Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime
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A cyborg detective hunts for a malfunctioning sex doll that turns itself into a killing machine. A...

River Monsters
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A tale of obsession and very big fish from Jeremy Wade, the presenter of ITV's RIVER MONSTERS. Over...

The Gone World: A Novel
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"I promise you have never read a story like this."--Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author...

City of Bones (Harry Bosch, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #10)
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On New Year’s Day, Detective Harry Bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone — a bone that...

Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story
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On a dark night in Provence in December 1888 Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is an act that has...

A Brief History of Florence Nightingale: And Her Real Legacy, a Revolution in Public Health
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Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical...

Pigeon English
Stephen Kelman and Gbolahan Obisesan
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There was a ruckus at lunch time. It was the best one so far. Nobody knew why they were fighting...
Death YA Loss Working class Detective

Dashiell Hammett and the Movies
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As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood....

After I'm Gone
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New York Times best seller Laura Lippman returns with a classic story of murder and mystery, in...

Playback
Raymond Chandler and Kathy Reichs
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Playback is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime. Stalking the...