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Life has a way of testing us, pushing us to our limits and sometimes beyond. There were moments in my life when I stood on the precipice of despair, staring into the abyss of uncertainty and fear. But during these darkest times, I experienced a miraculous transformation, one that would forever change the course of my existence. This is how Jesus Christ saved my life, came into my heart, and became my guiding light.

Nick Corey likes being the high sheriff of Potts County. But Nick has a few problems that he needs to deal with: like his loveless marriage, the pimps who torment him, the honest man who is running against him in the upcoming elections and the women who adore him. And it turns out that Nick isn't anything like as amiable, easy-going or as slow as he seems. He's as sly, brutal and corrupt as they come.

Meet Maxy Quinn - the world’s unluckiest kid whose life has been turned upside down ever since he found a reverse four-leaf clover that gave him the worst luck ever. Could you imagine dealing with your principal living next door, a psychic lizard, or how about turning your psycho older sister’s teeth blue? Can things get any worse for Maxy? All of this and more happens to Maxy Quinn in this laugh-out-loud hilarious audiobook.

In this novel, Thompson's first major success as a pulp fiction writer, Joe Wilmot, trying to go straight after a stretch in the pen, finds a movie house in a small crossroads that can use a helping hand and someone with half a brain for business. The theater's owner, Elizabeth, isn't the smartest operator around - or is she? Joe and the plain Jane Elizabeth decide maybe it would be better for business if they got married. Why not?

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and boring, but that's the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness". It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that. Now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again - and the consequences are brutal and devastating.

Are you looking for unique ways to "get into the game"? To enhance your training and find focus? You aren't alone. Increasingly, athletes and coaches are incorporating mindfulness practices into their training. That's because mindfulness can help you lower your stress levels, connect with the moment, and mentally bounce back after setbacks. So whether you're a sports enthusiast or a professional athlete, mindfulness can also help you deal with physical aspects of training, such as fatigue, aches, pains, injury, burnout, and exhaustion.

Britton Rainstar never knew he could love a woman as deeply as he does Manuela Aloe and be so terrified of her at the same time. It's not just that he thinks she's out of his league. It's more that the longer he stays with her, the closer to death he seems to come. A vicious dog is somehow let loose in his hotel room. He's threatened at gunpoint by a man in a skeleton costume. And when he finally ends up in the hospital, someone pushes his wheelchair down the stairs.

By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was 18, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive.

Luane Devore's days are numbered. All her neighbors want her dead. Some, like her young husband, Ralph, and his girlfriend, Danny, want the thousands of dollars she keeps hidden under the mattress she spends her days resting on. Others want her to stop her malicious gossip - some of which could ruin lives. Told from multiple perspectives, The Kill-Off tells the story of a woman not long for this earth - but who will finally take matters into their own hands... but when?

Chi ha detto che tra moglie e marito non è mai il caso di mettere il dito? C’è chi lo fa e pure con discreto successo. Quando nella fiacca routine di Joe ed Elizabeth, che insieme gestiscono l’unico cinematografo della cittadina di Stoneville, irrompe la giovane e apparentemente ingenua Carol, assistente tuttofare, nessuno penserebbe mai che una storia di corna possa trasformarsi nella più improbabile delle finzioni shakespeariane, per giunta nella sonnolenta provincia americana. Eppure, è proprio Elizabeth a proporre al marito e alla giovane amante un patto di ferro.

Il vicesceriffo Lou Ford è il pilastro della comunità della piccola cittadina del Texas di Central City. Stimato da tutti, paziente e riflessivo. Qualcuno in città crede che la cosa peggiore che si possa dire di lui è che è noioso e non particolarmente sveglio. Ma nessuno sa che c'è qualcosa di molto sbagliato in lui, qualcosa che lui chiama "la mia malattia" e che l'ha quasi portato alla rovina da giovane. Qualcosa che sembra riaccendersi il giorno in cui Lou Ford conosce Joyce Lakeland, una prostituta.

Un fattorino d'albergo è costretto ad assistere a perversioni da adulti; uno scrittore alcolista cerca in ogni modo di rimandare il proprio collasso nervoso per riuscire a finire il suo ultimo libro; una famiglia disfunzionale, i cui membri si distruggono vicendevolmente sull'ingannevole sfondo della ricca California nel periodo bellico. È un'opera sconvolgente e per gran parte autobiografica. L'autore guida il lettore come un moderno Dante nel proprio inferno personale e dipinge in modo vivido e disperato personaggi indimenticabili.

Se un grande autore come Joe R. Lansdale si scomoda per dire che Notte selvaggia è uno dei suoi romanzi preferiti nella produzione dell'amatissimo Jim Thompson, una ragione dovrà pur esserci. In effetti, la figura tormentata del protagonista, Carl Bigelow, il killer assoldato dall'Uomo, un misterioso mandante, avvince dalla prima pagina. In un perfetto e maligno gioco delle scatole cinesi, due donne di malaffare mandano in tilt le convinzioni dell'efficiente sicario chiamato a uccidere Jake Winroy, testimone scomodo in un processo imminente.

Nel calcolo delle probabilità, l'imponderabile va sempre messo in conto. Ecco perché il trucchetto oliato e utilizzato un'infinità di volte con successo da Roy Dillon, truffatore spregiudicato e senza scrupoli, si dimostra un'arma a doppio taglio: il negoziante che lo smaschera non ci pensa due volte e gli assesta un colpo tremendo allo stomaco con una mazza da baseball. Da questo momento, Dillon è costretto a nascondersi nella camera d'albergo di una località della California del sud e a leccarsi letteralmente le ferite. Almeno una cosa saggia l'ha fatta.