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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 lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There's a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there's new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he's found the perfect place to work in private...
Author
Series
Tales from the sinister city volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
♭2013.
Language
English
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
Charlie Henry mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Full of colorful characters and the fascinating wheeling and dealings of the pawn shop Rick Harrison owns and runs with his father and his son, Licence to Pawn is a tie-in to Pawn Stars, one of the most popular shows on all of cable. It will take readers behind the scenes of Harrison's family-run pawn shop and bring its lovable cast to vivid life on the page. But it will also present Harrison's amazing personal story. While he registered a near-200...
Author
Series
Charlie Henry mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Returning Stateside from special-ops work in Iraq, Charlie Henry, the new owner of a pawnshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and his business partner Gordon investigate the murder of a childhood friend, which draws them into a world of rivalries and false identities.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1742, and the people of Preston are looking forward to their ancient once-every-twenty-years festival of merriment and excess, the Preston Guild. But the prospect darkens as the town plunges into a financial crisis caused by the death of pawnbroker and would-be banker Philip Pimbo, shot behind the locked door of his office. Is it suicide? Coroner Titus Cragg suspects so, but Dr. Luke Fidelis disagrees. To untangle the truth Cragg must...
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