Immortal is a romantic suspense novel set in the present day. Octavius Kalman is a wealthy international wine merchant who relives his three hundred year life as a reluctant pawn in many historical events while in conflict with a mortal enemy. He is coping with porphyria, the genetic blood disease responsible for the vampire legends, and grieving over the loss of his one true love when she unexpectedly enters his life again—or does she? Along his dramatic journey, he is saved by his love of music and dance, becoming a key figure in the development of tango from its birth on the seaboards of Europe and South America more than 150 years ago, to its sensual presence throughout the world today. With Immortal, J.E. Mayer has created a unique blend of suspense, romance, time travel, and vampirism. An intense and fascinating read. —Adam Cushman, author of Cut.

Immortal Remains takes a fresh look at some of the most puzzling cases suggesting survival after death, and considers how to distinguish evidence for an afterlife from evidence for exotic things (including psychic things) done by the living. Author Stephen E. Braude concludes that we have some reason, finally, for believing in life after death.

Set in the Argentine capital and Paris, and ranging in time from the 1920s to beyond the turn of the century, this short novel is about Jewish immigrants, and the related stories that are collected and retold by the author in a fictional light.

Analysis of the films, performance art and music of director Sally Potter.

"A pepper-tongued, tango-dancing Asian beauty rises from a village girlhood to become the wife of her country's dictator and then a leader of the rebel forces arrayed against him. She is the electric eponymous heroine of a novel that resonates with the fevers and tumults of our era, that opens with a captive lion's roar and moves halfway around the world and through our century - from the turbulent Asian country here called Daya to America and back, from the 1940s to the 1990s." "From our earliest glimpses of the edgy young girl in a busy, gossipy, close-knit river hamlet, we know we are in the presence of a star: energized, funny, dangerously savvy, and on the move from the day when a boy in her compound teaches her the dance that will name her and crucially affect her fate." "It is a fate that carries her, dazzled, to Daya's capital and the talent contest where her performance (in a sun-and-star-spangled dress) of the "Irrawaddy Tango" captures the obsessed attention of the tough, ambitious colonel, Supremo - an adventurer already on the threshold of power - whom, on a wild impulse, she marries. We see her swimming against the fierce currents of our time, maintaining her equally fierce integrity in the face of her dubious celebrity as consort to Daya's hated, absolute, yet precarious head of state, her capture by the Jesu guerrillas in the Punished Provinces, where she is first prisoner, then foot soldier, then a leader...her recapture, rescue, exile, and mysterious return." "Ten years after Wendy Law-Yone's greatly admired The Coffin Tree, she gives us a novel equally powerful - a novel that, like its heroine, shocks and moves us by its fire and color, by its fluctuation of emotional tone from harsh to tender, cruel to comic, to frighteningly quiet. An unfaltering evocation of lives lived on the rim of the volcano."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

"The Curran family were tainted by scandal from the beginning - Judge Lance Curran, ambitious and driven, weighed down by gambling debt; the ascetic Desmond, lost in religious zealotry - and there were rumours of savage disagreements between Patricia and her mother. But most of the doubt concerned Patricia herself. Was she a spirited and confident proto-feminist, or an upper-class demi-mondaine, demanding and promiscuous? In a storm of publicity, rumour and counter-rumour, Scotland Yard dispatch Chief Inspector John Capstick uncovers a complex web of deceit. Determined to secure a conviction, Capstick's focus falls on a peripheral figure, a young army conscript, Iain Hay Gordon, who finds himself fighting for his life in the shadow of the gallows."--BOOK JACKET.