Bøker av James Snyder

What happens when you're six years old and the beautiful and loving world you woke up in is gone by nightfall? What happens when that strange new world you've suddenly been dropped into is filled with a mind-numbing kaleidoscope of even stranger faces and surroundings as threatening as they are unfamiliar? When little Connelly Pierce and her nine-year-old brother Eric lose both their parents in an auto accident, everything they thought they knew and trusted disappears in a single gasp of breath. Forever. And from that moment of dark journey forward, they soon realize there is no turning back. As it also appears-months upon months passing by-there is likely no way out. And only when the well-meaning hands of government child protection agencies tear brother and sister apart, casting them both to opposite ends of that maddening potpourri of foster homes and drop-houses, does Connelly-ever maturing, ever changing from that once little girl into womanhood-fully understand what's really at stake: That if she ever wants to find Eric, and care for him, and try to have some semblance of the family that was taken from them, she must fight back. She must finally do only that which she wants and needs. She must fight for them both. Meanwhile, everyone and everything else that has told or shown them otherwise can go straight to hell. Still, there was one last thing for her to understand. To learn the hardest way possible. And that was that fighting an ever-changing, faceless and uncaring system was one thing. But running away from all that to fight the entire world, even with all her anger and rage, was something entirely different...

Three escaped convicts and a runaway girl search for a hidden fortune in stolen military payroll, while being pursued by a nationwide police manhunt, an enraged ex-husband, and a psychotic prison investigator bent on revenge... 70-something Oreny "Big" Johnson has a problem. Actually, he has two. Or maybe three. The first is that he'll be dead from cancer, less than a year, which doesn't particularly concern him: "Things I've been through, dying is just one more page in a long bad book." But spending his last living days, taking his last living breath, behind steel bars does. That's the second problem: Inmate #78903 in the notorious level-four Washington State prison known as Horseneck Bay. Then there's the money. Two million dollars of stolen military payroll, supposedly buried in some remote and mysterious south-Texas mountain range called Los Despoblados, or The Uninhabited, which sounds to Oreny like one of those places his Mama Maybell always told him to avoid. But he'll worry about that later. He has to get there first. Problem number three. That's when he brings those two smoldering dynamite sticks he's attached himself to--his Luke-boy and Jaime--on board to help his tired old body break out of Horseneck and go dig up that money and then hightail it across the border into Mexico. And when they do break out, and Luke decides to bring his girlfriend Lauren along, and her enraged ex comes after them, and then the manhunt starts multiplying faster around them than those cancer cells inside him, Oreny still thinks he can control them. The problems, that is. At least, until Cade arrives. Cade, the prison investigator Oreny knows is dangerous and unpredictable as a six-foot-two wolverine on eight gallons of adrenalin gone bad. And who won't stop until he catches them and does to them what Cade does best. Cade, Oreny knows better than anything else, is their biggest problem of all... "Simultaneously brutal, bloody and beatific, this is crime fiction done right. A relentlessly paced, unpredictable page-turner powered by well-developed characters." Kirkus Reviews

Short stories for those who don't read them... An aging, ex-musician working inside the incinerator chamber of an old 19th century hotel discovers a locked room that contains a Book of Souls of tenants of the past century. A soldier returning from the Iraq War meets a beautiful and enigmatic girl waging her own military campaign, as darkly terrifying as the one he left behind. The son of a New Orleans mobster hit-man receives a beyond-the-grave message from his once-abusive, now-dead father that changes everything he thought he knew about their lives.A homeless man, collecting cans to survive, finds himself being followed by a stranger he is sure is the reincarnation of Dick Tracy.A woman who has lost her Texas ranchman husband and any further meaning to her life, is suddenly contacted by a young runaway cousin whose parents are also dead, and is now in hot pursuit of her own aimless existence.A young American soldier newly stationed in Cold War Europe encounters a German girl as mysterious as she is beautiful, and, he soon learns, as deadly dangerous as the atomic missiles bunkered into the surrounding pastoral hills, facing east.And other tales...

In this edition of the Artists in Perspective series, James Snyder constructs a collection of essays discussing the work of Bosch with commentary on the controversial aspects of his creations.The Artists in Perspective series presents individual illustrated volumes of interpretive essays on the most significant painters, sculptors, architects, and genres of world arts. Bosch in Perspective takes readers into the life and work of North-Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch. Known as the most enigmatic artist of his time, Bosch was much appreciated and widely imitated in the sixteenth century. Through discussion of his work, this book shares the vast and controversy perspectives surrounding his greatest pieces.

What the world needs more than anything else these days is a chuckle. The source of that chuckle may not be that important but the reality of that chuckle is.For many years, James has written a newspaper column across the United States entitled “Out to Pastor.” His articles are filled with humorous snippets of banter with his wife, horseplay with his grandchildren, observations on today’s politically correct culture as he mourns the good old days, and reflections on his own peculiar (so some would say) personality and preferences. Included is a verse from Scripture and a reflective thought at the end of each article.This book is a collection of fifty-two “Out to Pastor” articles—one for each week of the year. James hopes you will enjoy them and maybe even laugh sidesplittingly on occasion as you read. Most of all, he hopes you will find a fresh joy and an uplifted heart in the reflections of this country pastor.