{"title":"Steffan Piper","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"greyhound-book-steffan-piper-9780982555095","title":"Greyhound","description":"Ushered out from his Stockton, California home by his emotionally detached mother and her latest boyfriend, twelve-year-old Sebastien Ranes must fend for himself and travel two thousand miles across the country. He is on his way to live with his grandmother and sister in Pennsylvania. Along the way, he will learn that sometimes caring, guidance and understanding can come from some unlikely people.  Marcus, a fellow bus passenger, is a man who has been neglected more by society than his family. As a young black ex-con, he is not the epitome of the person most would pick as a chaperone for their child’s cross-country trip. Yet rather than be held apart by their differences, Marcus and Sebastien are drawn together by the things that make us all alike.  Along the way, he acts as both guide and protector, as Virgil was to Dante and Jim to Huck Finn. Imparting his own style of wisdom, he shows Sebastien that, despite the darker parts of the human condition, people can and do care for one another. This is a modern-day journey not just from one house to another. This is a journey taken by a young boy into manhood, and by the reader into his world. Like every trip, there are many stops along the way. But this journey differs in the way young Sebastien arrives at his destination. Greyhound is the story of this journey.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49526608953617,"sku":"GOR007516247","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49610632364305,"sku":"GOR011514626","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49983951536401,"sku":"CIN0982555091G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50784371310865,"sku":"CIN0982555091VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0982555091.jpg?v=1751396978"},{"product_id":"where-is-janice-gentry-book-john-d-macdonald-9780449142240","title":"Where Is Janice Gentry?","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50293678571793,"sku":"CIN0449142248G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50450186305809,"sku":"GOR010354457","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52104271495441,"sku":"CIN0449142248A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B002HIE7I4.jpg?v=1751197460"},{"product_id":"fugue-state-book-steffan-piper-9781612185866","title":"Fugue State","description":"Nineteen-year-old Sebastien Ranes spends his days knocking around Eagle River, Alaska, and his nights working as a janitor. His girlfriend’s father hates him, and his own parents’ opinion of him isn’t much better.   Broke and down on his luck, Sebastien robs a grocery store, making off with nearly $4,000. His image is all over the television within hours, but before Sebastien can be arrested, a drunk driver smashes into his Jeep in the middle of town. Things couldn’t get much worse until a Marine recruiter who witnesses the accident gives Sebastien a ride home…and a way out.   Embarking on an unexpected journey, the Marine Corps shows Sebastien another world--of abuse and authority, of war and compassion, of lust and consequences--and by the time he returns home, he’ll be forever changed.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50491825946897,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50491827716369,"sku":"CIN161218586XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/161218586X.jpg?v=1751310526"},{"product_id":"sleep-like-a-baby-tonight-book-steffan-piper-9781726887854","title":"Sleep Like a Baby Tonight","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51188384727313,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51188387119377,"sku":"NIN9781726887854","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1726887855.jpg?v=1750722543"},{"product_id":"during-the-apocalypse-book-steffan-piper-9780615145594","title":"During the Apocalypse","description":"During the Apocalypse . is the final word on the coming days for all of us. Poetic statement on the state of man by Los Angeles area author and Poet Laureate Steffan Piper. Biography . Born in Pennsylvania in 1971 and raised in England and various parts of Alaska. Attended school at the University of Alaska, Anchorage and the University of Los Angeles, California. Steffan has lived in many places across the globe with a purpose bent on never being a tourist in his own home, town or country. Once a resident of Alaska, the Mayor of Nome, asked him to 'leave and never return', due to a minor misunderstanding. He has been oft-quoted as being an alien in all environments and unable to find his true home. He is disliked by most, but loved enough. He has an undying love of physics, literature and Caravaggio.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51278590607633,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51278592213265,"sku":"NIN9780615145594","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0615145590.jpg?v=1751041080"},{"product_id":"observations-of-a-dead-man-book-steffan-piper-9780615142708","title":"Observations of a Dead Man","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51285868216593,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51285870182673,"sku":"NIN9780615142708","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0615142702.jpg?v=1751136660"},{"product_id":"yellow-fever-book-steffan-piper-9780615242934","title":"Yellow Fever","description":"A modern tale of love and illusion set upon the dark streets of Los Angeles. Qianqian (chin-chin), a twenty-two-year-old living in Los Angeles, is a mixed-up Asian woman struggling with her career as a well-paid but restless stripper. She spends her life faster than the money she picks up off the floor or from the rough hands of lonely old men that leave her unable to care about anyone but herself. Qian cold-heartedly strings along her obsessed lover, Sebastian Raines, a cop who moonlights by writing an anonymous gossip column. Caught between the quiet side of obsession and the lust that fuels the night-life, can she continue her lustful lifestyle, and find her own way out? From seedy strip clubs to well-heeled hotels, from Los Angeles to New York, Yellow Fever may be a tangled and dark love story, but it isn't a tale that will quaintly unfold pulling you nearer to the protagonists. It is a tragedy. For some there is no redemption and for others there is no happiness.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52736318439697,"sku":"NIN9780615242934","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780615242934.jpg?v=1763406909"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-steffan-piper.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}