Books at Bookhabit.com http://www.bookhabit.com 2008-10-06 19:04:24 "Knowledge is power, David, we must guard it well. ... [Solomon] was not simply collecting the books for their monetary value ... he was collecting them for their inhumanly massive social and intellectual power. Solomon feared these books. He feared what people, reading them, might do." David is born to two mothers in two different worlds. His first mother exists only in the world of myth and history, a barely remembered figure cursed by God. David inhabits this other world in his dreams. Between his dreams and the surreal empire which Solomon, his guardian, is building for him, David struggles to break his myth-mother's curse. Read about the author at fetmilner.com. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=82 "Shhh…I have a secret. I am afraid I killed the best man I ever knew." Thus begins the story of Megan Hardin, a twenty-three year old African American high school English teacher -- known affectionately by her students as 'Miss Beyonce'-- whose questionable relationship with an older, white teacher results in a bizarre suicide that defies understanding to everyone but Megan. As Megan unfolds the mystery of the events that led to the suicide -- her pregnancy at the age of fifteen, her troubles with a philandering husband and a missing father, a trip to a teacher conference in Seattle that includes an airplane accident and an enigmatic hotel room experience that is seemingly part sex, part bacchanalian possession -- it quickly becomes apparent that Megan Hardin is more than merely a passive narrator of the story. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=383 Twelve year-old orphan Chaim Walkowitz arrives in New Zealand from Europe in 1946 and designates the day of his arrival as the date he was born again. He changes his name to Charlie Wellman, rejects his heritage and the malevolent world beyond these distant shores, methodically loses his accent, masters a local one, and lives the life of a 'natural born New Zealander.' But the ensuing thirty-five years sees his South Pacific haven undergo its own racial, social and political confrontations, testing Charlie's faith in his marriage, his European and Polynesian mates, his love of his adopted country, and the use of humour as a shield and weapon to handle the trials and tribulations of his 'new world.' http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=190 This narrative explores personal boundaries and how they define and confine us. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=629 The further frenetic mythopoetic adventures of Coyote in post-modern industrial civilization as he steals a car, invents television, runs for office, works on wall street, goes mouse hunting, and meets interesting new people, like Bombay Chevrolet and Forest Trump, as well as Baglady, Death, Legba, and the New Gods. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=222 The new new Coyote backslides into the bad bad behaviors of the old old Coyote made famous over thousands of years and thousands of fires in American Indian lore. (And you can buy a hard copy of this book for $10 at www.amazon.com or www.3musesbooks) http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=95 What is - love? http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=640 This is a collection of my short stories spanning the years 2003-2008. There is no set genre, and the stories range from humorous to the twisted horror that was so natural when I first started writing. The first story (and one provided free) is a quirky tale about a lad falling for a girl in a shopping centre, and his disastrous attempt to woo her. It is a good example of my writing style but is not the best story in the collection by any means. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=491 Some articles for magazines about a condition of modern digital creativity (on the Internet) http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=728 Synopsis of Dimensions In Ego. Discharged from the peacetime Army, Brad Chance wants fame as a jazz musician and escape from his past. In spite of the danger of discovery, he settles near his hometown and auditions for a local band. As his reputation grows, he's torn between seeking success and having his past discovered. Just when his friendships and a love interest relax his defenses, a revenge fire set by a rival at the club where he works, and a close encounter with his past change his life. He leaves for a large city to work with another band. Once again he builds a solid reputation, but because of his naivete and betrayal by those he trusts most, his life spirals downward into a haze of drugs and wasted talent. Returning to the town where he started, he tries to rebuild his life, but falls into his old habit of hurting the people who care for him. Still haunted by his past, he continues to probe it for answers. Relationships with three women, and old enemies complicate his renewed dedication to his music. A suicide devastates him and drives him from the town. Years later, when he returns for the third time, he realizes he must face his past, his demons, and the friends and lovers he's hurt. