The Lorelei Effect by Michael Alan British Arts Council YouWriteOn.com  2007 Book of the Year Award Winner      "I'm the guy techies call when they run out of ideas - a hacker's hacker.  The convoluted puzzles I squeeze into my mind make me feel not so much like a programmer as a computer therapist. I'm a modern day Columbus sailing the digital ocean, secretly worrying about falling off the edge and having to stare down the great turtle that holds everything together." Loner Cyrus Shepard gets a mysterious phone call in the middle of the night and next day finds himself in a government digital weapons lab.      "My mother was a nurse. She taught me work comes first. My father was a chemistry teacher. He taught me curiosity. Stubbornness and insecurity I thought up on my own." Neuropsychiatrist Rebecca Jenkins leads a research program with catatonic patients. Her work moves to a secret lab in a turn of the century asylum for the insane where she encounters The Lorelei Effect.      Cyrus and Rebecca reach inside each other to fight a discovery that threatens the very sanctity of the human spirit.    Acclaim for The Lorelei Effect on YouWriteOn.com: "A blistering pace with devilishly clever twists that will keep you guessing every step of the way." "Far and away the best of close to 200 stories I've reviewed." "In a word: Wow!" "A great read...a gripping story with profound thematic resonance." "The story reaches out and swallows us up.  No chance of escape." "In the niche of science-based thrillers as typified by Michael Crichton."

The Lorelei Effect

Literature & Fiction

Alan, Michael

Contemporary

YouWriteOn

An 1868 Montana homesteader loses his wife and land. A modern-day, middle-aged computer programmer loses his marriage and career. The secret they share lies in the searing passion they have for their crafts. This is the ultimate story of human connection triumphing over corporate greed, of passion and romance triumphing over age and loss.

The Wheelwright's Son

Mine Falls Press

Adoption is a wonderful opportunity to give a child a loving parental relationship to grow up in the comfort of a home and family. One hears or sees TV programmes of how successful adoption can be! A Boy Named Tigger tells the story of a little boy torn away from a loving family environment to be adopted at the age of four by a couple struggling to get back on their feet after the second world war. He went to a mother who had a split personality and tried to control every aspect of Tigger's life subjecting him to mental torture at times. Growing up he managed to tear himself away from his mother and start a new life, gradually clearing his mind from the unhappiness of his childhood and embarking on several successful careers. The writing of this book was the therapy he needed to eventually clear his mind.

A Boy Named Tigger

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Austin Macauley

A complete guide to home uses for neutral spirits, from infusions and tinctures to cocktails and cleaning solutions. A bottle of rectified alcohol, like The Good Reverend’s Universal Spirit from Tamworth Distilling, is a bottle of possibilities. In these pages, you’ll discover over 100 recipes for infusions, tinctures, cocktails, cordials, elixirs, punches, and even household cleaners. This handbook will teach you to replicate famous liqueurs and classic cocktails, and help you prepare perfect garnishes and celebratory toasts. With step-by-step instructions and photos, you’ll learn processes culinary, scientific, and alchemical to improve everything from your parties to your health. You’ll learn the processes of osmosis and dissolution that create the perfect infusions. You’ll be given the secrets to prep for guests lists of 1 or 100. You’ll be guided through pairing your alcoholic creations with the rhythms of nature. Yes, with a bottle of purified spirits, you’ll be able to purify your own human spirit. These recipes explain not just the flavor benefits of their ingredients, but also the spiritual and supernatural. Discover the meanings of herbs, the ratio of the Fibonacci sequence, and the effects of moon phases, among so much more. Come for the drinks, but stay for the magic.

The Good Reverend's Guide to Infused Spirits: Alchemical Cocktails, Healing Elixirs, and Cleansing Solutions for the Home and Bar

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Grasse, Steven

Kurtz, Sonia

Beverages & Wine

Skyhorse

I Wish My Kids Had Cancer is a father’s gripping, real glimpse of his family’s struggle to survive with two children with Autism. The book intimately, honestly, and powerfully, addresses the emotional, social, financial, political and medical aspects of a family fighting for their very existence. Learn about the struggle, the epidemic and Help Families In Need! Support Autism Through Song! Download the song “State of Emergency” by world-renowned recording artist Sara Hickman. ALL Proceeds Donated to help Families with Autism! Visit www.iwishmykidshadcancer.com to download or visit www.sarahickman.com to download this powerful, emotionally charged song written in response to this book. Encourage others to listen and download! Help provide hope for those with Autism!

I Wish My Kids Had Cancer: A Family Surviving the Autism Epidemic

Parenting & Relationships

Disabilities & Hyperactivity

Publishamerica Inc

THE BITTERSWEET VEIL OF ILLUSION: The Quest to Discover the Secret of Life’s Greatest Mystery

Literary

Independently published

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