In a future where music permeates the world, technology has advanced a concert system to a sophisticated level. Success lies in a singera??s ability to control the population by projecting emotion and subliminal ideas through song. Sects and groups have evolved into guilds that vie for leadership. The goal of a singer is to become an apprentice and represent a guild in the national concert system.From the moment Feiara takes the stage, shea??s in trouble. She is tormented by internal struggles as she faces concert sabotage, plots from competitors, and pursuit by an obsessed and unsavory fan. Mentally unbalanced and fighting for freedom, she must face her fears as she struggles to emerge the winner in the prestigious National singing competition. Although she thinks she knows who she is, a mystery in her past throws Feiara into an alliance with Saeron, the black sheep brother of her infatuated coach, Breen. Through her trials, Feiara is forced to come to grips with the forces driving her.

"Ms. Ferguson has written an un-put-downable book." --Romantic Times on Call Back Yesterday A world lost . . . "DREAM SINGER is full of adventure and plot twists . . ." --Paranormalromance.org First Daughter Nerienne, heir to the Tiria of Gayome, faces the destruction of everything she knows when her mother's enemies kill the Tiria. Nerienne is left with just her magic and with Bidge, a mysterious creature that speaks only to her. She is rescued by Durgan Ketassian, leader of the rebels in the northern woods, but can she trust this man whom her mother condemned to die? A dream found . . . Durgan knows he cannot trust Nerienne. Her mother had been his enemy ever since she began slaying dreamsingers, skilled musicians who sing the future through one's dreams. He has vowed to see his people free of the Tiria's domination, never guessing the Tiria's daughter could awaken parts of his heart he'd shut away. A song without end . . . To save Gayome, Nerienne and Durgan must work together to defeat their common enemy. But to become allies opens them to the greatest threat of all . . . falling in love. Award winning author J. A. Ferguson lives in Nevada with her husband, children, and a fat cat. She is not sure which is most spoiled.

Psychologist Leslie Harper takes pity on Kitty Rose, a homeless street singer, and finds herself drawn into a world of old mystery and present danger. Temporarily separated from her husband until they can work out problems that negatively affect their asthmatic son, Leslie suddenly finds herself the target of her husbands wealthy family, whose powerful and unscrupulous lawyers set out to remove her from her sons life. Torn between helping the girl and fighting her own battles, Leslie takes on a challenge that could prove fatal to both of them.

Advance Praise for Dream-Singers "You will find a great storehouse of folk and literary treasures in this ambitious book that speaks to anyone who has ever thought about his or her dreams. It's a wonderful adventure and I highly recommend it."-Clarence Major, author of Configurations and Juba to Jive Acclaim for Dream Reader also by Anthony Shafton "A book so unique in its combination of scholarship, clarity, and down-to-earth feeling about dreams that I find it hard to fully express the excitement and satisfaction I felt on reading it."-Montague Ullman, M.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Author of Working with Dreams and Dream Telepathy "Breathtaking . . . the single most complete and thorough analysis of contemporary dream theories yet written . . . Shafton has a keen sense for what people most want to know about dreams, and an admirable ability to explain difficult concepts without oversimplifying them."-Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., Past President, The Association for the Study of Dreams, Author of The Wilderness of Dreams

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A memoir as fierce, freewheeling, and passionate as her music." --O, the Oprah magazine A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest, passionate, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman's eventful and radical journey to the age of thirty. Ani's coming of age story is defined by her ethos of fierce independence--from being an emancipated minor sleeping in a Buffalo bus station, to unwaveringly building a career through appearances at small clubs and festivals, to releasing her first album at the age of 18, to consciously rejecting the mainstream recording industry and creating her own label, Righteous Babe Records. In these pages, as in life, she never hesitates to question established rules and expectations, maintaining a level of artistic integrity that has inspired and challenged more than a few. Ani continues to be a major touring and recording artist as well as a celebrated activist and feminist, standing as living proof that you can overcome all personal and societal obstacles to be who you are and to follow your dreams.

In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct native people. Author Michael McNally uses hymn singing as a lens to view culture in motion--to consider the broader cultural processes through which Native American peoples have creatively drawn on the resources of ritual to make room for survival, integrity, and a cultural identity within the confines of colonialism.