John Vernon

• Jun-1986
• / General Fiction
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The fictional diary entries of the French explorer, La Salle, and his cartographer, Goupil, recount--from two conflicting perspectives--a remarkable journey into a wilderness in which reason, religion, and European power have no place...

• Nov-1987
• / General Fiction
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“All this began long before I died,” says the brain in a jar that narrates John Vernon’s second novel. The brain once belonged to Charles Cooper, a 55-year-old water engineer in upstate New York, and has been kept alive by a perfusion pump inv...

• May-1991
• / General Fiction
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On St. Helena island in 1821 a mysterious doctor removes Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis from his corpse while in the next room his loyal lieutenants brag about their dead emperor’s merciless cruelty. Fifty years later the search for this itinerant a...

• Sep-1995
• / General Fiction
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Adventuress, miner, home-wrecker, pauper, dreamer -- the drama of Colorado legend Baby Doe’s life has inspired several biographies, a 1932 film starring Edward G. Robinson, even an opera, but never before a novel. Few lives have been ...

• Oct-1999
• / General Fiction
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A New York Times Notable Book: A man sorts through the secret life of his troubled, reclusive brother in this “powerful, moving personal history” (Entertainment Weekly).   Every family has its odd character, the one who never seems right wit...

• Oct-2001
• / Action Adventure
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A historical novel about John Wesley Powell’s nineteenth-century expedition through the Grand Canyon: “A riveting adventure tale” (The Seattle Times).   In 1869, John Wesley Powell set out on a voyage of exploration through the Grand Canyo...

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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A myth-busting novel about America’s most infamous and beloved outlaw, Billy the Kid, from a critically acclaimed historical novelistAccording to legend, Billy the Kid killed twenty-one men, one for every year of his short life; stole from wealthy ...