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Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with now is her mother, the formidable...
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From the cocreator of Deadpool comes a hilariously entertaining debut featuring two unlikely and unforgettable amateur sleuths. An engrossing and entertaining murder mystery full of skewering social commentary, Suburban Dicks examines the racial tensions exposed in a New Jersey suburb after the murder of a gas station attendant. Andie Stern thought she'd solved her final homicide. Once a budding FBI profiler, she gave up her career to raise her four...
3) Burn
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Melinda, a lonely and unstable gas station attendant, is tired of being overshadowed by her more confident, outgoing co-worker Sheila. But after the gas station is held at gunpoint by Billy, Melinda takes the opportunity to take matters into her own hands, regardless of who gets hurt.
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Nothing seems to change in Eden Hill, Kentucky, and that's just fine with Virgil T. Osgood. He's been content to raise his family and run the only service station in town. But when a new station is set to open right across the road from Virgil's pumps, he suddenly faces obstacles in his career, his marriage, and his self-worth that he's never even dreamed of. Cornelius Alexander wants his new Zipco station to succeed and help establish a strong foundation...
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"These are the stories of the employees at a truck stop. Some of them make enough to live it up but none of them make enough to live large. When you dig deeper, you may find tales as old as the marketplace of ideas: Tales of struggle and proletariat rage. Tales of hopes and aspirations. And tales of a man with a grimy beard screaming at a maintenance worker, telling him to call 1-800-Eat-S**t. " -- from Amazon.
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"Society girl Margaret Richards, in full snit, has roared off in the family valet's car without a cent in her pocket. But now there's the matter of $3.48 to be paid at the gas station and the attendant isn't buying her promise of payment tomorrow. He insists she pay by cleaning rooms in the station's adjoining motel. The gas jockey [is] a college grad who plans to put his engineering degree to use by someday establishing a chain of auto courts. Meanwhile,...
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"Sami runs his immigrant family's gas station with his cousin Mike, a charismatic hustler with dreams of expanding into an unleaded empire. More than just a pit stop for late-night gas an drolling papers, their station is where a steady stream of unforgettable and often hilarious customers flow through. When a gorgeous "up-do girl" Najlah comes to deliver cheap long-distance phone cards, Sami quickly falls for her from behind the bulletproof glass....
9) Full service
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In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
12) Splinter
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Several people are trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts. Now the young couple and escaped convict must find a way to work to together to survive the primal terror that turns people into a bloodthirsty host.
16) Turbo cola
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Austin Morris is foregoing the biggest party of the year to work overtime at the Quality Mart, much to the chagrin of his friends and new girlfriend, Mary Jane. What his friends don't know is that his true plan is to rob the store's ATM with his stoner side-kick, Swearsky, so that he can be with the girl of his dreams. This New Year's Eve ... 1999 ... will change everything.
17) Garage song
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A boy spends a day watching the men work at a busy service station.
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