Bøker av Jim Corbit

Kondali, Illinois, is one of those towns most people never escape. John Lazlo never thought he was one of those people, but the evidence is piling up as he nears his 10-year high school reunion.His intelligence is neglected on repairing factory engines, his passion is spent on a woman from his past, and his time is wasted on beer, scribbling lyrics to songs in a notebook, and meaningless nights with the same old friends. He's a young man who feels old-and like he'll never get any older.The tracks of Kondali Rail run in multiple directions out of town. John Lazlo tries to ease the ticking time-bomb in his head as each day becomes part of the same old routine, and he wonders-if these tracks lead out of town, why does no one ever go anywhere?Kondali Rail is a story about a man who feels trapped by his past as much as he feels trapped in his hometown. But John Lazlo learns there are other ways to escape the inescapable truth.

High school in the '80s was not so different than high school today. There are the insiders and outsiders-and Ivan Burke and his friends are definitely outsiders. There's Daniel, the would-be poet everyone sees as a geek; Randi, the Pakistani girl everyone sees as a slut; Jerry, the white trash kid everyone sees as a hood; Marigold, the ambitious girl everyone sees as stuck-up; and Nicky, who wishes no one saw him at all.Ivan struggles to join in with high school life whilerejecting all of those superficial, hateful, or hypocrital faces who make life hell for him and his friends. He wants to stand up for what's right and not lose himself just to be accepted. Life doesn't make it any easier for him than it does for anyone else. Everyone has something they want, and everything we want has a price.The Last High School Story is like the story many of us would tell. In the era of John Hughes movies, six troubled souls fight just to stay afloat, and they come to learn that not everyone gets a happy ending, and getting what you want is not always a win.

An exotic trip to a foreign land is interrupted by a crash into a mountain. Mark Stockdale and four friends are afraid they will die alone and freezing as they await help.Then they are terrified to discover they aren't alone.What begins as a tale of survival against the elements becomes a struggle against the worst paranoia and cruelty the human mind can conjure. But just when it all seems figured out, don't be surprised if the landscape shifts again. They're not where they thought they were-they're not even who they thought they were.The Woodsman is a novel that begins with a catastrophe and rockets the reader through a man's fight to preserve his life-as well as his sanity.