In a near future filled with violence from terrorists and suicide cultists, the Wannoshay aliens crash-land on the Great Plains of America and Canada.Less than a dozen years from now, over thirty black ships containing the aliens the world will come to know as the Wannoshay arrive on the frozen earth of the Great Plains of America and Canada.Over the course of a year, the aliens attempt to become part of American society, only to be banished to internment camps when they ar...

Sometimes those who can't be found just might not be lost…In the remote mountain town of Boone, North Carolina, Hank “Hanky J” Johnson and Bim Mayer find people that nobody else can. All thanks to Hanky J’s brains and Bim’s ability to psychically connect to other people.Their skills get put to the test when a group of elderly people go missing. All of whom used to teach at nearby Appalachian State University.And each missing person shares a connect...

Magic: more contagious than the common cold…Kelley Strickland and her twin brother Jeroan accidentally step into an ancient battle between a power-hungry Sorcerer—who wants to rid the world of what he calls “renegade” magic-users—and a good Sorcerer who can barely remember his own name.Kelley soon learns that her new-found way of using magic just might save her adopted city, her brother, and her new, magically infected friends.Or it could doom them all....

Retirement: it’s not just for the elderly.Thirty-six-year-old JB lives to inspire the old folks at Whispering Pines Rest Home. He listens to their stories, encourages them to get some fresh air, and makes sure they aren’t just sitting around waiting for the end to come.But he’s not a doctor, not a therapist. He’s a resident of Whispering Pines, too.When the finances for Whispering Pines hit the skids, the Home starts to earn the wrong kind of atten...

Sometimes you eat the forest, sometimes the forest eats you.What would you do if your child was lost, and—even though you’d never admit this to anyone—it was all your fault? How would you react? Would you be a hero or a coward? And just how would you get your innocent child out of this situation?These are all questions Gil Anderson faces when his five-year-old son goes missing somewhere in the dark trees at the edge of the family farm. On that fateful day, Gil must...

Architectural Aesthetic Speculations expands our understanding of the role of formal aesthetic criteria in twentieth-century artistic practices and reveals potentially transformative aspects in the art of architectural composition. The book stages an encounter of philosopher Gilles Deleuze's (1925–1995) constructivist sensibility and architect Louis Kahn's (1901–1974) mode of architectural figuration. This book is of interest to architects, artists, historians and theorists and to those wi...

Some family curses are worth passing on...Tommy Roling does everything humanly possible to raise his infant daughter Corinne the right way. But a half year out of high school, Tommy finds himself a single parent as well as flat broke.And, with every full moon, he can’t fight the urge to strip off his clothes and run wild through the pastures outside town.So when a stranger shows up, slashed to death, the day after Tommy’s most recent full-moon run, ...

They’re not gonna grow up without a fight.1974. Ozzy’s going to be a father. Augie’s got a huge house to build. Just a few years out of high school, neither of them want to work this hard. They’d rather live outside the law and stick it to the Man, man.Over the course of this turbulent year, lifelong friends Ozzy and Augie have no choice but to face adulthood.It might take more than a little “hoodoo voodoo”, a surly pregnant wife, a few ghosts, str...

Magic invites . . .Curses and blessing, sorcerous time travel, shape-shifters, hidden enchantment and corrupted blood.Magic demands . . .Saving those you love, courage, betrayal and fights against unspeakable forces.Magic promises . . .Last best hopes, reluctant and desperate heroes, ancient power unleashed and the compulsion to overcome death itself.Magic risks . . .Forbidden spells and deadly bargains.Here be magic!F...

Blow the silver whistle, ring the tarnished bell…Bartolamus the Sorcerer is dying. His days of adventuring and forging new words of magic are firmly behind him. Or so it seems.As his trembling apprentice approaches his bedside with a silver whistle in his right hand and a tarnished bell in his left, the ancient wizard shares his history.He also reveals his plans for one last quest: an attempt to re-open the doors to the barred and mysterious City of All-Wor...

Magic: It can show up in the strangest places…An old man sleeping in a cardboard box in snowy Chicago holds the secret of sorcery in his head.But thanks to the damage done to him by using magic decades ago, he doesn’t realize it. Most days he can’t even remember his own name.When two teens try to jump him in an alley, the magic Words come back to him at last, and he “infects” the kids with magic.And soon Chicago has a wild epidemic of magic on its h...

Magic: the side effects are painful, if not fatal…Two months after the explosive and unexpected ending to A Sudden Outbreak of Magic, Jeroan learns all about magic at Dr. Azure’s mysterious training center. Meanwhile, Kelley can’t even leave her hotel room in Dubuque without a chaperone.When people they care about start disappearing, and people they didn’t think they should care about—like Dr. Azure—get attacked by rogue magic-users, Jeroan and Kelley must...