Walter Mosley
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2023.
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"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil."--
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King Oliver novels volume 2
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After being asked to investigate the charges against a white nationalist accused of treason and murder, Joe King Oliver, with help from bodyguard and mercenary Oliya Ruez, embarks on a winding quest to expose the truth.
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"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved,...
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King Oliver novels volume 1
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2018.
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Publisher Annotation: From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not commit must solve two cases: that of a man wrongly condemned to die, and his own. 336pp., 100K
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 14
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In the midst of setting up a new detective agency, Easy is temporarily distracted when he meets Charcoal Joe, who knows a young man who has just been charged with the murder of a white man. The man claims his innocence, but being found standing over the man?s dead body with racially charged motives, Easy knows this won?t be an open and shut case. Easy Rawlins mystery series, 320pp., 50K
6) John Woman
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Publisher Annotation: A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman, an unconventional history professor while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows. 320pp., 35K
7) Blood grove
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 15
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After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.
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2010
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A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the literary icons of our time.
Coming in March 2022 from Apple Plus , a six-part series starring Samuel L. Jackson
Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself-as he sinks into a lonely dementia. His grand-nephew, Ptolemy's only connection to the outside world, was recently killed in a drive-by...
Coming in March 2022 from Apple Plus , a six-part series starring Samuel L. Jackson
Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself-as he sinks into a lonely dementia. His grand-nephew, Ptolemy's only connection to the outside world, was recently killed in a drive-by...
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When a terrible act draws two people together, they must find a way to keep the powerful Silver Box from the destructive alien race bent on using its power to destroy humanity. The Silver Box is just as determined to thwart its former alien masters--even if it has to obliterate Earth to do it. 304pp., 30K, Auth res: New York, NY
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In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and truly stands out. For writers who want to approach the genius of Melville, Dickens, or Twain, The Elements of Fiction is a must-read.
Mosley...
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Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Stepping Stone and Love Machine are but two of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life's cosmic questions. From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, these tales take us on speculative journeys beyond the reality we have come to know. In each tale someone in our world today is given insight into these long pondered mysteries. But how would...
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Leonid McGill mysteries volume 6
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"Leonid McGill has spent a lifetime building his reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instincts and his inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Philip "Catfish" Worry comes knocking. Catfish is a ninety-four-year-old Mississippi bluesman who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. The opportunity...
14) MasterClass Presents Walter Mosley Teaches Fiction and Storytelling: Descriptive and Vivid Language
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Good writing comes alive in the reader's mind. Walter teaches you how to use imagery, metaphors, similes, and more to create a vivid world.
15) MasterClass Presents Walter Mosley Teaches Fiction and Storytelling: Walter's Most Important Thing
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Walter shares his most important takeaway.
17) MasterClass Presents Walter Mosley Teaches Fiction and Storytelling: Developing Fictional Characters
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Easy Rawlins is a legend. Learn what it takes to create a strong character using Walter's most famous protagonist.