Experience the history of the San Francisco Bay Area, its mythology, the nostalgia of post-World War II culture, the promise and challenges of today's society, and a future shaped in part by what is happening right now from San Francisco to Silicon Valley.Drawing on his life in Northern California, Dennis Venturoni's writing blends local history and cultural nostalgia with personal recollections and reflections on humanity's future. His poetry extends themes explored in his previou...

A post 9/11 love story for the ages. Southwest Florida, 2003. Rena Helmsworth, a technical writer with the newly-formed Department of Homeland Security, hires private investigator Dean Treadwell to look into a domestic terrorist cell known as Infinity that is pressuring her for highly classified information. As they work together, Rena and the detective fall into a lusty romance as steamy as Florida summer nights.Her third week on the job, Rena is approached by a m...

Some things die. Some things disappear. And some things remain.Forever Nevermore, the third edition of the Nevermore anthology series, returns to the dark places where memory, death, and mystery collide. Within these pages, new voices tell stories of restless spirits, forgotten lives, impossible encounters, ancient shadows, and the secrets that refuse to stay buried.These are stories about what we lose—and what refuses to leave us. About love that ...

Requiem for What RemainsPoems from the DarkSome losses never leave us.They settle into the quiet spaces of our lives, lingering in empty rooms, old photographs, fading voices, and memories we cannot bring ourselves to release.Requiem for What Remains is a haunting anthology of poetry exploring grief, mortality, love, regret, and the fragile distance between those who leave and those who remain.Within th...

In our rapidly evolving digital landscape, our lives are changed in ways we frequently fail to notice. We work faster and longer, but at what cost? This book explores seven pivotal terms-Authenticity, Buzzfeed, Connectivity, Device, Environment, Instagram, and Productivity-that define our digital interactions and reshape our consciousness. But there's hope. For each term, Cali introduces a counter-term-Accompaniment, Beauty, Communitas, Dasein, Encounter, Inscape, and Presence-that guides ...

In a future Japan reshaped by ecological collapse and runaway technology, the four traditional seasons have vanished. In their place rise new and haunting seasons: Oil Tides, Chemical Clouds, Nuclear Bloom, and other strange cycles of life and decay. Amid the ruins and reinventions of nature, six intelligent species--humans, cyborgs, mutants, robots, AI consciousnesses, and monkeys--turn to haiku to make sense of their fractured world.This is their saijiki, a compendium of seasonal...

Do you often walk away from conversations feeling drained, misunderstood, or wishing you'd spoken up? Or worse-does anger flare up, completely blocking you from resolving the issue?It's a frustrating cycle. You try to speak your mind, but you either passive-aggressively hold it back, or it explodes into a conflict. Whether you are dealing with a defensive spouse, a toxic family member, or a difficult coworker, failing to communicate effectively ruins your peace of mind and kills yo...

The remarkable story of how Frederick Douglass went from condemning the Constitution as a proslavery pact to celebrating it as a “glorious liberty document” that promises freedom to everyoneThe speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass contain some of the most probing examinations ever of the role that slavery played in America’s founding. In Frederick Douglass’s American Founding, Dennis Rasmussen traces the great abolitionist’s intellectual journey fro...

A love story like no other. Things are not what they seem at the lake resort where Cal meets Lauren. She is caring for her stroke-addled father. Cal is getting over his failed marriage. As they fall for each other, supernatural events occur involving the loons that populate the lake. Cal and Lauren have entered the Twilight Zone. The bizarre twist ending is sure to shake your soul."A lovely and involving book about very real people with ordinary but universal human concerns . . . l...

Would you like a tool in your hands that will give you a thorough understanding of the food truck business?Do you want to know the main mistakes to avoid and immediately succeed in your next business?The food truck business represents an irresistible income opportunity today. With obvious fast-growing numbers in recent months, this could be your next business to make money from what you love. First, however, you need to have an original idea in this busines...

If you have an equation that accurately predicts observation, then you have validated your theory.In 1915, Einstein gave us General Relativity—and it is fantastic! No one in the last 111 years has disproved it, yet no one has truly explained why it works, how it works, or what gravity truly is.In 2026, I used AI to help reverse-engineer General Relativity and solve it down to its simplest form. By ascertaining G,c,h are natural units they cancel out because they are the prope...

After Midnight is a deeply personal narrative that explores a pivotal and often overlooked chapter of Southern history through the lens of memory, place, and lived experience. Centered on the complex history and cultural significance of the Parchman Natchez M, this book blends firsthand reflection with historical context to illuminate how a powerful institution shaped individuals, families, and communities across generations. Written in a vivid, narrative style, it moves beyond dates and h...