David Gordon
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English
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"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...
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Joe the Bouncer volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Joe is a Special Forces operative with a bad case of PTSD and some substance abuse issues, trying to rebuild a simple life as a strip club bouncer living with his grandmother in Queens. But this simple life is constantly complicated by the fact that, at the invitation of a childhood friend, now a Mafia Boss, Joe also moolights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in town."--Inside book flap
A Special Forces agent turned strip club bouncer...
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"A literary pulp fiction that flays and skewers post-Millennial New York and along the way reinvents the American detective novel." -Evan Wright, New York Times–bestselling author
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Harry Bloch is a ghost-ghostwriter, that is. He's the man behind your favorite pulpy barbarians-in-space novels and vampire romances. He's no bestselling success, but he's eked out a living as a freelancer, living in Queens in his late mother's apartment. Until...
4) The Bouncer
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English
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Introducing Joe the Bouncer in “a tour-de-force, ranging from underworld crime to a unique caper and a terrorist plot . . . an outstanding new voice” (Robert Crais, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
In David Gordon’s diabolically imaginative thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected—from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women’s...
In David Gordon’s diabolically imaginative thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected—from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women’s...
5) The pigeon
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English
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"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...
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"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...
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English
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Ancient and modern masters alike have shown us that mindfulness is the direct path to emotional healing and spiritual awakening.
In Mindful Dreaming, psychologist David Gordon shows how every dream corresponds to one of the four universal stages of healing and growth that Joseph Campbell called the Mythic "search for bliss." Dreams teach us to recognize the spiritual lessons of each phase of the Journey and urge us to learn ten perennial steps to...
8) Baseball Generations: Career Value Index - A New Look at the Hall of Fame and Rating the Greatest PL
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English
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In baseball today, Wins Above Replacement, or WAR, is the go-to tool for measuring player value. But WAR is limited in how it compares different eras, how it handles certain fielding positions, and by the fact that it's a pure compiler stat.Career Value Index (CVI), the new analytic tool developed by David Gordon in his book Baseball Generations, expands on and enhances WAR in a new and compelling way that puts players from Old Hoss Radbourn to Pedro...
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Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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An illustrated guide to slugs and snails, this book serves as a field guide to the friendly slimy creatures. Covering everything from snail sex to the importance of slugs in our ecosystem, Gordon takes us on a journey through the slow and magical world of this gentle species. Including short essays like "Grow Your Own Escargot" to informational chapters titled "Look Ma, No Operculum!" this book is chock-full of information, without the dull tone
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English
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People once thought that sharks weren't very smart. It turns out those people were WRONG! Wise-cracking sharks set the record straight in this funny, fact-filled book for young shark lovers.
Sharks have their own way of thinking. And their way of thinking has made them one of the top predators in the ocean. Sharks can sniff out injured animals over great distances. As hunters, they use their special electro-sense to zero in on hidden prey. They...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"When Sam Kornberg's wife Lala walks out on him, he's an unemployed used-book store clerk and failed experimental novelist with a broken heart. Desperate to win her back, he takes a job as assistant detective to the enigmatic Solar Lonsky, a private eye who might be an eccentric and morbid genius or just a morbidly obese madman. It's a simple tail job, following a beautiful and mysterious lady around L.A., but Sam soon finds himself helplessly falling...
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Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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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...
14) Deadline at dawn
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Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"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...
16) Truckery rhymes
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2009]
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English
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For generations, Trucks have been sharing these beloved tales, rowdy rhymes, and honk-along songs. Finally these classics have been gathered into one big, noisy, high-octane collection! All the favorite truckery rhymes are here, from "Peter Peter Payload Eater" to "Little Dan Dumper", all the way to "Pop! Blows the Diesel."
17) Snow trucking!
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Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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On a snow day, all the trucks go out to play.
18) Pete's party
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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The Trucktown trucks follow the road signs directing them to Pete's party.
19) Smash! crash!
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Best friends Jack Truck and Dump Truck Dan love to smash things but sometimes their antics get them into trouble. One day they meet Wrecking Crane Rosie. Are Jack and Dan's smashing days over?
Rev your engines for the launch of the highest-octane series around--Jon Scieszka's Trucktown for preschool/kindergartners--with more shapes, sizes, and formats than anyone could shake a bumper at.
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The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"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...