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A lowly Miami bus driver, the optimistic gambler P, leaves his wife and family for the bright lights and games of chance of Las Vegas where he hits it big only to learn that winning at gambling is not so different from losing.
From Lexi-Nexis News
"By day, P drives a school bus in Miami. But his vocation? He's a gambler who craves every opportunity to steal a few hours to play the numbers, the lottery, at the Indian casinos. Allen has a narrative voice as compelling as feeding the slots is to P. The driven driver wins small, he loses small, borrows from the check-cashing stores, searches in the school bus seats for spare change, wins big, dribbles it away. Loses his wife and kids, moves to Vegas, becomes a professional.
"Allen describes all this in a - dare I say - poker-faced style. P is a frustra | |  | | Churchboys and Other Sinners
A collection of stories--winner of the Sonja H. Stone Prize in Fiction
All of the stories center around the themes of God, church, and child, but quite a few of them are linked around the central characters Elwyn (the 16-year old chuchboy and piano prodigy) and Sister Morrisohn (his 40 plus year old clandestine lover). Like Elwyn and Sister Morrisohn, the characters in each of the other stories must create for themselves new definitions of good and evil in order to reclaim their innocences after each has eaten his/her own version of the forbidden fruit. The damaged beauty queen, the juvenile delinquent longing for a father's love, the slacker college student po | |  | | Hoochie Mama
Miami Homicide detective M Gantry, the so-called hoochie mama cop, puts the clues together and the finger begins to point very close to home.
The clues left at the scene of each grisly murder are few, but there is that cigarette. The closer M Gantry gets to solving the mystery, the more heat she begins to feel from her superiors. When her partner becomes one of the serial killer's victims, M is rudely taken off the case. But she is Miami's top cop. That won't stop her from bringing in the mysterious killer known as the Dead Kisser, even when the finger begins to point to someone she loves. |
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Missa Solemnis
by Peter Jessop
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 As deafness, illness, and demonic forces close in around him, Ludwig van Beethoven must summon his faith and genius to complete the Missa Solemnis—a sacred masterpiece he believes could bring divine light into a darkening world. |
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