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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wray Parker did everything right.Twenty years in the Navy. A Bronze Star. A family that loved him. On an ordinary afternoon in Norfolk, Virginia, he reached for his registration during a traffic stop, and was shot three times by Officer Ben McHolland.The DA declined to prosecute. The investigation went cold. The city moved on.The Parker family did not.Yara Parker reads the news every night from behind an anchor desk, her grief pressed flat beneath a professional smile. Her cousin Z fixes cars and says little. Together, they have watched the system decide - clearly, repeatedly, without apology - that Wray's life was not worth pursuing.So they decide something too.When DA Susan Blakely is found dead in her Ghent home - a quarter placed deliberately on her forehead - Norfolk erupts. The police investigate. The media speculates. And Yara Parker sits behind her anchor desk and reports on her own secret.But Blakely is only the first quarter.YZ is a novel about what a family does when the courts won't. About the cost of grief that has nowhere legal to go. About a thirteen-year-old girl who sees everything and has to decide what to do with what she knows. And about a grieving husband, a Marine, who is hunting the people responsible for his wife's death, and slowly coming to understand why they did it.This book does not look away. Neither will you.Perfect for readers of urban fiction, literary crime, and stories that ask the questions everyone else is afraid to ask.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New York never really sleeps.It survives.Inside late-night diners, subway cars, hospital waiting rooms, corner stores, and rain-soaked streets, strangers carry invisible exhaustion through a city that rarely slows down long enough to notice.A pastor losing touch with God beneath the weight of everyone else's emergencies.A photographer documenting life instead of living it.A former inmate trying to believe freedom belongs to him too.An overworked executive, a grieving widow, an immigrant shop owner, and countless others quietly searching for something softer than survival.Connected by chance encounters and a Harlem diner called The Lantern, these stories explore loneliness, ambition, grief, faith, burnout, and the small moments of humanity that keep people alive in a city determined to keep moving.Cities Don't Sleep, Neither Do We is a reflective, emotionally layered collection about what happens when exhausted people finally stop pretending they're okay.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the fire came, Dayton chose survival over truth.For thirty years, nobody questioned the story.Not the city.Not the churches.Not the union.Not the men who carried the guilt home every night after third shift.But when Andre Mercer returns to Dayton after his father suffers a stroke, he uncovers a hidden collection of tapes tied to a deadly factory fire that changed the city forever.What begins as a quiet trip home becomes an unraveling of buried secrets, compromised leaders, and impossible choices made inside a city terrified of collapse.Set against the cold streets, abandoned plants, and stubborn heartbeat of Dayton, Third Shift is a haunting literary novella about working-class survival, moral exhaustion, and the truths cities learn to live with.A limited Dayton Edition exclusive.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a world where the Algorithm decides who gets read, one question determines everything: what are you willing to give up to be seen The Author Games is a dystopian literary novel set in a near-future publishing world divided into Districts - each one a genre, each one ranked by the Algorithm's invisible hand. Once a year, eight authors are selected to compete in The Games: a thirty-day live publishing cycle where Rank determines survival, compliance earns amplification, and the truest voices are the first ones buried.Zora Sutton writes from District Six - literary fiction, the place the Algorithm forgot to look. Her Rank is low. Her flag count is high. Her prose stops people mid-sentence.She was Reaped because her work was dangerous.She enters the arena knowing the system was designed for her to lose.What she doesn't know is that she isn't alone.Selah Beaumont writes faith that the church won't allow - the I don't know alongside the I believe, the grief that hasn't resolved into testimony. Roman Okafor has been writing toward nothing for four years, giving the Algorithm what it wants and calling the giving a career. Simone Price has been de-platformed three times and has 847,000 readers who found her anyway. And Brianna Cole - District One, the Board's preferred candidate, the evidence that the system works - brought coffee on Day Three and told Zora about her grandmother, and hasn't been the same since.Together they build something the Algorithm has no metric for.The Board calls it a cooperative arrangement.They call it a corner table. Six cups. The agreed.Against a system that reaches backward through time to use their histories against them - that flags cultural specificity, penalizes honest Black voices, and calls suppression competitive integrity - these authors discover that the most radical act available to them is also the most ancient one: Write the truest thing you know how to write.For the specific people.Without apology.The Author Games is a love letter to every writer who has been told their work has limited crossover appeal. It is a mirror held up to the publishing industry's most comfortable lies. And it is proof that the things the Algorithm forgot to count are the things that matter most.For readers of Colson Whitehead, Jesmyn Ward, and Suzanne Collins. For every author who has ever written in a notebook no algorithm ever saw. …