Neuroscience
The Root of Thought
by Andrew Koob
The study on glial cells has emerged as a new frontier in 21st century neuroscience. The Root of Thought introduces glial cells in hyperbolic fashion to entertain the non-neuroscientist with the history of how they were overlooked and disregarded. This book provides a cautionary tale on 'what we think we know,' including a tongue in cheek bashing of venerated neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Based in the emerging science, is it possible that a type of glial cell, the astrocyte, is the root of our thought and cognition, while neurons simply provide highways to do their bidding?
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Three Bones
by Andrew Koob
Illustrated by John Selburg
Three Bones A set of bone chilling thrillers: Owloween A slew of mammoth hypnotist owls terrorize a sleepy Northern Wisconsin town. Follow Buffalo Johanssen, his pragmatic Grandpa and a trombone as they fight to thwart the menace. The Adventures of Jeremy and Sophie Buckheit A young couple from Seattle decide to take a late season camping trip to Idaho. An unexpected blizzard swallows them in an avalanche. Sophie and Jeremy soon learn they'll never part. Morceaux Here lies the contents of a blog discovered by the police after a murder. It is the anonymous chronicle of a move across the country to Vermont for a new job. Initially, the blogger finds a pleasant surprise - the house he is living in is haunted by a beautiful woman.
Realistic Fiction
Dr. Marsteller
by Andrew Koob
Dr. Marsteller is a prominent anti-aging researcher at Garret University. His research hasn’t been relevant in years and his benefactor, Charlotte Manifred Viscane, is threatening to pull her funding. Although nearing her 70s, Viscane engages in ritual plastic surgery to grotesque levels, terrified of looking and becoming old. Now fueled by desperation and buyer's remorse on empty promises of eternal life in Dr. Marsteller's lab, she turns up the pressure for an aging cure. Read how this modern Ponce de León convinces everyone the fountain of youth is real. You can live forever.
Sopaipilla Float
by Andrew Koob
In the year 2000, at the backend of that age of innocence, with the internet in its infancy, the beautiful and complex country of Chile is re-emerging as independent and prosperous on the geopolitical stage. In the United States, blue-collar Midwestern Nate Kane has shunned college despite excelling in high school. While working in a plastics factory, living in a trailer park, dating his high school Spanish teacher, attending parties in the countryside, and having never traveled further than Kansas City, Nate hatches a plan to leave everything for a place simply because it looks strange on a map, that he's never seen and knows nothing about.
Poetry
$5.95
by Xavier Vagus
A delightful delectable delicacy. Leave the Tums at home as you weave through the salad bar, meat platters and desert trays served up by Xavier Vagus in this jaunty tome of digestibles. Feel free to take an extra side of bacon as you chew on the absurdity. Beware: this is a book of poetry, and if that isn’t pretentious enough, the poems actually rhyme. A lot. Xavier Vagus has worked as a CIA agent, bungee jump instructor, pineapple salesman, professional surfer, coxswain for the Winklevoss twins, and Secretary of the Interior in the Grover Cleveland administration.
The Cat and the Oriole
by Xavier Vagus
The Cat and the Oriole is absurd, ridiculous and mostly pointless – a wild rhythmic rhyming tribute to citrus, snow, aliens and little cameras in the eyes of birds and insect drones. If you like that kind of thing, you are in the right place.
