Bøger af Gary Phillips

The comedic tale of a young necromancer who must help his new friends escape from a tyrannical vampire with the help of a talking shovel and a whole lotta rats.

"Half a century ago, Old Man Spears was a hero of the ballpark. In an age when baseball was segregated, he played in the Negro Leagues, providing hope for a generation of oppressed African Americans. Decades later, Spears is an old man in a barbershop making ends meet. An offhand comment about a former teammate, Kennesaw Riles, shocks one of his customers, private eye Ivan Monk, who has deeply buried memories of a ball-playing cousin by that name. Monk knows little of Riles, who has been on the outs with his family since his questionable testimony put civil rights leader Damon Creel behind bars for murder back in the 60s. But before Monk can get the full story, Spears drops dead. Days later, Kennesaw Riles follows suit. Monk knows that the timing is not a coincidence. To understand the pair of deaths as well as his own past, Monk digs into his family history. He follows the mystery to Mississippi, where he further unravels the murder of two civil rights activists and connects the dots to a group of Mississippi businessmen who may not have changed their ways as much as they claim. Far from Los Angeles, the tenacious P.I. is forced to confront a brand of hatred that he thought had died with Jim Crow. An LA thriller with roots in the Deep South, Only the Wicked weaves together baseball, blues, and backwoods politics in iconic P.I. Ivan Monk's most personal and politically resonant case to date"--

"When Black private eye Ivan Monk takes on a case in a housing project in South Los Angeles, he finds himself facing off with corrupt police and gang members-and indicted for murder. Heat is building in the Rancho Tajuata Housing Projects-and not just because it's summer in L.A. When a Mexican family is killed by a firebombing, local rage threatens to grow out of control. The pressure is on to solve this case quickly to help deescalate the tense situation. At the request of the tenant's security force, P.I. Ivan Monk is called in to find the killer. To track the murderer down, Monk must delve into a tangled history leading all the way back to the 1965 Watts riots-a hunt that reveals layers of buried racism and corruption. Monk sorts through the complexities of gang conflicts and governmental kickbacks, only to find himself at odds with the police, disillusioned by his mentor and, after a fierce struggle with some gang members, under indictment for murder. Monk must race to clear his name before time runs out, and a bad night falls on the Rancho Tajuata Projects, this time for good . . "--

"Black private eye Ivan Monk's search for a connection between three Black men murdered in Los Angeles leads to the unraveling of a white supremacist conspiracy that spans the West Coast."--

SHORT STORIES! BIG ACTION! Collected at last! Delve into the adventures of Abraham Snow, his family, and his closest friends in the award-winning Snow Shorts, bite-sized action-packed crime thriller tales told by some of today's top talent featuring Abraham Snow and company. For the first time, all 9 Snow Shorts stories are collected in one volume. "Half an inch is all that stands between life and death." Thrill to these spectacular adventures: Snow Flies featuring Abraham Snow by Bobby Nash.Thieves' Alley featuring Big John Salmon by Gary Phillips.A Stranger Calls featuring Laura Snow by Nicole Givens Kurtz.Snow Ambition featuring Abraham Snow by Brian K. Morris.Angel in the Storm featuring Tom "Mac" McClellan by Mark Bousquet.Snow Haven featuring Archer Snow by Bobby Nash.Snow Heart featuring Abraham Snow by Charles F. Millhouse.Snow Chase featuring Abraham and Archer Snow by Bobby Nash.Dead Drop featuring Elizabeth Walker by Bernadette Johnson. Cover illustrations by Jeffrey Hayes from Plasmafire Graphics.Audio Narrated by Stuart Gauffi. #TheSummerOfSnow heats up!

The Art of Fundraising represents more than forty years' experience of author Gary W. Phillips in the field of nonprofit fundraising and institutional development. The author puts forward strategies and techniques that can save nonprofit board members and staff wasted time and budget, and can dramatically increase the amount of money any organization can raise. The book is divided into five distinct chapters that provide useful tips on generating annual gifts, maintaining a sound balance sheet, building endowment, and conducting successful capital campaigns. The first chapter, The Appeal, lays out strategies for crafting an effective "ask." The second chapter, The People, focuses on how to attract valuable personnel, including board members and development officers. The third chapter, The Strategies, is devoted to the decision-making process in implementing cost-effective approaches to raising money. The fourth chapter, Endowment, specifically focuses on creating and maintaining endowments, and the fifth chapter, General, tackles ethical questions head on. This down-to-earth guide provides the kind of practical advice that addresses the very questions that fundraising professionals and board members face every day.

