Caleb Allard is dying. The banality of his legacy haunts him: a pointless career and two dysfunctional children estranged from one another.Then a voice arrives. Immense. Debilitating. It fills Caleb's skull, promising the one thing Caleb wants more than anything else—a purpose for his miserable life. It tells him of a young boy with miraculous abilities living in the Texas hill country.Find the boy, find your purpose.The boy is hundreds of miles away, but i...

Most people operate from a fixed idea or concept of how things are supposed to be, rather functioning in the moment, where they can change anything as needed to accomplish and create more. This creates a tremendous limitation. We use conceptual constructs to create a purpose and a sense of rightness. Relationship, sex, sexuality, family, and the future are examples of conceptual constructs. Society is a construct. Culture, religion, and reputation are constructs.These things are no...

Mark Hall’s new job as a colonial auditor seemed like a good thing—it kept him out of the office, allowed for travel, and let him make new friends. It was a new lease on life he was looking forward to—that is, until the day he pulled into the town of Kearney.Situated at the edge of settled land and skirting a planetary uplift that dominates the skyline, he began to discover that something wasn’t right. Stories travel, but in this small farming and ranching ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In this first book of the "Utopian" series, the author narrates the battle between good and evil, right and wrong, with an extraordinary style and tone. A highly compelling novel, adorned with love and independent of names, time, and place, awaits you...,How small the world was, how pitiful people were, how incomprehensible God was, and how strange life was…"(From the book...)

For two years, Irene has scoured the deteriorating Texas hill country for her fugitive brother, seeking to save him before law enforcement kills him on sight.Something is out here with her. A pervasive voice that haunts her at night, plaguing her with terrorizing sleep walks that leave her adrift in her most sordid memories.Come to me, Irene.To cope with the present, Irene will confront her past.And before she can find her brother, Irene must learn ...

Most people operate from a fixed idea or concept of how things are supposed to be, rather functioning in the moment, where they can change anything as needed to accomplish and create more. This creates a tremendous limitation. We use conceptual constructs to create a purpose and a sense of rightness. Relationship, sex, sexuality, family, and the future are examples of conceptual constructs. Society is a construct. Culture, religion, and reputation are constructs.These things are no...

Hawk's life is a secret. Wanted for murder, he hides from the law on a marijuana plantation in the Texas hill country. The violence of his past pales against the depravities he endures on the farm: dangerous and miraculous secrets he must protect if he wants to survive.Then a cunning stranger arrives bearing a grudge from Hawk's past. The outsider unleashes his sinister preternatural ability in a frantic lunge for the farm's most innocent soul. As the bloody standoff erupts between...

Okay, I can do this. One problem at a time. That's how this is going to work. Do the thing in front of me, then move on to the next. I'll figure it out, like I always do. I have to, or Dad's life is over.I mean, turning drugs into cash isn't exactly new to me. I've done this hundreds of times. But all I've got to work with is pressed luck and borrowed time. San Antonio is smelling out my weakness, a city-sized predator toying with prey. The cops are raking the earth to find me, and...

'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' – Sunday TimesSantiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America: six experimental communities established in the aftermath of the First World War, each aiming to change the world.

A family from the past finally adjust to their new futuristic utopian society, only to be attacked by criminal gangs, forcing a father to respond using primitive 21st century methods of retaliation.A teenager discovers that the curse of telepathy is in fact a valuable gift.The colonists on Jade commence construction on the forest habitats, but they don't fully understand the nature of the indigenous lifeforms.A self-aware holographic lifeform clandestinely protects ...

Human society needs guidance to protect and secure its future, and to reach its full potential. Religion for thousands of years has attempted to provide much-needed answers, guidance, and support to the people. In our present time, we have gained a greater understanding of our reality, and the major religions of our day have not yet adapted properly to keep up with our ever-changing world to better serve the people. The time has come for a new ideology to better guide the human species. Th...

A seminal novel of African decolonization available for the first time in English translation.Lisbon 1961. Aware that the secret police are watching them, four young Angolans discuss their plans for a utopian homeland free from Portuguese rule. When war breaks out, they flee to France and must decide whether they will return home to join the fight. Two remain in exile and two return to Angola to become guerilla fighters, barely escaping capture over the course of t...