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"e;I get the feeling I am not real,"e; said Vlad."e;You are not. You are my dream."e; Vlad is a graphic designer for an IT start-up company in Denver. One night, he has a dream that reveals to him that he is not real, and the individual he meets in this alternate dimension, his creator, takes Vlad on a voyage through the annals of history. From the Belgian Congo, The Blitz, and The Crusades, to The Vietnam War, Ali vs Frazier, and the birth of a musical revolution, the dream is about to end, and with it, so too will Vlad's existence.Alejandro Marron's Wake Up is a psychological, sci-fi, and philosophical petri dish that poses the ever-lasting inquiries of why are we here, where were we before, and when will this end?And, of course, is it all just a dream?

Cul-de-sacs. Parks. Footpaths. Busy roads. Creeks. Car parks. Streetscapes...Where No Home Like a Raft explored wanderlust and faraway places, Streetscapes examines Martin Jon Porter's re-assimilation into suburban Melbourne. And the streetscape GPS isn't what it used to be. Sketched with purposeful minimalism, these poems invite us to consider the bare lines of landscape and social activity that define our world. Streetscapes allows us an access to the lives of others in an illuminating view of the city and the people within.

Can a couple's marriage survive a life-changing loss when one of them is responsible for the tragedy? And the Stars Kept Watch is the story of Catherine and Nathan Osgood, a young couple who has everything they desire. Nathan is married to the woman of his dreams and has a great career to match. Catherine, with her two young boys, has the family and the life she's yearned for. With a momentary lapse of judgment, Nathan causes an accident that will alter the course of their lives forever. How do they recover from this horrific event? Heartbreaking and hopeful, And the Stars Kept Watch explores universal themes of love, grief, recovery, and redemption, and calls us to consider whether "e;the unforgivable"e; can ever be forgiven.

A marriage can be measured in secrets best kept, and secrets better off forgotten. Kate Johnson learns this the hard way when her charming husband shows signs of living a double life. As she uncovers evidence of affair after affair, she must decide for herself what she can and can't live with. Red flags become his red carpet as he turns his lies against her. And if she tries to stop him, Kate risks losing her husband, her home, and her family forever.In this tale of dangerous deception, Eleanor Kelley weaves a woeful tale of love gone wrong. Can Kate hold on to what she loves most, or will she be consumed by her obsession to expose her husband's true face?

Meet your new favorite undead character!(She's not dead yet, but she's getting there...)A sixteen-year-old girl wakes up in somebody's front yard, and cannot remember a single thing. All she knows is that she was abandoned, has a bite wound on her shoulder, and a hankering hunger for meat.Why would someone bite her? Who bit her? Are they still out there? Will they come back to finish their meal?And really, honestly, most importantly- who is she?THE DEAD LIFE is a humorous horror novel that will have you laughing out loud one moment and grossed out the next. Witty and gruesome, follow a teenager as she begins to understand her new life, temper her appetite, and solve the crime of who infected her with a deadly virus.

James Dall attends church every Sunday even though he stopped believing in the Christian God years ago; he says it's for the free coffee. A 29-year-old who waits tables when he's not writing for a smalltime local newspaper, James considers himself a successful author who simply hasn't caught his big break yet, despite the fact he hasn't even finished his first novel. Ways and Truths and Lives follows James closely for the three most pivotal weeks of adult life he never saw coming. A creature of routine and consistency, James is forced to navigate a chaotic confluence of tantalizing dream women, career opportunities in other cities, ex-girlfriends seeking closure, mothers begging for grandchildren, suddenly flirtatious coworkers, and fathers who were never there. James' newfound focus on the answer has him listening to the combined wisdom of bartenders and pastors, surrealists and editors, poetry and pornography, and whiskey and IPA. Through James, Ways and Truths and Lives examines the difficulty of escaping a myopic worldview you were born into and finding comfort in the idea of 'an answer' as opposed to 'the answer'.

