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Arlen Seira is to become an experimental project for a group of 12 Spirit Beings based on the Pleiades star cluster. During the project, the Pleiadian Spirit Being gets to experience physical feelings and emotions. The physical experience enables the Spirit Beings to complete their apprenticeship program, thereby equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and emotional intelligence to then serve in the Galactic and Universal Hierarchy. What the Pleiadian Selective Group does not realize is that their choice of location-Earth and the selection of Arlen's parents will produce an extraordinary Halen (Human/Alien) being. Arlen's life and his journey is a magnificent collection of accidents, trauma, drama, and adventure. The results are remarkable. As Arlen starts having interstellar visits, Ares, who is Arlen's indwelling Pleiadian spirit personality, begins to wonder whether this Halen has some part to play in the Universal order. Arlen just wants to know if these events are real or has he bashed his head too many times and cannot tell what is real or imagined?

A man who shares his name with a famous singer must grapple with his identity, purpose, and love.

It's summer 1966: a small group of recent Yale graduates gather in a Maine summer cottage; an aura of power, earned and unearned, assumed and desired, hangs over this Ivy League world. Harry Nolan, the son of a United States senator about to enter the US Army and Sascha, his beautiful young bride, represent the apex of their generation.

Astonishing . . . Lewis deftly intertwines real-world reports with a fictional narrative that extends some of the president's worst flaws to logical conclusions.- The Daily Beast Terrifyingly plausible . . . A horrific imagined future based on a quite plausible extrapolation of the present . . . In its efforts to tug at the sleeve of a blithe nation, Lewis's book follows in the post-apocalyptic footsteps of Nevil Shute's On the Beach or the 1983 film The Day After . In its black comedy, which surfaces in the deadpan prose of the report, it is a Dr Strangelove for our time. Trump is as flamboyantly grotesque a character as any cooked up by Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers.- The Guardian Terrifying . . . the warning we need right now . . . [The 2020 Commission Report] aims to do what The Day After did, and spur us to action . . . It shows us an entirely plausible path from today's tense geopolitics to atomic annihilation and beyond, to what comes after nuclear fire.- VICE Motherboard Lewis's cautionary tale is a reminder of the grave risks at stake if diplomatic talks with Pyongyang fail, and the dangerous consequences that could follow if Washington returns to military brinkmanship and threatening rhetoric in a renewed attempt to pressure North Korea to unilaterally disarm.- Voice of America A book with a ferocious pace and more black humor than one could imagine.- Evening Standard (London) Jeffrey Lewis has taken one of our most serious security crises and imagined how it could erupt into a catastrophic nuclear war. The result is a book that is entertaining-it grips the reader with its dramatic story-but also educational: it informs the reader what an unprecedented catastrophe even a 'small' nuclear war would be, and how easy it would be for us to blunder into one. This lesson must be learned by more of us if we are to take the actions that could lower the probability of such a catastrophe. -William J. Perry, former US Secretary of Defense The plot of this novel is so absurd and implausible-a nuclear war prompted by a presidential tweet-that it feels devastatingly true. The 2020 Commission Report is a brilliantly conceived page-turner. Let's hope it isn't prophetic. -Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and Command and Control

A novel written as a sharp parable of American society, addressing love, purpose, discrimination, and poverty. In Jeffrey Lewis’s novel, the Land of Cockaigne, once an old medieval peasants’ vision of a sensual paradise on earth, is reimagined as a plot on the coast of Maine. In efforts to assuage their grief over their son’s death and to make meaning of his life, Walter Rath and Catherine Gray build what they hope will be a version of paradise for a group of young men from the Bronx. As Walter and Catherine work to reinvent this land, formerly a summer resort, the surrounding town of Sneeds Harbor proves resistant. The residents’ well-meaning doubts lead to well-hidden threats, and the Raths’ marriage unravels as Walter loses faith in democracy. Meanwhile, the Bronx boys, who have only ever known the city, try to navigate this new land that is completely alien to them. Written as a parable of contemporary American society,  Land of Cockaigne  is by turns furious, funny, subversive, tragic, and horrifying. Faced with the question of what to do amid disastrous times, Walter Rath offers a Love is an action, not a feeling. Once you go down this path of faith, there is much to be done. 

The book provides a comprehensive analysis of China's advancements in nuclear and space capabilities, detailing its deployment strategies and approach to arms control negotiations. It explores the implications of these developments for U.S. defense strategy, highlighting the challenges and considerations that arise in the context of global security dynamics.

Bealport is a portrait of a place, at once sympathetic, mordant, unsparing, comic, tragic and universal, and of a way of life that is passing. It is a novel of a town, and to no small degree of every town in America and beyond.

Mexico City, 1649. The Spanish Inquisition holds sway over the capital and at its core lies one ambition: the submission of all to the Catholic faith. This title traces the search for a transcendent divine truth, which is, perhaps, beyond our comprehension.

This work serves as a heartfelt tribute to classic television, exploring its cultural impact and significance. The author, known for previous titles such as Meritocracy and The Conference of the Birds, reflects on the nostalgia and memories associated with iconic shows. Through a blend of personal anecdotes and broader commentary, the book captures the essence of a bygone era in television history, celebrating its influence on society and individual lives.