Luminis Books Spotlight Feature for the Spring Titles

Beautiful and Lyrical Novel Reveals Deep Understanding of String Theory and Spiritual Metaphysics
Is there a God, and if so, is science fighting a losing battle in its search for the ultimate Theory of Everything?  IN—Sometimes the most amazing glimpse of the infinite comes through the prism of the human spirit. This is the premise of a new novel that brings to the forefront the ongoing debate between science and religion about some of the most fundamental questions of all: “How did the universe come into being?” “Why does it behave the way it does?” and, “Why is there something as opposed to nothing at all?”

ANTIPHONY (Luminis Books; $18.95) by Chris Katsaropoulos dramatically depicts the downfall of Theodore, a String Theory physicist who commits the biggest faux pas in the world of science, proposing to his colleagues at a major international conference that perhaps consciousness—God—could be the missing piece in discovering the Final Theory of ANTIPHONY traces the downward spiral of Theodore’s career in the wake of what he has said, and the remarkable transformation that leads him into the depths of madness . . . or the revelation of the Final Theory, the ultimate secret of the universe.
Katsaropoulos explores Theodore’s downfall with a depth of feeling and meaning that is expressed in a lyrical style that challenges readers to think beyond what is readily apparent and on the surface of things. As novelist Al Riske put it in his recent review of ANTIPHONY, “Katsaropoulos has a way of delving deeply into what seem like small moments—the whole novel takes place in just three or four days—and capturing all their nuances and vibrating tension.”
As Riske says in his review, “Throughout Antiphony, the protagonist experiences dreams and visions that fill pages the way a flash flood fills a ravine—a torrent of words flowing into the space between the margins and pressing onward to the next page and the next. It makes me wonder how he did it.” there a God, and if so, is science fighting a losing battle in its search for the ultimate Theory of Everything? In the end, ANTIPHONY lets each reader decide for themselves…

Author Info
Chris Katsaropoulos is the author of more than a dozen books, including two novels, Fragile and Antiphony. He has been an editor at several major publishing houses and has published numerous trade books, textbooks, and novels over the course of his publishing career. Chris has traveled extensively in Europe and North America and enjoys playing the piano and hiking in out of the way places. Complex Knowing, the first collection of his poetry, is forthcoming from Luminis Books in September 2014. Visit http://antiphonyck.blogspot.com to read more, including his most recent poems.

THE FIELD

by Tracy Richardson

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Fans of Firestorm - The Caretaker Trilogy by David Klass will love THE FIELD!

Eric Horton has been having visions - terrible dreams that wake him up at night - of explosions and fire and someone screaming. On the soccer field, he's been in the 'zone', saving shot after shot as one of the starting keepers for his high school varsity team with what feels like supernatural awareness of where the ball is going to go next. And the connection he feels with Renee, the hot new student from France, seems almost like he's known her forever. Still all these wild visions and synchronicities are nothing compared to the strange experiments Renee's dad is cooking up in the physics lab at the University. He's asked Eric to take part in  these tests,  and that  makes  Eric question  whether  what he's  seeing and  hearing is  reality,  or

something far beyond it.

When his best friend Will starts drinking way too much and Renee has eyes for other guys, Eric loses the edge he's always had in the goal, and confidence in himself. If he's going to pull it together, Eric must tap into a part of himself that he never knew existed, and that might just be the part that connects us all.

"The Field plunges the reader into the realistic world of high school soccer and the mystical world of the Universal Energy Field—an intriguing combination."

–Judith L. Roth, author of Serendipity and Me

Tracy Richardson lives in Indiana with her family and their Jack Russell terrier, Ernie. When her children started reading, she rediscovered her childhood favorites and began developing stories of her own. Images from growing up on Lake Michigan feature prominently in her novels, and sometimes bits and pieces of actual people and events—with the names changed to protect the innocent! THE FIELD is her second novel and features one of the characters from her previous YA novel, Indian Summer. Connect with Tracy through her blog: http://tracyrichardson.wordpress.com

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THE FIELD

by Tracy Richardson

Luminis Books

October 12 2013  Ages 12+  224 Pages

Hardcover: $15.95  ISBN: 978-1-935462-83-5

Paperback: $11.95  ISBN: 978-1-935462-82-8

E-book: $7.95  ISBN: 978-1-935462-84-2

 was launched in October 2008 with a mission to publish meaningful literary fiction for children and adults. As an independent publisher, Luminis has the opportunity to champion excellence in literary fiction from new authors who might not get the attention of the larger houses. Learn more about Luminis Books at www.luminisbooks.com.

Buren Autopsies the American Dream in a Stunning New Novel of manufacturing, the deindustrialization of America, and a way of life lost for generations
Carmel, IN—“The longest day of my life started when accidentally I shot myself, went downhill from there” is how Earl begins his story in Ghosts of Tom Joad, A Story of the #99Percent  (Luminis Books, Spring 2014). It is Peter Van Buren’s newest project—a fictional look at the new American economy.
Ghosts of Tom Joad is about growth, failure and redemption. It is Earl’s story, tracing the rise of the Working Poor, and the don’t-have-to-work rich. It is funny and serious, Holden and Joe Dirt. It’s a question about how to still own something—your labor, your self-respect—you’d sold.
The story takes place during Earl’s final metaphorical bus ride. Most of the folks who get on the bus with Earl have been long missing. Now they are coming and going, even talking to him, “just as if it was no big deal.” As Earl laments, “imagine running into both your mom and your old girlfriends in living color.”                                                                                                  
With notes of Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck and their more modern counterparts Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello and Rage Against the Machine, Ghosts of Tom Joad tells the story of a working class abandoned, still trying to create a better life for themselves, unaware that they are staking their futures on a myth.
Where did the 99% come from? They were always here, in Reeve, Ohio. This is their story.
“Politicians come and go, but the critical issues tearing at our society do not. In his new book, Ghosts of Tom Joad, Van Buren turns to the larger themes of social justice and equality, and asks uncomfortable questions about where we are headed.”
—Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower, The Pentagon Papers
Luminis Books was launched in October 2008 with a mission to publish meaningful fiction for children and adults. As an independent publisher, Luminis has the opportunity to champion excellence in fiction from new authors who might not get the attention of the larger houses. Luminis Books is distributed by IPG.
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