Don't Know Tough

Friday Night Lights gonedarkwithSouthernGothic; Eli Cranor, who has played football at every level, delivers a powerful noir that will appeal to fans of Wiley Cash and Megan Abbott. In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home- a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the fi eld, but when hissavagery crosses a line, he faces suspension. Without Billy Lowe, the Denton Pirates can kiss their playoff bid goodbye. But the head coach, Trent Powers, who just moved from California with his wife and two children for this job, has more than just his paycheck riding on Billy's bad behavior. As a born-again Christian, Trent feels a divine calling to save Billy-save him from his circumstances, andsave his soul. Then Billy's abuser is found murdered in the Lowe family trailer, and all evidence points toward Billy. Now nothing can stop an explosive chain of violence that could tear the whole town apart on the eve of the playoffs. WINNER OF THE PETER LOVESEY FIRST CRIME NOVEL CONTEST

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Cranor, Eli

United States

Soho Crime

Ozark Dogs

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkansas town. After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a long-overdue blood debt. Headed by rancorous patriarch Bunn and smooth-talking, erudite Evail, the Ledfords have never forgotten what the Fitzjurls family did to them, and they will not be satisfied until they have taken an eye for an eye. As they seek revenge, and as Jeremiah desperately searches for his granddaughter, their narratives collide in this immersive story about family and how far some will go to honor, defend--or in some cases, destroy it.

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WINNER OF THE PETER LOVESEY FIRST CRIME NOVEL CONTEST\nFriday Night Lights gone dark with Southern Gothic; Eli Cranor delivers a powerful noir that will appeal to fans of Wiley Cash and Megan Abbott.\nIn Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his mother’s abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, but when his savagery crosses a line, he faces suspension.\nWithout Billy Lowe, the Denton Pirates can kiss their playoff bid goodbye. But the head coach, Trent Powers, who just moved from California with his wife and two children for this job, has more than just his paycheck riding on Billy’s bad behavior. As a born-again Christian, Trent feels a divine calling to save Billy—save him from his circumstances, and save his soul.\nThen Billy’s abuser is found murdered in the Lowe family trailer, and all evidence points toward Billy. Now nothing can stop an explosive chain of violence that could tear the whole town apart on the eve of the playoffs.

The troubles of two desperate families--one white, one Mexican American--converge in the ruthless underworld of an Arkansas chicken processing plant in this new thriller from the award-winning author of Don't Know Tough. Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer Foods chicken plant in Springdale, Arkansas, just a stone's throw from the trailer park where they've lived together for seven years. While dealing with personal tragedies of their own, the young couple endures the brutal, dehumanizing conditions at the plant in exchange for barebones pay. When the plant manager, Luke Jackson, fires Edwin to set an example for the rest of the workers--and to show the higherups that he's ready for a major promotion--Edwin is determined to get revenge on Luke and his wife, Mimi, a new mother who stays at home with her six-month-old son. Edwin's impulsive action sets in motion a devastating chain of events that illuminates the deeply entrenched power dynamics between those who revel at the top and those who toil at the bottom. From the nationally bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of Don't Know Tough and Ozark Dogs comes another edge-of-your-seat noir thriller that exposes the dark, bloody heart of life on the margins in the American South and the bleak underside of a bygone American Dream.

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There's only one way to stop a zombie teacher from munching your BRAINZ and that's by reading more books!When Dash Storey arrives at Haven Middle School with a backpack full of spooky books, he's itching to make some new friends, but this school is different. Way different. Books are outlawed, every student is forced to wear virtual reality "headsets," and his teacher has a serious case of hotdog breath. It's not long before Dash meets Izzy Hendrix, a voodoo-loving, straight-talking, flower-power smocked pre-teen from New Orleans, and she tells him the truth: their teacher is a zombie, and he's using the headsets to deep fry the sixth grader's brainz! Before Dash totally freaks, Izzy explains her plan for saving all the Haven kids from becoming zombie food-books. They make brainz taste bad! Luckily, Dash has his own creeptastic stash of books, but sneaking them into Haven Middle School could prove tricky. If Dash really wants to save his new classmates-and maybe even make a real friend-he's going to have to write a book of his own!Told in a mixture of illustrations and text, this book will appeal to middle-grade students as well as adults. Don't forget to be on the lookout for the next BRAINZ BOOK!

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Don't Know Tough

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Ozark Dogs

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