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Living in Spokane, Washington, under the Witness Protection Program, small-time hood Vince Camden leads a quiet existence among his new friends : local criminals, prostitutes, and other social outcasts. By day, he makes donuts and reads the beginnings of books to impress the cute blonde who comes into his shop every morning. In his spare time though, he runs a lucrative credit card scam. But eveything spirals out of control when a mobster from back...
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While working the weekend night shift, Caroline Mabry, a weary Spokane police detective, encounters a seemingly unstable but charming derelict who tells her, "I'd like to confess." But he insists on writing out his statement in longhand. In the forty-eight hours that follow, the stranger confesses to not just a crime but an entire life-spinning a wry and haunting tale of youth and adulthood, of obsession and revenge, and of two men's intertwined lives....
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"After moving cross-country with her son and accepting a filmmaker's mentorship, Val Locklier is caught between her insecurities and new possibilities. Miles McKenzie returns home to find a new tenant is living upstairs and he's been banished to a ministry on life support. As sparks fly, they discover that authentic love and sacrifice must go hand in hand"--
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A serial killer stalks the streets of Spokane. Across town, a writer named Derrick has spent his life tracking the reasons for the sadism of modern civilization. And through the grim nights, Nika, a trafficked woman, tries to survive the grinding violence of prostitution. Their lives, and the forces propelling them, are about to collide.
7) Red dawn
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The unsuspecting citizens of Spokane, Washington, wake up one morning to the shocking sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky in a surprise attack on the United States. Soon the entire city is under enemy control, but a group of courageous teenagers has decided to fight back, waging an all-out war against the invaders, to take back their town and their freedom!
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"Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man voice that lets him say what he wants, when he wants-especially to his crush Millie Takazawa, and Gary Ratliff, who constantly puts him down. But the thought of starting high school is only making his stutter worse. And Melvin's growing awareness that racism is everywhere-not just in the South where a boy his age has been brutally killed by two white men, but also in his own hometown of Spokane-is making...
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"Smart and sassy bookkeeper China Bohannon is a modern 1890s career woman who'd rather sleuth than type. China is in charge of the Doyle & Howe Detective Agency office on the day a fourteen-year-old girl shows up seeking the detectives' help in a case of what she's calling murder. Neva Sue O'Dells jockey brother has been killed during a race, the horse he was riding -- the dead-on Derby favorite -- lamed. Neva claims her mother and grandfather are...
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"When January Billings receives a letter informing her not only of the death of a grandfather she knew nothing about, but also that a meeting with his attorney would be to her best advantage, she is both angry and intrigued. Eli Pasco convinces her to follow up on the matter. A second note warning her to stay away or else it might "prove bad for her health" only makes the decision easier. January is not a woman to be cowed by threats. Turns out her...
11) Salt dancers
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Julia, an unmarried woman who becomes pregnant at 41, decides to have the baby and in preparation travels to Spokane to visit her father whom she rejected for 23 years. Julia wants to make peace with him before starting her own family and the novel follows the peace process.
12) Smoke signals
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Setting: Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, Idaho, 1976. "Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd on his reservation.... Victor and Thomas embark on a trip to Phoenix to retrieve the ashes of Victor's father. Victor is angry at his father for leaving his family and angry with himself for the grudge that he carries. Through the help of Thomas and his father's final friend Suzy, Victor is able to find resolution and peace"--Internet movie database, March 13,...