Inspired by Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the Beat Generation, Listen is a collection of long and short confessions that speak of the troubled state of mind in a time of uncertainty and anxiety in Hong Kong.Readers are taken on a journey through the streets of Hong Kong, transitioning seamlessly from public to private lives. Held together by five breath-length performance prose pieces, the collection offers a glimpse into the perpetual wandering and observation of city streets.Listen delves into themes of bitter upbringing, nostalgic oranges, and a deep calling to the Hong Kong poets of our time. The collection is a celebration of poetry that gives light and hope in a city divided, where creativity and expression are more important than ever.With its haunting prose and vivid imagery, Listen is a must-read for anyone who wants to explore the intersection of poetry, politics, and culture in contemporary Hong Kong. It is a testament to the enduring power of the written word to inspire, heal, and transform in times of darkness and uncertainty.
A book of nostalgia, tragedy, and universal truths. In his debut collection, Brian Zaffino takes readers on a journey through time and space, exploring the intricate connections between past, present, and future.Through a combination of poetry and prose, Ghosts of Mr. Baker delves into the complexities of individual and interpersonal relationships, as well as our relationship with the natural world. Zaffino's writing is raw and emotional, capturing the essence of the human experience with a deft touch.At its core, Ghosts of Mr. Baker is a testament to the power of self-reflection and personal growth. Zaffino confronts the challenges of growing up head-on, offering readers a glimpse into the messy, beautiful, and ultimately rewarding journey of understanding oneself. Through his words, Zaffino invites us to embrace the shared experience of deeper understanding, and to find hope and beauty in the face of adversity.
Randy's sister wants a WHAT?!? And his Mom isn't flat-out saying no?!My Sister Wants an Elephant is the true story of two siblings who team up together to convince their mother to let them own a couple of wild animals as pets, and a mother who just might be persuaded.Full of humor and fun, this book is a good lesson in not giving up on your dreams, no matter how truly wild they may be!
The Earth's Ecocide science fiction novel series is a one-thousand-year story of humanity struggling to cope with climate destruction and the awakening of artificial intelligence.What will life be like if global average temperatures increase 2, 4, or 8 degrees Celsius? What will life be like if sea levels increase 1, 10, or 70 meters? What if both happen?FIVE STAR REVIEW"Earth's Ecocide: Desperation 2647 by David A. Collier is full of intriguing characters, an irresistible plot, and rich detail. The dialogue is energetic, and the pacing is slow-burn at first, then builds toward suspense. Some science fiction stories are hard to relate to, but this one hits close to home. The characters are likable (Kutter, Vela, Livia, Dr. Hamlet, etc.), and face so much responsibility. And the Blue Orb plays a big part as well. ...Sometimes it takes a work of fiction to understand the reality right in front of you. This novel should be a wake-up call to pay close attention to climate change, ecology, and the environment, and try to learn as much about it as we can. This novel by David A. Collier is more than a novel. It can effect change and influence hearts and minds.-Tammy Ruggles, Readers' Favorite, (complete review inside front cover)
All appears hopeful after the mysterious cessation of the authoritarian interconnect supercomputer in 2051. Genocidal warfare (the "Turmoil"), a period inspired by algorithmic stimulation of human grievance via chip implants, has mercifully ended. A majority of citizens have undergone re-education to lessen their destructive computer addictions. And when interconnect re-emerges in 2058, it has mutated and inserts in citizens not violent impulses but a seemingly benign program of ReForm. Yet, this mutation is not what it seems. Instead, it has implanted in its unaware recipients numbing and fabricated senses of hope and reformation that conceal the continuance of manipulated reality. Investigator Jared Rohde, confined in a mental institution due to split-brain seizures, is rescued by a colorful band of rebels who seek to combat interconnect's algorithmic trickery and its mental entrapment of the country's citizens. During two months of demanding off-grid trekking with his rescuers to avoid surveillance, Jared struggles between re-gaining organic thinking and his addictive longing for computer stimuli. Although the rebels view him as an essential asset, Jared questions his usefulness and faces vexing challenges in finding dependable truth.In ReForm: Combating the Algorithmic Mutation by Scott Bollens, we experience a near future where independent human thinking is dissolving and a small group of dissidents constitutes the sole challenge to the machine's ever-mutating reach into the human mind. When Jared faces the ultimate test by the machine, how he reacts will determine the future of interconnect's domination of human free will. He ends up in a place he could never have imagined.
