He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and sleeping with all the eligible women.Still, Nick has some very complex problems to deal with. Two local pimps have been sassing him, ruining his already tattered reputation. His girlfriend Rose is being terrorized by her husband. And then, there's his wife and her brother Lenny who won't stop troubling Nick's already stressed mind. Are they a little too close for a brother and a sister? With an election coming up, Nick needs to fix his problems and fast. Because the one thing Nick does know is that he will do anything to stay sheriff. Because, as it turns out, Sheriff Nick Corey is not nearly as dumb as he seems.In Pop. 1280, widely regarded as a classic of mid-20th century crime, Thompson offers up one of his best, in a tale of lust, murder, and betrayal in the Deep South that was the basis for the critically acclaimed French film Coup de Torchon.

    

    This collection of true stories of unholy horror and unspeakable evil were written by one of America's most brilliant fact-crime reporters—Alan Hynd.Forward by Noel Hynd

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    He saved the Empire, but he also fell in love with the beautiful young Lyanirn queen Peganna, and to the people of Empire his name became that of traitor. Now he was a lone, brooding outcast among Empire's outpost worlds, called Bran the Wanderer.Then Peganna of the Silver Hair returned and told him of a fabled cache of deadly weapons left eons ago by the long-dead race of the Crenn Lir. She wanted those weapons for her people, to use against Empire if need be.Bran the Wanderer laughed, and showed her how to find them.

    Raised on sun-soaked savage Mercury, dwelling in civilization, his calm and dark skin mask a warrior spirit. In murderous Martian Drylands, worst galaxy criminals hatch conspiracy. In forgotten ruins of Martian Low Canals, Stark finds unlikely romance and a potent secret that could shake the Red Planet to its core.

    

    She pictures the heartaches, the strains, the lustful and voluptuous delights of the Lesbian way of life. She introduces three sex-mad women:Karel - High-principled, yet intensively passioned.Liz - Successful seducer, and perversely possessive.Marlena - As unscrupulous as she is sensuous.You will follow their affair moment by moment to its unforgettable climax. And you will learn why they all craved the irresistible girl called... Baby Face.

    

    Some day that crowd would be cheering for him, and the flashing checkered flag would signal that auto racing had a new champion. He would be one of the great ones.In the meantime he was going to school, and spending every minute he could manage to steal from books and baseball, at the Jefferson City Fair Grounds where he haunted the pits, or at Tom Gribble's garage where he watched that master mechanic tune up his Gribble Special.Mike had become friends with Hank Fowler, whose ambition was to be a great mechanic, and who thought that all drivers were somewhat insane, the way they abused their machines. To Hank, the most beautiful music in the world was made by a well-tuned engine.These were the years of the Great Depression, and Mike wakes up one day to learn that his father has lost his clothing store and has had to go to work at a small salary for the clothing chain that has taken over the business. Hank, whose father is a farmer, has known hard times for several years. It is a great help to the boys when Mr. Gribble asks them to work for him during the summer. Then Tom Gribble is killed driving his Mahler in the Independence Day race. Before he dies he suggests to his wife that the boys run the garage and gas station for her on share. Their parents consent and Mike and Hank become businessmen.But racing is still their love. Even hank has succumbed to its allure. He retunes the engine of Tom Gribble's Mahler, and with another local boy, Earl Harkness, at the wheel, and Mike as business manager and back-up driver they enter some of the races at the nearby track.

    Based on taped interviews, posthumously published in 1961, this is a classic in the clinical literature of addiction as an account of a middle-class young woman’s descent into the hell of heroin in the 1950s.

    

    "Talcie Mae married a man and discovered her satisfaction only with another - his brother".