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=169 Dried Arrangements is a collection of 32 short stories. Although each story is complete (with a beginning, middle and end), much of what takes place gives context to other stories in the collection. The size of the stories range from about half a page to a few pages in length. The condensed nature of the writing means that descriptions have been reduced to a minimum. Rather, there is an emphasis on impressions of the world which the protagonist must venture into. Extract: "He seemed to flare in the windless night as though caught by a storm of his own making. His drab overcoat was floundering as though he pressed on through the elements. He was a ghost-like figure, he carried a bottle of beer in his hand." http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=419 A collection of poetry from published books, including "Fragments," which was a finalist for the 1994 National Poetry Series. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=117 Young adult,literary, coming of age. Sex, death, regrets. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=144 When artist Wren Strath starts to emerge from a deep coma in a London hospital she is unable to communicate to anyone that she is conscious. Trapped inside a body she cannot control, she is unable to show that she is terrified of an unfamiliar and regular visitor who claims to be her husband. As she struggles to remember her life and 'the accident' which preceded her coma she is afraid of what The Stranger has done to her and her husband and what he is plotting for her future. Good Luck in Water investigates desire, loss and what is real. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=124 Alone in a house by the sea, Leah waits for the presents sent by her brothers from all over the world. When they arrive they open Leah's imagination to tales of love, murder, magic, and hope. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=484 Love - from a scene. Love - to the actor. Love - between the man and the woman. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=684 Being the 332nd cycle of forgetting and remembering, in which Lucifer, the bad angel, dreams his way into being. Synopsis: George Walker is an unemployed astronomer, oblivious to himself, others, and his environment, living in his own ideas. Slowly he acquires self awareness; he indulges his selfish wants, at the expense of others. With little understanding and little power, Walker starts changing. He can swim faster and heal faster. He can become like animals in some ways. He starts to believe that he is more than human, but then he is humbled by those who are more practiced at violence. He reads about the archangel Lucifer and fantasizes that he might be a reincarnation. He gleefully speaks and does evil things, returning violence for violence. However, as he understands more of the Lucifer story, he develops characteristics and emotions that do not seem to be evil. Gradually, his awareness includes the suffering and joy of others, and he becomes more compassionate. He questions whether he has reached the end of his madness or whether this is merely a deeper evil, the expression of the essential Lucifer. Then He learns the value of having a sense of humor; he takes joy in living, playing and dancing. But, he cannot stop being violent, and now he cannot ignore the effects of violence on things he has come to love. He chooses a voluntary exile, for a while. This novel deals with themes of good and evil, dream and reality, and death and renewal. The book traces the development of the protagonist, George Walker. After unemployment, loss, addiction, theft, imprisonment, and rape, Walker comes to identify with the archangel, Lucifer, falling through insanity to otherness, trying violence, persuasion, and then politics to satisfy his expansive purpose. The novel traces the acquisition of full consciousness, from knowledge of distant stars to the inner depths of the mind. It traces the development of an individual beyond violence, beyond the limits of personal and institutional good and evil. The novel presents the other side of horror, beauty and reason beyond ugliness and violence. It presents a mythical dimension beyond the personal. Traditionally a hero's work is the journey to self knowledge; Walker discovers that his self extends far beyond his skin. The novel explores the ambiguity of identity through the metaphor of Lucifer, the son of morning yet the source of evil, the attacker of heaven yet the protector of the earth. The action of tragedy insures that simple intentions do not produce simple results. Through its course, the novel addresses many of the current problems of morality and conservation. Author's Note: Like D. H. Lawrence's novels, this novel is symbolic and moral. It offers a teaching, as well as a little entertainment. The author is not trying to shock or convert, but, like all good preachers, to save. We have deep-seated human problems, of image, of consumption, of exploitation, and of destruction. The world is unhealthy; it is wobbling and falling apart. How can one really write about it without lamentation and sorrow? As a sermon rather than a paean? As a fictional story rather than a lecture? http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=305 Although this is primarily a tale of crime and punishment, weird, dark, and unexpected laughs abound in this deadly serious novel. Insanity involving cats weaves a spell of symbolism in a lateral story. Can nothing stop the beast? What's it all about and who