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The Cold Six Thousand
Lock into the ethos. Slide into the groove. Synchronize your psyche with the frenzied, staccato explosions of red-misted violence and the jarring, busted-knuckle prose of James Ellroy...

Poker: Bets, Bluffs and Bad Beats
Novelist and critic Alvarez has written about poker before, most notably in his classic "The Biggest Game in Town," about the World Series of Poker...

A Primate`s Memoir
Sometimes I wonder whatever happened to ol` Norm. Norm was a Macaca iris monkey living in the University of California Berkeley`s primate research facility, which was tucked into the the hills above the campus...

Every Handgun Is Aimed At You
Through all the tears and heartache, the introspection and desperate search for cause and truth following the recent tragedy at Santana High, a simple fact dominates: If a profoundly disturbed 15-year-old boy had not had access to a gun, two teen-agers would be alive today and 13 others would not have had their lives shattered by bullets...

Ball Four
The book is more than 30 years old now, but it`s still dangerous: If you pick up Jim Bouton`s "Ball Four" and open it at random, a good part of your day is shot...