Northern Quebec, 1964. Mountie Jack McLain, baffled by a series of unsolved murders, knows the latest case will make or break his career. Eighteen-year-old Nilliq, chafing under the sullen power of her father in a remote hunting camp, risks flight with a headstrong shaman bent on a mission of his own. Their paths intersect in this tense mystery charting a journey of personal and cultural transformation.

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.

Essays spanning three decades—reflective yet contemporary, philosophical and practical—address human nature and environmental ethics; personal and metapolitical intention; radical insight and live freedom in thought, emotion and action.While it might be said that everything pre-2020 is irrelevant in the light of our global paradigm shift, it is important to recognize both the long history of our present oppression, and the more ancient tradition of positive human s...

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

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...

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.

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.

A collection of love poems for her, a woman, a spirit called zen. What is love? At times romance, infatuation, metaphysical longing. Love hurts when unrequited, satisfies when it fills from within, reflected in nature's unconditional beauty.The haiku here follow the 5-7-5 syllable form.

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.

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.