Bøker av Will Sarvis

Bess is killing people and disposing of their bodies; detective Diana only knows she has multiple missing person reports. Diana begins to link these missing persons to road rage incidents and other displays of rude public behavior. Meanwhile, the fiercely independent attorney Vivian is showing signs of middle-aged stress after years of high accomplishment. Following a courtroom outburst, a judge orders her to anger counseling, which is immediately complicated by a counselor who desires Vivian. Vivian begins to retreat to the Oregon Coast, where she gains an appreciation of a mysterious spiritual presence that seems to foretell something about her future. Something is linking her to the detective, the serial killer, and a destiny as ominous as the ocean.

More short stories from the author of How Fast the Quiet Comes and other books.

Attractive and petite, Devi roams from her Miami home to various western cities before focusing on a Los Angeles suburb near Hollywood, where she goes to work in the Tippy Tip Club. Delusions of grandeur cloud her mind as she begins mixing with egos larger and more powerful than her own, in a culture she may not quite understand. From Panorama City to the coast, an array of characters face glaring realities intermixed with a certain dreaminess unique to this part of the Pacific world.

The collected artwork of printmaker A.T. Sarvis (1924-1989); compiled and annotated by Will Sarvis.

Shane recovers from a near-fatal beating by hiking into the North Hills, an exclusive community of American neo-aristocrats, where white people post Black Lives Matters signs in their yards while Mexican servants manicure their lawns. Rich kids spy on their neighbors and smash into the underclass when they go slumming among the homeless. A crooked cop, a charity director, a junior college bureaucrat, and others all pursue wealth and power. What codes might guide these economic animals? Will Mother Nature honor the wealthy in the end?

Another collection of short stories from the author of Out in the Street, How Fast the Quiet Comes, and many other books.

Another collection of short stories from the author of Vivian, Out in the Street, Poser and Wex, and other books.

An elderly woman, sometimes accused of being a witch, witnesses a murder in the forest. Police have no leads and cannot solve the crime, despite suspecting some connection with an old hippie commune gone to seed. The deputy investigating has his own criminal secret, as does his fellow deputy entangled with a rural drug ring. Meanwhile, an aging child of the lost 1970s bohemia struggles with his own mythological ordeal, and begins to realize that the reputed witch can help him.

Lao drives an old school bus from the eastern seaboard toward the west, vowing to pick up every hitchhiker he sees. Various travelers join him throughout the mid-continent as they make their wending way. This becomes an adventure from old lives lived in old places, merging into the mystical Basin and Range landscape. People and love are found and lost through brooding philosophical journeys of wonder, doubt, and hope that teeters between abandonment and affirmation . . . as they all move toward some ultimate fulfillment of mythological destiny.This is Will Sarvis's fourth novel. Other works include Amy's Bull Company, Another Dimension of Loneliness, Waiti, and Beaten Boy.

122 page booklet; 12 illustrations; index.

From the author of Embracing Philanthropic Environmentalism, the Jefferson National Forest, and other books and articles. Neither a climate change alarmist nor a climate change denier, Sarvis lives in a no man's land whose main feature has entailed going a level or two deeper into various environmental sciences to address some of the issues mainstream media and popular culture ignore, distort, or sensationalize. These fourteen essays not only reflect guarded environmental optimism; they especially offer hope for younger generations bombarded with dubious predictions of environmental doom.

Drawing on scholarly and media sources, this book presents a common-sense analysis of environmental science, debunking eco-apocalyptic thinking along the way. Compromised science masquerading as authoritative is revealed as a fundraising and policy-influencing crusade, overshadowing unambiguous problems like environmental racism.

James Vincent Conran (1899-1970) was the most significant political organizer in the history of rural America. Conran served as a rural Missouri prosecutor for 32 years, but he was also the much sought political friend of statewide and national candidates such as President Harry S. Truman, U.S. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, and Governor Warren Hearnes. Contemporary media depictions tended to portray Conran as a traditional, corrupt political boss, like Conran's notorious contemporaries, Tom Pendergast of Kansas City or Ed Crump of Memphis. In J.V. Conran and Rural Political Power Will Sarvis paints a more accurate image of Conran by describing both the extent and limitations of his power and influence.