Pete Dexter
1) Spooner
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Author Pete Dexter excels at writing eccentric characters and comical, yet touching, prose. In Spooner, Dexter weaves the tale of Warren Spooner, a troubled boy whose father dies shortly after he's born. When his mother marries Calmer Ottosson, a decorated Navy officer fallen from grace, Warren is saved by Calmer's inexhaustible patience. As Warren grows up, the two men forge a bond that will carry them both through the hard times ahead.
2) The paperboy
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Ward James is a reclusive, obsessed young reporter, half of a famous investigative team in Miami, the son of a newspaper family. His younger brother, Jack, recently expelled from the University of Florida's swimming team, and then from the university itself, drives a delivery truck for their father's paper in northern Florida. The brothers are brought together when Ward returns home to investigate the case of a man awaiting execution for the revenge...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Train is an 18-year-old black caddy at an exclusive L.A. country club. He is a golf prodigy, but the year is 1953 and there is no such thing as a black golf prodigy. Nevertheless, Train draws the interest of Miller Packard, a gambler whose smiling, distracted air earned him the nickname "the Mile Away Man." Packard's easy manner hides a proclivity for violence, and he remains an enigma to Train even months later when they are winning high stakes matches...
4) God's Pocket
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1984, c1983
Language
English
Description
Young Leon Hubbard was arrogant and near psychotic. So when he was killed on a South Philadelphia construction site, everyone who knew him wanted to bury the bad news with the body. All, that is, except two--Leon's mother and the local columnist for the common man.
5) Paris Trout
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt.
7) God's pocket
Publisher
Program Content Pocket Pictures, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After Mickey Scarpato's stepson Leon, is killed in a construction accident, Mickey quickly tries to bury the bad news along with the body. But even in the gritty, blue-collar neighborhood of God's Pocket, PA, no secret can stay hidden forever. When a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, Mickey quickly finds himself stuck in a life-and-death struggle compounded by a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please, and a debt he can't pay....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After the tragic death of his sister, Peter Flood finds his family lost in revenge. Years later, his cousin, who runs a small circle of Irish Mafiosi in Philadelphia, begins to lose ground, waking up old family demons and igniting a cycle of violence.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
City of angels: Pragmatic heart surgeon Maggie doesn't believe in angels-- until she meets one. That angel is Seth, who can remain a spiritual being and live forever, or he can forsake his immortality on the chance that Maggie might love him.
Michael: Two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with an "angel expert," are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her motel with a real, live angel...
