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Introduces a writer of extraordinary skill and vision.- Joyce Carol Oates What Eugene Garber’s Metaphysical Tales remind us of is that we are all seekers.The heroes of Garber's stories sometimes look a lot like us, sometimes appear exotic. But under the skin they are us, even if that us is a buried us.Think of reading these stories as a process of unearthing our deepest desires. What do our heroes seek? Often familiar goals—admiration, love, divine favor. But whatever it is, the first lesson they have to learn is that it’s not to be found on the surface of things. It's not to be easily won.So it's not surprising that these seekers often resort to stratagems that will seem to the reader (but only for a while) bizarre. One seeker must peel away the skins of buried memories layer by layer until he reaches the archetypal woman of his inner life. An artist must paint a portrait of a lethal pair of lovers to save her soul. Another will look for truth in the adoration of a deformed child. Another will find his life's purpose at the end of the trajectory of a bullet, another in the mouths of cannibals.And there is inevitably Eros, whether the longing hero looks in the mirror of same gender or different gender, whether in tenderness or violence.

In The House of Nordquist, the final novel of The Eroica Trilogy, Eugene K. Garber creates his most demonic character of the series. Deep in the infernal regions of the bizarre house of his mad father, the Faustian Eric Nordquist conducts an atrocious experiment. He will extract from the body of a Holocaust victim sounds for a world-changing symphony.Day after day he stands at his synthesizer transforming the sounds of a maimed body into appalling skeins of lachrymose reverberations. But his theft of the life force of his subject is not his only transgression. He sucks everyone around him into the vortex of his mad dream of a cleansing cataclysm. His most devoted follower Paul Albright not only assists in the experiment but becomes infected with unholy powers.Now, years later, the House of Nordquist burned to the ground by an unknown arsonist, Eric is on the loose with the score of his abysmal symphony. Paul is in pursuit. Can Paul find Eric and the sinister score? If he does, what will he do?The novels of The Eroica Trilogy share the common strategy of "genre iconoclasm." In The House of Nordquist the conventions of Gothic fiction and mystery novels are radically skewed by the deflections of metafiction and indeterminacy.

Stressed out? Feeling like life is harder than it should be? Then you've come to the right place.The Battle for Balance is a life and death struggle. Stay balanced, and we enjoy life to the fullest. Lose balance, and life gets hard.In The Art of Balance: Staying Sane in an Insane World, life coach and psychotherapist David J. Bookbinder shows you how to stay on top of the forces that unbalance us, recover quickly if you get knocked down, and be prepared whenever life throws you a curve ball.The Art of Balance doesn't just "give a man a fish," so he can eat that day. It teaches you how to fish. Time-tested self-help tools and techniques are integrated into a system that helps you create your own tools, develop your own techniques, refine your own strategies-and thereby become the master of your destiny. You'll learn: The 6-step process for recovering and maintaining life balance How to recognize when your balance is shaky-before you fall How to boost your emotional resilience and stay steady on your feet How to fend off unbalancers if they strikeWhen you follow the steps revealed in The Art of Balance, you're sure to move forward with a spring in your step that won't get unsprung.More about The Art of Balance six-step systemThe six-step system you'll learn in The Art of Balance is flexible and adaptable. You can use it to handle both chronic problems that take us down a little at a time and sudden events that knock us flat. Here are a few examples.You'll learn how to stay centered when life hits you hard: Romantic breakup Job loss Financial crisis Illness or accident Loss of someone closeAnd how to tackle chronic stresses: Work/Life imbalance Anxiety Depression Medical issues AddictionsIt's a system you can adapt not only to the issues you face today, but also to the unknowns down the road, so you can move confidently into your future.