Those eternal seconds, when that first wonderful eye contact is established: Wow! Is there anything more hopeful than that?Late out of the gate with starting college and a career, the now determined but insecure Adam's eyes happen upon the most beautiful Mary Bellemore. Oh, was her raven dark hair so rich and abundant, her stature confident and sure. She would be the young woman for him, Adam decides. Surely his strive to succeed and improve will get her attention. He needs to get busy now in that quest. Adam has to get just perfect for her. She is worth that!Your eyes are indeed beautiful Mary. Hopefully soon, I will get the courage to walk over to you. You will see someday that I am as confident and honest as you.In Edwin Litts' engaging 'Adam's Roads', we encounter an utterly readable adventure, and we'll be carried along as we witness a coming of age for the young Mr. Adam Bell.

Love in the Shadows of Mountains eavesdrops on the love lives of Adirondack residents and visitors, detailing what happens among lovers while camping, hiking, fishing, snowshoeing, canoeing, or merely getting from one day to the next. These short fictions are set throughout New York's north country, including Cranberry Lake, Glens Falls, Gloversville, Inlet, Lake Placid, Northville, Old Forge, Otter Lake, Saranac Lake, Saratoga, Speculator, Tug Hill.While the focus of these stories is on love between couples (married, engaged, unmarried, gay and straight), it also engages alternate manifestations of love: a young woman falls in love with the forest, an old man's life-long love for a mountain, familial love, and love for things like a father's ancient snowshoes, private ownership of guns, and children's love for a dog.Through well-meaning, if flawed characters-many of whom are locked into economic shortfalls, substance abuse, unstable employment, health issues-these stories collectively make the assumption that the rugged terrain in which these relationships take hold has unexpected, sometimes humorous, sometimes dark, sometimes life-altering consequences. The lovers' rough-cut entanglements stand in stark contrast to the simple natural splendors which surround Adirondackers-six million acres of forest encompassing hundreds of peaks, thousands of waterways, and too many miles of trails to follow in one lifetime; the disparity between the feral and human dominions lies at the heart of these stories.

Final Delivery is a collection of stories set in, or connected to, far northern landscapes with characters who have either made a decision, or are about to make one, that will change their life's trajectory -- often in a manner or direction that they had not anticipated. There is a Professor of Ethics who hires an assassin, there's a despondent trust fund baby who tries his hand at running drugs, and there are two good old northern boys who have always lived for the hunt, the kill, but have never contemplated death. These are stories about change, about awakenings, about paths that are chosen without clarity of what those paths hold. There's a failed Hollywood screenwriter, a washed-up NHL hockey player, and an under accomplished woman who married the wrong man -- all at the brink of life's fragile breaking point. There's a small town braggart who is about to meet his father for the first time, and also a lonely checkout girl in her final days, who lived her life without ever asserting herself. These stories in Final Delivery cross through race, culture, politics and religion with unique characters who are faced with the simple struggles in life that challenge us all.

i The idea of what truly makes a family is a complicated notion at best, even within the frozen insistence of the Cold War standard of mother, father, and then some babies. There have always been so many whorls, small as fingerprints, filled with hidden lanes, ones that refuse tending, branches grown over what was once a common thread, a new fresh vine on the tree by the river with the dust-colored bark.Without Her is a memoir about family. The template was followed precisely until there were five babies, filling the house with their halos of fuzzy slept-in hair and matching high foreheads. Then, one afternoon, their mother dies, leaving five babies and a shell-shocked husband behind, all in an instant. Without Her is the story of those children and the family they became, even as they yearned to hide the stain of their missing mother heart.

There is much to be sad about at the dusk of America-as-we-knew-it. Composed during the years when Americans looked on in horror as many middle Americans took the mark of the Beast upon their hats and work-trucks, this book explores the theory that this political misstep was just the last in a long line of mistakes that America and other nations have committed.In these seventeen lamentations, the alarm resounds forth, from summaries of basic ecological issues, to brief reflections on social evils, to abstract essays on technology and ecotheology. For those de-escalating from modern political debates, one of these essays may help you see some new or ancient issue you were overlooking. Brian Howard Luce has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech and a master's degree in philosophy from Southern Illinois. For theological education, he has participated in sundry Bible discussions and several adult Bible studies.

