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April events planned at Perry Public Library
The Perry Public Library and Hometown Heritage at the Carnegie Library Museum have announced the following programs for April 2025. Hometown Heritage at the Carnegie Library Museum Presents: Local Conservation and Preservation Exhibit – April 1 through April 30 What is conservation and preservation? How can we do our best to help conserve and preserve our local flora and fauna? Where are the places around us that are doing their best to protect our native land and wildlife?
What do readers think of Distant Sons?
I've read two other novels by Tim Johnston and liked them both, but this one, DISTANT SONS, is his best. It kept me up reading long past my bedtime, and when I sat down to eat, this book came with me. There's a lot going on here, the best kind of mystery, with more than one mystery. The main character in DISTANT SONS is 26-year-old Sean Courtland, who was the teenage son in Johnston's book DESCENT. He is now a wandering carpenter and has found work where he stopped accidentally.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Distant Sons: A Novel' By Tim Johnston
The book is in stores on Tuesday, August 6th from Algonquin. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/45X2VQG By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of literary suspense about two young working men who forge a friendship despite secrets in their past, and whose actions ignite the passions and violence of a small Wisconsin town still haunted by the unsolved disappearance of three boys in the 1970s.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'And So I Roar: A Novel' By Abi Daré
The book is in stores on Tuesday, August 6th from Dutton. Click on the link to buy a copy.
Cedar Mountain News
The Cedar Mountain Moonshine Distillery will be hosting its annual Cedar Mountain Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 23 from 3-4 p.m. Bring your own basket to hunt for colorful eggs, take your picture with the Easter Bunny and stick around for some hippity hoppity games. We will start the egg hunt right around 3 p.m so be on the line and ready to go. If you would like to make a candy, egg or filler donation, please drop off items at the distillery.
The Backlist: Megan Miranda and Polly Stewart Revisit a Literary Thriller
When I began this series for CrimeReads, I imagined myself reading a lot of Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, and Chester Himes. That was fine with me; other than a brief Agatha Christie phase in middle school, I’d never spent much time on the classics of crime fiction, and I looked forward to hearing what writers I admired had to say about them. What I didn’t anticipate is that I’d also be introduced to novels from the past five or ten years that I’d somehow missed or overlooked.
Distant Sons: A Novel
Your Assiduous Reviewer, partial to the well-plotted literary thriller but unfamiliar with Tim Johnston, read that author’s first two novels in preparation for reviewing his third and latest, Distant Sons, and has made a preliminary assessment.
Thriller writer Tim Johnston likes to hammer out the details
The neighbors across the street had just remodeled their house, and Tim Johnston came over to take a look. And look. And look. He stared so intently at the handiwork that it started to unnerve them. “The owner looked at me and said, ‘What are you looking at? What's wrong with it?’” Johnston recalled in a phone interview from his home in Iowa City. “(I said) I'm just looking. I'm just looking at how it was done. I'm just admiring it, looking at the joints and the care that was taken.
DISTANT SONS | Kirkus Reviews
A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Awards & Accolades Likes 113 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing.
HELT Design BizSpotlight - Charlotte Business Journal
HELT Design's Principal, Tim Johnston, was recently featured on the most recent episode of the "Building Belmont Podcast" hosted by Keanu Trujillo. In the episode Tim and Keanu discuss the rich history of both the town of Belmont and HELT Design, the creative and detailed approach that the firm takes to deliver for it's clients, and how HELT Design has been building a legacy for future generations to come Listen to the episode on Spotify or watch on YouTube (25 mins).
Tim Johnston reminisces after 38 years in educational athletics
EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — After 38 years of educational athletics, Tim Johnston is calling it a career. Johnston was hired as a football coach and teacher at Grand Rapids Catholic Central back in 1983 and ten years later, accepted the athletic director position at Hastings high school. Tim Johnston retiring after 38 years More recently, he has served as the athletic director at East Grand Rapids.
SK Global, Mazur Kaplan Set Five Book Projects for Adaptation
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How to make the most of your webinar by building an on-demand strategy
Marketers, particularly those with experience in field marketing understand the effort required to have guests attend a live event. Not surprisingly some are skeptical, or at least uncertain about whether their audience will watch on-demand webinars. To appreciate the answer to this question it is necessary to recognise that webinars are a different type of event, and offer greater opportunities for the longevity of the content.
How to run the most successful webinar
You’ve booked a date, chosen out the topic and know how the software works, but how do you get the most engagement before your webinar. Webinars are a highly effective way of building an audience and reaching it at scale. The content of your webinar is a key element, but so is the way it’s promoted. Getting people to be aware, if not excited, about webinars, should be a concerted effort that starts at least two weeks before launch, or even earlier.
Win A Copy Of 'The Current' By Tim Johnston
Home > Free Books > Free Giveways > Win A Copy Of ‘The Current’ By Tim Johnston RedCarpetCrash November 8, 20192019-11-08T03:36:51-06:002019-11-08T05:00:12-06:00 In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scene—half frozen but alive.
