Jan Young

• Sep-2022
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A collection of wide-ranging short stories by an author with wide-ranging interests. Included are two ghost stories, two pieces of railroad-related fiction, an exploration of what it means to become elderly, and both creation and destruction stories....

• Nov-2016
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A man and his wife are found murdered in their beautiful home on the Hudson River north of New York City. The investigator rules out the household staff and concentrates on a mysterious bearded visitor that the taxi company brought to the house that...

• Oct-2015
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Exiled from Earth, forty thousand people make a seven-generation trek to a new star, a new planet and a new home. Along the way they encounter technical difficulties, mysterious aliens, new diseases and dissention within their own ranks....

• Mar-2015
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• Jan-2015
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What happens when a time-traveler decides to go back in history and change the outcome of World War II? Ray Putnam, living in 2010, finds that he has a battle of his own on his hands. Everything has consequences and life gets complicated in a hurry...

• Jan-2015
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• Apr-2013
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In this sequel to Jan Young's coming-of-age story, The Orange Slipknot, 12-year-old Ben Lucas strives to balance his desire to gain his father's approval with his need to identify and follow his own convictions.Is he tough enough to please his hot-te...

• Jul-2012
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Jimmy Alden, a successful businessman, is mugged in a parking garage and would have been killed were it not for the intervention of a strange little man known as Bub. Bub uses the mugging to extort Jimmy and force him into a life of terrorism with in...

• Jan-2012
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The year is 4256. Problems with interstellar drives have been solved and mankind is exploring the universe. There are more than a thousand inhabited planets and many thousands of additional habitable planets await colonization. Through all of this ex...

• Dec-2011
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For a moment, set aside the question of whether or not heaven exists. If it does, what it is like? This novel begins with the death of Robert Conway and then follows his life in paradise. It's a bed of roses to be sure, but some of the roses have tho...

• Mar-2011
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Three novellas prominently involving cats: Mom and Me is the biography of a tortoise-shell shorthair living in present-day Alaska. Smudgy involves a gray tabby in a love story set during World War II. The Feud tells of a 1920s murder solved, in p...

• Mar-2010
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Many of today's books for middle-grade children feature monsters and magic, but few relate to the unique challenges of growing up on a ranch in today's West. It is difficult to find a novel that models life lessons even as it keeps the reader engaged...