Juke Box Karma: One writer's search for something real is ‘a search for meaning by a writer coming of age at a time when this elusive prize seemed the object most worthy of pursuit...’ Follow poet, playwright and screenwriter James Vollmar as he shares his journey from the small Northamptonshire town of his childhood through the black-and-white world of radio request shows, early TV and seaside holidays in 1960’s Cromer, with its magical juke box, to the colour, chaos and cultural ferment of 1970’s London and beyond. In the wake of the deaths of both his parents, and drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, the Beatles, William Blake and Ken Dodd, Vollmar explores a philosophical landscape of religion, politics, rationalism and alternative culture in search of ‘something real’. Blending personal memoir and cultural commentary with philosophical enquiry, Juke Box Karma: One writer's search for something real is a journey in every sense of the word and will appeal to all interested in the culture of the 1960s and 1970s.

Monica Reinhart is a good girl. A hometown girl. After college, she returned to Brogan’s Point to help run the family business, an oceanfront inn. She’s never had a wild idea in her life. When Ty Cronin sails into town, his wildness intrigues her. When the jukebox plays “Wild Ideas,” that wildness infects her, and soon she finds herself doing things she never would have imagined. But Ty could be big trouble. She hardly knows him. She mustn’t trust him. Yet once she’s taken a walk on the wild side with him, how can she go back to being a good hometown girl?

Brogan’s Point police detective Sam Harper needs to find out who’s sending Cali Bowen threatening emails. Cali grew up on a commune. Sam is a New York City transplant. She’s stir-fried tofu; he’s red meat and French fries. But her idealism touches him, and he’s determined to nail the creep who’s harassing her. Sam wants to save Cali, but Cali believes Sam is the one who needs saving. She senses a dark wound inside him, a deep sorrow. She knows she could bring balance and serenity into his life, if only he’d open his mind and his heart. Sam and Cali both need rescuing. When the Magic Jukebox plays "Rescuer," the song’s magical power gathers them within its spell.

A Louisiana farmer is jailed for the murder, 30 years earlier, of a black civil rights leader. The farmer claims he is innocent and asks Dave Robicheaux, the sheriff's deputy, to help him prove it. Not easy, as it suits a lot of people to have the case closed.

Jukebox Johnny presents 1,001 of his best trivia questions about all of your favorite performers from the Golden Age of Rock & Roll. The questions in this book will thrill, entertain, amuse, and stump you! Even hard core fans will learn new tidbits about their favorite performers and how they came to make the music that they did. Come on, take this challenge, and find out just how much you really know about the music that shaped your life and the people who made it!

I Ching Jukebox is a novel about a love lost, a Psychic Fair and weekend of lives entwined, brought together by one man's trip to visit the Fair to please his mother. Who would have known the doors this simple request would open? Come visit this Fair yourself and find out.

Boubacar, a 15-year-old boy from Africa, moves to a rural Mississippi Delta town and soon visits The Celestial Grocery, the city center presided over by a cranky second-generation Chinese proprietor and his equally cranky jukebox. The tie that binds these lives is American popular music.

This Indian film music book is a collection of eighty essays about the people who made remarkable music in Bollywood cinema, especially during the great era, and the ideas such people brought to the recording studios. When songs had to go without rhythms or when melodies had plenty of Q n A in them. In this music book, we flirt with Rock n Roll and scan songs that speed up at the end, we peep behind the screen to see what the idea was behind chorus songs in our films – even if there was no one to sing that chorus on the screen; it’s a huge list. These pages are a reflection of the time when everyone was fired up in their art, and when no one wanted to finish last in the race. It is about artists who every now and then dreamt ideas, and only after crystallizing things perfectly in their mind’s eye, went out to translate and transform their dreams into unforgettable melodies in Indian movies. Jukebox will interest the layman as well as the academician.

Peacetime: Selected Poems offers a long-overdue opportunity to enjoy the work of a distinctive voice from the poetry renaissance of the late 1960s and early 1970s. James Vollmar’s poetry has been published widely in literary magazines, anthologies and booklets in the UK and the USA and appears here in collected format for the first time. Although now best known as a playwright and screenwriter, James Vollmar’s first love was always poetry. This new collection gathers some of the best of his published work, alongside previously unpublished pieces and more recent poems such as the Norfolk-inspired sequence ‘Shoreline’. Drawing inspiration from travels in the USA, Italy and the Scottish islands, as well as the cities and landscapes of the poet’s home country, Peacetime: Selected Poems offers an opportunity to enjoy the work of a genuine ‘survivor’ of the 1970s poetry boom, and will appeal to all interested in the culture of that period.

Illusion has many real examples in nature. This working table I am writing on, a piece of wood, is so firm, so rigid, so static that it is hard to believe that literally trillions of electrons in it are moving almost at the speed of light. Its rigidity is an illusion, like a magic. This universe is a Magic Kingdom in the Disney World!