SANCTUARY IN THE CLOUDS and other stories. is a collection of three novella length stories, each dealing with a different time and setting. The Long Weekend.... is the fourth story in the series that follows Ronnie Littlewood, a retired clubland comedian, now employed by a prestigious Entertainment Agency as a troubleshooter/liaison between the various venues in the industrial area of Central England. The Seventh Key.... is not so much an ‘Who Done It’ more of a ‘We Know Who Done It....We Just Have To Prove It,’ And so, two concerned individuals take up the challenge to do just that. Sanctuary In The Clouds.... is the story of an impressionable young couple in the psychedelic 60’s, who have their somewhat idyllic world shattered by a series of strange events, which ultimately leaves them with a responsibility that changes their lives forever. Cover illustration... Wheat Field With Cypresses Vincent Van Gogh

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Co-founder of the Women's March makes her YA debut in a near future dystopian where a young girl and her brother must escape a xenophobic government to find sanctuary. It's 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked--from buses to grocery stores. It's almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant, but that's exactly what sixteen-year-old Vali is doing. She and her family have carved out a stable, happy life in small-town Vermont, but when Vali's mother's counterfeit chip starts malfunctioning and the Deportation Forces raid their town, they are forced to flee. Now on the run, Vali and her family are desperately trying to make it to her tía Luna's in California, a sanctuary state that is currently being walled off from the rest of the country. But when Vali's mother is detained before their journey even really begins, Vali must carry on with her younger brother across the country to make it to safety before it's too late. Gripping and urgent, co-authors Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher have crafted a narrative that is as haunting as it is hopeful in envisioning a future where everyone can find sanctuary.

♥♥ The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary by Karl Von Eckartshausen ♥♥ Karl von Eckhartshausen was an 18th century German mystic who wrote extensively on esoteric topics. This work, The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary, is Christian mysticism veiled in hermetic code. Eckhartshausen was briefly a member of the Bavarian Illuminati, but left for spiritual reasons. ♥♥ The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary by Karl Von Eckartshausen ♥♥ He cryptically mentions a 'society of the Elect' which has existed from the very beginning of time, 'the invisible celestial Church.' ♥♥ The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary by Karl Von Eckartshausen ♥♥ He predicted that 'it is the society whose members form a theocratic republic, which one day will be the Regent Mother of the whole World.' This book later influenced the Order of the Golden Dawn, and most notably, Aleister Crowley.

Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection – The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate. Translated by Isabel de Steige, Introduction by A.E. Waite What if all the great religious, philosophical, social, and economic movements were part of a master plan facilitated by secret chiefs for the benefit of evolution toward godhead? The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary by Karl von Eckartshausen is the document that introduced this concept to the 19th century occult communities. It is the work that inspired Aleister Crowley to pursue the Golden Dawn and magick.

Gavin MacKenzie, a chieftain heir who is hired to restore the ancient Castle of Braigh, discovers a hidden village of outcasts who have created their own private sanctuary from the world. Among them is Serena Boyd, a mysterious and comely lass, who captures Gavin's heart in spite of harboring a deadly past that could destroy her future. The villagers happen to be keeping an intriguing secret as well, and when a fierce enemy launches an attack against them, greed leads to bitter betrayal. Then, as Gavin prepares a defense, the villagers unite in a bold act of faith, showing how God's love is more powerful than any human force on earth.

In 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico. Jonathan Robbins, a reputed American sailor who had been impressed into service, made his way to American shores. President John Adams bowed to Britain’s request for his extradition. Convicted of murder and piracy by a court-martial in Jamaica, Robbins was hanged. Adams’s catastrophic miscalculation ignited a political firestorm, only to be fanned by Robbins’s failure to receive his constitutional rights of due process and trial by jury by an American court. American Sanctuary brilliantly lays out in riveting detail the story of how the Robbins affair, amid the turbulent presidential campaign of 1800, inflamed the new nation and set in motion a constitutional crisis, resulting in Adams’s defeat and Thomas Jefferson’s election as the third president of the United States. Robbins’s martyrdom led directly to the country’s historic decision to grant political asylum to foreign refugees—a major achievement in fulfilling the promise of American independence.

Selected by Barry Hannah as the 1996 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.