Back-to-the-land memoir weaves nature and magical realism, homesteading and wilderness survival. My Country expands the containers of essay and story, adventure and lyric, naturalism and fantasy, to overlap and mingle in this collection unified in its spirit of place, the forests and mountains of interior British Columbia.

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A cautionary tale, with a redeeming outcome. A novel about loss and freedom, acceptance and self-discovery—a personal growth journey between relationships.A marriage ends. A life begins. In between is Charlie's story of our journey home, breath by breath. His canvas is a life cracked open, to reveal the cost of freedom and the power of love.Chasing Utopia—from community, to relationship, to success itself—Charlie loses all, then finds himself torn between t...

A how-to memoir tracing the learning curves of group music improvisation, the peaks and pitfalls of African hand drumming with electric instruments.

What is stopping us from practicing our human future now?Beyond the old paradigm of false narratives and party politics, we walk in natural law of nature, culture, spirit.An empowering deep dive for free thinkers, righteous rebels, and awaking activists, Nowick Gray's essays from The New Agora (2020-21) paint visions of our creative sovereignty.

Life's adventure can be a field of dreams, or a hopscotch of near disasters. A reckless but lucky serial survivor, Nowick Gray relates 66 personal tales of averted death, rewarded by 11 episodes of shaking hands with fame--chance encounters with cultural icons like Allen Ginsberg, Dizzy Gillespie, J. D. Salinger, Colin James.

Love stories from the twilight zone, these contemporary fairy tales of magical realism expose the dark and tender hearts of quirky characters seeking connection and redemption. Serving offbeat narratives, edgy realties, shifting identities, the stories blend the ironic with the erotic, nature and rural environments with the paranormal and surreal.

Midlife crisis, his life’s dreams at an early end, it was time to bust out and see the world.Nowick Gray sets out with backpack and drum to find out what he’s been missing. Tropical warmth, better health, inner peace… He scours Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Latin America for that perfect beach, a new tribe, a winter home. Will ayahuasca heal his woes, or an ayurvedic cleanse? Beset by desperate touts on an abandoned Bali shore, he knows he’s a dying breed: the l...

The Last Book departs from Thomas Mann’s last, unfinished novel and propels its hero into the speculative waters of time travel, alternative history, and a dystopian future.When precocious 19th-century con-man Felix Krull is recruited by an astral-traveling presidential candidate, Sophie Vaughan, he embarks on a quest across time to find her and prove his mettle on a world stage. His daredevil joyride through ’70s middle America tests his powers of persuas...

Sweet inspirations, wisdom and beauty close at hand.Haiku poems on nature, love, world issues, spirit, plus attractive nature photos. Crystalizing truth, each word sculpture stands naked to the world.These runes, caught dancing in the void, speak our soul connection to the earth and those who came before… the family of life, watching, waiting.

Was that the end of global budget travel?Relive edgy tales and deep reflections, with vicarious journeys to exotic locales around the world. Digging deep through midlife dreams, time to bust out and see the world. Traveling light, keeping warm, threading past crowds, to temporary tribe, spirit paths, home.

Sweet inspirations, wisdom and beauty close at hand.Haiku poems on nature, love, world issues, spirit, plus attractive nature photos. Crystalizing truth, each word sculpture stands naked to the world.These runes, caught dancing in the void, speak our soul connection to the earth and those who came before… the family of life, watching, waiting.