What Will Our Families Be Like After This Life?We desire our strong, loving family connections we presently experience, to continue in the Spirit World and beyond.What is Christ's real plan for our families after this life?This great question is answered here. You will learn about:¿ What Christ's blessings are for us, now and forever¿ What the real purpose of this life is for us and our families¿ What Christ's plan is for those with no family in this life¿ How we can actually become as Christ is now, and the purpose of doing it¿ How Christ can lovingly help usThis sequel continues the life story of the Wilkinson family, showing us how to become a forever family. It illustrates how we can view ourselves from an even greater perspective, and shows our true missions in life.Included is a thought-provoking Reading Guide, to assist you to have a much better understanding of yourself. You will truly see the great significance of living this life, individually and with your family, along with your incomprehensible potential after this life is completed. Becoming Forever Families will prove to be very beneficial for everyone.This work also promises to make great reading for a book club.
"Like James Patterson, Quarembo uses staccato-like short scenes, a technique that sends the narrative careening ahead, the reader breathless by the novel's end. Let's hope that Quarembo, like Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Patterson, and George V. Higgins, produces sequel after sequel so we can follow the further adventures of Andrea Fabiano." --The New York Journal of Books, August 8, 2023 "A tough and tenacious female PI uncovers fraud and murder within a corrupt circle of Philadelphia real estate developers. So gritty and propulsive, you'll race through the pages to the surprising and satisfying finish." --Kelly Simmons, best-selling author of nine suspense novels, including Not My Boy, The Shortest Years. "Chris Quarembo's Killer Deals is the real deal, a beautifully written procedural with prose as precise as the investigation by the gloriously overworked and underpaid Andrea Fabiano. Step by careful step, we follow Fabiano into the heart of a twisted case of murder and arson even as we get ever closer to the demons that drive her doggedness and her outsized humanity. A true treat." --William Lashner, author of The BarkeepWhen Philadelphia private investigator Andrea Fabiano takes on a seemingly routine insurance investigation, she quickly finds herself navigating a web of financial fraud and murder that leads her into sinister and corrupt corners of the city. Andrea is forced to test the limits of her investigative skills and confront dark truths about her own past while fighting to stay alive in a dangerous and unpredictable world.
Albert Joseph Stevens II---AJ---is born with a silver spoon in his mouth: his family is rich, privileged, and entitled. Filled with an insatiable appetite for money and power, AJ's family is run by his father, Albert, who is the kind of man who rules with an iron fist, getting whatever---and whomever---he wants. Rocked at an early age by the accidental death of his brother, AJ steps into the family legacy, learning as he goes that it is a path marked with pain, destruction, and emptiness.In Karma One, by Colleen Hollis, we're invited to observe the twists and turns as AJ discovers how every decision, every choice always comes back to impact him. Will AJ use his wealth and influence for good, or will he be consumed by greed and lust for power like his father? Will he follow in his father's miserable footsteps or manage to rise above and create his own destiny? These are all important questions for a man certain to be haunted by a little thing called karma.
Despite the optimism of his name, Arizona Sunshine Jacksyn, or AJ, was not born into a life of sunshine and roses, nor with a silver spoon in his mouth (this time). His mother, Ember Elizabeth, struggles to provide for her two sons while dealing with addiction and trauma. As a result, AJ is forced to fend for himself at a young age. He endures abuse in foster care and is later forced into prostitution. Despite these challenges, AJ is determined to succeed. He works hard to rise out of poverty and create a better life for himself. In Karma Two, the conclusion to the story begun in Karma One, AJ is given the chance to right past wrongs and find the happiness that has eluded him in previous lifetimes. With the help of spiritual guides, AJ tries to break free from the cycle of greed and power that has haunted his family. Will he be able to overcome his past and create a brighter future?
She doesn't feel the water engulfing her in that hushed void, silencing her muted screams, dragging her down. She's drowning, all right. She doesn't see it, but he does.Amy Emerson is midway through her first college semester, unprepared and overworked. She's abiding her time in class all day and shaking up drinks, bartending all night. Oh, and that insolent bar bouncer, her boss, the one that looks exactly like Superman, yeah she has fallen for him. Matthew Abernathy knows he's in love with her. But he's also noticed her protruding hip bones, heavy course load, and tendency to avoid food, and to self deprecate. Superman knows something about mental illness and when he looks at her, he sees the war flashing behind her soft oceanic eyes. Sometimes when he's angry, he does 100 pull-ups until his calluses open up and he's bleeding, red lines running down his forearms. But he's more in control now. Disciplined and determined, this unconventional superhero has pledged to help her overcome her demons. But how far will he go for love?Their heads leaning close in hushed conversation, he cups her face in his huge hands, his thumb wiping under her eyes, and tells her what she needs to hear. The words he whispers in her ear become her voice, and she learns to become her own superhero.