"In 1992, Los Angeles burned. In the aftermath of the Rodney King beating and subsequent riots, a ground-breaking ceremony at the infamous intersection of Florence and Normandie unearths the body of a Korean shop owner. Black private eye Ivan Monk searches for the killer--many suspect the motives for the murder were racial. But then another body turns up, and while the FBI and the Rolling Daltons--the largest gang in the city--dog Monk's trail, Monk begins to question just how many people will be involved, and how many will die before he can find the truth"--

"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated. Proof of the killing seems lost--until Ingram's girlfriend, Anita Claire, retrieves the film roll in a daring rescue, and the photo makes front-page news. A recuperating Ingram is approached by Betty Payton, a comrade of Anita's mother, who wants Ingram's help tracking down her friend Moses "Mose" Tolbert. Ingram follows the investigation down a rabbit hole of burglary rings, bank robberies, looted cash, and city-wide conspiracies--all while grappling with his newfound fame, which puts him in the sightlines of LAPD's intelligence division. Boiling over with wry humor, fascinating historical details, and intimate atmosphere, Ash Dark as Night is a nail-biting ride-along through midcentury Los Angeles with a crime fiction legend in the driver's seat."--

"Mr. Dynamite," "Soul Brother No. 1," "The Godfather of Soul," deadbeat dad, convicted spousal abuser... James Brown was all those things and so much more. Yet it can't be denied his music impacted a generation of fans and influenced a grip of musicians who came after him-from David Bowie, Janelle Monae to Usher just to name three. In the tradition then of other Down & Out Books music-themed anthologies such as Murder-A-Go-Go's: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of the Go-Go's and The Great Filling Station Holdup: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Jimmy Buffett, this all-original set of fourteen stories follows in that stead. The idea expressed to the writers was not literal interpretations of any given song by Mr. Brown. Rather to use that title or lyric and the ofttimes edginess behind such efforts as "King Heroin" and "The Payback," or the fun in "Make it Funky," as a prompt, a starting point for the story the contributor wanted to tell. Covers the Godfather of Soul did of others' songs could have also been tapped. While the majority of stories in the collection are prose, there is a comics style one and more than one of the text versions have an illustration or two to accompany the story. The collection includes stories by six-time Bram Stoker Award winner Lisa Morton; Anthony, Barry and Macavity Awards winner James Ziskin; Jim Fusilli, former Rock & Pop critic for the Wall Street Journal; and HBO Max Doom Patrol staff writer and comics creator Ezra Claytan Daniels. Other contributors include Shamus Award winner Gar Anthony Haywood; Mysti Berry, five-time Derringer and Golden Derringer Award winner John M. Floyd; Lise McClendon, writer of the Bennett Sisters mysteries; cultural critic and short story writer Michael Gonzales; novelist and former Miami Vice showrunner and writer-producer on Hill Street Blues Robert Ward; Fabrice Sapolsky, comics creator of FairSquare Comics' Intertwined and Marvel Comics' Spider-Man Noir; filmmaker and pioneer of Hip Hop horror Jeff Carroll; crime fiction novelist and Dark Yonder editor Katy Munger; and hardboiled novelist and co-producer on Snowfall, Gary Phillips.

Subjects Suitable for Poetry is the latest collection from former Carrboro, North Carolina, poet laureate Gary Phillips. In these 20 poems, Phillips explores family, nature, and his rural upbringing, interwoven and inseparable.

Award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary Phillips gathers his most-thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in an 18-story collections that straddles the line between bizarro, science fiction, noir, and superhero classics.

Gary Phillips is a "child of Appalachia, a womanist, a singer." He is also the poet laureate of Carrboro, North Carolina. In The Boy The Brave Girls Phillips offers poetry, short stories and compact social essays that untangle some of the liminal emotional spaces we inhabit in the early 21st century. Poet Celisa Steele writes: "Gary Phillips is one of the most loving and hopeful poets I know." Open this collection and see for yourself.

"Within these pages you'll find stories of those walking the straight and narrow; until something untoward happens. Maybe it's someone taking a step out of line, getting caught up in circumstances spiraling out of their control. Maybe they're planning the grift, the grab ... whatever it is to finally put them over. Other times the steps they take are to get themselves or people they care about out from under. You'll find the offerings in these pages are a rich mix of tone; tales told of hope, survival, revenge, and triumph. Excursions beyond the headlines and the hype. The settings herein reflect South Central today or chronicle its colorful past, such as the days of the jazz joints along Central Avenue ... From South Park to East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, from the borderlands of Watts to the one-time Southern Pacific railroad tracks paralleling Slauson Avenue, take a tour of a section of Los Angeles that may be unfamiliar to you but you will get to know, at least a little, by the time you finish reading this entertaining and engaging anthology"--

"Plus, 'But I'm gonna put a cat on you' outspoken interview."

