{"title":"Jackson Ellis","description":"Jackson Ellis is a writer and editor from Vermont who has also spent time living in Nevada and Montana. His short fiction has appeared in The Vermont Literary Review, Sheepshead Review, Broken Pencil, The Birmingham Arts Journal, East Coast Literary Review, Midwest Literary Magazine, and The Journal of Microliterature. He co-published VerbicideMagazine.com, which he founded as a print periodical in 1999. His debut, Lords of St. Thomas, received the 2017 Howard Frank Mosher First Novel Prize.","products":[{"product_id":"black-days-paperback","title":"Black Days - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Days tells the story of Daniel Fassett, a Vermont man who crashes his vehicle into the Mad River on Christmas Eve, 1992. After nearly drowning, Daniel falls into a four-month-long coma shortly before his retirement date, and loses a significant portion of his pension. Depressed and financially strapped, he enlists the aid of a local semi-retired physician, Dr. William Butcher, to help him hibernate through the winter in a homemade casket housed in a backyard maple sugarhouse. Despite Daniel's attempts to maintain secrecy, word of the procedure eventually gets out -- and that is when trouble begins. From across the country, folks eager to escape their woes reach out to Daniel and Dr. Butcher in hopes of becoming the next to pass a season in oblivion. Large sums of money are offered for the privilege -- but death, deception, and moral and ethical dilemmas that have no clear solutions wreak havoc on Daniel's life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67580360523999,"sku":"9798989178452","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/3x79YlTcvY9798989178452.webp?v=1790423532"},{"product_id":"lords-of-st-thomas-paperback","title":"Lords of St. Thomas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Mojave Desert, at the southern end of the isolated Moapa Valley, sat the town of St. Thomas, Nevada. A small community that thrived despite scorching temperatures and scarce water, St. Thomas was home to hardy railroad workers, farmers, shopkeepers, teachers, and a lone auto mechanic named Henry Lord.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Born and raised in St. Thomas, Lord lived in a small home beside his garage with his son, Thomas, his daughter-in-law, Ellen, and his grandson, \"Little\" Henry. All lived happily until the stroke of a pen by President Coolidge authorizing the construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Within a decade, more than 250 square miles of desert floor would become flooded by the waters of the Colorado River, and St. Thomas would be no more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the early 1930s, the federal government began buying out the residents of St. Thomas, yet the hardheaded Henry Lord, believing the water would never reach his home, refused to sell. It was a mistake that would cost him--and his family--dearly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eLords of St. Thomas\u003c\/em\u003e details the tragedies and conflicts endured by a family fighting an unwinnable battle, and their hectic and terrifying escape from the flood waters that finally surge across the threshold of their front door. Surprisingly, it also shows that, sometimes, you can go home again, as Little Henry returns to St. Thomas 60 years later, after Lake Mead recedes, to retrieve a treasure he left behind--and to fulfill a promise he made as a child.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67580675031263,"sku":"9780999076682","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6sf346K5nx9780999076682.webp?v=1790427501"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jackson-ellis.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}