Books with author J. B. Brown

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Different, Stunning, WOW!’Meet the ultra-rational Dr Newton Barlow. Cool, cynical, scientific, he’s the last man you’d want to be a bridge between the living and the dead. But with his academic reputation in tatters, and nothing to lose but his few remaining marbles, the great skeptic is about to discover that the past that haunts him will be nothing compared to his ghost-ridden future. Thrust into a rollicking struggle between good and evil, can Dr Barlow forget everything he ever believed in to save this world… and the next?Thrilling, chilling and utterly hilarious, The Unhappy Medium is a bone-dry British comedy in the great tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘If you enjoy a tremendous, imaginative, story, told with passion and affection, and if you like laughing until your face aches, your stomach hurts, and your face is wet with tears, then you must buy this book. You will not regret it.’★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Ghosts, purgatory, pure evil, theoretical physics and greedy developers -- all served up with a wonderful sense of humor and style. What's not to like?’★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Wow. Amazing read. What an imagination. The first page grabs you and doesn't let go. Newton Barlow is an unforgettable character. Highly recommended.’

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Different, Stunning, WOW!’Meet the ultra-rational Dr Newton Barlow. Cool, cynical, scientific, he’s the last man you’d want to be a bridge between the living and the dead. But with his academic reputation in tatters, and nothing to lose but his few remaining marbles, the great skeptic is about to discover that the past that haunts him will be nothing compared to his ghost-ridden future. Thrust into a rollicking struggle between good and evil, can Dr Barlow forget everything he ever believed in to save this world… and the next?Thrilling, chilling and utterly hilarious, The Unhappy Medium is a bone-dry British comedy in the great tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘If you enjoy a tremendous, imaginative, story, told with passion and affection, and if you like laughing until your face aches, your stomach hurts, and your face is wet with tears, then you must buy this book. You will not regret it.’★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Ghosts, purgatory, pure evil, theoretical physics and greedy developers -- all served up with a wonderful sense of humor and style. What's not to like?’★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Wow. Amazing read. What an imagination. The first page grabs you and doesn't let go. Newton Barlow is an unforgettable character. Highly recommended.’

Johann Smedley Oberhausen is a 16-year-old child prodigy with gifts in academics and baseball, but when he and his friends in the Eleutheria Club record top-secret phone calls from two devious, powerful men, Johann is forced to take a break from his college classes to help stop an impending world disaster.With family friend Chief Ryan leading their efforts, Johann teams up with Chinese student Huang-Tai, Eleutheria Club members, and many others from various U.S. departments, corporations, and countries to launch a satellite into space that could save millions of lives from two dominating men who can’t fight their own battles.In his fight against the clock, Johann realizes the beauty of humanity, and that perhaps every life is significant.

Johann Smedley Oberhausen is a 16-year-old child prodigy with gifts in academics and baseball, but when he and his friends in the Eleutheria Club record top-secret phone calls from two devious, powerful men, Johann is forced to take a break from his college classes to help stop an impending world disaster.With family friend Chief Ryan leading their efforts, Johann teams up with Chinese student Huang-Tai, Eleutheria Club members, and many others from various U.S. departments, corporations, and countries to launch a satellite into space that could save millions of lives from two dominating men who can't fight their own battles.In his fight against the clock, Johann realizes the beauty of humanity, and that perhaps every life is significant.

CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA: The Chapel Hill Press is proud to announce J.B. Brown’s Angelo and the Master. The works of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel are among the most famous in history. The images are models of faith and artistic grandiosity. When studying Michelangelo’s breathtaking work, we can’t help but be taken aback by its splendor. J.B. Brown wrote Angelo and the Master with children in mind. The story is about Angelo, a church mouse who lives in the Sistine Chapel in the sixteenth century. One day, wiling away the time, little Angelo witnesses the arrival of a master: Michelangelo. Over the years that pass, Angelo the mouse watches as that master fills the walls of the chapel with images destined to become an integral part of the Vatican, of Catholicism, and of Western culture. With Angelo and the Master, J.B. Brown uses gorgeous drawings to render Angelo the mouse in his Sistine Chapel with wonderful lushness. Through the story, Brown hopes to teach children an appreciation for the beauty of Michelangelo’s masterpiece, the Vatican, and art in general. After all, who better to grasp the pure magnificence of the Sistine Chapel than those of the purest minds? Jamie Brady Brown, an art teacher for 21 years in the Greensboro Public School System, has shown her artwork throughout North Carolina in juried shows and private galleries. She has shown in the Henley Show twice and had a piece selected for the Southeast Spectrum at Sawtooth Center. Her last works were shown in the Greensboro Artist League, Old Rock Gallery, and Sawtooth Center. She lives in Greensboro with her husband William and two children Allie and Peter. Angelo and the Master (ISBN 1-59715-018-5) is available through the publisher, Chapel Hill Press, Inc., directly from the author at www.jbbrownbooks.com, and select bookstores as well as online at amazon.com. If you need to order from a distributor the Chapel Hill Press works with Ingram, Baker & Taylor and Parnassus Book Distributors.