Jonathan Carroll
2) Mama Bruise
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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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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...
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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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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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Just after a man falls in the snow and hits his head on a stone curb, a ghost arrives to take his soul to the afterlife. But something strange occurs: the man doesn't die. Flabbergasted, the ghost appeals to his boss for further direction and is instructed to stay with the man until the strange "problem" is worked out. But things get complicated when the ghost falls madly, deeply in love with the man's girlfriend. Soon afterward, the man discovers...
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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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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"--
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St. Martin's Press
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2014, c2013.
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"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 and the utterly fearsome yet inevitable Chaos that periodically...
16) Breaking Barbi
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Barbi, a famous fitness selfie queen, is lost in the wilderness after her first date with a cute guy goes horribly wrong. Lost without cell service, supplies or survival skills, she begins a harrowing journey back to civilization with her face buried in her phone.