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In September 1986, a loveable alien named ALF crashed his spaceship into the home of the unsuspecting Tanner family. For the next four years, ALF elusively avoided houseguests, chased the cat, ate everything in sight, but the Tanners always loved ALF.

He was the pride of Bayonne, New Jersey, a man who went fifteen rounds in the ring with Muhammad Ali, and the real life inspiration for Rocky Balboa. Before all that, Chuck Wepner was a liquor salesman and father with a modest prizefighting career whose life changed overnight whe...

A dramatic narrative feature set against the backdrop of the current LA underground music scene. The film tracks Joe Cardamone, front man of notorious punk bad boys The Icarus Line as he navigates his way through the ups and downs of the modern music landscape. With a new record ...

Thicker than water: a faded photograph leads Natalie Jones to the bittersweet secrets of her late father's past--where horses run free, families are bound by honor, and true love really exists -- Angel in the family: Sisters, separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding, find them...

In the small Wisconsin town of Blue River, secrets run deep. And for Henry Howland, high school principal and repressive moral beacon of his community, they are about to explode in a shocking series of events that will shatter the smooth surface of his life forever. Because when ...

Permanent Midnight is not just the story of how success destroyed Jerry Stahl, but how Stahl destroyed his own success. Starting life as the prototypical "middle-class kid," he endured his father's early death, his mother's descent into major depression, and life on his own from ...

Discusses the emotional, physical, and financial concerns involved with becoming a teenage father and examines the responsibilities and choices offered by the situation.

This groundbreaking documentary event series explores the human impact of climate change. From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY combines the blockbuster storytelling styles of top Hollywood mov...

Tells the story of the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, following the adventurous writers through all the great conflicts of their time.

"In recent years, nicotine has become as verboten as many hard drugs. The literary styles in this volume are as varied as the moral quandaries herein, and the authors have successfully unleashed their incandescent imaginations on the subject matter, fashioning an immensely addict...

Blue River: Depicts the powerful events that unfold in a small Wisconsin town driving 2 teenage brothers apart when later in life one brother, now a homeless derelict, arrives at the home of his brother, now a successful doctor.

This collection of heroin stories from Eric Bogosian, Jerry Stahl, Lydia Lunch, and more " will satisfy devotees of noir fiction and outsider art alike" ( Publishers Weekly ). On the heels of The Speed Chronicles (Sherman Alexie, William T. Vollmann, Megan Abbott, James Fr...

Inspired by the ongoing international success of the city-based Akashic Noir Series ( Brooklyn Noir, Boston Noir, Paris Noir , etc.), Akashic created the Drug Chronicles Series in 2011. Following The Speed Chronicles (William T. Vollmann, Megan Abbott), The Cocaine Chronicles ...

Lee Child recruits Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Ames, Cara Black, and others to reveal nicotine's scintillating alter egos. "Typically for Akashic-publisher of the terrific Noir series-the stories approach the subject matter from an impressive number of angles...Akashic has yet t...

“ The Age of Dreaming is a masterpiece of the sort that doesn't just seduce the reader-it leaves you transformed. Nina Revoyr deserves to be counted among the top ranks of novelists at work today."-Jerry Stahl, author of I, Fatty “This is a riveting, wise, and go...