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Exploring otherness, identity, faith, religion, gender and sexual trauma, Hag brings together a gripping collection of tales that are unsettlingly timely and wickedly sinister. E

Thirty years ago a flying saucer hovered over the little town of Mart, Texas. Martites looked up and saw it, and a few took photos of it. When a newspaper asked the mayor of Mart about it, he said, "IT couldn't have been much or it would have never come to Mart." But the Mayor may have been wrong, for Martians may well have visited Mart back in the 1950s, when the author of this book was growing up there. Childhood betrayals, incessant drought, unreasonable parents, dogmatic grammarians, and kids who just didn't fit in might have all been engineered by visiting but invisible creatures from ...

Beloit is an old Wisconsin river town with a colorful history, industrial ingenuity, and famed college. Jeremy Dropsky and Roger Webb are partners in the Beloit police force, but they could hardly be more different. Jeremy is a hyper-logical loner, a failed college student, and a devotee of his little cat Dez. Roger is instinctual, married, good-looking, and in great need of becoming a hero. But they like each other a lot. Together they do the good work of Beloit cops, which includes cooling domestic fights, eradicating meth houses, and dealing with the obsessive resentments of Rose, the ...

Every lover of WESTERN philosophy knows the greats: Plato, Voltaire, Wittgenstein, and so on. And every lover of country WESTERN music likewise knows the great ones: Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, George Jones, Conway Twitty, etc. Now, for the first time, they’re all together in this original book. Tammy Wynette stops standing by her man long enough to have a drink wioth Jean-Paul Sartre, and they have a riveting discussion about freedom of choice and how the subject is explored in her songs. We’ll consider how Socrates might advise Johnny Paycheck and how George Jones puts down his bottle ...

Suppose God had a restaurant and you decided to go there. On the menu are all sorts of Gods, including a personal God, various Gods consistent with scientific belief, a multitude of different Gods, and even a God who would have Julius Caesar repeat his life as a cockroach. Which God would you order off this strange but wonderful menu? You would naturally ask the advice of your server: what are the pros and cons of each item? In this book, relatively short but very informative, the author is your server, who is not here to tell you what to choose but to guide you in making the right ...

This book is a memoir about life with a four-legged friend, and a lamentation for her premature passing. It is a tale of interlocking dramas: a dog owner’s devotion, but rooted in foolish denial; a scientific objectivity, but under attack by nagging grief; a recognition that a wonderful friend is now “at peace,” but angered by the glib way in which that very word is used; grateful for a great canine’s gifts—Christmas every day—but stunned by their fragility against the sudden ravages of time; certain that no mere dog’s death can be a tragedy but unable to shake the feeling ...

hippies committed mass murder. Half a million rock fans showed up in an isolated meadow to hear “the greatest music in the world.” This book is the first to study these three events—the moon walk, the Manson murders, and the Woodstock festival—as a story of three separate but related mindsets. Written in famed Mindset List, montage stiyle, THE MOON, THE MURDERS, AND THE MUSIC shows not only the surreal details of three incredible events. It also shows how all three events were, in different ways, aspirational episodes in the great Age of Aquarius. In these concise pages you’ll ...

This book tells two stories at once. It is about two males of adolescent mischief in a small central Texas high school, and it is simultaneously about the vast and indifferent Universe in which they found themselves. Their story is one about a perverse but hilarious cheating scandal—tiny stuff in the scheme of things—and yet it is also a story of how the Universe itself mysteriously touches even the most trivial of events. It is a recollection of Texas high school ethos—with its obsessions over football and popularity—but it is also a description of the mind-blowing Universe in ...

This lively little book will interest Shakespeareans and True Crime addicts alike. It's a recasting of Shakespeare's plays as true crime stories, pairing Lizzie Borden and Lady Macbeth, Othello with OJ Simpson, Macbeth with Lee Harvey Oswald, Shylock with Al Capone, and much, much more. You'll never think of Shakespeare--or True Crime--the same way again!

Boomers think Millennials are so busy fiddling with their phones that they won't look oldsters in the eye. They think the younger generation has gotten trophies just for showing up. Millennials think Boomers are living too long and soaking up Social Security. But all is not lost in this generational chasm, for now the renowned x-spurt in intergenerational relations, Dr. G. Gap Glue, P.Hd. comes along to offer advice by which Boomers and Millennials can come to love each other. As Haris Orkin, award-winning author of YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE, has said, "If Dear Abbey and Justin Bieber had a baby, ...