Jonathan Carroll
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English
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Davis Sterling, scion of Houston's leading newspaper family, was enjoying the playboy life until his father challenges him to make something of himself. Always a talented writer, his rebellious streak leads him to sports writing, a craft without the status in the 1940s that it has today, and one he, knew would drive his farther crazy. With the help of the Houston Star's elevator man, he finds a team worth covering. But, he never thought it would lead...
2) Mama Bruise
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English
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She was the first to fall. As she walked the dog one night, it saw something off to the side and bolted. A couple is concerned when their dog behaves increasingly bizarrely: first to their chagrin, and, eventually, to their alarm...
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English
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A fantasy about a woman bequeathed an odd gift by a former lover who broke up with her, then died-his handwriting. Why did he do this and what does it mean? Find out in Jonathan Carroll's Played Your Eyes.
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English
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In Jonathan Carrol's new Tor.com original short story, "Porgee's Bear," an artist's work attracts the eye of Andrey Porgee, a notorious gangster, who becomes her best customer. But when he commissions a painting based on a childhood photograph, the artist lives in fear of his reaction to the final product.
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Stuck in neutral, Graham Patterson finds his decision to get tattooed by a brilliant tattoo artist in North Carolina setting off a series of extraordinary events that changes his life forever in ways he never could have imagined, including the opportunity to choose from three different lives"--
Graham Patterson's life has hit a dead end. His career as a comedian is failing. The love of his life recently broke up with him and he literally has no...
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English
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A man falls in the snow, hits his head on a curb, and dies. But something strange occurs: the man doesn't die, and the ghost that's been sent to take his soul to the afterlife is flabbergasted. Going immediately to its boss, the ghost asks, what should I do now? The boss says, we don't know how this happened but we're working on it. We want you to stay with this man to help us figure out what's going on. The ghost agrees unhappily; it is a ghost,...
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English
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Jonathan Carroll married Nkechi Okoro when he was twenty-five years old, after an eighteen-month courtship. He knew that Nkechi was a franchise player who would lead him to a championship life from the moment they first met in college five years earlier. More than ten years after saying I do, she has more than delivered. In modern society, Jonathan and Nkechis relationship and rise into a marriage of champions seems like a rare occurrence. However,...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"In Jonathan Carroll's surreal masterpiece, Bathing the Lion, five people who live in the same New England town go to sleep one night and all share the same hyper-realistic dream. Some of these people know each other; some don't. When they wake the next day all of them know what has happened. All five were at one time "mechanics," a kind of cosmic repairman whose job is to keep order in the universe and clean up the messes made both by sentient beings...
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English
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Now Thomas and Saxony have come to France's hometown, the dreamy Midwestern town of Galen, Missouri, to write France's biography. Warned in advance that France's family may oppose them, they're surprised to find France's daughter warmly welcoming instead. But slowly they begin to see that something fantastic and horrible is happening. The magic of Marshall France has extended far beyond the printed page...leaving them with a terrifying task to undertake....
11) Black cocktail
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Ingram York is fascinated by the stories told by Michael Billa, who said that death is like the bartender who can whip up any number of exotic drinks, like black cocktails. Like Clinton Deix. Deix was the scariest and angriest kid in high school and now he's back to see he high school friend, Michael. And Clinton is still fifteen.
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Publisher
Manning Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Spreadsheets are powerful tools for many tasks, but if you need to interpret, interrogate, and present data, they can feel like the wrong tools for the task. That's when R programming is the way to go. The R programming language provides a comfortable environment to properly handle all types of data. And within the open source RStudio development suite, you have at your fingertips easy-to-use ways to simplify complex manipulations and create reproducible...
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Publisher
N.A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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A writer in New York State discovers the police chief of his hometown is a childhood friend and takes advantage to investigate the murder of a girl whose body he found when in his teens. The girl's boyfriend was convicted of the murder and subsequently committed suicide, but the writer believes the boyfriend was innocent.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A surrealistic novel of people's perception of death. Ian McGann meets death is a dream, while Wyatt Leonard, who is dying of leukemia, meets death in a novelty store. As for Emmy Marhoun, three years after being killed she can still be seen walking about, unaware she is dead because she doesn't know the difference between life and death anymore. By the author of After Silence.
18) The panic hand
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A first collection of 20 stories from a writer of fantasy novels. The story, Friend's Best Man, is on a dog that can foretell the future, while Black Cocktail is on the anatomy of the soul.