Bøger udgivet af Neil Perry Gordon

Enter the realm of "The Asuras: A Dream World Odyssey," where Emma Zigler, a Harvard student adept in lucid dreaming, is thrust into a hidden war dictated by a celestial prophecy. With dream expert Monica Taylor, she navigates between her dreams and awakened life, revealing her crucial role in a timeless battle for the soul of humanity.Shadowed by the Asuras, malevolent embodiments of disorder, Emma joins forces with Gus Williams, a fascist leader with mysterious ties to her past and future. Together, they spearhead a rebellion against a dark force challenging free will itself.This saga is a tapestry of suspense, spiritual conflict, and the perennial clash between light and darkness. Emma and Gus's journey to dismantle the Asuras' sinister plot is a testament to the enduring human spirit. "The Asuras" offers an adventure of courage, enlightenment, and love's unyielding power, delving into the profound truths that only our dreams can reveal.

A Cobbler's Tale is an adventure story about Pincus Potasznik, a second-generation Jewish cobbler, born in a small shtetl in the province of Galicia, part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1910, at the historic height of the massive Eastern European immigration wave to the New World, Pincus decides to leave behind his pregnant wife, and three small children, in order to seek a new life for his family in the burgeoning Lower East Side of Manhattan. On his traumatic voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on the SS Amerika steamship, Pincus meets Jakob Adler, a young man running from an accidental murder of a notorious crime boss in Warsaw. The story also explores the challenges of pregnant Clara Potasznik as she does her best to protect her family, while the bloodiest battles of World War I explode within miles of her family home, a small village called Krzywcza. Moshe, the young son of Pincus and Clara Potasznik, discovers his divine ability to foretell dire events, and to offer real comfort those in pain, taking the reader into the wisdom and mystery surrounding the ancient Jewish mysticism, known as Kabbalah. A Cobbler's Tale is a story of a family's survival against tremendous odds.

Thunder Falls chronicles the transformation of Leopold Wolf from a naive young man into an outspoken advocate for Native American rights during the late 1800s.Leo works for the Carlisle Indian School, an institution governed by the motto "kill the Indian, save the man" and notorious for the harshness of its abuse, neglect, and victimization of the children under its care.Leo's quest takes him to Lakota territory, where elder and holy man Black Elk has a vision of Leo recovering the tribe's Sacred Pipe, stolen years ago. Leo's journey into the caverns of the Black Hills reveals extraordinary phenomena about the Lakota and about himself.Within the caverns, Leo encounters the red wolf, Thunder Falls, and the Soul Tree, all of which guide him toward his destiny. While pursuing the eternal love of Sarah Cameron-niece of a senator notorious for his enmity against the Lakota, Leo crosses the country with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and ultimately risks his life for the people he has come to care for.

The Art of Tiki is a passionate study of the Tiki idol as an art form. For the first time, contemporary Tiki art is united and presented equally with what inspired it, original mid-century Polynesian pop. Author Sven Kirsten combines his first-hand experiences in exploring the birth of Tiki style with his intimate knowledge of the Tiki Revival, painting a vivid, visually arresting portrait of a unique, always new art genre.

Pandemonium is a graphic testimony to a year of uncertainty, uproar and division. Tomo77, a seasoned recorder of human behavior, capitalism, and social injustice, carries us from the earliest anxious days of the pandemic through more than a year of a society in the throes of political and social chaos. Working from lock down in his home perched above the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon, Tomo77 began documenting universal as well as his personal reactions to a period marked by isolation and confusion. These aggregate expressions move us through the uncharted nature of a pandemic... * 126 page hard cover book with 110 full color, full page illustrations * Art is all centered on the current Covid-19 pandemic * Very graphic social & political commentary

It's the year 1675. Eighteen-year-old Lukas Pietersen is about to consume the ceremonial substance known as Moon Flower. The potent seeds from this nighttime blooming plant, prepared and administered by a shaman, will cause Lukas to lose his memory and thus begin his quest of becoming a warrior of the Pequawket tribe. From the New World to the city of Amsterdam, down to the slave coast of West Africa, and across the Atlantic Ocean to the slave mart of Charles Town, Moon Flower follows Lukas as he meets chiefs, shamans, warriors, and the English army on his journey to forge a connection with the Great Spirit and battle a fearsome evil being called the Wendigo.

The Righteous One is the story of Moshe the cobbler, a gentle, sixty-year-old tzaddik-a righteous and saintly Jew-who is called upon to rekindle his divine connection to the Almighty in order to destroy the notorious New York gangster and rasha Solomon Blass, a man who uses his power of foreseeing events via his vivid dreams to advance his own financial interests. While Solomon and his son, Myron, seek to control much of Manhattan-its biggest businesses, its police department, and its city government-they find themselves embroiled in conflict with numerous powerful people from both their waking life and the dream world, where Moshe has begun training with the descendants of an ancient mystical spirit for his inevitable confrontation with Solomon.As the final battle approaches, the divide between good and evil becomes ever clearer and each character faces the consequences of his past, present, and future actions. Will Solomon's wily tenacity prevail, or will Moshe be strong enough to destroy the rasha's wicked soul?