John Brandon
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There shouldn't be a Citrus County. Teenage romance should be difficult, but not this difficult. Boys like Toby should cause trouble but not this much. The moon should glow gently over children safe in their beds. Uncles in their rockers should be kind. Teachers should guide and inspire. Manatees should laze and palm trees sway and snakes keep to their shady spots under the azalea thickets. The air shouldn't smell like a swamp. The stars should twinkle....
3) Arkansas
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Originally published by McSweeney's in hardcover and met with wide acclaim, Arkansas is a darkly comic debut novel written by John Brandon about a pair of drug runners, Kyle and Swin, set in the rural southeast. Drawing comparisons to a striking range of storytellers, from Quentin Tarantino and Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy, John Brandonan MFA graduate of Washington University who worked an array of odd jobs while writing the...
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Productive days don't just happen. They're the result of upending the habits that aren't working for us and developing ones that will. Using his proven 7-minute framework, productivity expert John Brandon reveals how to radically reduce digital distractions and revamp your routines for better focus, efficiency, and outcomes.
The 7-Minute Productivity Solution shows you how to
- start your day
- manage your schedule
- stop obsessively checking email
-...
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On the top floor of a small hospital, an unlikely piano prodigy lies in a coma, attended to by his gruff, helpless father. Outside the clinic, a motley vigil assembles beneath a reluctant New Mexico winter-strangers in search of answers, a brush with the mystical, or just an escape. To some the boy is a novelty, to others a religion. Just beyond this ragtag circle roams a disconsolate wolf on his nightly rounds, protecting and threatening, learning...
6) Further Joy
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In eleven expertly crafted stories, John Brandon gives us a stunning assortment of men and women at the edge of possibility-gamblers and psychics, wanderers and priests, all of them on the verge of finding out what they can get away with, and what they can't. Ranging from haunted deserts to alligator-filled swamps, these are stories of foul luck and strange visitations, delivered with deadpan humor by an unforgettable voice.
The New York Times praised...
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English
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Productive days don't just happen. They're the result of upending the habits that aren't working for us and developing ones that will. Using his proven seven-minute framework, productivity expert John Brandon reveals how to radically reduce digital distractions and revamp your routines for better focus, efficiency, and outcomes.
The 7-Minute Productivity Solution shows you how to start your day, manage your schedule, stop obsessively checking email,...
8) Nighthawks!
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English
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Crime mystery novel which takes place in London with lots of dialect and slang and characters named 'Papa', 'Chick' , 'Phones' and 'Limpy'. Drug rings, night clubs, and the FBI round it out.
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"All the fast-paced action and danger readers have come to expect." -Kirkus Reviews
Ike Schwartz, Sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and his fiancée Ruth Dennis, the President of a local university, seek asylum from a trying year of academic and local politics on Scone Island, four miles off the coast of Maine. Its lack of electricity, reliable water supply, and phone service guarantee their seclusion and peace. The suspicious accident that resulted...
10) Arkansas
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog. When a series of mistakes sets them on a collision course with Frog, Kyle and Swin must eliminate Frog or die trying.
11) Arkansas
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Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"In Clark Duke's directorial debut, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of the Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they've never met. Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog's proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). Swin settles into his day job by taking up a relationship with Johnna (Eden Brolin) against orders to...