RUIN, THE TENT CITY, by Isobel Noble, is the first of an action-packed, futuristic, adventure-fantasy-romance series unlike anything we ve seen before. From the moment we meet the protagonist, Deke Wolfson, we are swept into a continuum of Native American sorcery, post-Nuclear Winter dangers, E.S.P., an alien invasion...and that says nothing about the psychological and philosophical elements of this totally fresh tale about a young man coming of age as he tries to come to grips with a terrifying destiny. Few books offer the kind of magic that opens our eyes to sights we have never seen and our minds to realms we could never reach on our own. RUIN is one of those books. Once you enter this world, You'll never want to leave.

RUIN, Book One: The Tent City

Literature & Fiction

Isobel Noble

Contemporary

EarthBound Books

Nathan Smith brings an intriguing new approach to the classic sonnet form in his Temple Sonnets. Each of the one hundred and eight poems in this collection is unique in style, tone, and format. Together they comprise a celebration of nature in all its multidimensional guises, and are written as a panegyric to the Earth, reminding readers of our precious inheritance and the importance of treating it reverently.

Temple Sonnets

Nathan Smith

Poetry

Hidden deep in the rugged fastnesses of the Rocky Mountains, lies the valley of Beori, a gentle Utopian society for whom violence is anathema. Established in the 21st Century by progressive idealists bent on preserving civilization in the event of a planetary catastrophe, Beori exists now, one thousand years after a nuclear holocaust, as mankind's best hope for an enlightened future.OURN ROHLVAAG, President of the ecologically self-sufficient nation, is facing the gravest crisis of her political career when her nieces and nephews return home with DEKE WOLFSON, a stranger from Outside who has saved their lives, and who, she suspects, will change her people and world forever.

Ruin, Book Two: The City of Life

The third book in the Ruin series, The City in the Sea picks up right where Book Two left off. Facing his psychological "black holes" with Ourn Rohlvaag's help, Deke Wolfson prepares to confront the enemy who has pursued him in waking and dreaming realities throughout his life, and complete his karmic reparation. The climax of the book represents the fulfillment of all his psychic, psychological, and physical potential, as he joins his special abilities to Beori's technological marvels to destroy the incorporeal invaders threatening to consume the planet, and set the Earth on a life-affirming path to the future.

Ruin, Book Three: The City in the Sea

Erotica

<p>Elephants of the Tsunami is based on a true story about eight working elephants of Thailand, who, during the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, freed themselves from their bonds and raced down to the beach to rescue nearly fifty people who otherwise would have been consumed by the sea. Sensitively written and beautifully illustrated, Elephants of the Tsunami is a picture book for all ages, and a wonderful way to tell children about a frightening event without subjecting them to explicit images or traumatic language.</p>

Elephants of the Tsunami

Children's Books

Jana Laiz

Animals