Bøger af G A Johnson

Columbine. Sandy Hook. Isaac's life began on the day of the first shooting and his mother put a gun to his head the night of the last. What happens between those tragic dates is Isaac's life, and the story of a mother convinced her son would commit mass murder. Emma was ordinary, educated, and middle-class; how she dawned that ghastly duty lies in a saga of infidelity, divorce, greed, and financial ruin. Isaac was a side note in a family torn apart. He took sanctuary in the realm of his imagination, but it came under siege. At school Isaac's withdrawn nature pegged him as 'special needs'. Their solution: a regimen of prescription drugs with side-effects...a twitch...man-boobs...and a set of devoted tormentors. Isaac endured to freshmen year. Emma was drowning in wine and self-loathing. At school teasing turned to threats of an "epic YouTube ass-beating" Seemingly alone in the world, Isaac writes revenge-fiction to escape reality. Relics from his hidden family history-a pistol and a bag of pictures-become the props for his stories. Stories never meant to be seen but such are the nature of secrets. Is he the next school shooter? Or has Emma lost touch with reality?

A storm moves through the mountains casting a blanket of snow over the buds of early spring. A cabin hunkered between granite boulders waits, cold and empty inside. Not before the storm has passed, these four walls are filled with the burning hopes and fears of a desperate killer and his hostage. Cyrus Loukas believes he's lost everything, and has come to what used to be his family's cabin, planning to murder the man he's projected all his disappointments on. He listens, with gun in hand, for a knock on the door. When it comes, Cyrus finds eleven-year-old Francis McGill shivering on the doorstep. The boy's grandfather has died and Francis doesn't think his camping trip can get worse. He's mistaken. When the door closes behind him, Francis will be the subject of Cyrus' debate on whether it is better for the young to die with their innocence intact. Outside the door: boot prints, shell casings, and the blood of local sheriffs mar the fallen snow. Cyrus doesn't need to deliberate on killing authority figures. When threats and gunfire fail to bring results, can the sheriff's conceive of a non-violent resolution? Cyrus has already killed three. Someone must face him unarmed if they want to save Francis. Soon they will learn that the person they need doesn't wear a badge or a holster.

In the summer of 1999, a forgotten age before smartphones and the wisdom of Wikipedia, two friends trek from the Rocky Mountains to the Louisiana bayous in search of a cure for their postcollege let-down blues. Ready to fail for the sake of change, Jon Colefield signs on to a doomed mission for his company just to be near a girl he's only met once-at the New Orleans airport bar. Jon sets out for the bayou like a knight on quest, hoping the girl will be his Holy Grail. Len had just come off his latest business failure and finds himself living on Jon's couch. He's got nothing better to do than ride along with Jon until he has a stoned epiphany (a "Lenpiphany") while watching Smokey and The Bandit. Instead of loading Jon's furniture into the moving truck, he sells it, and buys 400 cases of Courz [SIC] hoping to make a quick buck down south. Jon won't find out until they've driven halfway to their destination. Len won't find out that Courz IS sold east of Texarkana until they reach Louisiana. The drive becomes an odyssey wrought with near disasters and populated with everything from the KKK to Chupacabras. When the worst is thought to be over, Len loses the trailer hauling Jon's car on the highway in Dallas. Or so he thinks... After Jon throws a left hook to Len's jaw and a tire blows on the moving truck, the two separate outside Shreveport. It will take a truckload of Creoles, the Voodoo King of New Orleans, a fishing contest, and an alligator to bring the friends back together. All that they have endured culminates in a new and final mission: saving the family marina of Jon's new love interest from foreclosure.

While Humanity pats itself on the back for cramming technology into every corner of civilization, something is eying the earth like a ripened vineyard. There is a secret history of civilization, Humanity has been hauling ore to the surface for an unknown master. When the black ships arrive, they will take everything from the mighty New York skyline to the humblest paperclip. These won't be the only ships to arrive... Alan forgets to kiss his wife goodbye on the last morning civilization glistened in the sun. He walks out the door a war correspondent embedding with a combat unit; by nightfall, he is a refuge fighting to survive. The black ships start their harvest in the major cities. New arrivals coincide with the chaos: crystal ships appear above the panicked crowds like giant prisms shining down hope. Alan survives a battle between a black ship and the Marines of Tango 5/11. Desperate to find his wife, he wanders a razed cityscape filled with corpses. On the verge of starvation, he finds the escorts-people once scoffed at for claiming to make contact with other beings-that came with the crystal ships. They promise refugees sanctuary on another planet. Alan takes the place of an escort murdered by a survivalist militia and helps bring thousands of people to gathering points.At first, he believes it's a mission of mercy; but he soon suspects an ulterior motive. Ultimately, Alan discovers that he is guilty of a heinous crime. Somewhere in the smoldering landscape redemption awaits.

G.A. Johnson's debut novel mixes spirituality and with the brutality and filth of street life and addiction. Life after witnessing his father's murder at the hands of the Klan was a narcotic waste land that took Murphy Johnson from Neshoba County, Mississippi to Denver, Colorado. He was the man the world walked around; he held a blank cardboard sign, and his eyes were a frozen river. Nothing seemed to move on the surface, but the water was flowing beneath an expression frosted over by four-decades of drugs, alcohol, and concrete beds. Until he reemerged into consciousness under a tree in Civic Center Park. The Shiner explores the gamut of political chasms in society. The man the world walked around becomes the man who changes the world around him. Murphy is entangled in the lives of an ensemble cast of street dwellers, suburbanites and aristocrats. Besides fighting the ghosts of his past and the desire to fall back into addiction, he fights for survival on the streets and in the world of his new employer-an escort service pimp. Villains are not what they seem and the innocent are less than so, but Murphy embraces them all with a child's love-even the man who is trying to kill him.

Full Title: "In the Supreme Court of the United States. October Term, 1889. Thomas Cunningham, Sheriff of the County of San Joaquin California, Appellant, vs. David Neagle.} No. 1472. Brief for Appellant"Description: "The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials" provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++MonographHarvard Law School LibrarySacramento: State Office:: : J.D. Young, Supt. State Printing. 1889

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