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" A]crackling literary mystery. . . . Harrow itself contains Shirley Jackson levels of gloomy passages and dark secrets. Smart, scary, sexy, and gorgeously written to boot." --Booklist (starred review)Joe Hill's Horns meets Donna Tartt's The Secret History in this bold new thriller from Justin Evans, author of the critically acclaimed A Good and Happy Child. When seventeen-year-old Andrew Taylor is transplanted from his American high school to a British boarding school--a high-profile academy for the sons of England's finest--his father hopes that the boy's dark past will not follow him from across the Atlantic. But blood, suspense, and intrigue quickly surround Andrew once again as he finds himself struggling with a deadly mystery left unsolved by a student from Harrow School's past--the enigmatic poet Lord Byron.

George Davies has a problem: he can't bring himself to hold his newborn son. Ten-year-old George, in the wake of his father's harrowing and unexpected death, is experiencing ominous visions - some friendly, others outright terrifying.

A young man reexamines his childhood memories of strange visions and erratic behavior to answer disturbing questions that continue to haunt him and his new family in this psychological thriller named a Washington Post best book of 2007. Thirty-year-old George Davies can't bring himself to hold his newborn son. After months of accepting his lame excuses and strange behavior, his wife has had enough. She demands that he see a therapist, and George, desperate to save his unraveling marriage and redeem himself as a father and husband, reluctantly agrees.As he delves into his childhood memories, he begins to recall things he hasn't thought of in twenty years. Events, people, and strange situations come rushing back. The odd, rambling letters his father sent home before he died. The jovial mother who started dating too soon after his father's death. A boy who appeared one night when George was lonely, then told him secrets he didn't want to know. How no one believed this new friend was real and that he was responsible for the bad things that were happening.Terrified by all that he has forgotten, George struggles to remember what really happened in the months following his father's death. Were his ominous visions and erratic behavior the product of a grief-stricken child's overactive imagination? Or were his father's colleagues, who blamed a darker, more malevolent force, right to look to the supernatural as a means to end George's suffering? Twenty years later, George still does not know. But when a mysterious murder is revealed, remembering the past becomes the only way George can protect himself--and his young family.A psychological thriller in the tradition of Donna Tartt's The Secret History--with shades of The Exorcist--A Good and Happy Child leaves you questioning the things you remember and frightened of the things you've forgotten.-Beautifully written and perfectly structured. . . . This novel is much more than The Omen for the latte generation, and Evans cleverly subverts expectations at every turn.- -Washington Post- A] satisfying, suspenseful first novel. . . . Young George's intriguing story unbalances the reader right up to the book's deliciously chilling end.---People -A scary, grown-up ghost story that combines Southern gothic with more than a twist of The Exorcist. . . . Combine s] mind-bending storytelling with excellent prose.---Portland Tribune -Think Rosemary's Baby--plus . . . told in the kind of prose that mesmerizes, sweeping the reader along so fast that there's no time to ask questions.- --Hartford Courant - A] dazzling debut . . . part psychological thriller, part horror story.- --Chicago Tribune -Relat es] his otherworldly suspense story with the cool, calm eye of a skeptic.---Entertainment Weekly (A--)

Data is not about number crunching. It’s about ideas. And when used properly (read: ethically), it is the problem solver of our time.Yet many savvy people seem to be in data denial: they don’t think they need to understand data, or it’s too complicated, or worse, using it is somehow unethical. Yet as data and AI (just an accelerated way to put data to work) move to the center of professional and civic life, every professional and citizen needs to harness this power.In The Little Book of Data, each chapter illustrates one of the core principles of solving problems with data by featuring an expert who has solved a big problem with data—from the entrepreneur creating a “loneliness score” to the epidemiologist trying to save lives by finding disease “hotspots.”The stories are told in a fast-moving, vivid, sometimes comic style, and cover a wide frame of reference from adtech to climate tech, the bubonic plague, tiny submarines, genomics, railroads, bond ratings, and meat grading. (That’s right. Meat.)Along the way Evans injects lessons from his own career journey and offers practical thought-starters for readers to apply to their own organizations.By reading The Little Book of Data, you will achieve the fluency to apply your data superpowers to your own mission and challenges—and you will have fun along the way.You will be, in other words, a data person.

On January 18th, 2013, Justin went to the doctor due to days of vomiting and chest pains. The previous week Justin had the flu and the assumption was he still had not recovered. The family doctor was not available that morning so Justin decided to go to the local urgent care clinic to be seen and prescribed something for his symptoms. What started with a simple X-Ray to determine the source of pain and shortness of breath would lead to the biggest shock of Justin's life. A tumor that measured almost 20cm in size was found in his left lung and the family's life was forever changed. The days and weeks after the discovery of the tumor would be full of stress, frustration and mystery as the medical team attempted complete a diagnosis. Dealing with cancer is never easy and with My Cancer Chronicles you go inside the head of a cancer patient, inside a family trying to pick up the pieces. Clicking to buy this book now means that you are sharing in the story of a man, his family and the eternal fight against cancer. Justin and his family have decided to start their own cause to fight cancer with their community, "Families Fighting Cancer". This is the first in a series of books that are planned to tell the story of cancer from the inside and lead the fight to end it on the outside. Thank you for taking the time to read My Cancer Chronicles.

"There is no end to this desert / or the playfulness of blackbirds" reads the opening two lines of Evans' extraordinary new collection, a fitting start for a book of poems that simultaneously mourns a past that can never be recovered and also finds regeneration and renewal in the act of creation. This image reveals one the book's central conceits: a quest for meaning in a dead and dying world, a journey at once playful and profound. For Evans, the act of writing is its own cenotaph, a marker that reminds us of what's lost while inspiring us with its careful artistic craftsmanship. ―Jeff Newberry, author of How to Talk About the Dead and Cross CountryTwo worlds inhabit Justin Evans' Cenotaph, 'one of flesh and one of bone.' When I think of an empty tomb I think of darkness, yet Cenotaph is full of light. In this elegiac, evocative collection the Great Basin Desert is where the light dazzles-in the mornings where Evans finds hope in the resolve of each new day, and at dusk with its call for prayer. Evans sits with his dead in a landscape full of life, 'There is breath here, and breeze / that carries our song across the land.' He resists the heaviness of the past, and reveals in vivid, lyrical language 'not everything / is lost' that the dead and the living remain friends. Justin Evans' Cenotaph is a powerful psalm for those of us present and for those who have passed on.-Suzanne Frischkorn, author of Fixed Star

'Want a good English ghost story to read by the fire on a cold winter night? This tale of a malevolent ghost haunting a troubled American student at Harrow will fit the bill. It gathers you in lovingly, then takes you in a strangler's grip with its escalating horrors' STEPHEN KING

Justin Evans was born in Provo and raised primarily in Springville, Utah. After high school, Justin joined the U.S. Army and served in various locations around the U.S. and the world, to include Texas, North Carolina, Germany, Holland, and in the First Gulf War. After leaving the military, Justin returned to Utah, married, and began attending college, eventually graduating from Southern Utah University with a degree in History and English Education. He then moved with his family to rural Nevada to teach at the local high school. Justin later earned a master's degree from University of Nevada, Reno in 2004. He continues to live, teach and write in rural Nevada with his wife and sons. His books include four chapbooks and five full length collections of poetry.