Bøger af Dan Glover

By uncovering a veritable fountain of youth a doctor comes to learn the extraordinary price of immortality. Despite solving the riddle to everlasting life, she watches in horror as the human race nearly goes extinct overnight. The few survivors, a motley band of misfits, are now bound in servitude to an older and superior race if they wish to continue living. Those who were once deadly enemies become trusted allies while friends and lovers turn upon one another. As the old world fades away a new one rises, one in which death has no meaning, where institutions such as marriage and fidelity vanish, a place where murder and mayhem become acceptable behavior, and betrayal is the norm. To what lengths would you go to stay forever young?

Lost in the remote mountain ranges of New Mexico, the author relies upon both rational knowledge as well as intuition to survive as an intimate insight is gained into the travails of yesterday by living off the land much as the Apache warriors once did. Apache Nation lives on in the tales told over campfires deep inside forgotten mountain ranges that were once home to some of the fiercest warriors who ever walked the earth. From ancient myths to our modern day culture, Apache Nation explores the magic still existing in isolated places far from the haunts of humans.

Featuring an introduction and annotations by Robert Pirsig, Lila's Child seeks to answer some of the more ambiguous questions regarding Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert Pirsig. This wide-ranging book covers such topics as living the good life, what happens after death, the nature of experience and awareness, and the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, Peirce, and many others. Taken from the first year of an Internet discussion group called the Lila Squad, the contributors each offer their own unique insights into Robert Pirsig's seminal work while providing the reader with insights found nowhere else.

These stories are based upon a lot of years of living as well as deep meditation and zazen. Too, many ancient Chinese texts concerning Eastern philosophy which are open to interpretation have been incorporated into these pages. The I-Ching is but one source for the history of Zen Buddhism and the Tao, or the way, which these words seek to illuminate. The nature of life and death as well as wealth and poverty are but a few of the questions that appear within these covers. I offer few answers other than to look within the self with a hard honesty. The righteous are often misled. The good are too many times evil. This is the nature of the mystery.

What is the essence of love? Deadhead takes the reader upon a trip inside the minds of Liza McNairy and Danners Forthright, veteran private detectives hired to solve the case of The Crier... a woman who walked away from her life in New York to embark upon a road trip which turned out to last forever. Forthright, a self-professed gay man, has fallen hopelessly in love with his partner. Unbeknownst to him, McNairy returns his amorous affections and yet neither seems willing to take that next step toward fulfilling their life-long desires to finally be together with that special someone. Liza McNairy, former call girl, waitress, and erstwhile deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, has a pack a day habit and it isn't cigarettes, either. When she's not high on the hooch she's busy searching for her next dose. With Danners Forthright acting as her guardian angel, Liza spends her days skidding crossways through life all the while bargaining with the devil in order to sustain some semblance of normalcy.

Immortality has its drawbacks as both humans and the people of the Lake are discovering in the third book of the Mermaid series. With the threat of death no longer lurking over anyone, morality begins breaking down in ways no one has foreseen as lovers become unfaithful, fathers and sons turn on each other, and mothers and daughters are forever sundered. In the midst of the gloom, however, a bright candle of hope and love flickers. Will it go out all together? Or will the flame be cherished and allowed to burn once more, brightly and with hope?

In this riveting Book 4 of the Mermaid Series, a new and formidable enemy has risen from within their own ranks. After an accident leaves the Ladies of the Lake separated by both time and space, a miasma of fear descends over the tiny remnant of the People still clinging to the hope that one day the deadly plague that continues to sweep the world will finally subside. Out of the rubble, a new hero emerges unlooked for and unwanted. Will the Ladies embrace their fate? Or will the few survivors of the Great Dying finally perish as well?

Neither solid nor liquid it cannot be held, yet anyone who is unfortunate enough to come across it lives the rest of their lives desiring only one thing: the piedra, the stone of legend... known by countless names down through the ages: Aladdin's Lamp, The Philosophers' Stone, the elixir of life, the Midas touch, the I Ching, the crystal ball, the lotus, the philter, the rune stone, and even star dust. When the piedra appears unlooked for at the Triple Six, a bone-dry ranch in the north of Texas, its powers begin to act inexorably upon those who are closest to it gradually drawing them into its enchanting and bewitching ways. Living in poverty and wanting nothing more, Yanielle and her son Church are spared the more onerous effects of the stone, but those around them soon find themselves ensnared in webs of desire as far-reaching and as ancient as the legends that come with the piedra. Will Willem discover the secrets of the stone in time to save his family? Or will the yearning for the powers offered by the piedra ultimately corrupt all who come near it?

Will they flourish? Or will humanity sink into extinction? Mermaid Spring, the second installment of the four-part science fiction fantasy Mermaids series, takes up a century after the apocalyptic Great Dying. The old world has gradually passed away while the population of Orchardton Hall increases exponentially as Dr. Karen continues her experimentation with enhanced birthing techniques and witnesses the origin of a new species. A new danger is arising across the sea in the land once known as America. As the unleashing of nanotechnology rears its ugly head and threatens not only the earth but the entire galaxy, the mermaids, the Ladies of the Lake, must remain vigilant against the insanity creeping into the world. Disruption is inevitable as the good doctor is kidnapped and held prisoner by a mad scientist from her past who hasn't forgotten his love for her. Can the Ladies of the Lake effect a rescue, or will they succumb to the lure of forgetfulness and sleep?

It seemed like just another routine case of a long-missing boy, until Liza McNairy and Danners Forthright traveled to Mexico to uncover the truth. Legends had sprung up in that God-forsaken place centering around el Diablo and the chupacabra and a thousand other tales told in hushed voices by the peasants who nearly all had suffered the grievous loss of a child at one time or another over the past decades. Now, McNairy and Forthright are confronted with one of their most formidable adversaries, one who wants nothing more than to see them both in their graves. Will the intrepid detectives persevere? Or will they do the smart thing and head for home?

Meet Liza McNairy, blonde bomb shell, heroin addict, and private investigator. She's just been hired to track down twin girls who vanished without a trace twenty years ago. Working with her partner, psychic Danners Forthright, McNairy has solved some of the most vexing crimes ever to grace the cold case files. Now, though, they are about to be thrown into a maelstrom of pain and misery stretching far beyond the original crime they are hired to solve. Do they dare go where the trail leads? Or in the end, will they pull back in order to save their own souls?

The Art of Caring is a collection of stories loosely based on the great teachings of Zen Buddhism. Each story contains a kernel of truth although at times the reader must be diligent in winnowing it out. Though the author has both practiced and studied Zen Buddhism, the Tao, and the I-Ching for over thirty years in places both near and far these philosophy stories are not meant as a teaching tool. Rather, they seek to lead the reader to insights gleaned by simple living and dying.