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A Rage in Harlem

The first novel in Chester Himes‘ Harlem Detective series. Also known as For Love of Imabelle, A Rage in Harlem introduces the leading characters of the series, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson — whose names suggest the nature of their police methods and reputation. Jones and Johnson generally go easy with, and even …

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A High Wind in Jamaica

A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965. The book was initially titled The Innocent Voyage and published by Harper & Brothers in the spring of that year. Several months later Hughes renamed his novel in …

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Alan Turing: The Enigma

Biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges