In the hard-edged tradition of Hubert Selby Jr., Daniel Woodrell, and Donald Ray Pollock, and with the fresh, complex humanity of Breaking Bad and Reservoir Dogs, a blistering debut collection that unsparingly confronts the extreme, brutal parts of the human heart.
A man runs away from his grave and into a maelstrom of bullets and fire. A Hollywood fixer finds love over the corpse of a dead celebrity. A morbidly obese woman imagines a new life with the jewel thief who is scheming to rob the store where she works. A man earns the name “Mad Dog” and lives to regret it.
Denizens of the shadows who live outside the law—from the desolate meth labs of the Ozark Mountains to the dog-fighting rings of Detroit to the lavish Los Angeles mansions of the rich and famous—the characters in Love and Other Wounds all thirst for something seemingly just beyond their reach. Some are on the run, pursued by the law or propelled relentlessly forward by a dangerous past that is disturbingly close. Others are searching for a semblance of peace and stability, and even love, in a fractured world defined by seething violence and ruthless desperation. All are bruised, pushed to their breaking point and beyond, driven to extremes they never imagined.
Crackling with cinematic energy, raw and disquieting yet filled with pathos and a darkly vital humor, Love and Other Wounds is an unforgettable debut from an electrifying new voice.

LOVE & OTHER WOUNDS

Literature & Fiction

Harper, Jordan

United States

EccoPress

*WINNER OF A 2018 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT NOVEL*
*WINNER OF AN ALEX AWARD FROM THE ALA* 
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Booklist
A propulsive, gritty novel about a girl marked for death who must fight and steal to stay alive, learning from the most frightening man she knows—her father.
Eleven-year-old Polly McClusky is shy, too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere, when she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, Nate, fresh out of jail and driving a stolen car. He takes her from the front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of death. And he does it to save her life.
Nate made dangerous enemies in prison—a gang called Aryan Steel has put out a bounty on his head, counting on its members on the outside to finish him off. They’ve already murdered his ex-wife, Polly’s mother. And Polly is their next target. 
Nate and Polly’s lives soon become a series of narrow misses, of evading the bad guys and the police, of sleepless nights in motels. Out on the lam, Polly is forced to grow up early: with barely any time to mourn her mother, she must learn how to take a punch and pull off a drug-house heist. She finds herself transforming from a shy little girl into a true fighter. Nate, in turn, learns what it’s like to love fiercely and unconditionally—a love he’s never quite felt before. But can their powerful bond transcend the dangerous existence he’s carved out for them? Will they ever be able to live an honest life, free of fear?
She Rides Shotgun is a gripping and emotionally wrenching novel that upends even our most long-held expectations about heroes, villains, and victims. Nate takes Polly to save her life, but in the end it may very well be Polly who saves him.

She Rides Shotgun: A Novel

Ecco

Everybody Knows: A Novel

<div>A fearless black-bag publicist exposes the belly of the L.A. beast in "one of the best LA noir novels I've ever read" (Attica Locke). &nbsp;</div> <div>"The book everybody's been waiting for" --Michael Connelly "An absolute tour de force"--S. A. Cosby "The best mystery novel I've read in years"&nbsp;--James Patterson</div> Welcome to Mae Pruett's Los Angeles, where&nbsp;"Nobody talks. But everybody whispers."&nbsp;As a "black-bag" publicist tasked not with letting the good news out but keeping the bad news in, Mae works for one of LA's most powerful and sought-after crisis PR firms, at the center of a sprawling web of lawyers, PR flaks, and private security firms she calls "The Beast." They protect the rich and powerful and depraved by any means necessary.&nbsp; &nbsp; After her boss is gunned down in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel in a random attack, Mae takes it upon herself to investigate and runs headfirst into The Beast's lawless machinations and the twisted systems it exists to perpetuate. It takes her on a roving neon joyride through a Los Angeles full of influencers pumped full of pills and fillers; sprawling mansions footsteps away from sprawling homeless encampments; crooked cops and mysterious wrecking crews in the middle of the night. &nbsp; Edgar Award-winner Jordan Harper's EVERYBODY KNOWS is addicting and alarming, a "juggernaut of a novel" and "an absolute tour de force." It is what the crime novel can achieve in the modern age: portray the human lives at the center of vast American landscapes, and make us thrill at their attempts to face impossible odds.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Mulholland Books

<div> In this "dazzling" (New York Times Book Review) mystery from an Edgar Award winning author, a fearless black-bag publicist exposes the belly of the L.A. beast. A New York Times Best Crime Book of the Year *&nbsp;&nbsp;A NYTBR Editors' Choice Selection *&nbsp;An ABA January 2023 Indie Next List Pick&nbsp;* Recommended by&nbsp;New York Times Book Review&nbsp;*&nbsp;NPR/Fresh Air&nbsp;*&nbsp;Wall Street Journal&nbsp;*&nbsp;Washington Post&nbsp;*&nbsp;LA Times&nbsp;*&nbsp;CrimeReads&nbsp;* The&nbsp;Boston Globe&nbsp;* South Florida Sun Sentinel&nbsp;* Alta Online&nbsp;*&nbsp;Lit Hub*&nbsp;Kirkus Reviews*&nbsp;Publishers Weekly*&nbsp;NBC/TODAY and many more! Welcome to Mae Pruett's Los Angeles, where&nbsp;"Nobody talks. But everybody whispers."&nbsp;As a "black-bag" publicist tasked not with letting the good news out but keeping the bad news in, Mae works for one of LA's most powerful and sought-after crisis PR firms, at the center of a sprawling web of lawyers, PR flaks, and private security firms she calls "The Beast." They protect the rich and powerful and depraved by any means necessary.&nbsp; &nbsp; After her boss is gunned down in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel in a random attack, Mae takes it upon herself to investigate and runs headfirst into The Beast's lawless machinations and the twisted systems it exists to perpetuate. It takes her on a roving neon joyride through a Los Angeles full of influencers pumped full of pills and fillers; sprawling mansions footsteps away from sprawling homeless encampments; crooked cops and mysterious wrecking crews in the middle of the night. &nbsp; Edgar Award-winner Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows&nbsp;is addicting and alarming, a "juggernaut of a novel" and "an absolute tour de force." It is what the crime novel can achieve in the modern age: portray the human lives at the center of vast American landscapes, and make us thrill at their attempts to face impossible odds. &nbsp; "The book everybody's been waiting for" --Michael Connelly "An absolute tour de force"--S. A. Cosby "The best mystery novel I've read in years"&nbsp;--James Patterson </div>

