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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"From Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a darker locale--populated by more strangers than friends. But then, that's how the locals prefer it. Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It's a pretty standard dried-up western town. There's a pawnshop (someone...
Pub. Date
2013
Description
If these walls could talk, viewers wouldn't believe them anyway! Get ready for a wild ride as one small-town pawn shop is the center of three intersecting stories involving meth heads, a vengeful husband searching for his long-lost wife, and a down-on-his-luck Elvis impersonator.
Author
Series
Tales from the sinister city volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Ludlow Fitch runs away from his thieving parents in the City, he meets up with the mysterious Joe Zabbidou, who calls himself a secret pawnbroker, and who takes Ludlow as an apprentice to record the confessions of the townspeople of Pagus Parvus, where resentments are many and trust is scarce.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Long before banks, ATMs, and check-cashing services, pawnbrokers provided monetary loans in exchange for personal items of value, and are still helping people make ends meet today while bringing in a sizeable profit for themselves. The Harrison family attempts to find the gems and bust the fakes, all in hopes of making the biggest profit possible. Grandfather, father and son use their sharp-eyed skills to assess the value of items ranging from the...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
If these walls could talk, viewers wouldn't believe them anyway! Get ready for a wild ride as one small-town pawn shop is the center of three intersecting stories involving meth heads, a vengeful husband searching for his long-lost wife, and a down-on-his-luck Elvis impersonator.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
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Description
Charlie Henry is the proud new owner of a pawnshop, having recently returned Stateside from special-ops work in Iraq. The transition back to normal life seems to be going smoothly for him and his Army buddy and co-owner of the shop, Gordon Sweeney-until Gina, Charlies childhood friend, gets shot in a transaction for information from the previous owner of the shop. The shooter gets away, and as they dig deeper, they find that the shooting has to do...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"Just as Charlie Henry thinks life might have calmed down, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous case involving a beautiful silver-and-turquoise necklace with a mysterious history. When a young Navajo man shows up at FOB Pawn, claiming the necklace is a family heirloom of his girlfriend, Charlie is skeptical. No claim ticket, no exchange. But when the same young man returns with reinforcements--and guns--it's clear that there's more to his...
Pub. Date
[2014].
Description
Sol Nazerman is a survivor of a WWII Nazi death camp where his wife, parents and children were murdered. His soul robbed of hope, he takes refuge in misery and a bitter condemnation of humanity while managing a Harlem pawnshop. Working with Sol in the pawn shop is an ambitious man named Ortiz, whose own views and aspirations differ greatly from those of his embittered boss.
