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Young Junius

Young Junius by Seth Harwood

Young Junius by Seth Harwood

In 1987, fourteen-year-old Junius Posey sets out on the cold Cambridge (MA) streets to find his brother’s killer in a cluster of low-income housing towers—prime drug-dealing territory. After committing a murder to protect his friend, he finds himself without protection from retribution. His mother gives him fifty dollars and instructions to run, but Junius refuses to live a life in hiding. Instead, shocked by the violence that he’s created and determined to see its consequences through to their end, he returns to the towers to complete his original mission.

As Junius, his friend, two crews, and the police all move inexorably toward a final confrontation, a series of surprising events and shifting loyalties transform this day into a bloody turning point that none of them could have foreseen.

REVIEWS

“Seth Harwood is my favorite new American writer. I recommend this book, all his books, to you. You’ll thank me. Just wait.” — Tom Franklin, bestselling author of Poachers, Hell at the Breech and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

“Harwood is a master with the language, and he’s put all that skill into his Jack Palms books… If you’re a fan of noir, action, and good writing, pick this one up. You’ll be glad you did.” –Edward G. Talbot, Thriller author of New World Orders and Alive from New York (Terrorist Chronicles)

“Harwood is a pro, and should soon move up in the action sweepstakes derby. He’s good, and convincing, and above all, it’s fun.” –Robert Ward, author of Red Baker, Shedding Skin, The King of Cards and Four Kinds of Rain; writer, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice

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The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a “temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency,” a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.

The story depicts the effect of confinement on the narrator’s mental health and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the wallpaper. “It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw – not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. But there is something else about that paper – the smell! … The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell.”

Recommended for fans of Stephen King, James Herbert, and Clive Barker.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on the case in this classic mystery, set on lonely Dartmoor in Devonshire. Neolithic ruins, a perilous quagmire, eerie sounds in the night, and (of course) fog all add to the fun, with an escaped convict thrown in for good measure.

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