Norman Lock
Norman Lock is the award-winning author of
novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. He
has won the Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award, the Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, and writing
fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Lock’s The Boy in His Winter is also available from Blackstone Audio.
All Books By Norman Lock
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American Meteor
- By: Norman Lock
- Narrator: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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In this panoramic tale of manifest destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields... Read more
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The Boy in His Winter
- By: Norman Lock
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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Launched into existence by Mark Twain in 1835, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river’s banks, they witness... Read more
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As Texas Goes…
In one of the most timely political books in years, Gail Collins declares that “what happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas anymore.” Gail Collins’s fascination with Texas began rather abruptly in that distant spring of 2009 when she heard Governor Rick Perry—back to the wall, boots to the ground—address a Tea Party rally full of passionate Texans who seemed to be interested in ...
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Elegy for April
Quirke–the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist–is back, and he’s determined to find his daughter’s best friend, a well-connected young doctor
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Two Shakes of a Lamb’s Tail
Two Shakes of a Lamb’s Tail is the funny, illuminating diary of a year in the life of a New Zealand farm vet
With a husband and two children, 1200 sheep and 400 cattle, farm dogs and pet lambs, pigs bent on excavation and a goat bent on escape, country life is never dull. From calving cows to constipated dogs, weddings to weaning lambs, daffodils to ducklings to droughts, each season brings ...
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In My Hands
In In My Hands, surgical oncologist Dr. Steven Curley shares the empowering lessons he’s learned over 25 years from his cancer patients’ unique stories of struggle, perseverance, and triumph.
As Chief of Surgical Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Steven Curley has worked with cancer patients for over two decades. While his life’s work has been to help his patients live longer ...
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Testimony
Award-winning, #1 Blackboard best-selling author Felicia Mason delivers a soul-stirring novel of faith, family, and friendship. For 18 years Roger McKenzie has led The Triumphant Voices of Praise, a gospel singing group. But The Voices have failed to win commercial or critical success, and their close bond is deteriorating. Only by confronting the demons of their past will the singers have a ...
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A Climate of Fear
A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder has been made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg and his team.When the symbol is found near the body of a second disguised suicide, a pattern begins to emerge: both victims were part of a disastrous expedition to Iceland over ten years ago where a group ...
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Resilience
You cannot bounce back from hardship. You can only move through it. There is a path through pain to wisdom, through suffering to strength, and through fear to courage if we have the virtue of resilience.
In 2012, Eric Greitens unexpectedly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he hadn’t seen in a decade. Zach Walker had been one of the toughest of the tough. But ever since he ...
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Happy People Are Annoying
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A wonderfully candid memoir from one of the most recognizable faces of a generation, actor, writer, Youtuber, and television superstar, Josh Peck. In his warm and inspiring book, Josh reflects on the many stumbles and silver linings of his life and traces a zigzagging path to redemption. Written with such impressive detail and aching honesty, Happy People are Annoying is ...
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Gray Tidings
Corpses are vanishing from New Orleans morgues, there’s talk of a sea monster in Lake Pontchartrain, and Hiram Nádasdy is turning the French Quarter upside down in search of a witch with the power to bring the dead back to life.When the director assigns Rue the case, she suspects he’s sending her hunting all right. For her father, not the creature. Too bad she’s got her hands full with ...
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Grave Witch
Not even death can save her now.As a grave witch, Alex Craft can speak to the dead-she’s even on good terms with Death himself. As a consultant for the police, she’s seen a lot of dark magic, but nothing has prepared her for her latest case. When she’s raising a “shade” involved in a high-profile murder, it attacks her, and then someone makes an attempt on her life. Someone really ...
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