Roger Wing, an eighteen-year-old Southern Baptist, opens a jujitsu studio in Jackson, Mississippi in 1960 and, befriended by a neighboring Black family, becomes involved in the Civil Rights movement

Jujitsu for Christ (Contemporary American Fiction)

Butler, Jack.

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Living In Little Rock With Miss Little Rock

Narrated by the Holy Ghost, this most unusual novel tells the story of Charles and Lianne Morrison. He's a millionaire lawyer, possibly, a future governor. She's the beautiful ex-TV newscaster and former Miss Little Rock. "What begins as a soap opera and a whodunit becomes an engrossing examination of the human soul in turmoil."--Dallas Morning News.

Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock

Literary

Narrated by the Holy Ghost, this most unusual novel tells the story of Charles and Lianne Morrison. He's a millionaire lawyer, possibly, a future governor. She's the beautiful ex-TV newscaster and former Miss Little Rock. "What begins as a soap opera and a whodunit becomes an engrossing examination of the human soul in turmoil."--Dallas Morning News.

Living in Little Rock With Miss Little Rock

Contemporary

Knopf 1993

As Little Rock debates over creationism and evolution, the marriage of millionaire lawyer Charles Morrison and his liberal wife, Lianne, becomes both a catalyst and a target, in a zany story narrated by the Holy Ghost. By the author of Jujitsu for Christ. 20,000 first printing.

United States

KNOPF

Santa Fe dream scientist Dr. Jody Nightwood becomes a beautiful pawn in a deadly contest when she receives a generous grant to conduct a study in her own sleep clinic--a grant that, unbeknownst to her, has been funded by the CIA.The chief of a covert-operations subgroup believes he has discovered the key to artificial intelligence--if computers can be made to dream like humans, they can be made to think like humans. But his nemesis within the agency is secretly running a competitive operation, and will stop at nothing to see him fail.Jody's painstaking research into the nature of dreams reaches a dead end until she turns to less conventional investigative techniques. Looking to the mystics and shamans of Santa Fe for help, she enters the nightmarish but finally healing realm of the subconscious, drawing closer and closer to the most elusive mysteries of the human mind.When she meets in daylight the darkly handsome figure who has appeared in her dreams, she begins a dangerous love affair that will catapult her into the highest levels of government conspiracy and intrigue, and leave her fighting to protect her lab, her career, and her life.Written with Jack Butler's trademark intelligence and style, Dreamer is an electrifying novel in which nothing is what it seems and even the mysterious operations of government are less dazzling and powerful than the hidden mechanics of the subconscious--a gripping new work from one of America's most original and inventive writers.

Dreamer

Random House Value Publishing

Nightshade

The mysterious John Shade leads an unlikely squadron comprised of a robot, fire-eater, and various loners and rebels on an increasingly desperate mission to save twenty-first-century Mars from technological disaster

HarperCollins, Publishers

Santa Fe dream scientist Dr. Jody Nightwood becomes a beautiful pawn in a deadly contest when she receives a generous grant to conduct a study in her own sleep clinic--a grant that, unbeknownst to her, has been funded by the CIA. The chief of a covert-operations subgroup believes he has discovered the key to artificial intelligence--if computers can be made to dream like humans, they can be made to think like humans. But his nemesis within the agency is secretly running a competitive operation, and will stop at nothing to see him fail. Jody's painstaking research into the nature of dreams reaches a dead end until she turns to less conventional investigative techniques. Looking to the mystics and shamans of Santa Fe for help, she enters the nightmarish but finally healing realm of the subconscious, drawing closer and closer to the most elusive mysteries of the human mind. When she meets in daylight the darkly handsome figure who has appeared in her dreams, she begins a dangerous love affair that will catapult her into the highest levels of government conspiracy and intrigue, and leave her fighting to protect her lab, her career, and her life. Written with Jack Butler's trademark intelligence and style, Dreamer is an electrifying novel in which nothing is what it seems and even the mysterious operations of government are less dazzling and powerful than the hidden mechanics of the subconscious--a gripping new work from one of America's most original and inventive writers.

Dreamer : A Novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

The mysterious John Shade leads an unlikely squadron comprised of a robot, fire-eater, and various loners and rebels on an increasingly desperate mission to save twenty-first-century Mars from technological disaster

Atlantic Monthly Pr

Jujitsu for Christ

UNKNO

Inscribed by author. No markings. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Edges foxed and browned. Very clean, crisp, and tight copy. Pages and inside covers show foxing. Front cover shows wear. Not Ex-Library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Save on shipping by ordering multiple titles. 60pp. Softcover Very Good Condition Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" English Text

West of Hollywood: Poems from a hermitage (August House poety series)

August House

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Books by Butler, Jack.

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Jujitsu for Christ (Contemporary American Fiction)

Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock

Living in Little Rock With Miss Little Rock

Living In Little Rock With Miss Little Rock

Dreamer

Nightshade

Dreamer : A Novel

Nightshade

Jujitsu for Christ

West of Hollywood: Poems from a hermitage (August House poety series)