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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos

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Also by George Pelecanos:

The Blue Flame, August 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Martini Shot, January 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Cut, September 2011
Paperback
Down By The River Where The Dead Men Go, August 2011
Paperback (reprint)
Shame The Devil, August 2011
Paperback (reprint)
Hell To Pay, March 2011
Paperback (reprint)
Soul Circus, March 2011
Trade Size (reprint)
The Way Home, January 2011
Trade Size (reprint)
The Turnaround, May 2009
Paperback (reprint)
The Turnaround, August 2008
Hardcover
The Night Gardener, August 2007
Paperback (reprint)
The Night Gardener, August 2006
Hardcover
Drama City, April 2006
Paperback
Hard Revolution, February 2005
Paperback (reprint)
The Big Blowdown, October 1999
Paperback
The Sweet Forever, August 1999
Paperback (reprint)
King Suckerman, July 1998
Paperback

HARD REVOLUTION
By: George Pelecanos

Grand Central Publishing
February 2005
On Sale: February 1, 2005
Featuring: Derek Strange
464 pages
ISBN: 0446611433
EAN: 9780446611435
Paperback (reprint)
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Suspense | Thriller

It was a time when cars came dressed in chrome, white girls followed the Supremes, and a man in Memphis brandished a gun. On the streets of D.C., where once people of all creeds and colors managed to live together, a tide of anger and confusion is taking young men in its wake. In his early twenties, Derek Strange is one of those men, trying to start a career as a rookie cop. But his own brother is on the other side of a divide, and around him a deadly drama is unfolding. Three white men in a Chevy Nova are going to rob a bank. A black man with a knife is going to commit a murder. And then shots ring out in Memphis...

For Derek Strange, for his family, friends, and enemies, this is the time that will make him the man he is eventually going to be. And this is the revolution that has just begun...

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