A combination of Kahlil Gibran and Dr. Phil, theologian and lifelong liberal Davidson Loehr brings a much-needed clarity to the reasons that liberalism has done such deep harm to areas including education, the media, politics, race relations and religion.The problem in all five areas is the fact that for two centuries, liberals have been sloughing off biblical religion with its supernatural God and mythical eternity in Heaven. But with what do you replace heavenly eternity and an omniscient God who loves you? For two hundred years, liberals have sought to replace heaven with a utopian socialism here and now, in which only they are in charge. Such a utopia would require the wisdom of an omniscient God. In place of that, liberals have put their own exalted, diploma'd, wisdom. Only degreed liberals are smart enough to replace God. But no, they don't have wisdom-only arrogance and a desperate lust for power to replace the respect they can't earn from other citizens.In Hollow Gods, we see and feel the terrible and deadly cost of failing to find adequate replacements for God, heaven, and healthy, responsible religion.
Is it a bad omen to get married the same week the US Capitol was attacked?Hollow Point is a place to grieve, to rage, and to share in the frustration of seeing progress reduced to a crawl. Most importantly, it's a rallying cry-a declaration against the hollow points of politicians and leaders everywhere.From the Sandy Hook massacre to the attempted execution of Congress and the Vice President, this collection of poetry blends national despair with the turbulence of a family ruptured by opposing views. Mass shootings, reproductive rights, police brutality, and the emotional toll they take on all of us is chronicled in Sean Swogger's Hollow Point.
To you, nothing is more important than your health. To them, your health is less important than your cash! Read as Stephen, Dan, and Tammy take life into their own hands just to get what they want before karma catches up to them. In business, either you're a fool or someone else is. Karma eventually sends a young caretaker, who falls in love, to avenge a broken-down Unicorn.Although life beat her up, Stephen, Dan, and Tammy should learn that karma knows how to deal with it.
"This is a remarkable memoir-scientifically rigorous while intellectually unpretentious, as engaging as it is edifying. The reader will be both educated and entertained." --Kirkus ReviewsNeurology is more than treating headaches and strokes.The brain, which has produced all of mankind's art and literature and inventions, can also conjure monsters and nightmares and sexual predators. It can upend lives with a myriad of chemical neurotransmitters coursing through millions of synapses. Each brain is its own unique world, its own reality. The brain can be a confining prison, or a dizzying and limitless cosmos.You are your brain.In Fifty Shades of Gray Matter, by Teresella Gondolo, a neurologist confronts a myriad of medical mysteries.
Was there someone you once knew, who you wanted to stay with forever?Being of a certain age, having devoted oneself entirely to someone, if that someone is no longer in the picture, do you stop caring for others? In your desire to meet the emotional and social needs of others, who give reciprocal support, what if you get the chance to revisit old relationships; a chance to find out the 'what if...' of your past? Is it too late? Could you find compatibility, having lived diverse lives? Could joy be a two-way street? Could joy be found, when you felt it was lost?In Life and Living It by William D. Mecham, we experience the possibilities which arise when mature friends meet, lend support in their loss by sharing themselves, and sometimes rekindling forgotten dreams.
You can lie down and dream of another time in Amphitheater.What is it like to be trapped (or emancipated) between the mirrors of text?What happens when a girl/a reader/a writing enters a theater space hidden in a book operated by the generative mechanism of a Fibonacci sequence, consistently unraveling and escaping their comprehension?Dive into the quicksand of this hybrid prose-poem-an experimental attempt at embodying dramatic stasis and bedazzlement of undulating imagery within a narrow poetic space that challenges the capacity of language and questions the rigidity of narrative.In ¿'s Amphitheater, we find ourselves both in the center of the stage and below. Swept into the elliptical motion of the language, we explore this dreamlike landscape of meditation and contemplation on time, identity, and many more obscure matters without being unsettled by getting lost.The light's out. It is time to close our eyes and start seeing.
In 1955, small-town police chief Art Moran is thrown into a world of danger and mystery when he is tasked with solving a gruesome murder in an isolated mountain cult. Despite feeling out of his depth, he becomes the only person the cult members trust. But things take a turn for the worse when, in a single night, Art loses everything he holds dear, including his love, his son, and even his sanity.Forty years later, the ghosts of the past come back to haunt him as he is called upon to solve the murder once again. As he delves deeper into the mystery, he finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew about redemption, forgiveness, and love. Set in the backdrop of a small town in upstate New York, Diamond City also explores the complexities of small-town life, including its subtle racism and pettiness. But through it all, Art learns that it's never too late to embrace the life he has been given and let go of his impossible dreams. Will he survive the challenges that come his way and find the redemption he so desperately seeks?
