I hope readers will enjoy creating Reckless Dreaming as a movie in their mind. That is ahead of any possible theatrical production. - Nick David, Screenwriter ENLIGHTENMENT, LOVE, AND A STING ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER AND YET SO FAR AWAY. WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF RECKLESS DREAMING! Imagine a game of Strip Chess surrounded everywhere you turn by strip the soul! Michael and Tara use everything including their wits for weapons! Meanwhile, no knowledge of chess will be needed to determine who is winning as their match progresses. Chess masters Tara, 33, and Michael, 34, stage a high stakes match in San Francisco that their chess rival fathers never got a chance to play. Michael is an intense “win at any cost” player with his own obsessions. Tara is an embattled singer and Eastern Religion buff. As a reformed alcoholic, she leaves a Buddhist monastery on a quest for enlightenment and love. Tara keeps one vital secret from Michael: She has a brain tumor which could kill her at any time! Not knowing her condition, Michael hires Destiny, a possible girlfriend who is into the occult, to play mind games on Tara. However, Destiny plans much more than just mental harm. In a class, Destiny receives a device that helps her enter other people’s dreams. Then, as Destiny remarks, “What could they charge me with, reckless dreaming?” Meanwhile, psychotic “fellow-dreamer” Dwayne pursues a Tarot card riddle which doesn’t bode well for Tara! A female artist influences events in unique ways. Additional obstacles stack the deck against our heroine. More conflict brews in the subplot. It reveals that Tara, Michael, and the rest of the cast are pitted against the unscrupulous producer Wesley. It’s all yours to find out if a sting causes the plot and subplot to merge into multiple twist climaxes! Comments from 3 Professional Script Consultants: Paul Young’s clients have included Academy Award Nominees for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay as well as the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Paul wrote that “Reckless Dreaming has plausibility, substance, focus, resonance, appeal, and emotional power, which helps to create a single film with its own inner layers and complexities.” - Literary & Screenplay Consultants Woodland Hills, CA “All in all, you’ve succeeded in writing an interesting erotic film which has intellectual appeal.” - Caroline Blair San Francisco, CA “You have drawn a very creative visual treatment for moving into and out of dream-space and time.” - Constance Richardson Mill Valley, CA Front Cover Photo: “Evidence” by Nick David www.nickdavid.photoshelter.com www.recklessdreaming.com

When the powerful witch Dreamer Black was killed, nothing was the same. Pandora and Marlon Black, her teenage children, and her husband Ted Stone seemed fine on the outside, but were grieving inside for more than two years since her death. Pandora, knowing her mother was a witch, has reason to doubt her mother remained dead, and had the feeling she was alive... and she was! Dreamer the magical wonder was spotted on the television with her mother, broadcasted all over the world, to Ted's fury: and she returns to her family the same night. It is then the adventure unfolds, the chief of police growing obsessed with Dreamer's beauty, a prisoner obsessed with Dreamer also convinced she is alive, Dreamer discovering she has a third child, her father Paul Black the powerful sorcerer also returning, and much more. Not only focusing on Dreamer, this story has much to do with love, hurt, friendship, and of course magic. Another fantasy/romance novel full of fun from Makala Thomas.

Ruling elites in Venezuela, the United States and Europe, and even Hugo Chávez himself though for different reasons, have been eager to have the world view him as the heir to Fidel Castro. But the truth about this increasingly influential world leader is more complex, and more interesting.. The Chávez that emerges from Bart Jones’ carefully researched and documented biography is neither a plaster saint nor a revolutionary tyrant. He has an undeniably autocratic streak, and yet has been freely and fairly re-elected to his nations presidency three times with astonishing margins of victory. He is a master politician and an inspired improviser, a Bolivarian nationalist and an unashamed socialist. His policies have brought him into conflict with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and major oil companies. They have also provided a model for new governments and social movements in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. When in September 2006 he declared at the United Nations that ‘the devil came here yesterday … the President of the United States’, it was clear that he was taking on challenging the most powerful nation on earth, in conscious imitation of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. From the Trade Paperback edition.

This collection of short stories by Patricia Volk shares heartwarming and comical tales of the relationships between wives, husbands, mothers, sisters, and daughters. From “Mystery Salad” to “Something Wet in the Dark,” All it Takes is a charming and heartfelt collection of stories that are sure to remind readers of the enchanting relationships among family members and the puzzling stages of love. With fifteen stories from the perspective of women in all different stages of life, Volk takes us into the urban existence of wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters as they grow to recognize the things they’ve done right and learn from the things they’ve done wrong.

Betwixt and Between identifies the biases, errors and ambiguities that have run rampant in the biographies on Mary Wollstonecraft, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Brenda Ayres investigates the agenda, problems and strengths of eighteen critical biographies, beginning with William Godwin’s Memoirs (1798), ending with Charlotte Gordon’s Romantic Outlaws (2015) and including ten lesser-known biographies. Betwixt and Between synthesizes the biographies, exposes gaps and contradictions, and attempts to fill and reconcile them, supplying in the process considerable information on Wollstonecraft that has never before been published.

Exploring the fascinating world of dreams, this comprehensive reference examines more than 250 dream-related topics, from art to history to science, including how factors such as self-healing, ESP, literature, religion, sex, cognition and memory, and medical conditions can all have an effect on dreams. Dream symbolism and interpretation is examined in historical, cultural, and psychological detail, while a dictionaryÑupdated with 1,000 symbols and explanationsÑoffers further insights. Dreaming about teeth, for instance, can indicate control issues, and dreaming of a zoo can indicate that the dreamer needs to tidy up some situation. Examining these concepts and more, this is the ultimate dreamer's companion.