Daniel A : 502 books

Editor Daniel A. Olivas assembled a cadre of literary luminaries and up-and-coming authors to provide powerful and mesmerizing tales with complex characters that represent the diversity of Southern California. We meet young and old, gay and straight, rich and poor, the newly arrived and the well established....

Darya uses every stratagem available to plunder technology from military grade starships, uniting not only other criminal organizations, but bringing together several Independent worlds who are hungry for the forbidden advanced technology. Utilizing a sophisticated counter-intelligence network of...

A lonely Elerian woman discovers a human man without memory. He clearly isn't of her people. Follow their discoveries in this epic adventure that spans twenty years. Discover a unique culture through human eyes. As his surprising past catches up, consequences for events both past and present define not only their future, but threaten the lives of everyone on their world.

This is a twisted fiction short story with only one agenda... to bring the realms of the improbable to life. An expert team of fourteen humans go exploring deep space to find worthy civilizations. A discovered world where the attractive people are near identical to humans... with only a few...

Modern art can be confusing and intimidating--even ugly and blasphemous. And yet curator and art critic Daniel A. Siedell finds something else, something much deeper that resonates with the human experience. With over thirty essays on such diverse artists as Andy Warhol, Thomas Kinkade, Diego Velazquez,...

No hope. No help. No Haven. 350 years have passed since The Great War when Haven was built to be the savior of mankind. But now, Gabriel sees Haven as a desolate crypt. A place where hope is lost. Gabriel never had faith of stepping foot on Earth. He accepted his fate: to die within Haven's...

“Highly recommended for a wide audience.” Donovan's Literary Services - Midwest Book Review “Highly engaging little read.” J. Aislynn d Merricksson - Readers' Favorite “More an adventure tale” Big Al - Books and Pals A soulful mix of writing, geology, rock and roll,...

Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.”...

Wanderers and writers, gangbangers and lawyers, dreamers and devils. The King of Lighting Fixtures paints an idiosyncratic but honest portrait of Los Angeles, depicting how the city both entrances and confounds. Each story serves as a reflection of Daniel A. Olivas’s grand City of Angels, a “magical...

The traitors within Rachat have been exposed, and with the city's leadership faltering, a change is on the horizon—a shift in beliefs the vampires hope will signal the start of acceptance toward their kind. For Ash, a former-soldier in the Silver Dawn's war of hate, these adjustments are more than...

A newly discovered lush green planet circling a blue star comes off the quarantine list. With stone castles and no signs of advanced industry, they become a prime target for their abundant natural resources.  Galactopolis, the hub of all interstellar commerce and government, auctions Valinthia...

Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or...

In this groundbreaking book, Daniel Helminiak provides a crucial spiritual option D a middle path between modern society's secular materialism and traditional religion's other-worldly focus and institutional dogmatism. The functional atheism of our contemporary consumer and scientific society (as...

An attachment specialist and a clinical psychologist with neurobiology expertise team up to explore the brain science behind parenting. In this groundbreaking exploration of the brain mechanisms behind healthy caregiving, attachment specialist Daniel A. Hughes and veteran clinical psychologist...