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David is shy to a fault, introverted, and doesn’t know how to defend himself. That’s why he keeps toiling away at his job, even if his boss is malicious. Mick, a member of the Kinsmen, a motorcycle club for those of Nordic descent, gets a flat on his motorcycle, so he stops at a tire shop he’d never used before to get it fixed. There he meets David, who he finds attractive, and thinks about asking him out before his boss enters the garage in his normal, abusive fashion.

The story of Persephone and Hades and their beautiful marriage, distant and old, wrapped up in centuries of misconceptions and lies, finally retold as it really was. Without Demeter's lies, the Olympian's cruel jokes, and so many other distortions, we finally see the beauty, the softness, and the tragic resolution brought on by outside forces.

The second in the Oaths of Dante series, watch as Dante strives to fulfill the oaths presented to him by Gaia and Hecate. Will he and Christopher find peace as werewolves or will they fall to the Hatred of Zeus lingering in the dark magic of his curse. Can they, together, find salvation? Can they survive the hate of eons, hidden away by the kindly faces of those claiming to be friends?

“Don’t give up! I’ll help you!” barks Rex, the hero of Władysław Reymont’s Revolt of the Animals (1924), “carried away with wrath and compassion” at the sight of his friend the old donkey with “his head covered in a hempen sack, being whipped by boys harrying him towards a pit of lime.” Who would not be roused to a righteous indignation at the sight of such wanton cruelty, inflicted upon a wise, sentient creature–for the perverse pleasure of man, that “crown and lord of all creation,” to whom dominion over this world was supposedly given by the Lord at the dawn of creation?

White Limozeen (1989) was a commercial recovery after Dolly Parton's first major failure two years previously with the release of Rainbow. This book is a case study in how an album is sold and a persona constructed. The album had a complex relationship to the country music genre at a time when the genre was in the middle of major sonic and cultural shifts, and it represents how country music saw itself. This question of identity was especially relevant since White Limozeen was produced by Ricky Skaggs, the bluegrass prodigy who was in the middle of his own genre-widening experiments.

In this rowdy cyber-romance originally written in the 1990s, two people meet online and fall in love in every guise they can manage. As Scratch and Winc go from anonymous lovers to accidental heroes and gender outlaws, they expose the shadowy Web stretched between technology and capitalist greed, nearly becoming roadkill on the internet superhighway. With a little help from their friends including a brave teenager and a mysterious hacker, these darling rebels fight government intervention and find chosen family in this eerily prescient tale.