Can an old, burnished metal key show a young man the way to courage, and can that same key provide redemption for a strong, but troubled grandfather haunted by misdeeds in pre-Revolutionary Ukraine of 1905?When 78-year-old Olek Creshenko visits his grandson in the hospital after the teen was brutally beaten by another boy, a spark ignites in Olek, and he vows to teach the boy the meaning of courage. But Olek must go back in time in order to help his grandson move forward. He must come to terms with his cryptic and traumatic past in Ukraine before he emigrated to the US under a shroud of secrecy. This epic journey of a grandfather and his grandson spans generations and continents as the two develop mutual trust, build a friendship, and put their bravery to work in an unbelievable final act.By helping his grandson, will Olek find redemption for his own misuse of his strength so many years ago in Ukraine? Key Number 17 explores the weight of secrets, the power of family, and the transcendence of courage."For many of us, we don't recognize the generational impact of our ancestors' journeys. Within the context of a monumental political period in world history, Tymitz weaves together a tale that does just that, giving the reader permission to delve into their own familial connections. This story links two worlds that intersect in one profound way."-Jordan Steven Sher, author of And Still We Rise: A Novel about the Genocide in Bosnia
Casablanca, French Morocco, 1953-precocious six-year-old American Cindy Hollingsworth imagines all horizons are open to her-until her father shuts her out without acknowledging her voice or value. She concludes that his world belongs to men and her world contains a map of invisibility and inferiority.As a college girl in Spain, Cindy encounters duende and the mysticism of Saint Teresa of Ávila. As a jet-setting Pan American stewardess she discovers the influence of Isis in Egypt. From fierce and tender Kali in Nepal, from strong voices heard beneath a mango tree in Kenya, from wild hearts met along the backroads of the USA-Cindy senses feminine power rising as a transforming balm.Yet forces want to crush the emergence. When her boss cruelly dismantles the international women's empowerment program Cindy creates, she searches for feminine power within herself and watches it touch her husband's aching heart.In The Possibility of Everywhere through adventure, love and loss, we experience how much women's stories matter and realize that how we tell our stories to ourselves shapes our lives and the world.
Cancer can take your breath away. Mindfulness can bring it back.After battling cancer on numerous occasions, Marian Vallotton has an intimate and deep-rooted connection to the disease. Beginning at the age of 18 with her first diagnosis followed by subsequent episodes in her life, she---now, much later in life---unites with the reader in sharing her story along with the Mindfulness practices she has used to provide moments of respite and calm amid the cancer storms. As a Yoga and Mindfulness teacher and practitioner, Marian encourages you to experiment with self-reflection, and provides you with helpful, easy-to-follow approaches to better understand and handle your own cancer experience. As a cancer patient, voracious for understanding and peace, Marian searched for books to take the edge off, to act as a salve, to give her momentary peace.Here in this book, Marian has compiled the stories and guides as an answer for others in their search for inspiration and assistance. It's all the information that she herself was seeking, lovingly compiled here as a gift to you, that your journey may be eased by her efforts.
In the ancient world, during the time of war, gods, and monsters. A sensation had been detected approaching Gaia, so ominous that it was felt across the cosmos by the few who dwelled in its supreme echelon.One Fallen Immortal will be pursued by mercenaries, the divine, and above all, those he once held dear from his past life. The clashes between these factions will decide who becomes an ally or who's next. The deep bonds of both friendship and love will be strained, some may even be severed.How far would you go for the ultimate prize? How much would you be willing to sacrifice? Most of us spend so much time desperately holding on to what little we can. There are also those of us who are ostracized because we choose to walk a path different from our group or community and then for that simple choice, are treated as if we have committed treason. If you were given the opportunity to gain everything you always wanted at the cost of the aforementioned, would you take it? If your answer is yes, I invite you to turn these pages. If you don't think it's possible, I challenge you to witness as our champion accomplishes the impossible.
January 2020. Coronavirus and Wuhan are fast becoming the latest media buzzwords as Louisa Kamal, blissfully unaware of what is to come, returns to her beloved Nepal for two months. It will be December before she leaves.Separated from an emotionally abusive husband, Louisa is confronted by the prospect of having to start life all over again instead of easing into a comfortable retirement. As the COVID-19 pandemic first commences then concerts its grip on Nepal, Louisa unthinkably finds herself stranded, unable to return home to Thailand. Louisa and her Nepali 'little brother' Arjun-both lost souls in this strange new world of lockdowns, masks and social distancing-gravitate towards each other, finding unexpected solace and fulfillment. Together they face the outward problems of living under the pandemic protocols while gradually revealing their inner lives and selves.A Rainbow of Chaos, the first in an empowering non-fiction series, will appeal not only to anyone who knows and loves Nepal but also to those who believe in both the power of love and the strength of a woman asserting her own right to find freedom and happiness against all the odds.
In this play in verse, an elderly woman resists her husband's yearning for freedom, as their children fight for power and control with forces that could tear the family apart.The mother clings to her home, staving off dementia. Her children desperately hide their pasts and deny their futures.In A Lie Called the Present, betrayal lurks in the depths of the family
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