{"product_id":"ghostlands-9798901160473","title":"Ghostlands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMushrooming Time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Helios, a groundskeeper in New Shining Capital, runs a \"mower,\" a seventy-ton leveling machine that keeps the Lawn free of the bloom of mushrooming monuments. Like an unruly yard, structures shove their way up through the turf: the obelisk of the Washerman Monument, the temple of \"Old Frog Face,\" and a thousand other stubborn relics from a half-recollected past that refuse to stay mowed down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Francesco is mowing, a ghostly woman appears on the Lawn. Unlike other human ghosts reborn from the past, the woman recognizes Francesco. She calls him by a name he doesn't recognize, but that resonates. Timebreaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon Francecso is catapulted to dockyards cluttered with mushrooming battleships and across the country to plains of ghostly buffalo, all with a madman on his trail who seeks to transform Francesco into a \"grubber,\" dedicated to the eradication of CAHSPEI--Chronologically Anomalous Human-Seeming Phenomenon (Emergent-Insubstantial)--that is, to the murder of human ghosts from the past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet if the Timebreaker is real--and he is the one-- then maybe even a lowly groundskeeper can save his family from ruin, himself from oblivion--and, in the process, wrench humanity from the suicidal rubber room of rebounding time his mushroom-haunted world has become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2026 Ark Prize for best novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12232947\"\u003eAndrew Fox\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ark Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798901160473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC040000\"\u003eAlternative History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC009010\"\u003eFantasy | Contemporary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/flcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC012000\"\u003eGhost\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Fox's\u003c\/b\u003e novel, \u003ci\u003eFat White Vampire Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected for the Lord Ruthven Award for Best Vampire Novel and his novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected by \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e magazine as one of the Ten Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels of the Year. Fox has taught children's theater, managed a statewide food assistance program, run a campaign against celebratory gunfire, and briefly sold Saturn cars. He currently lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and three sons while working for a federal law enforcement agency.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ark Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54229522776361,"sku":"9798901160473","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/5747\/7673\/files\/9798901160473.jpg?v=1790360068","url":"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/ghostlands-9798901160473","provider":"New Jersey Corrections Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}