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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Big Machine Big Machine Victor D. LaValle A fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.Ricky Rice was as good as invisible: a middling hustler, recovering dope fiend, and traumatized suicide cu… OL14994161W
Revival Revival Stephen King In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt when he looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later he is a man wh… OL17200413W
Macbeth Macbeth Jo Nesbø Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, the chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople, but … OL18021003W
Recollections of a racketeer Recollections of a racketeer Patrick Alexander Patrick Lane's obsession with drugs began in his early teens. Nineteenth-century French literature introduced him to a world of hashish, opium and absinthe, which he saw as a way of escaping his bori… OL24294918W