Zelmont Raines has slid a long way since first gaining his ability to jook--to out maneuver his opponents on the field--which made him a Super Bowl-winning wide receiver and earned him lucrative endorsement deals, not to mention more than his share of female attention. Because he hasn't always been good at saying no, however, a series of missteps involving drugs, a paternity suit or two, legal entanglements, shaky investments, and chronic injuries have virtually sidelined his career. Now that Los Angeles has a new pro franchise, the Barons, Zelmont has one last chance at the big time he dearly misses. Just as it seems he might be getting back in the flow, he's enraptured by Wilma Wells, the leggy and brainy lawyer for the team who has a ruthless game plan all her own--and this time it's Zelmont who might get jooked.

The first in a new series, MATTHEW HENSON AND THE ICE TEMPLE OF HARLEM is a re-imagined pulp novel that follows the exploits of Matthew Henson, a real life Arctic explorer, on his Doc Savage-style adventures through 1920s Harlem.

There’s a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn’t the food selection that attracts customers, it’s the illegal weapons available with the special order.Each episode of Guns & Tacos features the story of one Chicagoland resident who visits the taco truck seeking a solution to life’s problems, a solution that always comes in a to-go bag.Episode 1: “Tacos de Cazuela con Smith & Wesson” by Gary Phillips.Episode 2: “Three Brisket Tacos and a Sig Sauer” by Michael Bracken.Episode 3: “A Gyro and a Glock” by Frank Zafiro.Episodes 4-6 of Season One are featured in Guns + Tacos Vol. 2.

Praise for The Self-Correcting Organization"A must-read for every manager! Gary's best work to date." Doug Moynihan - Hospital CEO"With wisdom and good humor drawn from a life well lived, Gary Phillips has written an important and timely book, full of insights to help our organizations self-correct." Kevin Page - President of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy University of Ottawa Former Parliamentary Budget Officer of Canada"The Self-Correcting Organization is clearly written, easy to follow, logical, thought provoking and psychologically sound. It does a good job of capturing a mature consultant's life's thinking." Richard Schwindt - author of Emotional Recovery from Workplace MobbingThe "how-to manual" for resilient performance and Self-Correcting systems. - Optimize processes with minimal effort. - Improve culture without mentioning culture. - Diagnose performance issues in 6 questions.Packed with fresh ideas, practical tools and reliable techniques! Warning! Contains innovative ideas and unconventional wisdom. Readers suffering from hardening of the attitudes, advanced certainty, or "We've always done it this way." may experience - inspiration, "Whoa, that was obvious!", or "I think I can do this." May cause transient creativity. When in doubt consult others in your organization for feedback.

Malcolm Cavanaugh Bleekston, MC Bleak, McBleak, enjoys hobnobbing with the one percenters and stealing from them. In The Extractors, he puts his life on the line to take a greedy man's gain while wondering if his girlfriend sees through his façade. Ned "Noc" Brenner is a drifter with an unusual skill set-he's an extreme athlete good at whatever he does be it MMA fighting to riding a motorcycle off a mountaintop. After winning in an all-night poker game, this sets in motion a series of events in The Anti-Gravity Steal where Noc must use all his abilities to prevent wholesale destruction. Part Shaft and part Batman sans the cowl, Luke Warfield, a philanthropist with a black ops background, the Essex Man, goes on the trail in 10 Seconds to Death of the villain who killed his foster father and uncovers not only ghosts from his past, but must stop a deadly plan of mass slaughter in his own backyard. Bonus Essex Man short story, "Murder by Remote Control."

Twenty-one short stories written by Gary Phillips are included in TREACHEROUS: GRIFTERS, RUFFIANS AND KILLERS. Alan Cranis on bookgasm.com said, "Phillips obviously loves his anti-heroes, as the stories' major characters are all, as the subtitle promises, grifters, ruffians and killers. You may not be on their side, but you can't help but be fascinated by their escapades...Phillips unfaltering ear for contemporary urban dialogue and patois, relentless pacing that grabs you from the opening sentence-oh, and plenty of sex and violence, too." Publishers Weekly said of the trade paperback, "Most of the 20 highly entertaining selections in this new collection also spotlight the hip urban scene Phillips has made his own."

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