Lakewood Playhouse production of “The Producers” will leave you tapping toes and laughing
From left, Hayley Peters (Ulla), Chap Wolff (Max) and William Johnson (Leo) from the Lakewood Playhouse production of “The Producers.” Tim Johnston Courtesy Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan’s “The Producers” is a wild and whacky, rollicking uproarious musical comedy that holds the record for the most Tony Awards for a musical. It was a smash hit film, and on Broadway it ran for 2,502 performances — both starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Hale.
The Current
“Johnston dazzled with his breakout thriller, Descent; his follow-up is a more ambitious page-turner, unpacking how a shocking murder impacts the denizens of a small Minnesota town as they weather suspicion, guilt, and grief.” —Entertainment Weekly (The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2019) “Tim Johnston has given us the gold standard of lush narrative description—captivating, mesmerizing, stunning.
9 Chilling Winter Thrillers That’ll Get Your Blood Pumping
A crackling fire, a mug of hot cocoa, and a gripping new thriller to crack open in your reading chair—is there a better way to spend a wintry day? The winter season is nearly here and we know the long nights and frosty temperatures can be brutal. That's why we compiled a list of must-read winter mystery and thriller books to keep you warm on the darkest winter nights.
The Current
Two young women drive north into a Minnesota winter night with eleven hours of road behind them and one to go. “Off to their right somewhere the wide Mississippi slugs along through its turnings” and below them a smaller river, glimpsed from a bridge, has “wisps of snow moving snakelike across a black face of ice.” Dread, too, slithers onto the page. There is sleet suddenly coating the windshield, a stop at an isolated gas station, an attack, an escape and then terror.
The Current | Bookreporter.com
Audrey and Caroline are the kinds of best friends that perhaps only develop in college --- inseparable, endlessly supportive, and eager to talk about their separate pasts and their promising futures together. So when Audrey gets news that her father, a retired sheriff, is likely to die soon from lung cancer, of course Caroline agrees to accompany her on a road trip from their southern college to Caroline’s hometown in southern Minnesota so she can see him one more time.
Washington Independent Review of Books
Tim Johnston’s gripping second novel is much more than a skillfully constructed, beautifully written whodunit. It’s a subtle and lyrical acclamation of the heart and spirit of small-town America. The Current is not your conventional, frenetically paced page-turner, although it smolders with a brooding, slow-burn tension that nudges the reader forward, catching you up in the lives of the troubled solitaries at the book’s core.
Make It Thrilling: Taylor Adams on Adding Violence to Fiction
By Taylor Adams January 23, 2019 Taylor Adams, author of No Exit, breaks down how he infused his novel with violence and advises us how to not overdo it. Storytelling is all about conflict, and conflict, in its purest form, is violence. That doesn’t mean violence is necessary in a thriller – far from it! – but it is a powerful item in any fiction writer’s toolbox, regardless of genre. That said… with pitfalls abound, it’s frighteningly easy to misuse.
On the Problems of Changing Style, Novel to Novel
Back in 2014, while I was teaching creative writing at the University of Memphis and waiting (and waiting. . .) for my novel, Descent, to come out, I discovered and foisted on my students a 1987 interview with Raymond Carver, conducted in Paris by the French journalist Claude Grimal.
The Saturday Evening Post
Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! Fiction The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker A mysterious illness causes people to fall into perpetual sleep in this eerie and beautiful novel by the author of the best-selling Age of Miracles. Random House The Current by Tim Johnston In this thoughtful yet driving mystery, two young women plunge into a Minnesota river, but only one comes out alive. As she investigates, the layers peel back chapter by chapter.
The Current - Workman Publishing
“Gripping as it is, Johnston’s masterful novel is worth lingering over—it soars above the constraints of a traditional thriller and pulls you deep into the secrets of a grief-stricken town.” —People “Johnston dazzled with his breakout thriller, Descent; his follow-up is a more ambitious page-turner, unpacking how a shocking murder impacts the denizens of a small Minnesota town as they weather suspicion, guilt, and grief.” —Entertainment Weekly (The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2019) “Tim...
THE CURRENT by Tim Johnston
A young woman turns Nancy Drew after losing her friend and her father to accident and illness in Johnston’s (The Descent, 2015, etc.) haunting novel. Though their relationship as roommates is fraught with tension and misunderstanding, Caroline and Audrey continue to be drawn together throughout their time at college.
After all these years: St. Raymond class reunites
Some didn't have to leave Menlo Park, but many traveled hundreds and in some cases, thousands, of miles. But they all came to celebrate and reminisce. On Oct. 6 and 7, a total of 20 members of the 1967 eighth-grade graduating class of St. Raymond School gathered to catch up, play school yard games (hopscotch, four square, etc.), share photos, and simply recall, as best we could, the past 50 years of our lives.
Portrait of a Bookseller: Heather A.
How would you describe your job? I'm basically a story travel agent. I help people take adventures, recommend destinations, and share my favorite places with them. I work in both the kids’ room and the horror section, so it's an interesting dichotomy. Where are you originally from? Flint, Michigan — home of the people who use their hand to point out where they live on the mitten. What did you do before you came to Powell’s?
Descent by Tim Johnston
The stunning vistas of the Rocky Mountains reveal a dark and deadly side in this brilliantly conceived thriller about family ties and the fight for survival. Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility.
Descent by Tim Johnston
Descent Format: Hardcover | ISBN: 9781616203047
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