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Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Chapter 18 - Treasure of the Peacock's Eye [VHS]
$14.95
The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye is a great Indy film. The movie starts out with Indy in a battle at the end of World War 1. Then he gets a map off a man whose last words were "The Eye of the Peacock" Indy returns from the war and does some research and finds out that the Eye is a huge diamond! Indy and his partner set out to find the Eye, but encounter more than they bargained for. This Young Indiana Jones film is full of action and is a good typical Indy movie. A+

Swallow the Sea
$13.98
Matthew Perryman Jones's follow-up to "Throwing Punches in the Dark" is equally as fiery and powerful. Highlights from the album include the rocking "Without A Clue," the beautiful "Amelia" (which you can literally listen to on repeat for an hour and get lost in the richness of the music), the angry, evocative "Motherless Child," and the title track, which, once it builds to the last three minutes of "where can you go? can you swallow the sea" feels like you're being enveloped in an ocean--of amazing artistry. MPJ is a terrific musician and vocalist. Loving this cd.

Also if you like MPJ check out music by Andrew Osenga.

A Single Shot
$11.95
A SINGLE SHOT is a uncompromising masterpiece of noir fiction. The entire story takes place over a week's time, with each chapter a day of the week, beginning with the morning that John Moon accidentally shoots and kills a girl for the deer he was poaching. As John wrestles with his guilt while trying to unravel who the girl is and what she was doing with a hundred thousand dollars in the middle of the woods the story grows increasingly intense, until it is almost impossible to turn away from even while holding your breath in anticipation of what is to come next. The vernacular of upstate rural New York is pitch perfect, and the descriptions of nature place the reader squarely in John's world. The book is both a tense, pulse heightening noir thriller and a tremendously well-written, wrenching character portrayal of a normal man derailed by a split second decision.

Boot Tracks
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In his novel Boot Tracks, Matthew F. Jones offers the reader a compelling look into the mind of a killer: Charles Rankin is fresh out of prison and on a lethal errand for the Budda, his jailhouse benefactor and protector who plays no direct role in the plot yet still wields considerable influence over Rankin's psyche. As the novel progresses, it becomes clear that the protagonist's traumatic background has left him with split personality disorder, and has difficulty determining what he did and what his alter-ego, Little Charlie, did. The plot contains the traditional devices, conflict (Rankin has been hired as an assassin), crisis (his own ineptitude and personality stand in his way), resolution (he must determine if he and his alter ego actually murdered their mark), but each is tied so closely to Rankin's flawed personality that it is character that drives the novel forward.

Rankin's thoughts best illustrate the true nature of his character. As he moves in on his intended murder victim, his thoughts become increasingly delusional, mixing current circumstances with the childhood trauma of being abused by his mother and her various boyfriends. "Imagining whichever son of a bitch and her being unable to see him, staring right through him even while looking point-blank at him, angrily searching for him in the very places in the room he, Poof Man, was watching them from; keeping himself awake until he was certain they were asleep with visions of them tumbling about, lost, blind, petrified, in the same darkness his X-ray vision permitted him to easily move through." There have been warnings, but the reader here sees that Rankin is a deeply disturbed man--out to kill not for the money he has already been paid, but out of a misguided and exploited loyalty to his prison benefactor who has preyed upon his vulnerability to make him into a killer. He is a complicated character that Jones has crafted by adroitly using the most effective elements of characterization and makes this already compelling novel unforgettable.