"Love At Absolute Zero" is about a physicist who tries to apply the tools of science to finding a soul mate. Specifically, Gunnar Gunderson, a 32-year-old physicist at the University of Wisconsin, gets a promotion, and all he can think of now is finding a wife. To meet his soul mate within three days--that's what he wants and all time he can carve out in a research competition--he and his team are using the scientific method, to riotous results."As if Einstein didn't struggle hard ...

"Poignant and wise, sympathetic to the everyday struggles these characters face." --Carmela Ciuraru, The Los Angeles Times.Here is a story collection about love, death, humor, and the glue called family. In one narrative, a man wakes up one morning to find the odor of dead fish won't go away, but no one else can smell it. In another, a couple's visit with friends to watch the Academy Awards has the protagonist envying his friends' lawn and lifestyle. In these and eleven other stori...

[b]As Roderick Clark says in the Foreword, "It's all about love, isn't it?"[/b]In [i]The Benefits of Breathing[/i], Christopher Meeks's third collection of short stories, Meeks dives again into the human condition, particularly within relationships. As one reader wrote on Amazon, "Some authors need a lot of words to describe their worlds and their people. Christopher Meeks says a lot with a little." The Los Angeles Times has called his stories "poignant and wise."In this vol...

Finalist in the prestigious Frank O'Connor International Short Story Collection Award"Exceptionally entertaining and thought-provoking!" --Raging Bibliomania"A polished gem from a gifted artist" --critic Grady HarpMONTHS AND SEASONS is the follow-up story collection to Christopher Meeks's award-winning THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN AND THE SEA. With a combination of main characters from young to old and with drama and humor, the tales pursue such people as a supermodel who aw...

In his fourth award-winning book, Christopher Meeks offers a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel. A young Minnesotan, Edward, is blessed with an abundance of "experience"--first when his mother dies and next when his father, an encyclopedia salesman, shoehorns Edward into a private boys school where he's tortured and groomed. He needs a place in the universe, but he wants an understanding of women.Edward stumbles into romance in high school, careens through dorm life in col...

Based on a true story, "Who Lives?" is an inspirational play along the lines of the Sandra Bullock film "Blind Side." In the early 1960s, an anonymous committee of ordinary citizens in Seattle selected people dying of kidney failure for an experiment in something new: kidney dialysis. They could take only 12. When Gabriel is turned down, he looks for another way.

Inspired by Sam Gonzalez's true story, "The Chords of War" is the tale of punk rock teenager Max Rivera from Florida, who seeks purpose as he tries to understand why his life always teeters between music and mayhem. After he's kicked out of his band on tour, he joins the Army to change his life. It's after 9/11, and he finds himself under fire in Iraq, part of the surge in Baquabah. In order to deal with his teen angst and raging hormones among daily patrols, coordinated battles, and women...

Everyone has a bad day. In the crossover thriller "Blood Drama," graduate student Ian Nash, after losing his girlfriend, gets dropped from a Ph.D. program in theatre. When he stops at a local coffee shop in the lobby of a bank to apply for a job, the proverbial organic matter hits the fan. A gang of four robs the bank, and things get bloody. Ian is taken hostage by the robbers when the police show up. Now he has to save his life.FBI Special Agent Aleece Medina's analysis of the blo...

In "A Death in Vegas," the president of BenBugs, a company that specializes in beneficial bugs for organic gardening, discovers a young woman dead in his Las Vegas hotel suite. She had worked as a sexy lady bug at his convention booth—and he had nothing to do with her death. While that's being investigated, the FBI raids his booth on a money-laundering scam that he knows nothing about, either. Soon, the coroner doesn't have good news. The police and FBI are against him—and his wife cannot ...

Daylighting and Integrated Lighting Design provides architects, building designers, and students clear direction for the successful inclusion of daylight and integrated electric light in buildings. It presents design teams with the performance analysis resources, energy saving estimates and user satisfaction results they need in order to make informed decisions regarding daylighting and lighting design.Written by two well-known experts in the field, the book provides:...

A New Destiny is About to UnfoldUpon receiving mysterious books from their dying grandfather, thirteen-year-old Kie Kinsely, and his younger brother, Max, learn of an invisible war that has been ranging for over two thousand years. Accepting their place in this Ancient War as the Blade Children, the two brothers gain the ability to see angels and demons that roam the earth. Together, along with their Guardians, Kie and Max are sent to the Spiritual World by a Supernatural Force.

Napoleonic-era accounts of life aboard Royal Navy warships: "Readers of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester will enjoy this collection" ( Library Journal ).At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal Navy patrolled the seas from India to the Caribbean, connecting an empire with footholds in every corner of the earth. Such a massive Navy requ...