What begins as an experiment in enlightenment becomes a battle over who will control the future of human consciousness.(T)here is a consciousness-expanding novel that asks what would happen if human beings were offered an artificial path to enlightenment in a world still ruled by money and power.A drug invented by Dwayne Erman, an altruistic rogue chemist, allows for enlightening experiences in a hypnagogic state. But it's never quite life-changing because very little is re...

In this absurd but tender comedic novella, nineteen-year-old Taylor Morrison lives in a small town where very little happens. He spends his days wondering if life has somehow forgotten to begin. One day he meets Rainy Robinson, a sharp-tongued runaway with a notebook full of secrets and a talent for turning every simple situation into a complicated one.What follows is a hilarious rain-soaked road trip involving gold coins, cheap motels, abandoned dreams, and Uncle Jimmy—a former po...

Beyond Henry is a philosophical novella that begins as a quirky love story. But its final chapters turn the entire book into something much stranger.The story opens with a person experiencing the birth of a beautiful relationship, and ends with the birth of the same person becoming... someone else.Henry is charming. He loves boats. He hates where he lives. He considers escaping day-to-day life by sailing straight out to sea. Then Valerie comes into his life, and the book be...

This novella is written as a personal journal. The story follows a writing teacher's restless search for beauty, love, and the mysterious force the Greeks called Eros.The writer's girlfriend, Miranda, is more than happy to join him. She has her own journal, and her own way of looking at the world. While he is cynical and constantly complaining about what he sees, struggling to make sense of why they came to Greece in the first place, Miranda writes things like, "Ah, rose, your peta...

How can you access the best version of yourself, day to day, moment by moment?This book is an amalgam of parables and consciousness games to help you get control of yourself! (As much as is humanly possible.)It borrows ideas from various sources, including spiritual teachers, poets, therapists, Abraham Lincoln, the Declaration of Independence, and a Chinese chef from Berkeley. (Thank you, Mr. Shem.)

Two college kids looking for some fun on their summer break invent an internet scam.James and Sunny are in love, and bored, and think to themselves, let's make up a way to improve the life of every human being on Earth, by scaring them into it. They make up a voice from another dimension named Zolar.As their newly named prophet spreads his message across the internet and grows into a global movement, the story shifts from satire into something far stranger—the fragile line ...

A teenager named Mayor has no idea what he wants to do with his life. College feels wrong. Careers sound like traps. The future looks like a long series of obligations he has no interest in fulfilling.Then he meets Ruth.Mayor wants Ruth to ditch her plans of going to college so they can run off together. He dreams of adventure and escape.But Ruth refuses to leave with him. She wants to go to college and find her own path. Mid-semester, Mayor comes to her college una...

Shannon attends a typical college in a typical college town, neither of which he cares enough to name. He's a wannabe hedonist. He shrugs off his girlfriend's affair with a history teacher because he feels like at his age he's supposed to be too young to care. His cynicism about school and life is hilariously easy to relate to. But the book belongs to Clair.
Clair is a comedic school rebel who makes Shannon laugh, then makes him wonder where the joke is leading, because too often t...

In a future where humanity has scientifically conquered disease and physical death, Timshel leaves behind a civilization that has solved nearly every practical problem. Yet one question remains unanswered: What is the true nature of existence?Seeking answers, he journeys into a mysterious realm known as The Beyond, where ordinary assumptions about reality begin to unravel. Joined by two companions, a scientist named Lesam and a woman named Abrann, they each pursue their own path to...

European politics has been reshaped in recent decades by a dual process of centralization and decentralization. At the same time that authority in many policy areas has shifted to the suprantional level of the European Union, so national governments have given subnational regions within countries more say over the lives of their citizens. At the forefront of scholars who characterize this dual process as Omulti-level governance,OLiesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks argue that its emergence in the...

Can love survive fame? Fame seeks recognition. Love seeks privacy, quiet moments, and a life small enough to feel real.Adam and Jenna fell in love before the world fell in love with her.She started as Adam's roadie, helping him set up for local gigs around San Francisco. From there she became a superstar performing Adam's songs around the world.They try to stay sane and centered inside a system that encourages each of them to become larger than life.Eventual...

As for the book's title—no, Don did not change his name.It's the other thing.Don, our narrator and the writer of this absurd comedy novella, is literally illiterate. Everything he does turns into an unmitigated disaster.He names his dog Whoosh because of how fast he can chase cars.His girlfriend, Katie, the love of his life, isn't real.And his manipulative ex-wife, Windi, has a new boyfriend named Z—a bodybuilder who works at a gym and is in no mood ...