Jack Karasch

• Feb-2002
• / Science Fiction
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• Jun-2003
• / Thriller
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An attack against his family renders ten-year-old Mitchell Emory an orphan and an epileptic. As an adult, his absentmindedness makes him the butt of jokes, until an on-the-job laboratory accident super-loads his memory. Central to the story is Mitchâ...

• Dec-2013
• / General Fiction
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Vinnie Dows, physically abused as a child and taunted much of his life, acts on a bold idea after he unexpectedly inherits a rundown farm. What if he offered free room and board to others who couldn't seem to make it in their present-day world becaus...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction
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Jack Cherry, a small-time journalist suffering from mental depression after the accidental death of his wife, determines to go through with the dream vacation she had been planning for them. But leaving the States and bumming around Rio de Janeiro an...

• Oct-2014
• / Psychological Suspense
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A policeman, a psychologist, and a psychic are pitted against a serial killer (before the term was coined) who eludes them in 1968 San Francisco. The killer, Anson Garrett, a former cult leader from Central America, returns to his native city determi...

• Jul-2015
• / General Fiction
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A gifted child, Ricky Vail is orphaned too young to have been told he is the product of a "genius" sperm bank. Without another family member to take him in, Ricky is first reared at an orphanage and then in a foster home where he and his foster sibli...

• Apr-2016
• / Mystery
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A food scientist for Dixie Darling Foods and Beverages in New Orleans is murdered in a home invasion robbery. Law enforcement knows neither who committed the homicide nor the reason behind it, though the wrong man is arrested and brought to trial. It...

• Sep-2017
• / General Fiction
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Most of the characters in these previously published and in some cases award-nominated or winning pieces are on a path, though not necessarily one well-chosen. Included among those journeying are San Francisco street performers, a widow, a gangster's...

• Sep-2018
• / Historical
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Middle-aged Abel Moreau lives most humbly in 1927 Chicago. Small of stature and lacking in confidence, he copies great works of art to perfection but believes he is incapable of producing such works himself. Contact with a self-possessed employee at ...

• Jul-2022
• / General Fiction
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A wild herb from an 18th Century forest near Philadelphia not only saves the life of a rattler-bitten canine but, through harvesting of the plant, allows the animal to live well beyond its normal life expectancy. During those years, the animal establ...

• Aug-2023
• / Fantasy
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A smart and good-hearted dog stumbles upon a forest herb, one that eaten regularly prevents him from aging. Born in 1752, on property owned by Benjamin Franklin, the canine travels to the vast reaches of Philadelphia. Over decades, he meets both famo...