Jordan Harper's "darkly irresistible" novel, a tragic,&nbsp;Hamlet-esque noir for readers of S.A. Cosby and Don Winslow, now available for the first time in the United States.&nbsp;(Megan Abbott) &nbsp; Written years before Jordan Harper's breakout success, Everybody Knows, this stirring and brutal bildungsroman tells the story of young Luke Crosswhite, who after years apart from his criminal family returns to their flock deep in the California desert. Luke's father is serving time for a brutal murder that Luke himself witnessed; now, his uncle vies for power and rival biker gangs encroach on the family's various criminal enterprises. A sensitive boy grown hard man, Luke navigates the vicious pressures of "home," and the loyalties to his old friend, Cassie, who has hatched a scheme with her boyfriend Pretty Baby to escape the control of the gang, the Combine. Hanging over these desperate, lonesome parties is the gang's motto, tattooed indelibly across the heart: Blood is Love. &nbsp; The Last King of California is a story of the West unlike any you will read. &nbsp; "When I say&nbsp;The Last King of California&nbsp;subverts the stereotypical American Outlaw Mythos, it's the highest praise I can give it. No one is thinking deeper about what crime fiction is than Jordan Harper."--&nbsp;S. A. Cosby "Burns bright and fast"--&nbsp;Peter Swanson "Darkly irresistible" --&nbsp;Megan Abbott "Urgent and beautiful" --&nbsp;Lauren Beukes

The Last King of California

Thrillers & Suspense

"Unsparing, brutal, and strangely beautiful." Allison Glasgow, editor at ThugLit "A harrowing, hallowing ode to those whose options boil down to a bullet, a bank or a strange stretch of highway. American Letters has found in Harper an agent worthy to take the crime fiction tradition into the 21st century." - Hardboiled Wonderland "I've never read a Jordan Harper story that didn't leave me shaking my head at what an immense, immense talent he is. And I'm saying this with the guy still owing me sixteen bucks." - Todd Robinson author of The Hard Bounce.

American Death Songs: Stories by Jordan Harper

Beautiful Trash

Higher Education Leadership: Challenging Tradition and Forging Possibilities

Kezar, Adrianna

Carducci, Rozana

Business & Money

Johns Hopkins University Press

The world's greatest multi-award winning crime fiction magazine is BACK after a two-year hiatus with eight hardcore short stories to rock your literary world. IN THIS ISSUE OF THUGLIT: LUCY IN THE PIT by Jordan Harper BASTARDS OF APATHY by Jason Duke THE GLEANER'S UNION by Court Merrigan MAGPIE by Hilary Davidson LADY MADELINE'S DIVE by Terrence P. McCauley SPILL SITE by Matthew C. Funk A CLEAN WHITE SUN by Mike Wilkerson LUCK by Johnny Shaw PLUS: an exclusive first look at Tyrus Books' upcoming novel from Todd Robinson, THE HARD BOUNCE

THUGLIT issue 1

Davidson, Hilary

Shaw, Johnny

Duke, Jason

Wilkerson, Mike

Merrigan, Court

Funk, Matthew C.

McCauley, Terrence P.

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The loose-cannons of crime fiction over at Thuglit Magazine bring you CRUEL YULE! Featuring: THE SANTA CON by Rob Hart CHRISTMAS MORNING COMING DOWN by Jordan Harper MISTLETOE by Hilary Davidson LETTERS TO SANTA by Thomas Pluck OKEECHOBEE by Ed Kurtz FELIZ NAVIDEAD by Brace Godfrey (as discovered by Johnny Shaw) THE BRASS COIN by Justin Porter A VERY BLACKY CHRISTMAS by Angel Luis Colón FORK by Jen Conley UNHOLY NIGHT by Terrence McCauley ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE… by Todd Robinson Eleven stories of crime fiction to get you in the holiday spirit—as long as your holiday spirit is kindled by copious amounts of illicit drug use, murder, robbery, hand grenades, hand-removals and holiday handjobs… BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL IN THERE! EDITOR'S NOTE: Consider yourself warned. So when you stuff this collection in Granny's stocking, don't come complaining to us when you find her keeled over by New Years, her copy of CRUEL YULE clutched between her cold fingers, a horrified expression locked onto her mug for all eternity. Capiche?

Thuglit presents: CRUEL YULE: Holiday Tales of Crime for People on the Naughty List

McCauley, Terrence

Hart, Rob

Kurtz, Ed

Robinson, Todd

Conley, Jen

Porter, Justin

Colon, Angel

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