Leigh Perkins, Author, Geoffrey Norman, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $24 (192p) ISBN 978-0-87113-757-9
In this combination of personal and company memoir, Perkins, former CEO of the sporting goods company Orvis, discusses how he merged his love of the outdoors with his professional life. Perkins, who once was kicked out of school for going fishing,...
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Geoffrey Norman, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-525-94494-2
In this candid, semi-adventure narrative, journalist Norman recounts how pursuing his fascination with mountain climbing allowed him to create a special bond with his teenage daughter, Brooke, and to enhance his understanding of parenthood. Norman...
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Geoffrey Norman, Author Henry Holt & Company $18.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0081-8
An Alabama native and contributing editor of Esquire, Norman uses the traditional rivalry between the state's biggest schools to show how pervasive a religion football has become thereand, by extension, elsewhere in the South. His book focuses on...
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Geoffrey Norman, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-395-45186-1
Like most U.S. pilots captured in North Vietnam, Navy lieutenant commander Al Stafford was unprepared for the physical and psychological torture that followed. His shame over failing to hold out against it was eased somewhat when he learned that...
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Geoffrey Norman, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $18.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-87113-371-7
Sweetwater Ranch is an orphanage in the Florida panhandle run by John ``Big John'' Frearson, ex-pro football player and all around good guy. When one of his boys turns up missing, he calls his lawyer friend, Nat ``I-don't-try-to-get-guilty-men-off''
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Geoffrey Norman, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (256p) ISBN 978-0-688-11654-5
Introduced in Sweetwater Ranch, excon Morgan Hunt is a carpenter and occasional PI in the tranquil backwoods of the Florida panhandle, where he lives a kind of existential L. L. Bean dream, sipping good booze, loving a good woman, refurbishing his...
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Geoffrey Norman, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71911-2
Norman's idiosyncratic and likable hero, ex-con and sometime PI Morgan Hunt, takes on the case of a high school basketball star whose brother faces the death penalty. (Feb.)
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Geoffrey Norman, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (302p) ISBN 978-0-688-11655-2
The third appearance of Morgan Hunt, following Blue Chipper , is a welcome addition to the burgeoning list of Florida-noir mysteries. Part - time PI Hunt, a semi-cynical shining knight, has already been compared to John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee,...
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Geoffrey Norman, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71912-9
A former Navy SEAL is embroiled in mayhem and corruption in this latest Morgan Hunt mystery. (Apr.)
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Geoffrey Norman, illus. by E. B. Lewis. Putnam, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24724-8
In his first picture book, mystery writer Norman presents a leisurely told story about how a child deals with the absence of her soldier father. When Amanda is afraid of the dark, her father shows her the sights and sounds that make the darkness...
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