For eons, enlightened humans have explored, encountered the creatures of our nightmares, and battled for power and influence on the Plane: an elusive dreamscape that mimics our waking one, and for those who dare, the hub to everyone's subconscious. Some of history's biggest events were designed by Readers: those who earned the ability to access the Plane by challenging their own minds, bodies, and willpower. After decades of executing their plan, a clandestine organization of Readers called The Apostles has pushed the United States of America to the brink of civil war. The future of America will depend on Jesse Ramirez: a kid from the wrong side of the tracks who is always on the wrong side of the law and school, and always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's the new kid, hopelessly in love, and on his last chance... Until one day, he is given an opportunity to change the worlds around him.

Screenwriter and acclaimed film critic C. Robert Cargill makes his fiction debut with Dreams and Shadows, taking beloved fantasy tropes, giving them a twist, and turning out a wonderful, witty, and wry take on clash between the fairy world and our own. Something is missing from Ewan and Colby’s lives. Residing in the corners of their memories is their time in Limestone Kingdom, a realm filled with magic and mystery, a world where only some may travel amongst the menagerie of mystical souls and sinister demons. Cargill offers well-crafted characters and an absorbing, intricate plot that will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman and Lev Grossman. Dreams and Shadows pulls you into an extraordinary universe of darkness that exposes the magic and monsters in our world, and in ourselves.

"Wright has long been one of the best-informed American journalists covering the Middle East, and her reputation is born out here....Her book will be essential reading for anybody who wants to know where it is heading." -The New York Times Book Review The transformation of the Middle East is an issue that will absorb-and challenge-the world for generations to come. Dreams and Shadows is the book to read to understand the sweeping political and cultural changes that have occurred in recent decades. Drawing on thirty-five years of reporting in two dozen countries, including Israel, Palestine, Iran, Egypt, and Syria, through wars, revolutions, and uprisings as well as the birth of new democracy movements and a new generation of activists, award-winning journalist and Middle East expert Robin Wright has created a masterpiece of the reporter's art and a work of profound and enduring insight into one of the most confounding areas of the world.

Previously published; newly revised by author I like my women like I like my whiskey: liable to kill me. The two parts of being a paranormal private investigator I could really do without are being forced to eat bananas by an animated statue with a potassium fixation, and being put on trial for murder by a self-appointed council of vampire oligarchs. To be fair, I did kind of do it (the murder, not the bananas). But I was kind of saving my girlfriend, who is kind of one of them. On top of this, I’ve also wound up with a primordial queen of the damned trying to strangle me in my dreams. And the conspiracy of undead wizards who tried to sacrifice me fifteen years ago has decided that now is the best possible time to give it another go. Throw in the woman who left me for a tech start-up, the old girlfriend who I might sort of owe eternal mystical fealty to and a werewolf “it girl” who can’t decide if she wants to eat me in the good way or the bad way, and I’m beginning to think life would be easier if I made better choices. Then again, it’d be a whole lot less fun. This book is approximately 98,000 words

Late at night, tucked away inside the dusty sector of Arrant, Nora is having recurring dreams of her own death. When the Agency suddenly appears at her doorstep, she frantically conducts her panic-induced escape.It's the distant future, a small band of rebels locked inside the city of Constance are the only citizens who can save her life ? by connecting her to their manipulated Dream Machine. As Nora reshapes the premonition of her approaching death, the reality of her current situation is presented. The altered fate inhabitants that occupy the city are being hunted by the leader of the Agency ? who is hard-set on destroying everything threatening his way of life.As her powers of foresight grow stronger, the rebellion positions Nora as the greatest enemy the Agency has ever faced.With her life continually threatened, the potential trapped inside of her mind begins to manifest. From finding new love and friendships to enemies and imprisonment, Nora's fears and desires are exploited time and again.The strengths she finds inside of herself, sealed within the walls of her own mind, are more compelling than she ever could have imagined. DREAMING IN THE SHADOWS has been reviewed as ?Divergent and The Butterfly Effect meet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'.Author Ross Caligiuri has spent most of his life writing and performing within the music industry. Life often is the university that provides us with the tools we need to create.

One winter's night the writer renounced his American dream of building a life in New York City to follow an enigmatic inner voice and embrace an unknown path, which goes on to occasion a life-changing journey in Peru, South America. He experiences the remarkable healing properties of shamanic ceremonies in the Amazon Jungle, the sublime energy of the ancient Inca Citadel of Machu Picchu and the Andes Mountains, the openness of Peruvian villagers and their commendable life-styles in harmony with nature, and friendship of many individuals who 'coincidentally' enter his life at the most appropriate moments to help him integrate the vital changes taking place in his being. Part autobiographical, part travelogue, part philosophical musing and part poetry, wrapped up in language both sensitive to the writer's predicament and lyrically appreciative of the natural world, this book addresses the ethos of the world's current dominant civilizations. It also affirms for many seekers in the world, that it is possible to discover their true path in life and create their own reality based on their version of the absolute truth, which ultimately rests in all of us.

Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years -- to another London, and another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?