We are all trying to grasp the answers to the big questions. Why are we here? How did we get here, and just what is our place in this vast and mysterious 'here' we call the universe? Is there a meaning to it all? Where do we go for answers, amidst the tangle of our networked lives? Some of us seek answers in science, while others seek answers in philosophy or religion or history. Does either science or religion have all the answers to the big questions we have, or does one contradict the other? In Grasp: Making Sense of Science and Religion, Jim Trainor draws upon his experience as a...

Honorable Mention, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year 2012 Living in the shadow of his famous father, Josh Waverly is a physicist going through the motions of his monotonous life with few friends. Evangelina Gomez has grown up in a traditional Hispanic family in a remote village in northern New Mexico and guards secrets that could be the undoing of her entire family. They have little in common, other than the fear and shame that cast darkness over their futures. But Evangelina and Josh's lives are on a collision course, as they are thrown together and pursued by relentless, unknown killers. In...

Karen Langford has come to Maui with Kevin, her self-absorbed engineer husband of ten years. She misses the kids, she's concerned about how she'll look in a bikini, but mostly she's counting on the allure of Hawaii to turn Kevin's eyes away from his laptop and toward her. But when Karen meets Steve, a charming time-share salesman with a past, she and Kevin are swept into a spiral of betrayal, conflict and violence that everyone will call a tragedy. Some will call it murder. Their hope for rescue depends on Mitch, an alcoholic minister running from an unspeakable horror. But pathetic Mitch...

An old camper van was all Ryan Browning's mother left him when she died last year. Ryan, a thirty-something physicist, has just been fired and could be facing prosecution. It might be a good time to hop in that old van and head out on a long road trip, perhaps to never return. When he goes to the bank to close out his account, Ryan meets the lovely customer service rep, Amanda Seward, who has a few issues of her own. And that's just the first unexpected encounter on a two-thousand-mile trek through the scenic American West. But the Mountain Goat takes Ryan and Amanda on a deeper road trip...