wins the mini war between cat and man? The narrator/protagonist/killer is Nicholas, the straight man of the bunch. He is preoccupied with orderliness to the point of killing; then too, he's responsible for the murders of other women. Murphy is his friend, an ex-con who is perpetually in the wrong place at the wrong time. When a crime is committed in their own neighborhood, Murphy is the logical choice to take the rap. The novel deals with Nicholas' feelings over inadvertently getting his friend in trouble and also spells out his attempts to not only cover his own crime, but to get Murphy safely off the hook. But safety is not to be for the poor, hard-luck bastard Murphy, who's on the superhighway to death row. There is another major player in this drama, old man Nailor, a gossip who is at the top of his game and who disseminates information to deadly effect, often making the news. It's an amazing truth that a single bit of information, totally unfounded, can indeed become fact. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=53 Best [Rejected] Short Stories on the Continent [Antarctica]. Stories such as The Hecathlon: Making the Greatest Athlete in the World, Judge Vandergelt's Decision, Five Imperfections, The Drug Clinic, Blaming Artemis, Going East, Famous Irish Bars, Bluebirds, The Mouse, Nothing, Sociogeology, Astrophysical Golf, The Science of Figitology, and Masks. Dedicated to Benjamin Turnaday, author of Masks. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=410 A woman, newly rich and famous, survives a plane crash in the Western Pacific, and, washing up on a tropical paradise is rescued by a marooned gun runner. After reconciling their two different worlds they must survive the perils that life places in their path for evil is headed their way, and an even bigger question, can their relationship survive the rigors of the modern outside world? http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=490 For the past 160 years, giant birds have been reported in the skies above the Black Forest region of northern Pennsylvania. Now, it's up to one man and one woman, to find out where they came from, and where they've gone. Failed Ph.D. candidate and erstwhile assistant museum curator Ian McQuade is rescued by cartographer Alma Del Nephites, after an ill-fated expedition into the Amazon Basin. They travel to meet the enigmatic CEO of a secretive organization, where the two are given the opportunity to seek out proof of the existence of thunderbirds. A madman's journal will lead them into the heart of a 700 year-old mystery, where cutting edge technology designed to locate and identify such creatures will collide with an ancient power that has hidden and protected them for centuries. Ian must face his past, in order to believe in a future that couldn't possibly exist. With lightning in their eyes and thunder in their wings, who will control the fate and destiny of the thunderbirds? http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=1035 Crossing over color-lines, LiNCOLN PARK's fecund fables and prolific parables of modern, Africentric episodes are heralded by a colossal and mounting faction of fervent, mainstream literati. THE BREVITY OF THE SELVES is the second publication of her adored anecdotes. All the way through this mesmeric tale, readers weave in-and-out of larger-than-life chronicles with the central character, Candace Odom. Candace's story is revealed to readers as a sequential saga of epic extent. Readers find themselves trapped in the heroine's convoluted universe and climbing out via packed pages of adventure, countenance, deviance, exuberance and tenacity. With invigorating wit, Park easily and expertly stretches her readers' imaginations over her literary loom; weaving yet, another yarn of pure, AFRoPuLP genius! http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=556 Crystal-clear and sincere stories about surprising events in a life of usual people http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=727 What is - creativity? http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=641 The familiar stranger Mixailov Connection is impossible Akma Dream phenomenon Not considered As sex-symbols marry The hope dies first Margo, you have gone mad Metamorphosis http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=768 Set in America and the Middle East in the early 1990's, The Feminine Art is the story of Suham, a married woman who distracts herself from boredom by trying to find her nephew, Michael, a wife. The perfect bride happens to be in Baghdad. As the arranged wedding takes a shape of its own, Suham and Michael are challenged to face the truths within themselves that had been kept hidden behind tradition and illusion. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=691 Mervat was born in Iraq as a minority Christian and came to America at age two. Torn between her cultural heritage which dates back over 7300 years and the new land of freedom and opportunity, she watches friends live an Americanized lifestyle while she clings onto Middle Eastern traditions, all along yearning for the courage to follow her own path, to "Trust thyself," as Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasized. Then she meets Johnny, the perfect potential suitor, but he brings along multiple complications. As their relationship faces its challenges, Mervat's desire for having individuality while maintaining her tribal lifestyle escorts her to the discovery of unexpected cultures and beliefs. