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“john vernon”

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  • A Book of Reasons

    by John Vernon ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: A man sorts through the secret life of his troubled, reclusive brother in this "powerful, moving personal history" ( Entertainment Weekly).Every family has its odd character, the one who never seems right with the world. When a grieving John Vernon was charged with settling his brother's affairs, he came face to face with a life he had never suspected. His brother's ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lucky Billy

    A Novel About Billy the Kid

    by John Vernon, Susan Wyler ...
    A myth-busting novel about America's most infamous and beloved outlaw, Billy the Kid, from a critically acclaimed historical novelistAccording to legend, Billy the Kid killed twenty-one men, one for every year of his short life; stole from wealthy cattle barons to give to the poor; and wooed just about every senorita in the American Southwest.In Lucky Billy, John Vernon digs deeply into the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All for Love

    by John Vernon ...
    Adventuress, miner, home-wrecker, pauper, dreamer—the drama of Colorado legend Baby Doe’s life has inspired several biographies, a 1932 film starring Edward G. Robinson, even an opera, but never before a novel. Few lives have been so dramatic—leaving Oshkosh, WI and heading toward Colorado’s mining territory in 1879, she ditched her husband and snared silver magnate Horace Tabor, who divorced his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Peter Doyle

    by John Vernon ...
    On St. Helena island in 1821 a mysterious doctor removes Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis from his corpse while in the next room his loyal lieutenants brag about their dead emperor’s merciless cruelty. Fifty years later the search for this itinerant appendage leads through Victorian London to ante-bellum New York, Amherst, Massachusetts, and finally Colorado Territory, dragging in its path a promiscuous ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Runaway Roller Skate

    by John Vernon Lord ...
    Illustrated by John Vernon Lord ...
    The much-loved and celebrated children's story, written and illustrated by John Vernon Lord, Emeritus Professor of Illustrating at Brighton University, has been out of print for many years. Bouley Bay Books is bringing out a special, golden anniversary edition, to celebrate the fiftieth year after its original publication by Jonathan Cape in 1973.In Lewis Carroll's nineteenth century children's ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Last Canyon

    A Novel

    by John Vernon ...
    “Both gritty and sublime” (Seattle Times), The Last Canyon tells the story of John Wesley Powell’s 1869 voyage of exploration through the Grand Canyon, the last great expedition of discovery in United States history. In this vivid novel, John Vernon intertwines two stories – that of Powell and his crew, and that of a band of Paiute Indians, known as the Shivwits, who lived on the north rim of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Lindbergh's Son

    by John Vernon ...
    All this began long before I died,” says the brain in a jar that narrates John Vernon’s second novel. The brain once belonged to Charles Cooper, a 55-year-old water engineer in upstate New York, and has been kept alive by a perfusion pump invented by the man who may have been Coop’s fatherCharles Lindbergh. Then again, maybe not. Coop’s suspicion that he is the kidnaped Lindbergh baby who never ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Bluebird

    by Rich Cochrane, Robert Kingham ...
    Narrated by Robert Kingham, Lizzie Wofford, Mark Oosterveen, Alasdair Mackenzie, Cerise Angela, Craig Whitney, Isabella Adamec, John Vernon, Massimo Martella0, Phil O’Donnell1, Rebecca Barry2, Rebecca Crankshaw3, Will Henry4 ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 12 min

    A university lecturer and his PhD student embark on a research trip to a remote village in England to write about its dark history.They think they know some of the stories. A burglar shot dead; a tragedy on the train tracks; and remnants of psychological experiments from the Cold War. But as they meet the inhabitants of Renslow, and try to make sense of their sometimes-odd behaviour, they wonder ... Read more

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  • The Sandburg Treasury

    Prose and Poetry for Young People

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    Illustrated by Paul Bacon ...
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  • The Big Book of Science Fiction

    Edited by Jeff VanderMeer, Ann Vandermeer ...
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