J Steven Butler: 8 books

Fans of the Night Sweeper series by J. Steven Butler will be enthralled with Contact.  A companion short story to the series, Contact offers a look at the fateful meeting between Alex "Cray" Sorrensen and Cedric Archer that led to their doomed working relationship.  If you're new...

It’s 2105 and Cray has a killer life – literally.  He spends every night hunting zombies to keep everyone else in New York safe.  Of course he’s alone, has a crap relationship with his father, and could die at any moment, but that’s not so bad. Right? After all, thanks to his tireless...

Dive into this zombie book series with book one, The Night Sweeper! Cray's night sweeping days are over, but a revelation of someone long-thought dead is about to throw him into the most deadly confrontation of his life.  Is the mysterious man that claims to be his father a friend or foe? And...

Vincent Malick takes great pleasure in something terrible: Killing. He's good at it, and gets paid well. But his newest job is a little different, and things are about to spiral out of his control. Soon he will discover the awful truth that what he sees is only the surface of something much more dreadful.

Vincent Malick kills for money, but he'd do it for free.  It's his job and his passion.  Normally, he wouldn't take a contract for something other than killing, but this one's different. Someone wants information, and money is not a problem.  Even a man with Vincent's nearly-unlimited resources...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention...

On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...

Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention. Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...