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Book L A  Noire

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  • Author : Rockstar Games
  • Publisher : Mulholland Books
  • Release : 2011-06-06
  • ISBN : 0316200867
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book L A Noire written by Rockstar Games and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short fiction expands on the world of a groundbreaking achievement in storytelling: Rockstar Games' interactive crime thriller L.A. Noire. 1940s Hollywood, murder, deception and mystery take center stage as readers reintroduce themselves to characters seen in L.A. Noire. Explore the lives of actresses desperate for the Hollywood spotlight; heroes turned defeated men; and classic Noir villains. Readers will come across not only familiar faces, but familiar cases from the game that take on a new spin to tell the tales of emotionally torn protagonists, depraved schemers and their ill-fated victims. With original short fiction by Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Joe Lansdale, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer, Duane Swierczynski and Andrew Vachss, L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories breathes new life into a time-honored American tradition, in an exciting anthology that will appeal to fans of suspense and gamers everywhere.

Book The Red and the Black

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  • Author : Stendhal
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2006-11
  • ISBN : 1425051448
  • Pages : 562 pages

Download or read book The Red and the Black written by Stendhal and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Red and the Black" is a reflective novel about the rise of poor, intellectually gifted people to High Society. Set in 19th century France it portrays the era after the exile of Napoleon to St. Helena. the influential, sharp epigrams in striking prose, leave reader almost as intrigued by the author's talent as the surprising twists that occur in the arduous love life.

Book L A  Noir

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  • Author : John Buntin
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2009-08-25
  • ISBN : 0307459853
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book L A Noir written by John Buntin and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends. Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men–one L.A.’s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief–each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city. Former street thug turned featherweight boxer Mickey Cohen left the ring for the rackets, first as mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel’s enforcer, then as his protégé. A fastidious dresser and unrepentant killer, the diminutive Cohen was Hollywood’s favorite gangster–and L.A.’s preeminent underworld boss. Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, and Sammy Davis Jr. palled around with him; TV journalist Mike Wallace wanted his stories; evangelist Billy Graham sought his soul. William H. Parker was the proud son of a pioneering law-enforcement family from the fabled frontier town of Deadwood. As a rookie patrolman in the Roaring Twenties, he discovered that L.A. was ruled by a shadowy "Combination"–a triumvirate of tycoons, politicians, and underworld figures where alliances were shifting, loyalties uncertain, and politics were practiced with shotguns and dynamite. Parker’s life mission became to topple it–and to create a police force that would never answer to elected officials again. These two men, one morally unflinching, the other unflinchingly immoral, would soon come head-to-head in a struggle to control the city–a struggle that echoes unforgettably through the fiction of Raymond Chandler and movies such as The Big Sleep, Chinatown, and L.A. Confidential. For more than three decades, from Prohibition through the Watts Riots, the battle between the underworld and the police played out amid the nightclubs of the Sunset Strip and the mansions of Beverly Hills, from the gritty streets of Boyle Heights to the manicured lawns of Brentwood, intersecting in the process with the agendas and ambitions of J. Edgar Hoover, Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X. The outcome of this decades-long entanglement shaped modern American policing–for better and for worse–and helped create the Los Angeles we know today. A fascinating examination of Los Angeles’s underbelly, the Mob, and America’s most admired–and reviled–police department, L.A. Noir is an enlightening, entertaining, and richly detailed narrative about the city originally known as El Pueblo de Nuestra Se–ora la Reina de los Angeles, "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels."

Book The Black Island

Download or read book The Black Island written by Hergé and published by Tintin Young Readers Series. This book was released on 2013 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snowy has sniffed out another mystery, but also discovers a taste for Scottish whisky After a terrifying chase through the skies, Tintin sets out to investigate the infamous Black Island. But can Tintin and Snowy escape the terrible 'beast'?