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=573 The Gin Mill is a raw and candid account of a young female adult desperate to free herself from her mundane life and open up a jazz club. The story explores her dreams as well as the relationships she has with neighbours, family, lovers and various employers. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=195 To escape the military under Saddam's harsh regime, Amel flees Baghdad after the Gulf War, just before his eighteenth birthday. Smart choice! He illegally immigrates into Athens, where he meets his first adversities-one of which is a boss captivated by women and trees, the other a roommate who switches price stickers on grocery products to charge Amel more money. Amel's world changes when Dunia, his American cousin and the love of his life, comes to Greece for a semester. His struggles to win her love and his attempts to make it to America lead Amel to his true fate and his adulthood. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=692 Seymour Petrillo, Constance Powers and Irving Hanhart. Three protagonists' from vastly different backgrounds intimately share a very public secret. One therapist who impacts them all. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=374 Go to www.mattfullerty.com The Pride and the Sorrow is a novel currently with London literary agent James Wills of www.watsonlittle.com. It is the story of Paul Morphy, born in New Orleans as a chess prodigy, his famous journey through Europe and his ultimate downfall on and off the chessboard. He is celebrated in fashionable European society, honored by Napoleon III of France and Queen Victoria of England and returns to New Orleans a local celebrity, only to find Civil War looming, a storm brewing in his family and his own mind coming apart... Listen to Matt here http://www.bookhabit.com/newsdetail.php?nid=48 http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=459 The Thesis unfolds as an archetypal quest-for knowledge leading out of ignorance. The protagonist, Walter Cant, is a student in a state university. He is trapped on one level of the American dream (similar to Dante's Hell). When his world disintegrates around him-his thesis is rejected, he is forced from his job, his girlfriend leaves-he fights back. Desperate when his work is rejected, he appeals to an academic hearing board, but the prejudice and slander he receives from the board is worse than the rejection from his committee. The novel is narrated by a librarian, who fills her frustration with anagram word games and fantasies. As the protagonist is rejected by the hearing board, he proceeds up the academic ladder from dean to faculty council, vice president and finally president. At each step his purpose is derailed. When Cant's academic actions have the opposite effect-escalating name-calling and rejection-he goes outside the university for help, to the board of regents and governor, then newspapers. When those tactics fail, he sends his thesis out to other universities and then to publishers. Cant learns to be slow and contemplative. The thesis is published, after which the university awards the degree to silence Kant. Having discovered his identity and its contradictions, he finds reconciliation in simple, physical work, such as cutting wood. Everything, however, remains the same. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=479 The Victors is a novel jointly written by father and son - fiction writer Bryan Nelson Kelly and his 19-year old son, Daniel John - whose variegated styles of concrete and magic realism weave and overlap to tell the story of family, love for Michigan, and the chance we get to live with what we win and what we lose. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=317 In 1979 Sukie and Chris Lang adopted a baby girl in Seoul, Korea, not knowing she was probably one or two years older than her birth certificate stated. From the moment the couple first held the child, she was lethargic and weak, and showed signs of an eating disorder. As the years progressed, her behavior became more erratic and difficult to understand with wild stories of abuse that didn't seem possible. Thinking their daughter was possessed, the Langs turned toward their church for help. After several failed exorcisms and suicide attempts, they took the child to a psychologist who diagnosed her as having Multiple Personality Disorder. This House Divided is the narrative account of the Lang's true experience. Unable to find a psychologist who could take her child on as a long-term client, Sukie became concerned that Karmie's bewildering disorder would become even more complicated as she continued to develop new personalities. So, Sukie dropped her career in the financial world and pursued a Master of Arts in Counseling in order to become her own daughter's counselor. This House Divided is an intensely emotional mother-daughter drama about a family that cracks under stress, then pulls together under a new and unusual definition of family. It is a story of religious faith maturing from reliance on pat answers into a deep and healing strength. And, in the end, it is a story about healing from MPD. