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A compelling mystery embedded in a wonderful coming-of-age story! The body of Grants Pass, Oregon, a perfect hometown in 1959, contains a cancerous cell hiding in plain sight. We follow Troy Clay from age twelve to seventeen through many adventures on the Rogue River-the building of a tree house, a midnight raid on a golf course, the finding of a strange doll, a raft trip through Hellgate canyon, and a night voyage to solve a mystery. The stor...

A compelling mystery embedded in a wonderful coming-of-age story! The body of Grants Pass, Oregon, a perfect hometown in 1959, contains a cancerous cell hiding in plain sight. We follow Troy Clay from age twelve to seventeen through many adventures on the Rogue River-the building of a tree house, a midnight raid on a golf course, the finding of a strange doll, a raft trip through Hellgate canyon, and a night voyage to solve a mystery. The stor...

This optimistic story about love, prejudice, evil, and overcoming grief involves a relentless contrast between innocent teenage sexuality and the psychotic lust of a murderer of young boys. After sixteen-year-old Tom Miller is harassed by a teenage hoodlum. His girlfriend, Sabrina, obtains a voodoo doll from her godmother, ninety-year-old Lady Priscilla. Its purpose is not to kill the hoodlum but to scare him off, but in the process of payback...

This optimistic story about love, prejudice, evil, and overcoming grief involves a relentless contrast between innocent teenage sexuality and the psychotic lust of a murderer of young boys. After sixteen-year-old Tom Miller is harassed by a teenage hoodlum. His girlfriend, Sabrina, obtains a voodoo doll from her godmother, ninety-year-old Lady Priscilla. Its purpose is not to kill the hoodlum but to scare him off, but in the process of payback...

A Teenage Odyssey for Adults and Mature Teenage Readers:Selected for the "Albuquerque Easy Reading Parade" (Peter Kelton, March 21, 2014):Five stars from the "San Francisco Book Review Magazine" (for the August issue):Five stars from "Midwest Reviews" (Diane Donovan, May 2014):Roger E. Carrier tells an engaging story of youth, redemption, and sexual coming of age in New Mexico. In 1971, seventeen-year-old Shane Russell makes a well-planned esc...

A Teenage Odyssey for Adults and Mature Teenage Readers:Selected for the "Albuquerque Easy Reading Parade" (Peter Kelton, March 21, 2014):Five stars from the "San Francisco Book Review Magazine" (for the August issue):Five stars from "Midwest Reviews" (Diane Donovan, May 2014):Roger E. Carrier tells an engaging story of youth, redemption, and sexual coming of age in New Mexico. In 1971, seventeen-year-old Shane Russell makes a well-planned esc...

It was a midsummer nights dream that lingers during the day Arkansas 1935. Rarely, and always in summer, a strange carnival will come to a town. The town is never too large or too small and never a city. Furthermore, it is always a place isolated in space and time. Never today but fifty or a hundred years ago when things were as different from today as they are the same. The owner of this particular carnival is a black woman and devotee of voo...

It was a midsummer nights dream that lingers during the day Arkansas 1935. Rarely, and always in summer, a strange carnival will come to a town. The town is never too large or too small and never a city. Furthermore, it is always a place isolated in space and time. Never today but fifty or a hundred years ago when things were as different from today as they are the same. The owner of this particular carnival is a black woman and devotee of voo...

Late one night in a tragic twist of fate, Dan Peterson is murdered after witnessing a man leave an apartment complex. This serial killer feigns a heart attack and slashes Dan's throat when the Good Samaritan runs to help him. Dan dies a silent, gurgling death, but after a flash of light, Dan wakes up on a park bench next to a statue of Mark Twain. It is spring, and fifty-three-year-old Dan is young again. The only problem is that nobody can se...

Late one night in a tragic twist of fate, Dan Peterson is murdered after witnessing a man leave an apartment complex. This serial killer feigns a heart attack and slashes Dan's throat when the Good Samaritan runs to help him. Dan dies a silent, gurgling death, but after a flash of light, Dan wakes up on a park bench next to a statue of Mark Twain. It is spring, and fifty-three-year-old Dan is young again. The only problem is that nobody can se...