If you’re here for a ghost story, you may be disappointed.It’s a romance, it’s a mystery, it’s full of intrigue, it’s a celebration of the magic of books, but (spoiler alert?) you’re not going to find any supernatural beings on these pages. If that disappoints you, well, this book may not be for you.But if you love a good book, you’re about to meet a kindred spirit. His name is Roger Mifflin, and he can’t stop talking about how books can save your life, save your soul and p...

The Zero Aggression Principle states, “No one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor should anyone advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else.”This quirky little book contains two dozen poems, short stories, prose poems and aphorisms around the theme of finding a way to live and let live in peace — to co-exist without forcing a way of life on people.Because “The way you play a b...

"When this wonderful little book by Warren Bluhm first dropped into my hands a decade ago, I thought it was important. Today, I think it’s particularly vital," Wally Conger writes in the preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Refuse to be Afraid.As Bluhm writes:"You are the boss of you. It’s your life; you have to live with the choices you make; make sure those choices are actually yours."The first step is controlling your fear. Not 'Don’t be scared' —...

"Life is better lived when you search for the light and not the dark."Here are 101 encouragements for when you’re about to embark on a new adventure, when you’re wrestling with doubt, when you could use a gentle push, or all of the above. From the author of Refuse to be Afraid and A Scream of Consciousness.

Edmund Filliput is a successful businessman, but he is living a dreary life on a dreary Christmas Eve. Then he meets a happy stranger who keeps Christmas in his heart year-round. Over a cup of coffee and a bowl of beef stew, the stranger offers to send three friends to Edmund who will show him the meaning of Christmas. Will the "friends" convince Edmund in time to salvage this Christmas and rescue his life?People who are grumpy at Christmastime are often chided with, "Oh, don't be ...

Paul Phillips just wanted to spend a nice night shopping with his girlfriend, but what he found inside that old antique shop changed his life. Now he was Myke Phoenix, superhero protector of Astor City, and lining up against the Forces of Evil in the World. Not even he knows how he inhabits the indestructible body of a long-dead warrior – all he knows is the fate of the city, the continent and perhaps the world depends on him.He’s defeated his arch-nemesis once, but now she rises a...

There has to be something more to life than moving through a haze. And every now and then, it gets to you. You just want to wake up, smile at God and the universe and shout: I’m alive! I’m here! I’m ready to make a difference! That’s a scream of consciousness. This book is about getting conscious and staying alive, moment by moment.

Scientists have harnessed the power of the imagination as a source of energy. Of course, whenever a new power source is discovered, some idiot finds a way to weaponize it.Bob Whelan and Pete Wong are independent interstellar truckers caught in the middle when their freighter, the Betsy Ross, is commandeered to transfer a small, mysterious object and then hijacked by masked terrorists led by a small, mysterious woman who seems eerily familiar to Bob.With the help of...

They are mostly silent friends and companions, my dogs, and so it was quite a surprise the morning they began to speak.That in itself was uncanny, but it wasn't long after that before the three of us were drawn into an adventure that involved dragons, elfin beings, talking animals, and — what else? — an existential threat to all that is.Dejah & Sumer in the Time of Magic could be described as a madcap romp for anyone who loves stories about good versus evil, life and death,...

History doesn't repeat itself, but you can hear its echoes every day. The same wind that brings echoes of past foolishness also brings echoes of lost freedoms, echoes that are never quite stilled.This is a little book about what used to be, what is, and what could be if we wish to reclaim it.There is a section about freedom and the Bill of Rights. There is a section about what has been happening in the last several years, and how everything changed, almost in a blink. And t...

“Sometimes I thought Truth had vanished from the earth,” he cried bitterly. "Like everything else, it was rationed by the governments. I taught myself to disbelieve half of what I read in the papers. I saw the world clawing itself to shreds in blind rage. I saw hardly any one brave enough to face the brutalizing absurdity as it really was, and describe it. I saw the glutton, the idler, and the fool applauding, while brave and simple men walked in the horrors of hell. The stay-at-home poets...

The people of Sirius 4 tried to overcome tyranny the old-fashioned way: by force. It turned out to be an imaginary revolution, replacing one violent regime with another. Raymond Douglas Kaliber suggested another way: that free people living by a spirit of non-aggression could live in peace and prosperity with one another. Before he could launch that bold experiment, however, he had to defeat the greatest tyrant of them all: his best friend ... Set in the same universe as the interplanetary...