M. E Purfield
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Within the racially conflicted streets of 1963 New York, psychic and artist Carmella Noto tries to maneuver a working-class life and recover from her experience with the heinous cannibal Albert Pesce.
But her past only brings her to the attention of a secret group of psychics intent on solving difficult murders. And they want Carmella's help to find a degenerate murdering single, young black women.
Continuing to enlighten the complex lives of...
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A group of white terrorists attacks Jewish Centers all over New York. Alyssa, a teen runaway in and out of Miki Radicci's life and formally part of the skinhead culture, leads her to the latest violent act. Miki almost dies but it doesn't scare her off the terrorists' trail.
The elusive Alyssa led Miki to the attack for a reason. To stop American Strong from taking lives for their Neo-Nazi cause and continuing the plans set by Ethan Weisz?
Or she...
3) Doorway Down
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Private investigator Mathew Richmond struggles to keep his business floating while toughing out the streets of 1920 New York. Some days making scumbags pay are bad and some are downright dirty.
Until Clara Ashley steps into his office. A young, beautiful actress of the Silent Screen on the verge of becoming a big star. She needs Richmond to find a private film that she appears in that could end her career.
Richmond learns that this two-reeler is...
4) The Creative
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The Indomitable has killed most of my people and sent the rest of us to a prison planet with poisoned air. With my sister Nora, I wait for death. But there is hope in the Creative who leads the revolution. She will set us free. All our hope dies when a new prisoner enters our cell. The Creative has been captured and wounded. Soon, she will die. No matter how hard I try to help her. But is it all lost? A new Creative must rise. Someone not chosen by...
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On a distant planet, private investigator Kelly Kharma wallows in a pit of depression. The love of her life left her and society grows worse. She keeps moving forward, though. To keep her sanity and fixing what she can of society.
When she's asked to recover a stolen artifact and protect a dancer from a stalker, she discovers that moving forward might not be the best option. Old enemies and love still won't let her go.
Bodies drop and questions...
6) Angst
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Collected here for the first time, the first three young adult novels of M.E. Purfield. A Pentecostal girl not only questions her faith when she meets a Buddhist punk in her school but also what it means to be family in jesus freakz + buddha punx. A guitarist bored with her art runs off to New York to live with her father and join the circus brewing in a time of great cultural change in Breaking Fellini. Delicate Cutters documents a teen girl's struggle...
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For teen psychic and nonverbal autistic Prudy Radicci school can be a struggle. Kids and teachers suck, the environment offends her senses, and nothing ever seems logical. At least, she has her best friend Rod there to soften the daily blows. When the teachers go on strike a week before Christmas, life kicks her feet from under her. Instead of staying home, she goes to school with the rest of the kids doomed to the cafeteria for the day where everything...
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Detective Otto Sampson calls on Miki Radicci to help identify a man who knew her father Michael Radicci. She doesn't recognize him, but she knows his name: Sweeney. He was in the OCCT program with her father.
Like Miki, there is one man Sweeney wants dead. The man responsible for killing Miki's father and other psychics. The director of OCCT program, Dr. Randal Leger. Soon Miki and Sweeney are on the run from the law. They make their way to Ashland,...
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Lorelei Cox (Party Girl Crashes the Rapture), a recovering alcoholic, lives in Jersey City with her one true love and works as, a waitress, far from the dark past that almost killed her.
When Lorelei is, accused of killing a police officer, her best friend Miki Radicci spares no expense in helping to prove her innocence. The girls soon discover a long-running child pornography operation from out of the past and no one of their family is who they...
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Linda has the perfect job working at the hospital switchboard, but when Christmas in July starts, she finds herself having to make an impossible choice. With no legitimate excuse to take a week away from work, she is left with no other option than to use her disabled son to take bereavement leave. But when she finds out that her scheme could end up killing someone, she must choose between her job and her family. Lifetime Hallmark Scheme is a humorous...
