This passionate love story is set in the picturesque village of Valle Crucis in the North Carolina mountains. Within the warm embrace of Abby Dunbar and among his many friends in the Valle Crucis community, the Reverend Jeffery Peterson heals the scars from a failed ministry and psychological trauma. The love story is fun and engaging, and the spiritual ideas are explosive. While readers from the Christian right will burn Jeff’s Journey, the millions of Americans searching for new forms of meaning will feel they have finally come home.

A world at once familiar and unimaginably strange exists all around us, and within us – it is the vast realm of consciousness. In The Head Trip, science journalist Jeff Warren explores twelve distinct, natural states of consciousness available to us in a twenty-four-hour day, each state offering its own kind of knowledge and insight – its own adventure. The hypnagogic state, when our minds hover between waking and sleeping, can be a rich source of creativity and even compassion. Then there’s the Watch, an almost magical waking experience in the middle of the night that has been all but lost to electric light and modern sleep patterns. Daydreaming and trance, lucid dreaming, the Zone, and the Pure Conscious Event – from sleep laboratory to remote northern cabin, neurofeedback clinic to Buddhist retreat, Warren visits them all. Along the way, he talks to neuroscientists, chronobiologists, anthropologists, monks, and many others who illuminate his stories with cutting-edge science and age-old wisdom. On this trip, all are welcome and no drugs are required: all you need to pack are a functioning cerebrum and an open mind. Replete with stylish graphics and brightened by comic panels conceived and drawn by the author, The Head Trip is an instant classic, a brilliant and original description of the shifting experience of consciousness that’s also a practical guide to enhancing creativity and mental health. This book does not just inform and entertain – it shows how every one of us can expand upon the ways we experience being alive.

A motivational and empowering story of a young boys battle with rare cancer and how his life was saved by traveling from the U.K. to the US with help from the thin blue line.

After a tragic accident took the life of his wife and son, Jeff needed a miracle. This personal and poignant journey into the life after death shares the true story of Jeff's out-of-body experiences and his newly remembered ability to communicate at a deeper level with people on both sides of the veil. It's a moving read you won't want to miss!

Becoming the parent of a ‘’special child” can be a devastating event. It can also open doors you had never wished to enter, bring deeper friendships than you ever imagined, and give you love and joy you did not know exists. While encountering many challenges, the journey with Jeff has been one of unexpected environments, people and blessings. “Every mother faces unexpected obstacles on her parenting journey. But what seems like an obstacle at first glance can actually be an unforeseen blessing. Such is the case for Linda Farris when her son, Jeff, was born. Linda shares her experience raising a child with disabilities and offers an honest and hopeful perspective that can benefit every family.” —Karyn Tunks, Ph.D. is an author and professor emeritus at University of South Alabama “Jeff’s words are his own but he speaks a language all can understand. He speaks of joy and passion before our Lord. None can understand better than his mother.” —Bryant Evans, Minister, —Eastern Shore Church of Christ, Daphne, Alabama “Linda Farris addresses her greatest life challenges and how she turns difficulty into positive life lessons. Fortunately for us, she possesses a charming writing style for which to share he life’s challenges in a way we can enjoy.” —Bob Zeanah, author of the Sugar Bear series. “Jeffrey’s enthusiasm and heart is a gift to us all. It is a joy to know him and his family. I am honored to be his physician. —Dr. Andrew Dukes

Jeff, hero, anti-hero, becomes aware of himself pitted against the world, his world of Three Forks, Montana, 1923. His saga, his journey started in real time, then in his "time machine" goes back to his life of wonder with his Grandparents on their Homestead. Then back to reality vs his Time Warp. Each like a new adventure carries him forward and back with joy and hope. He never gives up his marvel of life. Sailing without a rudder through his ocean of wonder he had no direction until tragedy tempered his shapeless goals to awaken in him meaning and direction for living. Once motivated he never loses sight of his tethered goal. His trail becomes steep and rocky but deters him not as each new day still is a new adventure to wet his joy for living.

Mystery White Boy Blues is a haunting exploration of the life, death and legacy of a truly unique artist. Jeff Buckley emerged from a bland suburban background to become the most ecstatically received singer-songwriter of the mid-nineties. More than ten years after his tragic accidental death, Jeff's myth lost none of its potency. Steeped in melancholia and excess, burning ambition and doomed youth, the narrative of Jeff's life proves as captivating as his voice.

Television's Community follows the shenanigans of a diverse group of traditional and nontraditional community college students: Jeff Winger, a former lawyer; Britta Perry, a feminist; Abed Nadir, a pop culture enthusiast; Shirley Bennett, a mother; Troy Barnes, a former jock; Annie Edison, a naive overachiever; and Pierce Hawthorne, an old-fashioned elderly man. There are also Benjamin Chang, the maniacal Spanish teacher, and Craig Pelton, the eccentric dean of Greendale Community College, along with well-known guest stars who play troublemaking students, nutty professors and frightening administrators. This collection of fresh essays familiarizes readers not only with particular characters and popular episodes, but behind-the-scenes aspects such as screenwriting and production techniques. The essayists explore narrative theme, hyperreality, masculinity, feminism, color blindness, civic discourse, pastiche, intertextuality, media consciousness, how Community is influenced by other shows and films, and how fans have contributed to the show.

better lands: The Southbound Journey is the second book in a five-book suspense series. The world has fallen to its knees from an ongoing 4-year pandemic, but the story is not about its weaknesses. Rather about the strengths of human struggles trying to maintain relationships through the course of survival as some Burlington, Vermont survivors go on a tempestuous foot journey to an inland peninsula in Kentucky that professes to be virus-free. Friendships, romance, controversies, violence, and death become staples of the new world. The first book introduced 16-year-old Rosa Wells, a privileged and sheltered only child who lost both parents to the pandemic. After surviving almost being sexually victimized by someone close (Mr. Chuso), she gained her footing, joined a tent community, and eventually moved into a leadership role, partly by killing enemies. After much research on an inland peninsula in KY that professed to be virus-free, Rosa and four Vermont teams of 100 each is chosen to take the initial journey, traveling a week behind each other. Book one followed each of them through the Fort Drum Army base. THE SOUTHBOUND JOURNEY closely follows the teams as they travel through 3 hub locations in Ohio: Cleveland, Ashland, & Cincinnati. The travelers continue to face new friendships, controversies, deceit, violence, and death along their journey as other outsiders join the migration teams. A few folks step up to the plate with stronger leadership abilities. Discover if Rosa is able to maintain her position or become more of an underlying leader.