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=165 In the U.S. Geological Survey, there are over 100 tribal and 2300 location names, in the United States alone, for a creature that walks in myth and legend throughout the 25,000 square miles of the Pacific Northwest. As a young boy on a family camping trip, 9 year old Ian McQuade encountered one of the giant, apelike beings. The experience changed his life forever, limiting his academic prospects and ruining his professional career. Now, twenty years later, an anthroplogist and a Ph.D. in his own right, Dr. McQuade sets out on an urgent mission for Cyril Pritchard and the Chimaera Foundation in pursuit of Bigfoot, without partner Alma Del Nephites. In the process, two of the greatest mysteries about Bigfoot will be uncovered, in a desperate race against time. One must remain a secret at all costs. The other must be revealed, before it is too late... http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=1036 Two diaries, 2 artists, 2 lives, with 3 tragedies, 4 repeats, 5 careers, 6 directions, 7 forms, 8 friends, 9 paintings, 29 animals, 35 lies, and 10,000 nights. This is an excavation, through journals and letters, of the history of Katherine Chardin and Michael Walter, both artists dedicated to creating meaningful expressions. It chronicles their experience, the surprises and losses, sorrows and joys. Michael is thrown out of school; a semester later, Katherine loses her fellowship. They get jobs, as a secretary and janitor, then work their way up to professional positions, as editors. They buy twenty acres and a home, build gardens, and plant trees. They start a design business part-time, designing and typesetting poetry and children's books. Their love develops as they explore their imaginations and capabilities. Are they angels or monsters? Then, the stress of family, layoffs, secrets, and new careers alters their love and its expression. Then, catastrophes tear apart their lives. Even their beloved home is lost. What is left but words? (A hardcopy of this book can be purchased at www.3musesbooks.com or at www.xlibris.com) http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=372 Along the coastal waterways of Georgia's tidal marshes, there lives a monster that makes the Altamaha River its home. Over 20 feet in length, with a snakelike head atop its long neck, the Altamaha-ha has been sighted dozens of times by those who live along its namesake. A pregnant female struggles to return upriver and give birth. She is bound by those who captured her before, and pursued by others who already killed her mate for where she can lead them. A place marked as the abode of dragons by the Tama Indians, it is also the location of a treasure buried in the final days of the Confederacy. Drawn to the river and caught up in events centuries in the making, Ian becomes the unwitting pawn in a quest for world domination. He soon learns of his link to the Altamaha-ha, and that he must save it, if he is to save himself. Aided only by a few colorful locals, McQuade must defeat the enemies of the Foundation, before its technology is turned into a doomsday device. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=1037 Look, just forget it. You're not going to understand it, you're not going to like it you're not going to get it. All it's going to do is draw you into a morass of things you don't want to think about and probably make you quite unhappy. Your best bet is to go off and read one of the other books on this nascent site. Oh, on top of that you only get 'book 1' when you purchase it. You really get screwed if you buy this book! http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=37 The book is designed for you, the Yoga aspirant. It reveals how Yoga began. It tells the story of yoga’s journey to the Western countries and describes its concepts of human existence  in a profound, yet narrative style. It shows you the significance of the body-mind-spirit trinity, the essence of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and the meaning of the chakras.  It outlines many splendorous yogic paths of Vedic or Tantric origin and gives an compact, yet accurate description of Ayurveda, India’s ancient spiritual-medical system that is intrinsically linked to Yoga.  Once one is enriched with the spiritual knowledge and wisdom one cannot be on the yoga mat anymore with the same superficial approach.  When the content of the book is established in the subconscious, the practice of yoga will move to a deeper dimension and will result in a true detoxification of old habits and patterns. Then, by itself, a transformational journey will begin for the many, and for the few, the journey will become an ongoing transcending one. Elise Everarda, as a true friend, gently unveils the ‘mysteries’ of Yoga, the ancient forerunner of a truly holistic lifestyle. She skillfully combines accuracy with accessibility and helps the reader to understand the meaning of the new household words such as, Ohm, Dharma and Karma, Body-Mind and Spirit, Chakras, Kundalini, Tantra and Ayurveda and the many different Yoga Paths.  Elise is a devout Yoga aspirant herself and a variety of mystical experiences have gifted her, and encouraged her, to share in precise language her profound knowledge and experiences in a non-intrusive way.  Each and every chapter is like a meeting point of knowledge and opens you up to the awareness that http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=1083