Stan Rogal's Books

Bloodline

A Haunted Crime Story

By: Stan Rogal

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A dark stretch of mountain highway. A lone hitchhiker. A car stops. When Peter Donaldson hears about the girls who are turning up dead in ditches, he's horrified. Who wouldn't be? When Detectives Johnson and Mallory hear another body has been found, they're frustrated. They need a break. They don't need Conway, an interfering reporter who lost her conscience a long time ago, digging up evidence they missed. And when Peter Donaldson meets Lynda, a tough teen with family troubles, all hell threatens to break loose. Unfortunately, hell is only the beginning. Faced with this kind of brutality, common sense is the first casualty. Compassion is the second. In this tense, darkly compelling novel, Stan Rogal explores what happens when ordinary people must live with extraordinary evil. Don't read it alone...

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Insomniac Press

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1554830532

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9781554830534

Lines of Embarkation

By: Stan Rogal

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Lines of Embarkation

By: Stan Rogal

Yet another book of poems from the ubiquitous poet, playwright, actor, director, visual artist and standardized patient (yes, standardized patient), Stan Rogal. This is the first of Rogal's books to feature samples of his collage work.

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Coach House Books

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1552450643

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9781552450642

Bloodline

A Haunted Crime Story

By: Stan Rogal

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Bloodline

A Haunted Crime Story

By: Stan Rogal

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Lines of Embarkation

By: Stan Rogal

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Lines of Embarkation

By: Stan Rogal

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1552450643

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The Long Drive Home

By: Stan Rogal

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The Long Drive Home

By: Stan Rogal

Gay middle-aged hit men, a pathological interior designer, an idiot savant child and a gun-toting donut shop manager are some of the disparate characters that populate Stan Rogal's first novel. Beginning at vastly different points, geographically and emotionally, these seemingly unconnected people are woven together in the taut fabric of a story that follows the sweet sadness of the search for lost youth. The characters' paths move together gradually until they ultimately converge in an explosive showdown in a sleazy, road-side motel parking lot in Magog, Quebec. Peppered with beauty, absurdity and Rogal's typical rapid-fire dialogue, The Long Drive Home makes for a wonderfully disturbing read.

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178

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Insomniac Press

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1897415974

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9781897415979

Dance, Monster!

Fifty Selected Poems

By: Stan Rogal

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Dance, Monster!

Fifty Selected Poems

By: Stan Rogal

Drawing from a variety of sources including folksong, philosophy, linguistics, chaos theory, theatre and sexuality, Stan Rogal's poetry is a rollicking and adroit expression of the world in flux. This selection gathers together fifty of Rogal's best poems from the last thirty years; it is sure to delight long-time fans and new readers alike.

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Insomniac Press

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1554830435

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9781554830435

Restless

By: Stan Rogal

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Restless

By: Stan Rogal

Short stories about the heart of romantic relationships.

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156

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Insomniac Press

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1897414358

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9781897414354

What Passes for Love

By: Stan Rogal

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What Passes for Love

By: Stan Rogal

What Passes for Love is a collection of short stories about the dynamics of male-female relationships. These 10 short stories by Stan Rogal resonate with the many mating rituals of men and women: paranoia, obsession, voyeurism, and even assimilation. Rogal's writing reflects his honesty and brashness previously seen in two books of poetry and published stories. What Passes for Love is illustrated with the paintings of Kirsten Johnson.

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144

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Insomniac Press

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1897414323

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9781897414323

Tell Him You're Married

By: Stan Rogal

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Tell Him You're Married

By: Stan Rogal

If the ghosts of Woody Allen and David Mamet were available (at this early date) to float through the fiction of one writer, that writer would have to be Stan Rogal. In linked short stories imbued with wry humor, brutally frank honesty and caustically banal dialogue, women and men argue, make love and taunt each other mercilessly. Parents and kids don't get along: ''We love you ...'' says a character in ''Hard Line'' to which his father responds: ''Bullshit. I'm going to kill myself tonight.'' And the son's response? A deadpan, ''You've said that before.'' People on the cusp of middle age, who should know better, play dangerous drinking games, as in ''Friends.'' And more than anything, the middle-aged narrator OCo just over a bad marriage and taking university-level drama classes to ''get over it'' OCo always seems to be surrounded by women willing to comfort him when he needs it: ''If you need me, '' says one of these women in the story ''Family, '' ''Come over. Anytime. I'll do anything you want. Anything.

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183

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Insomniac Press

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1897414412

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9781897414415

Darkness at the Edge of Town

By: Stan Rogal

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Darkness at the Edge of Town

By: Stan Rogal

A young man, Ray, returns to where he was born, Weyburn, SK, after several years traveling anonymously around the country. He's recently been suffering from frightening nightmares and he feels they may have something to do with his past, especially within the walls of the abandoned former mental asylum where his father had worked and his mother had been a patient. Old loves, old wounds and old grievances are rekindled, made especially difficult by the fact that his brother is the town sheriff and is also married to Ray's former girlfriend. The presence of an older, mute, indigenous woman adds to the mystery.

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100

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Essential Prose

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1771836970

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9781771836975

Stan

An American Story

By: Stan Gober

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Stan

An American Story

By: Stan Gober

Stan Gober is an American icon. Each Sunday afternoon over 2,000 high spirited revelers celebrate life at Stan's Seafood Restaurant on Marco Island, Florida. They include Harley riding neurologists, desperate housewives and the ubiquitous good 'ol boys who populate southwest Florida. Book includes a CD of Stan's favorite songs and jokes.

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164

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Keller Publishing LLC

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0967412862

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9780967412863

Excelsior!

The Amazing Life of Stan Lee

By: Stan Lee,George Mair

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Excelsior!

The Amazing Life of Stan Lee

By: Stan Lee,George Mair

The man behind Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other superheroes tells his own amazing story in a book packed with punch, humor, anecdotes, and a gallery of never-before-seen photographs. Stan Lee is the most legendary name in the history of comicbooks. The leading creative force behind the rise of Marvel Comics, he brought to life some of the world's best-known heroes and most infamous villains. His stories, featuring super- heroes who struggled against personal hang-ups and bad guys who possessed previously unseen psychological complexity, added wit and subtlety to a field previously locked into flat portrayals of good vs. evil. Lee put the human in the super-human. In the process, he created a new mythology for the twentieth century. In this treasure trove of marvelous memories, Stan tells the story of his life with the same inimitable wit, energy, and offbeat spirit that he brought to the world of comicbooks. He moves from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comicbooks, followed by military training films during World War II, through the rise of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to his recent adventures in Hollywood. The story of a man who earned respect by blazing new creative trails in a storytelling form once dismissed as just for kids, Excelsior! is an inspirational story about following one's vision, no matter the odds. Yet it's also the story of how some of the most exciting and memorable characters in the pop-culture universe came to thrill a generation.

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258

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Atria Books

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0684873052

ISBN 13

9780684873053

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Bloodline

Bloodline

Lines of Embarkation

Lines of Embarkation

Bloodline

Bloodline

Lines of Embarkation

Lines of Embarkation

The Long Drive Home

The Long Drive Home

Dance, Monster!

Dance, Monster!

Restless

Restless

What Passes for Love

What Passes for Love

Tell Him You're Married

Tell Him You're Married

Darkness at the Edge of Town

Darkness at the Edge of Town

Stan

Stan

Excelsior!

Excelsior!

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