Give It Back

Sal Kramer is thinking of reversing his medical ethics. It tears at his mind. 
 
The Dressler twins share everything, including a lethal kidney disorder.
When only one survives their flawless transplant operations, the Seattle
pediatrician is devastated. Sal can't understand why Zeke is dead.
Zack can tell him--he claims to be in contact with his twin. His
brother's friend Garth asked him to give his kidney back, Zack explains,
and he did. The four-year-old makes it sound like a minor squabble over
a toy truck. Sal doesn't need another helping of crazy: he's already
stressed from placating a wife who yearns to leave him and his
high-maintenance tomcat. Still, he wonders how Zack could know the
deceased donor's name. Things are peculiar at the hospital, too:
patients who should be dead are not dying. The only other fatality
recorded in recent days is a suicide--yet another recipient unlucky
enough to score one of Garth Blodgett's organs. 
 
Sal Kramer's lifelong faith in science is soon demolished. While heaven and hell are
infinite, Sal learns, purgatory is not. Pushed to its temporal limit by
the increasing number of souls waiting for their donated organs to die,
the afterlife is locked down like a recalcitrant computer in need of a
reboot. Garth Blodgett is that reboot. Unless Sal helps him find the
rest of his missing parts and soon, no one is going anywhere. 
 
Give It Back is a chiller--a supernatural horror feast of the machine gone
wrong, far enough off the rails to satiate the worst Luddites lurking
among us. This medical supernatural thriller is packed full of thrills and chills for the discerning reader. 

"A pleasingly creepy premise" -- Publisher's Weekly ABNA 2014 Quarter Finalist review.

Horror is now and always will be my undying love. Arthur Machen and Michael McDowell, as well as less obscure writers like Stephen King, all masters of situational and horrific suspense, are my own personal favorites. I am, myself, not loathe to throw in a bit in a bit of blood and black humor. Check out my blog at mrstorie.com if you really want to know how I think.

The Dressler twins share everything, including a lethal kidney disorder. Pediatrician Sal Kramer is devastated when only one boy survives transplant surgery, but he's soon considering the unthinkable. Will Kramer reverse his medical ethics before it's too late? Or will the world become a warehouse for the living dead? Give It Back is a chiller--a supernatural horror feast of the machine gone wrong, far enough off the rails to satiate the worst Luddites lurking among us.

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When The Going Gets Tough.....It Makes a Good Bar Story!:

The best bar stories evolve from crises and the opportunities they create, so here is a collection of my favourite misadventures. This collection of such exploits, arising from my lifelong quest for adventure travel and adrenalin includes caving, climbing, biking, hiking and backpacking in over 70 countries. What sets this book apart is that it describes the extraordinary adventures of an ordinary man: how many authors have squeezed maggots out of their eyebrows and been peed on by silverback mountain gorillas? Most books of this genre either focus on a specific adventurous activity or on a single trip. The diversity of this book will appeal to aspirant adventurers and armchair thrill-seekers alike, whether they are inexperienced students about to embark on a gap year or seasoned travellers spending their offspring's inheritance. Learn from my mistakes Be inspired by my successes Make every second count!

This book recounts Ben's adventures as a single man between leaving school and getting married. He has been a teacher of Geology and Geography since 1989. He is still travelling, mostly leading groups of teenagers on month-long expeditions in Africa, South America and South East Asia. These adventures will be covered in his next book.

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It's One Thing After Another!: For Better or For Worse

It's One Thing After Another! is the fourth For Better or For Worse treasury, capturing more of the early years of this beloved strip, with annotations and asides by author Lynn Johnston.

 Since its debut in 1979, For Better or For Worse has touched comic strip readers as few cartoons ever do. Lynn Johnston's eye for detail and her uncanny sense of what real parents and children struggle with daily are a big part of her success. The comic strip now appears in 1,550 papers in the U.S. and Canada. Read by people of all ages, the award-winning For Better or For Worse deals honestly with both the light-hearted and the serious, and to many readers, the Pattersons feel like family!

Written recollections, photographs and clippings from her scrapbook reveal exactly how Johnson mines her own life for Every Woman, Every Family humor and then deftly distills it to elicit laughs for people of all ages.  (Florida Times-Union)

 Lynn Johnston was born in Collingwood, Ontario, and grew up in British Columbia. Today, she lives in Corbeil, Ontario. Johnston is the first woman to receive a Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society in 1986. She has also received the Order of Canada and claims a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.

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50% of What We Used to Get for 88% of the Price!
By Oldest & Wisest
There is nothing wrong with the content of this book and the 3rd Treasury which preceded it. "For Better or For Worse" is a classic comic strip and Lynn Johnston's comments on what inspired many of the jokes and storylines are well worth paying again to see material that was originally published several decades ago.

However, the complaint is that there is not enough of it for the price you have to pay. The 1st and 2nd Treasuries contained 418 pages each for a list price of $26. The 3rd and 4th Treasuries have 208 pages each and sell for $22. This means that when you buy the newest Treasuries you are now only getting 50% of the material you used to get for a price that is 88% of the old one!

In an introduction to this volume, Lynn makes the ridiculous claim that this is due to the advent of electronic versions of books.
Come on, Lynn! I can see how this might justify the abandonment of the print versions of these collection altogether, but how does it argue for producing smaller but more expensive print editions? This reminds me the early 70s when businesses could justify any kind of price increases by blaming the Arab oil embargo whether there was any actual cause and effect at all!

I think the publisher just decided that the new smaller and more expensive versions of the Treasuries were preferable because they could come out more often and still not get too far ahead of the current re-running of the strips in newspapers and online. And of course, the profit would be higher per book, since the readers would be getting less for their money.

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All my family love Lynn Johnston's books and we collected most of them
By MIA
All my family love Lynn Johnston's books and we collected most of them. I was very happy to see them offered on Amazon as I did not see these books at Barnes & Noble bookstores.

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It's One Thing After Another! For Better or For Worse 4th Treasury
By Bill
I always enjoyed For Better or For Worse when it was in the papers. The 4th Treasury is so much fun to read and so true to life! I recommend it highly.

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