It’s the fall of 2010 at Jesuit-run Boston College, where senior Jack Knecht has just seen a ghostly figure in long antique robes slipping into Gasson Hall, the Gothic bell tower looming over the stately campus. Students and faculty alike, comfortably at home on The Heights, know the building is locked for major renovations this semester. Why would a spirit in 18th-century dress be haunting contemporary college life? Jack wonders. Thus begins this driving mystery-adventure in which Jack and his girlfriend, Fran Romero, run from menacing ghosts, are attacked out of the blue by a fiery dragon overhead and a raging bull underground, and have to face suspicious Jesuits threatening expulsion, all while keeping up with classes in this most sociable of schools. These are reasons enough to quickly decipher a tantalizing ancient map that convincingly points to the BC campus as the secret site of the Holy Grail, lost for centuries now. Proceeding by their wits with crucial help from eccentric art history professor Melinda Galen, the fey ghost of the last Templar grand master Jacques de Molay, and an imaginative, close-knit circle of college friends, Fran and Jack embark on a journey of discovery. The trail, however, is a twisted one, winding from the religious cult of Mithraism rooted in the ancient Syrian city of Dura-Europos through the medieval Templars down to modern-day Jesuits bearing a colorful history from Old World to New. Amid campus Quidditch games and undergraduate parties, dance rehearsals, middle-of-the-night discussions about hooking up, and communal meals, the young students pool their various esoteric disciplines to pursue the mystery of the Grail’s location. In the course of investigating the recondite riddles of the Mithraic cult, Fran and Jack come to pursue a Grail for a new millennium and thereby seek to become initiates into the mysteries of love. But in our age of crisis, with the planet suffering while economies spin out of control, can Fran and Jack find a way through the phantasmagoric maze confronting them, to find at last the Grail and arrive at a newly awakened consciousness? Grail Mysterium is a novel about love and its possibilities, about dating and relationships among the younger Linked Generation, and about the fundamental shift in human interconnectedness now underway in the 21st century. This book is the first in the Adventure on The Heights series by Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield.

Grail Mysterium: An Adventure on the Heights

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Kaplan-Maxfield, Thomas

Science Fiction

Kepler Press

The non-Newtonian calculi provide a wide variety of mathematical tools for use in science, engineering, and mathematics. They appear to have considerable potential for use as alternatives to the classical calculus of Newton and Leibniz. It may well be that these calculi can be used to define new concepts, to yield new or simpler laws, or to formulate or solve problems.

Non-Newtonian Calculus

Science & Math

Michael Grossman & Robert Katz

Mathematics

A work of fiction with Gothic undertones shifting between present-day and colonial New England, "Memoirs of a Shape-Shifter" contains within the third-person narrative of Nikki Helmik the found journal of her ancestor, Anne Cleves, written strikingly in first-person. A dramatic story of love, loss, and Druid magic, Anne's journal strangely echoes Nikki's own struggle to resolve the crises in her life. Haunted and inspired by her ancestor, Nikki becomes a Druid magician, resolving for herself the deadly attraction between power and love. This psychological exploration of a woman's all-too-contemporary personal upheaval oscillates between realism and romance, contemplative drama and adventure story, replete with Druid magicians, centuries-old curses, wolves, ravens, and the mystery of a broken brooch. Down Gloucester's narrow streets, deep into Dogtown woods, teetering on granite cliffs and plunged into stormy North Atlantic seas, the reader is drawn into a labyrinth in which the age-old war of the sexes is given a new twist.

Memoirs of a Shape-Shifter

Literature & Fiction

Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield

Contemporary

Calculus Made Clear Second Edition

David Kaplan

Hide & Seek: A Murder Mystery

Literary

All signs point to the Devil having taken up residence in the business school at Boston College in this confounding mystery-adventure set on The Heights by BC English professor Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield. Freshman Anna Starling has just come in from an early morning run in the spring of 2017. Her life as a college student is a whirling vortex in which she and her roommate, Lucy Pierre, struggle along with their friend group to balance difficult studies with demanding social lives on a campus that’s supposed to be a safe haven from the evils of life. But when Anna finds red and black stains on the bottom of her shoe, the red tests as human blood. The blood belongs to the body of what turns out to be a dead theology professor that Anna has stumbled across on her run, but when she returns to look for it, it’s gone. So begins this psychological murder mystery in which Anna must confront for herself the central human problem of good and evil. At Jesuit BC, a loving and just God is trusted to separate good from evil. How then has evil crept in to this temple? On her quest to solve the murder mystery, Anna and her friend Josh challenge their moral beliefs while threading their way through a deepening underworld, in which good and evil overlap. Using her newfound knowledge of Gnosticism and her love of Gothic paradoxes, along with help from an eccentric, mysterious professor and his magical dog, Anna is intrepid in her pursuit of the truth. As for the Devil himself threatening to set in motion diabolical schemes to sell the school’s soul for money, Anna and her friends are skeptical, for who really believes in an actual Devil in today’s computer-driven postmodern world? Yet the evidence is compelling, the unraveling of the mystery leading Anna and her coterie to an ultimate clash with the BC powers that be at the annual college bonfire. Satanas Mysterium challenges its readers to wrestle with the problem of theodicy—how to reconcile an all-loving, all-powerful creator God with the undeniable reality of evil both within us and without. In the materialism of the 21st century in which notions of good and evil seem quaintly old-fashioned and hardly to be believed, this book speaks directly—and powerfully—to our fragmented lives. Are there moral absolutes, or was Nietzsche right and God is long dead? Anna is on a quest to find out, and her search takes her to the brink of a fiery pit.

Satanas Mysterium (An Adventure on The Heights)

Kaplan-Maxfield, Mr. Thomas

Genre Fiction

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