J. Conrad Guest

• Sep-2020
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It's said that those who experience a life-threatening event see their whole life flash before their eyes. What if a fetus, at the moment they feel their limbs about to be torn asunder in abortion, see their whole unlived life flash before their eyes...

• May-2017
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Cagney Nowak is writing a novel around the 1905 shooting death of baseball legend Ty Cobb’s father by his mother a week before Ty was called up by the Detroit Tigers. Although Amanda Cobb was acquitted by an all-male jury on the grounds the inciden...

• Aug-2016
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Gail fell for Alex Król before she learned that he risked his life on dirt tracks during the summer months to the delight of fans who paid to see cars crash-the more spectacular the wreck the taller they stood on their toes and craned their neck...

• Nov-2014
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Returning from the first Gulf War haunted by horrific images of the body of a marine he brought back from the desert, Reagan seeks refuge from his nightmares and broken marriage in a jazz quartet in which he plays bass guitar. Fifteen years elapse an...

• Apr-2013
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At the beginning of this visionary tale, the unnamed protagonist has just died. By the time the reader is inexorably drawn to the conclusion of A Retrospect in Death, the only uncovered fact about the narr...

• Feb-2012
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• Feb-2012
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Cagney Nowak is writing a novel around the 1905 shooting death of baseball legend Ty Cobb's father, William, by his mother a week before Ty was called up by the Detroit Tigers. Although she was acquitted by an all-male jury on the grounds that the in...

• Feb-2012
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• Feb-2012
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Many people obsess over their past, but no one more than I. Perchance it’s because, as a man out of time, I left behind so much of it unlived. If that makes little sense, consider that I’m a time traveler. Although the backdrop for my story is ti...

• Apr-2011
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• Dec-2010
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Imagine an alternate history in which the United States fails to enter World War II in time to help the Allies defeat the Tripartite before Germany becomes too strong to defeat. Imagine a future in which Germany has perfected genetic engi...

• Aug-2010
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What power, to hold in one's own hands the ability to affect the present by altering the past ... In the twenty-second century the world population has dwindled to fewer than a billion, with total extinction expected within a decade. Chaotic Theory c...

• Jan-2010
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Backstop plays the catcher's position for any team in any city in America with a major league ball club. You cheer him when he delivers, and boo him when he doesn't. Told in his own words during the seventh game of the World Series in what could be h...

• Sep-2009
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You know Backstop. He plays for any team in any city in America with a major league ball club. You cheer him when he delivers, and boo him when he doesn't. In what could be his last game after 14 years in the major leagues--the seventh game of the Wo...

• Sep-2002
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Robert Porter is enjoying the fruits of success: a best-selling novel featuring a hard-nosed detective circa 1947 named Joe January, and a lucrative contract for the sequel. But his world comes crashing down around him when he witnesses his wife'...