South of Heaven
10 best books like South of Heaven (Jim Thompson): Cities of the Plain, Out, Midnight at the Blackbird Café, Train Dreams, The Prestige, Bird Lives!: The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker, The High Window, Self-Defense: Nerve Centers & Pressure Points for Karate, Jujitsu and Atemi-Waza, Destination: Morgue!, KGB Alpha Team Training Manual: How the Soviets Trained for Personal Combat, Assassination, and Subversion
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0679747192 |
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico,...
| Author | Natsuo Kirino |
| ISBN | 1400078377 |
Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime.
The ringleader of this...
Midnight at the Blackbird Café
| Author | Heather Webber |
| ISBN | 1250198607 |
Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm.
Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee,...
| Author | Denis Johnson |
| ISBN | 1250007658 |
Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0312858868 |
In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.
Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences....
Bird Lives!: The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
| Author | Ross Russell |
| ISBN | 0306806797 |
"The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of the entire jazz life in this society."--Ralph Gleason
"Inspired by great affection and dedication,...
| Author | Raymond Chandler |
| ISBN | 0394758269 |
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.
"Raymond Chandler is a star of...
Self-Defense: Nerve Centers & Pressure Points for Karate, Jujitsu and Atemi-Waza
| Author | Bruce Tegner |
| ISBN | 0874070295 |
Stories about mysterious techniques involving nerve centers and pressure have been around for centuries. Here, Bruce Tegner evaluates the myth and legend behind the so-called "deadly" blows and the "secrets" of the fighting arts in terms of acceptable scientific evidence and the reality of human...
| Author | James Ellroy |
| ISBN | 1400032873 |
Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand of...
KGB Alpha Team Training Manual: How the Soviets Trained for Personal Combat, Assassination, and Subversion
| Author | Paladin Press |
| ISBN | 0873647068 |
Book publishing firm founded in 1970 by Peder Lund and Robert K. Brown.
The company publishes non-fiction books and videos covering a wide range of specialty topics,including (but not limited to) personal and financial freedom, survivalism and preparedness, firearms and shooting, various...
Combat Kick Boxing - A Framework for Success
| Author | Pat O'Keeffe |
| ISBN | 1840241950 |
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Mastering Muay Thai Kick-Boxing: MMA-Proven Techniques
| Author | Joe E. Harvey |
| ISBN | 0804840059 |
In Mastering Muay Thai Kick-Boxing, author Joe Harvey, an experienced martial artist with close to 20 years of active training and teaching, covers Muay Thai stances and such moves as:
Upper body strikes and defenses
Lower body strikes and defenses
Plum/clinch tie up defenses
Stalking...
