MORTAL DESTINATIONS
Newspaper reporter Daniel Gaude passes out on the back deck of his family's lake cabin in Maine and awakens in a hospital, only to discover he is the captive of a strange and intimidating inquisitor. He is rescued by a jovial private investigator, Bill Watt, who recruits Gaude to pursue a shadowy underworld criminal orchestrating church burnings throughout the country, During a fast-paced trek across the continent following obscure and taunting clues, Gaude, Watt, and their loyal cab driver, Sinbad, encounter a panoply of quirky characters and colorful heretics enmeshing them in an ever-more complex series of unlikely coincidences. Gaude's story and fate are intertwined with the journeys of James Parker Doyle, an irreverent government cryptologist; his fiancee, Dr. Katie Moscowicz, a brilliant but disarmingly eccentric political scientist; Reuben Malachi, a renegade poet living on a secluded island in the Lowcountry of South Carolina; a sentient computer buried in the depths of a research lab in Wisconsin; an avant-garde performance artist crossing the country in search of lost youth; and a Machiavellian federal bureaucrat bent on the overthrow of western civilization.
A 21st Century existential thriller awaits you.
Flow
It's not over 'till it's over, and sometimes even then it still isn't over...
Minlik is old, and in these days of privation, the village cannot continue to feed him. He is set on an ice flow and sent out into the sea to die. Contrary to the expectation of both the village and Minlik, he does not perish. Instead, he rides the floe as it travels around the world and as he meets a cast of quirky characters and denizens of the deep who engage him in conversations both ridiculous and sublime. Minlik is also kept company by his peripatetic partner, Death, and his constant advisor, the Sea, who counsel and commiserate with him over the ineffable questions and quandaries of life.
Matter-SubMater TransRegulation
Were you an abysmal failure in High School Algebra class? Yeah, you're not the only one. For those of us still suffering decades later from cold-sweat quadratic equation nightmares and polynomial function nervous twitches, here is the antidote.
A great present for math-lovers and math-haters alike!