Praise for Rocking Wall Street". . . the only four investment strategies you will ever need. . . I dare anyone to read this book and not wake up to the realities of Wall Street, and change their investing habits on the spot."—Steve Trager Watson Retired CEO and CIO of the hedge fund Watson Investment Partners, LP"A true Renaissance man and teacher, Gary Marks adeptly explores four investment strategies that can achieve strong results and pea...

In a future where humanity has scientifically conquered disease and physical death, Timshel leaves behind a civilization that has solved nearly every practical problem. Yet one question remains unanswered: What is the true nature of existence?Seeking answers, he journeys into a mysterious realm known as The Beyond, where ordinary assumptions about reality begin to unravel. Joined by two companions, a scientist named Lesam and a woman named Abrann, they each pursue their own path to...

Emily holds many secrets.Her first revealed secret shocks her husband-to-be, Jack Hampton, while they're still in college, and it suddenly changes the shape of their future together in ways Jack could only have dreamed of.Other secrets are more complicated.Jack sees Emily for exactly who she is —beautiful, brilliant, and fiercely independent. She seems to be three moves ahead of everyone around her—including her powerful father, Samuel Briggs, the mastermind of a wo...

This novella is written as a personal journal. The story follows a writing teacher's restless search for beauty, love, and the mysterious force the Greeks called Eros.The writer's girlfriend, Miranda, is more than happy to join him. She has her own journal, and her own way of looking at the world. While he is cynical and constantly complaining about what he sees, struggling to make sense of why they came to Greece in the first place, Miranda writes things like, "Ah, rose, your peta...

In this heartfelt novel about love and destiny, Aaron believes in a world full of possibilities, including the rare possibility that love can occasionally defeat time.His muse—the person he fell in love with from the moment he met her —is Hanna, a Swiss-born natural blonde with an angelic beauty that's clear to everyone but her.Hanna is street smart, practical, and more than a little skeptical that love can last forever. But she decides to try to "win the game" with him.

A teenager named Mayor has no idea what he wants to do with his life. College feels wrong. Careers sound like traps. The future looks like a long series of obligations he has no interest in fulfilling.Then he meets Ruth.Mayor wants Ruth to ditch her plans of going to college so they can run off together. He dreams of adventure and escape.But Ruth refuses to leave with him. She wants to go to college and find her own path. Mid-semester, Mayor comes to her college una...

Can love survive fame? Fame seeks recognition. Love seeks privacy, quiet moments, and a life small enough to feel real.Adam and Jenna fell in love before the world fell in love with her.She started as Adam's roadie, helping him set up for local gigs around San Francisco. From there she became a superstar performing Adam's songs around the world.They try to stay sane and centered inside a system that encourages each of them to become larger than life.Eventual...

This sensual romance novel is about the life of Stephen Weston, a gifted financial analyst with a breakthrough stock-market timing model.He arrives in Manhattan expecting to negotiate a lucrative promotion, and to persuade Lilly—the woman he loves—to renew a relationship that ended long ago.Eventually, he finds himself caught between two worlds:One is a world of luxury hotels, formal dinner parties, and trips to Paris and London with Lilly by his side.The ot...

Josh Martin is a gifted jazz pianist who can sit at a Bösendorfer and follow any musical idea wherever it wants to go. Onstage, he trusts instinct, accident, rhythm, and risk itself.In life, he is far less fluent.He meets Lydia. She is a singer, a muse, a lover, an antagonist, a comic tormentor, and—a test he keeps failing.Together they create a relationship built on musical connection, sexual intensity, arguments no one can win, and mutual exasperation.The ...

Multi-Color Poetry, otherwise known as Colopetry, is a literary art form created by American novelist and singer-songwriter, Gary Marks, where the use of color allows multiple poems to exist simultaneously within a single stand-alone poem. Read the rule of the game below, and you'll understand!

How can you access the best version of yourself, day to day, moment by moment?This book is an amalgam of parables and consciousness games to help you get control of yourself! (As much as is humanly possible.)It borrows ideas from various sources, including spiritual teachers, poets, therapists, Abraham Lincoln, the Declaration of Independence, and a Chinese chef from Berkeley. (Thank you, Mr. Shem.)

Told through a high-school autobiography assignment, Nora and I Stole a Car follows Oliver, a sixteen-year-old trying to survive school, family, and the mysteries of first love.Nora and Oliver fall in love over a secret Nora insisted on telling him. His life changes the night a local hood named VW crashes the birthday party of Nora's best friend, Cassie.Acting on impulse, Oliver steals VW's car to get him and his two weird friends to leave. By the next morning, Nora is impr...