A young, would be author moves to a strange trailer park/Harley repair in northwest California, to write the great American novel. He encounters a group of strange people, has several failed relationships and is a witness to a war between the government and the forests in this satire on modern life. Meet this cast of odd characters.

The adventures and reflections of a solitary wanderer as he travels along the west coast.He realizes that each experience in life is a universe unto itself, each moment an eternity. Whether catching the perfect wave, paddling silently in misty fjords, hiking through shaded redwood groves, speeding through winding canyons on a motorcycle or simply watching a banana slug inching along a trail, the moment is everything, and life is a celebration.This is a poignant and playful love affair with life and with the land that educated and enriched him.

"The Forging of the Cosmic Race" challenges the widely held notion that Mexico's colonial period is the source of many of that country's ills. The authors contend that New Spain was neither feudal nor pre-capitalists as some Neo-Marxist authors have argued. Instead they advance two central themes: that only in New Spain did a true mestizo society emerge, integrating Indians, Europeans, Africans, and Asians into a unique cultural mix; and that colonial Mexico forged a complex, balanced, and integrated economy that transformed the area into the most important and dynamic part of the Spanish empire. The revisionist view is based on a careful examination of all the recent research done on colonial Mexican history. The study begins with a discussion of the area's rich pre-Columbian heritage. It traces the merging of two great cultural traditions—the Meso-american and the European—which occurred as a consequence of the Spanish conquest. The authors analyze the evolution of a new mestizo society through an examination of the colony's institutions, economy, and social organization. The role of women and of the family receive particular attention because they were critical to the development of colonial Mexico. The work concludes with an analysis of the 18th century reforms and the process of independence which ended the history of the most successful colony in the Western hemisphere. The role of silver mining emerges as a major factor of Mexico's great socio-economic achievement. The rich silver mines served as an engine of economic growth that stimulated agricultural expansion, pastoral activities, commerce, and manufacturing. The destruction of the silver mines during the wars of Independence was perhaps the most important factor in Mexico's prolonged 19th century economic decline. Without the great wealth from silver mining, economic recovery proved extremely difficult in the post-independence period. These reverses at the end of the colonial epoch are important in understanding why Mexicans came to view the era as a "burden" to be overcome rather than as a formative period upon which to build a new nation.

Wanda Waffle is a single mother of twins. In order to get any help from her ex-husband, she would first have to obtain an advanced degree in crypto zoology. In case you don't know what that is, it is the study of creatures that do not exist, like Big Foot, Sasquatch, the Abominable Snowman, the Yeti, the Chupacabra, the Loch Ness Monster, the Thunder Bird, the Jersey Devil, and Willie Waffle, her fugitive ex-husband who, much like D. B. Cooper, might as well not exist because he couldn't be found. Wanting to make a better life for her children, she moves from the East Village in Manhattan to the small Victorian coastal town named Big Water, where during a period of unemployment in the 1970's she starts to write a book out of sheer desperation. Thirty years later she finds the old manuscript in a trunk. It was written at a time of rampant unemployment, a falling dollar, and high gas prices. It sounded just like today!

Here There Be Dragons! An impossible dream comes true when Yther’s monarch Coleus shows up on Earth, seeking the help of Abby and her friends once again. It turns out an evil goddess calling herself the Nightmare Queen has cast a spell of eternal sleep on all the people of Yther, and there is only one way to reverse it. Led by Coleus and guided by a mysterious immortal hiker named Olf, the three human teenagers are taken to a bizarre cluster of worlds known as the Dragon Zones. Here, they must battle twenty ferocious dragons in twenty wondrous and amazing realms, on their quest to retrieve to power of the legendary Cosmic Core and use it to save Yther.

This narrative concerns the adventures of one of the agents of the planet Zoam which is one of the planets of the solar system of the star Zumm. Three of the planets of Zumm have intelligent life in spite of the differing surface temperatures of the three planets. There are of course many stars in this sector of the galaxy and because of the huge distances separating various planets concerned communication between them is somewhat sporadic.