Cara Weis lives in a Dystopian society where the church and state are one. After having broken one of the electronic confession machines she is hunted by The Holy Police, but a strange man comes to here and tells her she can hind momentarily in a journey through, Heaven, Purgatory and Hell. In this satire of Dante's Divine Comedy, we come to know its opposite, The Divine Tragedy.
Frank Raveillac is an aging male schizophrenic with a terrible past, who having recently given up his affluent career as a scholar and historian, is now a drug addicted madman of considerable moral turpitude. "Disapora," tells the story of his deranged lunacy, sordid love life with fallen women, and the crude adventures of the narcotic underground he partakes in with his friend and drug dealer, "The Pharaoh." Frank keeps calling himself Disapora, because he thinks he's sent on a divine mission to end the world, or will he find something in it worth saving?
Providence Stranger is a chronically dissatisfied, atheistic scientist of considerable world renown, whose credibility is destroyed when his world altering invention, human fuel, turns out to be an addictive substance, rendering people inhuman. He struggles with infidelity, trapped in an unhappy marriage as he also struggles with supposed mental illness while being stalked by other- worldly figures, such as the intimidating, ruthless Adam Kadmon. Providence becomes vilified by the general public and gets involved in a spiritual war with the also deranged and extraordinary Lara. The two of them try to fight their hapless destinies as history repeats itself through their cursed lives, as they deal with strangers from another world, whose prophesy says they will eventually end in martyrdom. Will these two unlucky, flawed, but supernatural beings win in their fight against destiny?
Laura is a mentally ill young girl whose sickness is only getting worse as she is carted in and out of "Gymnopedie," a famed mental hospital. While she is going through this, another woman, Lilith, is living in Gymnopedie in the 19th century, and though neither woman is aware of the other their stories overlap with an eerie synchronicity as they both slowly try heal themselves against the inauspicious odds with their shared enduring passion: writing. But Gymnopepdie is a strange world, with many strange wonders.
Anglor is a Selenite, a creature from the moon, with a divine mission to rescue Earth, against his will, a reluctant supposed messiah. But he has many different customs and ways he thinks that are different from earthlings, so Earthlings write him off as insane. Under the alias "Michael Smith," Anglor becomes an artist with a mission, to "kill history," but it doesn't quite turn out the way he wants, him being on an impossible mission from the stars, to save a world he is not only not from, but which he doesn't belong in, being The Lunatic.
Frank Raveillac is an aging male schizophrenic with a terrible past, who having recently given up his affluent career as a scholar and historian, is now a drug addicted madman of considerable moral turpitude. "Disapora," tells the story of his deranged lunacy, sordid love life with fallen women, and the crude adventures of the narcotic underground he partakes in with his friend and drug dealer, "The Pharaoh." Frank keeps calling himself Disapora, because he thinks he's sent on a divine mission to end the world, or will he find something in it worth saving?
Providence Stranger is a chronically dissatisfied, atheistic scientist of considerable world renown, whose credibility is destroyed when his world altering invention, human fuel, turns out to be an addictive substance, rendering people inhuman. He struggles with infidelity, trapped in an unhappy marriage as he also struggles with supposed mental illness while being stalked by other- worldly figures, such as the intimidating, ruthless Adam Kadmon. Providence becomes vilified by the general public and gets involved in a spiritual war with the also deranged and extraordinary Lara. The two of them try to fight their hapless destinies as history repeats itself through their cursed lives, as they deal with strangers from another world, whose prophesy says they will eventually end in martyrdom. Will these two unlucky, flawed, but supernatural beings win in their fight against destiny?
It is a time in the distant future, and a neo fascist regime has taken over America, and, in the guise of population control, strongly urges suicide. The populace is brain washed into killing themselves by the ubiquitous suggestion of the song "Gloomy Sunday," (the Hungarian Suicide Song, ) the only song allowed to play on the radio. Alex Ver is a recently famous writer who has been marketed because it is believed her somewhat depressive novels encourage suicide. She lives with Rezso Seress, the original composer of Gloomy Sunday, and they both disdain their fame, success does not fit them well, and the novel is about them and their odd group of friends trying their best not to commit suicide in a world that overwhelmingly encourages them to.
Lauren Myracle brings her signature frank, funny, and insightful writing to this novel of a teenage boy’s coming-of-age. Paul Walden is not an alpha lobster, the hypermasculine crustacean king who intimidates the other male lobsters, beds all the lady lobsters, and “wins” at life. At least not according to the ego-bursting feedback he’s given in his freshman seminar. But Paul finds a funny, faithful friend in Roby Smalls, and maybe — oh god, please — he’s beginning to catch the interest of smart, beautiful Natalia Gutierrez. Cruising through high school as a sauced-out, rap-loving beta lobster suits Paul fine, and if life ever gets him down? Smoke a little weed, crunch a few pills . . . it’s all good. But in the treacherous currents of teenage culture, it’s easy to get pulled under. With perfect frankness, Lauren Myracle lays bare the life of one boy as he navigates friendship, love, loss, and addiction. It’s life at its most ordinary and most unforgettable.
A killer who will tear you apart before he puts you back together. Something strange is happening in Detroit. Hybrid bodies are turning up, half-animal, half-human. For Detective Gabi Versado, they are the word of a twisted monster who surpasses even 'Murder City's' most brutal criminals. For failed artist Clayton Broom, they are his greatest work. Life destroyed his dreams, so now he's found new ones. the question is, can Gabi find him before the person she loves most is drawn into his nightmare? 'I couldn't put it down' Stephen King 'tremendous' the times 'Rare and intriguing' telegraph 'terrifying' Marie Claire 'Engrossing' Sunday times 'thriller of the year' Observer
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