Something terrible is happening in a small rural town! A very adventurous little boy with a fantastical imagination discovers that the moon is getting smaller by the day and a mysterious thief must be stealing it! It is up to him and his dog, Luna to bring it back.The Moon Thief ignites our children''s imaginations to ponder the wonders of the world in which they live. When a courageous young boy becomes fascinated with the changing moon, he discovers a dark and mystifying land of shadows, dancing and laughter. It is here he is faced with The Moon Thief. At the story''s end you''ll find an educational explanation and diagram on why the moon really changes, along with a fun calendar to track the moon''s phases. When we bring mystery, intrigue and excitement to education today, we nurture the curiosity that creates the discoverers of tomorrow.  The Moon Thief targeting kids ages 6-12, does just that, encouraging them to read, explore and wonder!

Where the Far East meets the Wild West, Falling Into The Light reflects the collision of world cultures during the 19th century.When a young Dalai Lama encounters a deeply hurt soul in his congregation, he begins to doubt his abilities as a spiritual leader, and must travel across the world as a disguised layman to experience human endeavors on the American frontier. Only then could he return home as an enlightened spiritual warrior and the trusted leader of his country''s future.On this transformative journey, the innocence of youth and privilege are shattered soon after the trans-pacific steamship docks in the San Francisco bay. The Dalai Lama ventures from Chinatown to the White House, where he learns, firsthand, the culture clashes of a nation besieged with greed, entitlement, and opportunity. From his encounters with Irish thugs to railroad tycoons and Black slaves to Native Americans, the Dalai Lama is forced to grow up quickly to survive on the American frontier. However, amid all the fear and fighting, the Dalai Lama also finds true love, and is compelled to choose between two futures in two different worlds. Replete with historical settings, strong characters, and a narrative that reflects the natural beauty of the American heartland, Falling Into The Light is a beautiful story for adventurous readers seeking an escape into the past, while exploring the nature of humanity.  

The remarkable Poems for the Asylum was written over several months while poet Daniel J. Lutz was in and out of various mental health facilities while being treated for various illnesses and emotional breakdowns of perhaps some of the toughest moments of his life.Like reading a journal, the poems within this book are contemplations that approach difficult emotional subjects from the loss of romantic love to grief and personal struggle. The poems record the experience of humanness and desperate striving to obtain understanding of one''s self through the difficult stages of healing. From suicidal to endeavoring to succeed, all aspects of the journey are recorded without apprehension.These writings are rich with emotion, thought and intelligence put in language that simplifies distress and honors that pain can be beautiful. Daniel J. Lutz''s stunning Poems for the Asylum is a journey through the mind and heart of a person who is willing to show how far the spirit can stretch and though it may falter, it does not have to break.

KIMIKO CHOU is a girl on a mission. Her mother and brother have been killed by robbers in 14th century Japan while her father, a samurai warrior, is off on an invasion of Korea.Chou ("butterfly" in Japanese) narrowly escapes death by hiding while the robbers ransack her home, then-dressed as a boy in her brother''s clothes-she goes in quest of her father. Alone on the road, she takes up with Hyōgo Narutomi, a former samurai who has been dismissed by seven previous masters, and Moto Mori, his page.The three of them-man, boy, and girl-make their way across Japan along with Piebald, an old horse with a curious spot on his coat that resembles a Fenghuang, the mythical bird that rules over all others in Asian mythology. Together this unlikely trio experience a series of adventures and narrow escapes until Chou and Mori-but not Narutomi-land in Korea. There, as a spy for the Koreans, Chou searches for her father-across enemy lines!

Sleep deprived Zombie Mombie, who feeds on caffeine, is ready to greet the day with her supermom juggling skills. However, a sick zombie baby, loads of homework to coach, and endless chores fill her day. Zombie Mombie has little time for herself! Can she survive on cuddles, giggles and sticky kisses, or will the day cascade into utter chaos?Zombie Mombie and her family are a nod to exhausted parents everywhere. Who doesn''t recognize the hysterical mishaps, inevitable trips over abandoned toys, and the exhausted swagger of a parent in the throes of parenthood? Cheers to all the parents who are keeping it together with love, hugs...and zombie stumbles.