24 hours to save the world . . . and sweep the driveway! Zac's latest mission sends him to a secret volcanic island in the middle of the ocean. But when he discovers a secret that GIB has been trying to uncover for years, he knows something isn't quite right. . .

Concerning Dr. Rons Humor WHY LISTEN TO AN AUTHOR WHEN OTHERS SPEAK SO BEAUTIFULLY? Your pieces are pleasurable to read, your mind is nimble, and you have a fine touch for gentle paradox. - William F. Buckley, Jr. Your work is hilarious, and at the same time delightfully literate. This is must reading for anyone who wishes to save on his or her psychiatry bill. Ron Pataky, I suspect you are a genius! - Phyllis Diller I am comfortable in saying that your work, as a collection, is the most inventive and consistently funny work I've encountered to date! Your splendid use of meter and rhyme is near perfection. - James Michener I dont believe Ive ever seen this much original thinking, and so many fabulous turns of phrases, in a single manuscript! - Vincent Price

Distanced from partner Marsha and her daughter Matty by physical and psychic wanderings into geographic places, historical scenes, other lives… the narrator Blank dances solo with his unavoidable other, claiming to alert her to opaque parts of his nature and to her own: on clinging and running, victim and perpetrator, freedom and fundamentalism, splitting and taking responsibility… and on Samsara, the trivial endless recurrence. The Wandering is Blank’s ruminating travelogue, tainted-love diary, mythic karmic romance, meditation on being and becoming, conscience and commitment. The Wandering presents a ‘spiritual seeker’ who ‘wants to transcend his own ego’; and who, while escaping his domineering girlfriend Marsha (in Jungian terms a key anima figure) seeks to highlight her ‘complexes’ by composing for her a striking variety of factual, imaginative, geographic and metaphysical ruminations. Predictably, the more he evades the more he’s forced to engage with his own pretensions. Marsha, a failed soldier, alienated from her father, is gripped by the animus as perpetrator-victim complex, to be enacted on Blank and other ‘failed men’ in her life. Thereby, Blank addresses the anarchic teen daughter Matty, who, in a fight with the mother (as a negative anima figure) takes on ‘parental sins’ – suggesting there’s a chance for psychological progress between generations. Blank’s parallel iterations of he, Marsha and Matty in exotic scenes, other lives, ensures their entwined karma (unresolved psychic material) gets re-examined. Overall, this entertaining and ambitious text affirms that there can be no personal evolution without creatively engaging unconscious elements: in the present, in childhood, and through multiple incarnations.

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In a world where werewolves rule and vampires are just the boy or girl next door, kids love anything that will scare the pants off them. But how do you separate fact from fiction? Do haunted houses, spooky ghosts, and UFOs have a place in history, or is it all just a bunch of hooey? Crawling with spine-tingly facts, eerie anecdotes, and fun information, this book is all about everything creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky. It's a perfect book for the bathroom library or to read by flashlight under the covers. Just don't tell kids how much real science and history they're actually learning!

This 1991 book examines nineteenth-century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego.