Monday, July 5, 2021
Friday, June 5, 2020
We Are God by Jordan Mund
We Are God by Jordan Mund: We Are God is a sort of deathbed confessional of a man who lived to see the beginning of the Eternal Era. The Old Man narrating the story has lived for hundreds ...
We Are God is a sort of deathbed confessional of a man who lived to
see the beginning of the Eternal Era. The Old Man narrating the story
has lived for hundreds of years and has been both a witness to and a
participant in a great deal of controversy. The controversy surrounds
scientific advancements that render death obsolete for some. Although
the Old Man grew up among mortals, his obligations to the Overman
Project, which gave him immortality, cannot be shunned. As a result, his
loyalties are divided. His friends, fighting for the dwindling rights
of mortals, prove themselves to be proponents of a revolution against
the powerful Overman Project and its political goals.
“Immortality is a bore and a curse… but death doesn’t seem entirely
pleasant, either.” In a life filled with loathsome diseases and other
infirmities that cut far too many lives short, it is difficult to
imagine immortality as a curse. But perspectives shift when you consider
outliving all of your friends, and for the Old Man, this results in
constant struggles with his choices and his ethics. Jordan Mund
demonstrates an excellent grasp on the narrative with readers slowly
coming around to the Old Man’s point of view and, in the end,
understanding his life-altering decisions. We Are God is an fascinating
dystopian tale that will really make you think deeply and live life more
fully.
We Are God is a sort of deathbed confessional of a man who lived to
see the beginning of the Eternal Era. The Old Man narrating the story
has lived for hundreds of years and has been both a witness to and a
participant in a great deal of controversy. The controversy surrounds
scientific advancements that render death obsolete for some. Although
the Old Man grew up among mortals, his obligations to the Overman
Project, which gave him immortality, cannot be shunned. As a result, his
loyalties are divided. His friends, fighting for the dwindling rights
of mortals, prove themselves to be proponents of a revolution against
the powerful Overman Project and its political goals.
“Immortality is a bore and a curse… but death doesn’t seem entirely
pleasant, either.” In a life filled with loathsome diseases and other
infirmities that cut far too many lives short, it is difficult to
imagine immortality as a curse. But perspectives shift when you consider
outliving all of your friends, and for the Old Man, this results in
constant struggles with his choices and his ethics. Jordan Mund
demonstrates an excellent grasp on the narrative with readers slowly
coming around to the Old Man’s point of view and, in the end,
understanding his life-altering decisions. We Are God is an fascinating
dystopian tale that will really make you think deeply and live life more
fully.
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Monday, March 2, 2020
PARA//EL LIVES
NEW RELEASE!
The story, which begins in an assisted-living facility in New Hampshire, leads to 18th century Boston and London, where there may be unfinished business that residents, through mirror selves, must take care of. As Abe, Mercy, and their friends come under the influence of forces they don't understand, they adopt antique attire, get drunk on two-hundred-year-old wine, and become experts in the lives of their other selves. In their alter egos, Mercy is Mercy Otis Warren, playwright and historian from Massachusetts at the time of the American Revolution; and Abe is Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne, the general who at Saratoga lost the battle that led to England losing the war and who then became one of the most popular playwrights on the London stage.After dreams of what their other selves did and could have done, Mercy and Abe discover a tunnel in the basement that leads to other places and other times, where they could accidentally or deliberately change the course of history.
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The story, which begins in an assisted-living facility in New Hampshire, leads to 18th century Boston and London, where there may be unfinished business that residents, through mirror selves, must take care of. As Abe, Mercy, and their friends come under the influence of forces they don't understand, they adopt antique attire, get drunk on two-hundred-year-old wine, and become experts in the lives of their other selves. In their alter egos, Mercy is Mercy Otis Warren, playwright and historian from Massachusetts at the time of the American Revolution; and Abe is Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne, the general who at Saratoga lost the battle that led to England losing the war and who then became one of the most popular playwrights on the London stage.After dreams of what their other selves did and could have done, Mercy and Abe discover a tunnel in the basement that leads to other places and other times, where they could accidentally or deliberately change the course of history.
ORDER FROM AMAZON
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1734685506?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
Sunday, January 5, 2020
SUNDOGS AND SINNERS
SUNDOGS AND SINNERS
Sundogs and Sinners is a tale of love and hate, nurture and neglect,
traditions and taboos that shines cold light upon the dangers of chasing
what cannot be caught.Jasmine is the daughter of opposite worlds:
Angela, her mother, the white privileged debutant from the upper
echelons of Fargo’s wealthiest and politically empowered and Jasmine’s
biological father, Dave, the eighth of nine children of a Minneapolis
single Ojibwe mother. Driven by the death of her elder teenage brother
and her resentment at having always resided in his shadow, Angela looks
for her missing emotional pieces in Dave’s “otherness” which results in a
torrid, tumultuous, but temporary, bond and the unplanned birth of
their child. A decade later, Jasmine lives in the affluent Fargo fold of
Angela’s and Angela’s husband, Lars’ socially prominent families.
Though Jasmine seems to have everything, she now is the one in search of
missing pieces. Angela never speaks of Dave; Dave hasn’t had contact
with their daughter since she was two-years old, and Jasmine wants to
know why. The larger looming question is what, if any, part does Dave
being Ojibwe play in Jasmine’s identity.When Rosella, an Ojibwe girl
adopted at infancy by non-Native parents, moves to town, she and Jasmine
become fast middle school friends. Together, they face off with mean
girls armed with racial slurs, confront the complexity of first crushes,
and, inevitably, explore Jasmine’s ever-growing need to know the truth
about her mother, her legally adoptive father, and, most of all, Dave.As
Jasmine pushes the search forward, Angela pulls back from her daughter
and husband as the trauma and twisted urges of her youth re-awaken, and
Angela pursues the elusive missing pieces she has yet to find. As mother
and daughter unwittingly move closer to the same destination, secrets,
lies, and raw realities threaten to destroy everyone involved. While
some pieces are discovered, others will be lost forever, and Jasmine
will be left to build who she truly is out of the ones that remain.
Friday, January 3, 2020
NEW RELEASES FROM #ATTMPress
The Scientific Sleuths: ATHEROSCLEROSIS ATTACK:
Traffic Jam in Your Arteries
Twelve-year-old Victor Valens and his eleven-year-old cousin Sal Sultus
live on opposite sides of the country, until Sal and her mother move
next door to the Valenses. Victor is a tech-savvy know-it-all. Sal, a
science geniusin her own right, is dealing with the death of her father
while adjusting to a new home. Victordoesn’t make the move any easier
for Sal. In fact, their relationship is tumultuous to say the least.
When their grandpa gets sick, their world is shaken. They try to
understand the disease that has struck him and determine that
theunderlying cause is a deadly disease with a big word,
atherosclerosis.“Atherosclerosis Attack by Dr. Cate Moriasi and Dr.
Kathleen Coughlan is a fun, light-heartedread on a very serious and
important topic. The story is well laid out, with a fun,
futuristictechnological twist. The authors do a great job taking a
complex subject with detailed medicalcomponents, and frame it in an
understandable and relatable way."~Caitlin, Community Outreach Director
WE ARE GOD
BY
JORDAN MUND
The Old Man, as he’s now known, was born during a time when Mortals and
Immortals coexisted. He knew many of them, but that was 400 years ago.
Before the revolution. Before they were all exterminated. Since then
he’s been living day to day, trying to maintain the memories he has of
them. His world, in what has been dubbed the Eternal Era, is one that
never changes. No one dies, but no one is born, either. A world frozen
in banality. Eventually, the Old Man takes matters into his own hands
after discovering a way to reverse his immortality. Now nearing the end
of his life, he sits down to write his memoir, to tell about all those
friends he loved so dearly, to explain why he did what he did and what
it means for humanity’s future.
THE BETTER ANGELS
BY
BETTE BONO
Aggie May, newly and unhappily retired from teaching, fears dementia
when she begins to see visions from the past, like a 1950s-era Super
Constellation at JFK airport and World War II soldiers at Grand Central
Terminal. Then she gets a recruitment visit from Abe Irving of the
American Association of Remarkable Persons (“the other AARP”) who
explains she has developed the ability to travel through time. Soon
Aggie joins other “Remarkables” on a mission to nineteenth-century New
York City in an effort to locate a missing photographic portrait of
Abraham Lincoln created by the Civil War photographer Mathew Brady.
While learning the rules and limits of time travel, Aggie faces the
possibility that she may have both extraordinary power and extraordinary
vulnerability. Aggie and Abe, two stubborn and independent people, must
struggle to come to an understanding over how and when to take risks,
including emotional risks.
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