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She wanted to be alone to avoid the pain.Unfortunately, the world had other plans for her.Now she will redefine it. A Black Deeper Than Death started as a controversial stand-alone dark fantasy mystery and soon became book one of an eleven-book series with nine short stories weaved through it that redefined the genre. This edition presents the Miki Radicci Series in story order with book one (A Black Deeper Than Death) to book three (Blood Like Cherry...
12) Saints
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Alberto and Reyna Aquino ran a successful daycare, were pillars of the community, and the envy of family and friends. They were saints. So why would someone frame Alberto for the murder of his wife?That's what Officer Aleesha Alvarez, Reyna's sister, hopes psychic Miki Radicci will find out even though she doesn't believe in her ability. Even though Miki wants nothing to do with it.Vengeance, child abuse, and social perception darken this winding...
13) Sibling Rivalry
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Max the cat was living a life of luxury and contentment...until Kerry was murdered. With Kerry's last will and testament, Max inherits a lot of money and a caretaker, and suddenly the target of a murderer. Max soon finds himself embroiled in a dangerous and humorous cat-and-mouse game with a killer determined to claim what is rightfully theirs. If you enjoyed the suspense and comedy of Donald Westlake, you'll love Sibling Rivalry. Buy it now! Bonus...
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Deep in the wooded county of Ashland, Kentucky, Bella tries to grind her car back to life. Once again, she'll be late for work. When an amnesiac boy walks out of the dark woods, she finds that he's in worse shape than her despite bringing her car back to life.In return, Bella helps him out. Soon she will be the one who needs help. A thrilling dark fantasy short story from the Tenebrous Chronicles that will charge your heart and turn your knuckles...
15) Breaking Fellini
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Breaking Fellini is a novel of No Wave and New York during 1977.
Sixteen-year-old Joni Corso loves to play rock guitar, but being in a local cover band just doesn't excite her anymore. She wants to perform originals and join the scene in New York City were Blondie, Patti Smith, and The Ramones found fame.
Able to convince her mother to spend some time with her estranged father in Manhattan, Joni jumps at the opportunity to redefine herself and join...
16) Pain Killer
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Mike thought he was in for the worst pain imaginable when he arrived at the hospital with a kidney stone. Little did he know he was about to be thrust into an even more agonizing situation. When his roommate is murdered in the hospital, Mike soon finds himself the target of a killer. Can he find a way to save himself before it's too late? Pain Killer is a suspenseful mystery that will keep readers on their toes until the last page. If you enjoyed...
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Sometimes the strangest of people become the ones you need to survive the end of the world. With only a few weeks left until the Texas-sized asteroid hits the Earth, Jack and Marie try to live peacefully in their retirement development despite the world falling apart around them. When the electricity goes out for everyone, Jack and Marie cope with the new struggle. Not everyone, though. Strange old, child-like Astrid and her overly-mature grandson...
18) Orange Flecks
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In the immediate future, mechanical masks the government surgically attached to a child's mouth speak for them until they turn eighteen. For Dean, the mouth mask makes it hard to kiss his girlfriend Nelly. When Dean catches Kitty the school outcast without his mask, he imagines an new future with Nelly. But there's a risk. A dangerous secret. A young adult, science fiction short story fueled with desperation and sexual repression that answers what...
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In a new society on a distant planet, Kelly Kharma struggles to operate a private investigation agency in the Central District. As a former cop, she has the skills to maneuver through the dark city. As a righteous woman against the system, she has the determination to help her clients find justice and peace.
Even if it means being enslaved by kidnappers or finding a dead client's killer.
Can she save herself from a past that haunts her? A violent...
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Meet Patty Gee – Pentecostal teen living with her grandmother and widowed father. Patty finds happiness in her religion that keeps her close to her father, her recently deceased mother, and God. Her perspective is clear. It has to be if she's going to survive freshman year in a new urban school.
After violent incident that leaves her beaten, she meets Miggy Perez – Dominican Buddhist punk who takes pictures off dog poop on the sidewalk. Yes,...