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Calculated risk
A gay man's murder leads Hastings to a blackmail plotCharles Hardaway climbs the hill to his house, immediately missing the bright lights and conversation of the bar and dreading the return to his lover, who is slowly dying of AIDS. But Hardaway's self-pity is interrupted by a pipe-wielding stranger, who crushes his skull before slipping away. It's nighttime in the Castro, and another gay man has been sent to his grave.Homicide lieutenant Frank Hastings is tempted to write the killing off as another heinous instance of gay-bashing, but witnesses say the killer was alone, and seemed to know the victim. Digging into Hardaway's past, Hastings finds evidence that he was a blackmailer who pushed one of his targets to the breaking point. In a neighborhood where disease and hatred claim more and more lives every day, it seems one man has been done in by plain old-fashioned greed.
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If the shoe kills
The tourist town of South Cove, California, is a lovely place to spend the holidays. But this year, shop owner Jill Gardner discovers there's no place like home for homicide.
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California, the magic island
Summoned by Queen Calafia to the island of California, twenty-six animals of the state of California introduce themselves, their homeland, and the people who dwell there.
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Paper bullets : a fictional autobiography
No detailed description available for \"Paper Bullets\".
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Ticktock : a novel
Tommy Phan, a Vietnamese-American detective novelist, finds a strange doll on his doorstep which \"evolves from a terrifying and vicious minikin into a hulking and formidable opponent bent on killing him.\"
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Hombres de ladrillo
The first Spanish translation of an acclaimed Chicano novel, which recounts the history of California through the struggles of a Mexican-American community in Southern California.
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The angry Buddhist
A dissection of the American way of life in all its sordid glory. Set in the California desert, the novel lives at the intersection of the Old Testament and Elmore Leonard. A fiercely contested congressional election is in progress. The wily incumbent, Randall Duke, is unburdened by ethical considerations and his opponent, Mary Swain, is a sexy and well-financed newcomer who does not have a firm grip on American history or elemental economics. This is the ideal setting and cast of characters for Seth Greenland, one of America's finest satirists. The Angry Buddhist convincingly explores mendacity in its modern American forms: contemporary politics, middle class sexual more, the criminal justice system, and the limits and cost of filial love--Cover p. [4].
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Discretionary Justice
Juvenile drug courts are on the rise in the United States, as a result of a favorable political climate and justice officials' endorsement of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement--the concept of combining therapeutic care with correctional discipline. The goal is to divert nonviolent youth drug offenders into addiction treatment instead of long-term incarceration. Discretionary Justice overviews the system, taking readers behind the scenes of the juvenile drug court. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a California court, Leslie Paik explores the staff's decision-making practices in assessing the youths' cases, concentrating on the way accountability and noncompliance are assessed. Using the concept of \"workability,\" Paik demonstrates how compliance, and what is seen by staff as \"noncompliance,\" are the constructed results of staff decisions, fluctuating budgets, and sometimes questionable drug test results.
While these courts largely focus on holding youths responsible for their actions, this book underscores the social factors that shape how staff members view progress in the court. Paik also emphasizes the perspectives of children and parents. Given the growing emphasis on individual responsibility in other settings, such as schools and public welfare agencies, Paik's findings are relevant outside the juvenile justice system.
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