Book L   ie Noire

Download or read book L ie Noire written by Hergé and published by Editions Moulinsart. This book was released on 1938-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De retour d'Amérique du Sud, Tintin s'embarque dans une aventure britannique palpitante, rythmée par d'incessants rebondissements. Pour la première fois et non la dernière, Tintin s'oppose au fourbe Docteur Müller. Ce dernier a organisé, à l' échelle européenne, un vaste trafic de fausse monnaie. Après bien des péripéties, Tintin réussira-t-il à le démanteler.

Book L  A  Noire

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  • Author : Prima Games
  • Publisher : Prima Games
  • Release : 2017-11
  • ISBN : 9780744018905
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book L A Noire written by Prima Games and published by Prima Games. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Coverage OF L.A. Noire: Celebrating the launch of an enhanced L.A. Noire for a new generation with this indispensable guide providing analysis and strategy for the latest versions, including: - New Collectibles and Their Locations - Updated Achievements & Trophies - Brand New Control Schemes, Including VR and Nintendo Switch, with Touch & Gesture Commands The Complete Experience: Collected in one place for the very first time, we provide in-depth coverage of L.A. Noire in its entirety, including every additional case and all new collectibles! The VR Case Files: Each of the seven select cases featured in L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files is revealed in full detail, with gameplay tips and strategies to take on the role of Cole Phelps in virtual reality. Every Mission: A complete walkthrough to rising through the ranks and solving every case with a perfect score. We'll guide you from Patrol, through the Traffic, Homicide, and Vice desks, all the way to the story's thrilling climax. City Maps: Find everything you're looking for. We identify locations for all Landmarks and Collectibles, as well as critical mission waypoints. Vehicle Showroom: Stats for all vehicles and where to find them, including the hidden cars you will not discover on your own! Discover New Items and Abilities: Find out how to get your hands on every new Detective Suit and where to find every Golden Vinyl and Novel Cover. Detective Training: This is your essential resource to collecting evidence, interrogating suspects, and using intuition to uncover the truth. Plus: coverage of all Street Crimes, Outfits, and everything you need for 100% Completion! Free eGuide Included: Mobile-friendly eGuide for strategy on the go, all optimized for a second-screen experience.

Book

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Brill Archive
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book written by and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tribal Scars and Other Stories

Download or read book Tribal Scars and Other Stories written by Ousmane Sembène and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1974 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Abyss

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  • Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1981-08
  • ISBN : 0374516669
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Abyss written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1981-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the fate of two cousins in sixteenth century northern France. The younger, sixteen-year-old Henry Maximilian, has set out to become a soldier and a poet. The elder, twenty-two-year-old Zeno, has left the seminary to make himself an alchemist-philosopher.

Book V  nus Noire

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  • Author : Robin Mitchell
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2020-02-15
  • ISBN : 0820354333
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book V nus Noire written by Robin Mitchell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country’s postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France’s need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Mauritius. Department of Agriculture
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 750 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Mauritius. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions

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  • Author : Royal Entomological Society of London
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1026 pages

Download or read book Transactions written by Royal Entomological Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of Works of Alphabets  Palaeography  Music  Diplomatics  Facsimiles of Mss  and General Literature from Various Libraries

Download or read book A Catalogue of Works of Alphabets Palaeography Music Diplomatics Facsimiles of Mss and General Literature from Various Libraries written by Bernard Quaritch and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le rouge et le noir

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  • Author : Stendhal
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2022-09-28
  • ISBN : 336830450X
  • Pages : 766 pages

Download or read book Le rouge et le noir written by Stendhal and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Book Bibliographies

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  • Author : Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Bibliographies written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Select Bibliography of Recent Publications in the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute Illustrating the Relations Between Europeans and Coloured Races

Download or read book Select Bibliography of Recent Publications in the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute Illustrating the Relations Between Europeans and Coloured Races written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elise Ou la Vraie Vie

Download or read book Elise Ou la Vraie Vie written by Claire Etcherelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.