, The New York Times says Howard Owen is "a writer we can't wait to hear again". Willie Black has squandered a lot of things in his life - his liver, his lungs, a couple of former wives and a floundering daughter can all attest to his abuse...read more

By Howard Owen

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9781579622084 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, July 1, 2012, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Winner of the 2012 Hammett PrizePraising Oregon Hill, The New York Times says Howard Owen is "a writer we can't wait to hear again".

The Reckoning

Product Description: George James and Freeman Hawk were unlikely friends. George was part of soft-spoken, old-money Richmond; Freeman came from a hardscrabble country family mired in poverty and marked by violence. Fate threw them together long ago as freshman roommates at New Hope College...read more

By Howard Owen

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9781579622077 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, December 1, 2010, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: George James and Freeman Hawk were unlikely friends.

Rock of Ages

Product Description: In Rock of Ages , Howard Owen returns to the terrain of Scots County, North Carolina, site of his best-selling novel Littlejohn.Littlejohn McCain has been dead 11 years. In that time, his daughter has divorced one husband and buried another...read more

By Howard Owen

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9781579621285 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, May 30, 2006, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: In Rock of Ages , Howard Owen returns to the terrain of Scots County, North Carolina, site of his best-selling novel Littlejohn.

Turn Signal

By Howard Owen

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9781579621032 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, June 1, 2004, cover price $26.00

The Rail

Product Description: Before he let his life fall apart, James "Neil" Beauchamp was special. He lived and flourished in the world of privilege, adored and accommodated. Then, before he truly learned to appreciate it, the one talent that lifted him from a small life in a small town was gone...read more

By Howard Owen

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9781579620431 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, April 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Before he let his life fall apart, James "Neil" Beauchamp was special.

Harry & Ruth

By Howard Owen

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9781579620660 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, September 1, 2000, cover price $25.00

Answers to Lucky

Driven by their father to become successful, twin brothers Tom Ed and Jack are torn apart when Jack contracts polio and is cruelly dismissed as useless by the family, and years later he vows to reestablish himself. Reprint.

By Howard Owen

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9780060173128 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Driven by their father to become successful, brothers Tom Ed and Lucky are torn apart when Lucky contracts polio and is cruelly dismissed as useless by the family, and years later he vows to reestablish himself

Paperback:

9780060928094 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 1997), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Driven by their father to become successful, brothers Tom Ed and Lucky are torn apart when Lucky contracts polio and is cruelly dismissed as useless by the family, and years later he vows to reestablish himself

The Measured Man: A Novel

After a personal tragedy sends him into depression, Walker Fann once again finds a cause for living when he steps in the breach between two Southern communities, torn asunder by the act of a black teen.

By Howard Owen

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9780060186548 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: After a personal tragedy sends him into depression, Walker Fann once again finds a cause for living when he steps in the breach between two Southern communities, torn asunder by the act of a Black teen

Fat Lightning: A Novel

Product Description: A visionary who dreams about eating kindling wood called "fat lightning" and sees Christ on the Cross in his barn forms an unlikely league with his nephew's frustrated wife in a small Southern town. By the author of Littlejohn. IP.

By Howard Owen

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9781877946417 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, September 1, 1994, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A visionary who dreams about eating kindling wood called 'fat lightning' and sees Christ on the cross in his barn forms an unlikely league with his nephew's frustrated wife in a small Southern town

Paperback:

9780060976767 | Reprint edition (Perennial, March 1, 1996), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A visionary who dreams about eating kindling wood called "fat lightning" and sees Christ on the Cross in his barn forms an unlikely league with his nephew's frustrated wife in a small Southern town.

Little John

Eighty-two-year-old North Carolina farmer Littlejohn McCain--who lies down and waits to die one July afternoon--reviews the pains, pleasures, and regrets of his long life, including his accidental fatal shooting of his brother.

By Howard Owen

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9781879371798 | Publishing Mills, November 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Eighty-two-year-old North Carolina farmer Littlejohn McCain--who lies down and waits to die one July afternoon--reviews the pains, pleasures, and regrets of his long life, including his accidental fatal shooting of his brother.

Littlejohn

Eighty-two-year-old North Carolina farmer Littlejohn McCain lies down and waits to die on one July afternoon, reviewing his long life, pains, pleasures, and regrets, including his accidental fatal shooting of his brother. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.

By Howard Owen

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Hardcover:

9780679427698 | 1 edition (Villard Books, September 1, 1993), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Eighty-two-year-old North Carolina farmer Littlejohn McCain, who lies down and waits to die one July afternoon, reviews his long life, his pains, pleasures, and regrets, including his accidental fatal shooting of his brother

9781560546580 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Littlejohn McCain, an eighty-two-year-old farmer looks back on his life, remembering the hardships and happiness

9781877946189 | Permanent Pr Pub Co, October 1, 1992, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Now available in paperback, comes a successful and beautifully-written novel about a decent North Carolina farmer haunted by errors and redeemed by faith.

Paperback:

9780679750017 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1994), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Eighty-two-year-old North Carolina farmer Littlejohn McCain, who lies down and waits to die one July afternoon, reviews his long life, his pains, pleasures, and regrets, including his accidental fatal shooting of his brother

9781877946370 | Reprint edition (Permanent Pr Pub Co, November 1, 1992), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Now available in paperback, comes a successful and beautifully-written novel about a decent North Carolina farmer haunted by errors and redeemed by faith.

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